Educator Reviews Dairying
(Continued fiom Page 30) machines for labor will continue inf!, automated feeding systems,
to compete and do the job we’.l ns ll has for decades The next automated cleaning and dislribu-
C Output is lowei. Substituting decade will see automated milk- lion of waste
LANCASTER AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES.
A special salute to the Br enema ns’ (Robert, Melvin, and Larry)
of Romella Farm, Route # l, Strasburg.
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WE SALUTE ALL DAIRYMEN OF
The Brenemans' will soon be housinq their Guernsey herd
in their new 200 head free stall barn.
WE WISH THEM EVERY SUCCESS
R. D. 2, Ephrata Phone: 717-354-5374
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday. Junefi. 1970
7. The per capita consumption
or fluid whole milk has decreased
every year since 1956 and 1 be
lievc thcie is good icason foi
this In 1956. the fluid whole
milk consumption was 293
pounds per pel son, and in 1961.
it was 236, down 57 pounds oi
approximately 26 and a half
quarts This (tend will continue
but slow down
But we cannot slop it because,
we as an mdusliy, have made
one catastiophic mistake We in
vented homogenization, and this
was supposed to impiove fluid
milk consumption We did not
iccognize that we forced the
consume! to dunk all the cicam
in his milk when he wants less
ciearn, justifiably, todav I sus
pect that the industiy aftei the
next decade, will have to look
statistically about the consump
tion ot all dun v ptoduels f'hcie
aie a gioup of icasons loi thi>
Om pucing svstem will com
bine all giades of milk into one
We cannot meige into supei co
ops, combine maikeling oideis
and expect to do anything but
sell the Class I and Class II milk
Second, we will mtegiate moie
and will have to be just as con-
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coned about piocessed pioduct
prices as wc arc with Class I val
ues
8 The dany indusliy intends
to reach its highest slate of de
velopment and lemain in close
pioximil.v to gieat populations.
Dairy farms are among the last
agi (cultural onto prise to be forc
ed out by urban giowth and the
puce of milk is highest in the
heavily populated aicas of our
countiv I pi edict that these con
ditions will continue
You aic veiy likely to see co
ops seem in” piofits in pioducts,
the same as huge dan > coipora
tions do now We. as an industry
in the fluid milk maiketing aiea,
who have bem foi yeais fiowned
on a little and looked down our
noses b\ people on the piolitable
side I th'nk the sho is going
to be on the othei foot we le
going to be looking foi piofi too.
Total pioduct tonaimm.on was
740 pound'- m 1.930. 20 uais ago,
in 1969, it was 565 175 pounds
less pei peison It we aie to h\e
with lowei consumption we
must eithei pioduce less o con
tinue population giowth Good
business people should sell their
pioducts and get a fan puce
9 My piediction is an annual
12 cents pei bundled maiket for
the puce of milk thiough 1974.
The total value foi 1969 aveiaged
$6 31 the 1970 puce should be
$6 43, the 1974 puce should be
approximately $6 91 The aver
age puce toi all milk in the Unit
ed States in 1969 was $5 46 per
hundiedweight, a gam of $l3O
o\ ei the $4 16 price of 1959
1 was hoping we could gam 13
cents oi more but I believe that
12 cents is a conservative lealis
tic estimate Higher costs will
eiase most of this on many
faims
| I will also estimate that most
of our inciease will come by the
fluid milk puce lathei than pio
cessed milk
The 1970’s pi omise to be excit
ing, dynamic, challenging years
foi those pei sons in organiza
tions' who can stand the pace I
hope and sinceiely believe that
my puce piedictions aie conseiv
ative
You will, howevei, make moie
money at home by limning a
“tight ship” than you will make
with the predicted price increase.
Good Livestock Year
Receipts from livestock and
pioduets in 1970 are expected to
total aiound six pei cent above
the $28% billion total of 1969,
the USD A icpoited iccently
But, maiket icceipts fiom
ciops aie expected to be about
the same as last yeai’s $lB 9
billion
With pioduction costs con
tinning up. faimeis’ lealized
net income will likely he
aiound last yeai s $l6 billion
the thud highest on lecoid
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tion’s meetings making our
farm calendar 7 If they’re not
and you think they should,
let us know.
As a public seivice to
farmers and the farm com
munity, we try to get as
many meetings as we can on
the calendar. But we miss
some.
Remind us by calling 394-
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