—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. September 5,1970
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Price Up Slightly, a Victim of Inflation, Not a Cause, Meyer Says_
Beef Costly? Compared With What?
If live cattle prices had gone housewife spends 30 per cent, much as most other things you
up as much as wages since 1952, while in Russia it is about 50 buy.
American housewives would be per cent. 5- One hour of la oi i
paying about $3.00 a pound for 4, Beef prices have gone up will buy seven m
steak. for the same reasons prices ground beef; in 1951, u boiitJU
“Some people want to blame have increased in every other slightly more than 4 pounds,
beef prices lor the intkilun.ary industry in the counliy in- Meyer went on to explain
trend that has hit every area ol flation and labor: but beef that cattlemen and farmers
the Amci ican economy," says pi ices have not gone up as must make a profit or they can
Amos R Meyer, Department of not slay in business. The pio-
Markets, University ol M.iry- LoiitcllGStes' Pony C!ub chmlion of food and iiber is es-
Ijnd, ™, ' , sential (o e\ery citizen.
Caltlemcn in general Meyer dOCrS CXSCUdVO i>Ody j s fuiv to blame culUo
goos on. icel it is lime to "Tell -v, . , , Pom men and farmeis for high
it like .1 is” -to 101 l the con- Cl „b ”nd thch- nil"ents The cost ol packaging.
burner that the piieo ot beef. ~ , ~, , .. l , processing and retailing bed
1,1.,, Miended (lie annual meeting and dm UI - LJ
like the puce ol a new ca,, is . . , , , has skyrocketed because ol m
thc by-pi oducl oi inlialion, not ‘,, 0 r J , l n , 1 ‘ i 1 flation and tliese costs repre
lers on the John Gibson farm - 1 , Uil “ xu ‘ mese j
ks cause. t,....,. . sent a major portion of retail
When a cattleman hears nc ‘ l 1 11 ™° 1 ®; beef prices,
someone say, “Beet prices sure Blocked to the cxecutne com- , iH i, f
are hi<di ”he nimbi well res- police for the coming year . , ut Pimides one the ol
, f"' c u , iwi.p. \<r,. ~nrt Airs r.pnrop This- highest forms ot protein which
pond, Compaiecl with what? " uc - vll ana .mis. t.eoigt nas- ® . ... m„a
Merer points out that' slcr, Quairjville; Mr. and oveiy healthy P-ison must
1 Live cattle prices are about Ms Joseph Little. QuanyvilJe; have Cattlemen offer no apolo
the same as (hey were in 1951 -V> and Mrs. John Wales, Ret- nm
while the cost of operating a ton, Mi. and Mrs George C pledge then best elloits to pio
cattle ranch or limn has more Young, ALglen; Mr and Mrs. Lanchester Pony Club mem
than doubled during the same Frank Lane, Elkton, Md : Mr. b ers aie currently attending
period. and Mrs. Donald Wallace. Down- training sessions to team how
2, Retail prices ot beef are h'gton; Mi. and Mrs, Glenn t 0 vvith handicapped child
about the same as they were in Myer, Kirkwood: Mr, and Mrs. ren Middletown, Del., cen
-1951 while the average take- Wilbur Rankin, New Providence, t er> under the direction of Miss
home pay has increased about -H 1 - ilnc * ?^ ls . Francis Hill, Maudie Hunter-Warfel, founder
150 per cent. Beef prices on the Lincoln University; and Mr. and 0 < >j a tional Foundation tor
average have not increased M’ s - Jere Bunting, Willow Happy Horsemanship lor the
more than 15 per cent at their Street Handicapped, Inc
highest peak in the last 19 Mrs, Hassler and Little are Plans are under way for the
district commissioners for the annual one-day event to be held
3. The American housewife Lanchester Pony Club. Waters at Pony Club Headquarters on
spends only lota per cent of her is president ot the executive October 31. Riders will be in
clisposable income for food committee, Rankin is vice presi- vited trom pony clubs in Penn
the lowest in the history of the dent, Mrs. Waters, secretary, and sylvania, Maryland, and Dela-
United States. In Europe the Mrs. Young, treasurer. waie.
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abundant supply - but they Cattlemen believe strongly they
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Meyer continued. beef at a reasonable price m
Cattleman receive and keeping with the times.
; ,sk _no special favors. They All they ask is understanding
believe stiongly in free enter- and that the blame for beef
prise, receive no government prices be placed on inflation
aid, and constantly light any and not the blame tor inflation
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