Dairying Is A $lO To $l2
Billion Dollar Business
The dairy industry is a $lO-$l2 estimated at 13 1 million, con
billion annual business. The high- tinned to decline
er price for milk during 1967 Tt .. , . .
pushed dairy farm income to a H ° we '; er - the quantity of milk
record level of $5 8 billion with Produced per cow was at an all
the balance going to processor hlgh ° f 9 ’? 2 ? , p0 ?" 8s o ?!* f
and supplier 1968 estimated total of 118 0 bil-
T . . ' . . lion pounds This is down slight-
Ti S c eSU n a i. eU Liia \ by 1980 lv from the 1967 total of 119 6
the U.S. will have only mOOO bllhon pounds pioduced by 13 5
danj farms, providmg sufficient milhon cows avera g,ng 8,821
milk for the population of that pounds per year .
day through larger heids (60-100
cows) and continued and efficien- The number of cows in the
The cow population in 1968, nation’s dairy herds reached a
fcs
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The small decline in output in
1968 suggests that milk produc
tion may be leveling off follow
ing several successive years of
decreased production It is an
ticipated that the average pio
duction per cow in large heids
within the next 10 years will
range fiom 15.000-20,000 pounds
During the last two decades,
population has consistently in
creased moie rapidly than milk
production As a icsult, the quan
tity of milk produced for each
resident has declined sharply
peak of 25 6 million head during
World War II Since then, cow
numbers have been declining
steadily, totaling 17 5 million
head in 1960
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from 769 pounds in 1950 to 600
pounds in 1967
Real Price of Milk
Since 1919, the aveiage puce
of milk per quait (deliveied) has
nearly doubled from 15 5 cents
to 30 6 cents while the aveiage
wages have- risen 542 peicent—
about eight times as much as the
food costs The total cost of a
basic food maiketbasket of a
dozen items has .istn only 68
percent in the last 50 years—oi
an aveiage of only 136 percent
per year
In 1919. the average houily
Lancaster
Quarryville
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 7,1969
wage for a factory worker wai
4V cents That worked out to
$4 70 for a 10-hour day of work
Today, this same factory worker
earns an aveiage of more than S 3
an hour—or about $25 for a
shoiter work day
In 1919, you could buy three
quaits of milk with 60 minutes of
woik. today, it’s up to 9 9 quarts
You can buy thi ee times as much
cheese today and moie than four
times as much butter or bacon
In 1960, consumers spent 20 per
cent of their disposable income
for food—m 1950, 22 2 peicent;
and in 1967, only 17 7 peicent
If U S consumeis in 1967 had
paid foi food the same piopor
tion of income as m 1969 they
would have had $ll billion less
to spend on othei things
Fiesh milk tanked seventh in
stoie sales in 1967 for the third
straight yeai, accoiding to the
21st Annual Consumei Expendi
tures Study Fresh milk alone
was 2 8 pel cent highei than in
1966 and accounted foi about
3 20 percent of store volume
The 1967 sales of all pioducts
sold through supermarkets and
grocery stores incieased just 2 1
peicent, the smallest gain in the
last 10 >eais Fiozen foods, vhicn
include ice cieam, weie up 4 71
percent and dairy piodrcts weie
up 7 31 peicent
Fiozen foods accounted foi 5 3
percent of the 1967 gam milk,
butter, and cream for 2 9 per
cent of sales In dollai volume,
perishables meat, pioduce,
daily—reflect the change in con
sumer buying habits Fiom a S2O
bill, the average shopper in 1967
spent $9 80 on peushables (SI 46
for dairy products), $7 95 on gro
ceries and $2 25 on non-foods.
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Trading as Good’s Feed Mill
SPECIALIZING IN
DAIRY AND HOG FEEDS
New Providence Pa
Phone 786-2500
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