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Are Milk Prices Too High?
fContinued fiom I’ago 18)
but l.kclv with .1 continued loss
cning impoil.mu' on bullcil.it
What About Fat?
“What will we do with that fat n
Thuc is a bill in Congress to ic
move bulleifat fiom the puce
suppoit piogiam
“If anyone thinks that a icduc
tion in the price of butleifat can
be compensated by a higher pi ice
on solids not-fat, particulaily foi
manufactuung usage, I would
suggest they think hard befoie
they appi ove action in that mat
ter.
He continued, “How we dislu
bute those dairy pioducts is
another big question mark Cei
tainly the mcieasmg puce of
laboi is progiessively foicmg
the elimination of letail milk
delivery
“How long this (retail milk de
liveiy) will go on even in smallei
metiopohtan aieas like Lancas
ter. Han isburg, Reading, etc , is
debatable Pioducei-dealei com
petition in the Commonwealth is
lugged, to say the least ”
He sees the federal emphasis
on feeding poor people as a boost
foi milk usage, but notes thf
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Terre Hill
445-3881
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 21. 1970—1!)
sihool milk piogiam may be
eliminated
“We laci a ticmcndous pies
sine fiom foicign counliles as
to om impoit icatnct ons on
uaiiy pioducts \ccoidmg to ic
cent infoimalion, the s.x com
mon economic countues of Eui
ope have tiemendous holding
both of bullcrfat and solids not
fat something like 400 million
tons of butter, and piobably
moie than that as nonfat pow
der,” he said
Nixon called for stieamlimng
federal milk inspection pioced
ures so as to i educe the adminis
fative costs, which now mn
from thi ee to five cents pei hun
diedweighl
He also suggested a bettei sys
tem of milk classification may
be needed One appioach, he
sa.d, “would be to mice milk on
piotem content to encouiage
P'oduction of lower fat, higher
protein milk ”
Milk Big Here
Nixon emphasized that the
Noitheast in general and Lancas
ter County in paxticulai has
t a giowmg stake in milk pioduc
e, tion
In the 11 Noitheastem states,
milk production in 1969, lelative
to the 1948 58 aveiage, was up
71 billion pounds But in the
lest of the country in that same
peuod, pioduction was down 5 1
billion pounds
He noted that in Lancastei
County pioduction increased
fi om 564 million pounds in 1967
to 597 million pounds in 1968, a
5 8 per cent inciease in pioduc
tion He believes theie was also
a large increase in the county in
1969
Nixon also spoke out stiongly
against what he teimed “the co
operative payment piovision,”
which he said gives cooperatives
an unfair competitive advantage
over tiaditional milk dealers,
producers or piopnetaiy hand
leis Besides being vice piesident
of Penn Dames, Nixon is presi
dent of Lancastei Milk Company
Nixon explained that undei the
law, the cooperatives can deduct
ceitain items fiojn-the checks
they pay danymen These cooper
ative deductions are made foi
expenses such as hauling, suppl
- and others
Unfair Competition
“The expei lence in New York
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has been that tluue monies (de
duct! (I bv the cooperatives) have
bten i alhei generously to
build manufactuung plants and
in olhei ways unl.mlv compete
against piopneuiiy handleis
The piopuelaiy handleis aie
piohibiled by law fiom making
similar deductions and so aie
placed a scveie competitive dis
advantage, Nixon explained.
“Now if we as piopnctaiies are
not allowed to make deductions
as allowed by coopeialives, and
must pay the legal minimum
puces for the milk and the
coopeialive need not you can
icadily undeistand that we aie
in a competitive box ”
He also asked danymen, “If
you foice piopiietaues out of
the milk business, and you get
no moie and peihaps less
than you now leceive in your
milk checks, who’s kidding
whom 9 ”
Pointing out that the second
Ingest daily chain m the US,
Boiden, has moved out of the
milk and ice cieam business in
eastern Pennsylvania, New Jer
sey and metiopolitan New Yoik,
and all of noithein California,
Nixon said, ‘ The eiosion in pio
pnetary daily fiims thioughout
the countiy and in our own com
monwealth is veiy leal and veiy
senous ”
Milk Quality?
Nixon also asseited that the
duection the coopeiatives aie
now taking will lead to the le
appeiance of milk quality prob
lems
“Up to this time, the handler
buying the milk whethei duect
ly fiom the faimei or through a
coopei ative, has been responsible
foi the quality woik at the faim
and has paid foi it
“Under the new piessuies built
up since last summei, senous
efforts aie being made bv a num
bei of firms to have these duties
absoibed by the cooperatives,
and the costs passed on by the
coopeiatives to the faimeis
Ceitainly quality and field woik
cost money, even to a coopera
tive
“My opinion is that the system
which has been used historically
is a good one, has resulted m
high quality milk The direction
we are now going will bung
about quality pioblems which we
thought had disappeared ”