Merrill Urges 'Preservation of Independent Milk Firms'
Howard Merrill, Piesident of operative Association, Inc, dis-
Eastern Milk Producers Co- cussed the causes of some of
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the marketing problems which
beset the dairy industry as he
delivered his annual address to
several hundred delegates and
industry leaders in Hotel Syra
cuse Wednesday (June 9).
The occasion marked, the Co
operative’s forty-ninth annual
convention. Since its beginning
in 1922, Eastern has grown to
become the nation’s leading
grade “A” milk bargaining co
operative with nearly 10,000
dairy farmer members in six
states of the northeast region.
Eastern markets over 2,750,000,-
000 pounds of milk to indepen
dent milk companies in all five
federal order markets in the
east.
Merrill said, “Buyers of milk
must be assured a cost of pro
duct approximately equal to the
cost of their principal com
petitors. Operating coopera
tives engaged in processing and
packaging milk are extracting
substantial membership dues in
addition to cooperative pay
ments in the New York Pool
and using these moneys to un
derbid independent milk com
panies in the marketplace.
“This, I think, is the number
one issue of the dairy industry
today, as well as it was a year
ago If cooperative members
who supply milk to processing
and packaging cooperatives are
willing to have these coopera
tives extract substantial mem
bership dues to subsidize the
sale of their product, I think we
will continue to have serious
marketing conditions, not only
in this market but across the
United States.
“Independent proprietary
milk companies must pay the
federal order minimum blend
price and they cannot be expect
ed to compete under unfair
competitive conditions of this
nature.
“We will not let up on our
efforts to see that there is a
meaningful bonding law in the
states of New York, Pennsylvan
ia and Vermont We will -also
continue to urge that each farm
er in each of those statgs shall
be given the opportunity to
make up his own decision as to
whether or not he should be a
contributor to money used for
milk promotion and research.
“We are concerned about the
loopholes in the National Agri
cultural Marketing and Bar
gaining Act.
“And we want to retain the
Department of Agriculture, and
have so urged with particular
emphasis on re-allocating the
cost of certain items charged to
the Department of Agriculture
which should be charged to
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