—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. June 6.1970
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The* good news loi il.nn pin
dtuois is the piospi it nl lii'.hci
milk pint's .mil limit oi tasli io
toipts in lho doo.ido «l Iho
l'*7o's. accoidmg to llio I Sl> N s
/.n m Index
Also on tho hon/on .i i liw'i
balance between supple and do
nand of daiix piodmls, poi
'Kips o\on total disappoaian o
jf surpluses In tho vo.ii 1 OHO
Gloss locoipls fiom maikot
mgs of milk and oicain .no o\
peeled to i iso 25 to 25 poi tout
Sales in 196!) exceeded SO 1 bil
• ion
Still giealei mcieases aie on
\isioned foi axciage gioss sales
pei farm Tho\ max i iso to 540.-
000 $45,000 bv 1980. neailx
three times the axciage for
1969
(These me the ‘would be"
prospects with the dany sup
port level and Fedeial oidei
pricing as they weie in 1969 )
But theie will be fewer farms
to share in this increase Faim
numbers ha\e trended down
ward in the postwar period, and
will continue to decline in the
“o’s.
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Views
rns outlookoi s foiosoo a 50
poi ion! diop in iontmoioi.it
dan \ (aims bv I'IHO Tho.v now
niimbot ,nomul 400 000
t'ow numbois would bo down
too- In lougbK one Hind horn
I'Mi'l s .not age fount of 12 7 mil
lion
Total milk piodmtion would
diop off as a lonsormciue. but
not as sh.upl.% as fnim and cow
numboi s
One leason is that axeiago
milk output pei cow is expected
to mciease tlnough impioxed
bi ceding management, and
feeding pi act tecs Bj 1980, pei
cow output mav be up 30 pci
cent fiom the 9.158 pounds in
1969
Also, those 200,000 faims will
be keeping huger heids avei
age herd size, today about 30
cows, will use to about 50 And,
herds of over 100 cows will be
come more common
All this consideied, milk pio
duction in 1980 could drop well
below the 116 billion pounds
produced last year
On the demand side, per
capita consumption will not in-
397-3539
Dairying in the ’7o’s
uc.w .iceoidmg lo tin* "M>\
Siikc 1942 tlu- pfi t.ipit.i fiu
uii’ has declined at tin .iiiiui.il
avciage of ncaih It) noun N
(mum '•uied in mi IK. efiuu.de it
f.it ••olid basis) -- fi Till ()•>'->
pound'; to 5Ga ponnrls in l (, G t )
Bnttei .md hmlif.il pioduds
will .iceoiinl loi most ol the
f.illoff in deni.md dining the
l!)T0's
On the olhei li.uul consump
lion of pioducts with lowf.it
content will i iso, including
low tot and skim milks, ice
milk cottage cheese, and whey
solids
Whey c ohds ha\e been going
mainly into Incstock uitions
But they ha\e a piomismg m.n
ket potential foi use in bakciv
products, piepaicd foods, can
dies, and ice cieam
With milk pioduction moving
more closely in line with de
mand, the economists anticipate
a dwindling of dairy sui pluses
In addition, nearly all mar
ketings would be commeicial
sales, inasmuch as government
purchases would be minimal at
the higher maiket prices being
projected.
The gam in milk prices would
reflect the closei balance in
supply and demand, a general
price rise in the U S economy,
and glowing efficiency in as
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