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~Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 3,1971
Poultry Market Reports
Delmarvo
Thursday, July 1
Ready - to - cook movement
good with occasional unfilled
orders reported in many quar
ters. Slaughter schedules in
creased to near capacity at most
plants. Less than trucklot prices
ranged % cent higher on both
plant and U.S Grade A. Live
supplies adequate to barely ade
quate as weights continue to de
cline. Undertone fully steady
to firm. Negotiated trucklot
prices 2-3 pounds ready-to-cook
broilers and fryers for delivery
next week:
U.S. Grade A
Plant Grade 30-30%
Pool trucklot prices for Fri
day arrival in the New York
area;
U.S. Grade A 32-33% M 32-
32%i
Plant Grade 31-32 M 31-31%
Special packs including 1%-
2,3% pound sizes TFEWR.
Fogelsvifle
Tuesday, June 29
(Prices paid dock weights,
cents per lb, except where not
ed)
HENS, heavy type 4-18%,
mostly 7-15; PULLETS 10-35, M
26% -33; ROASTERS 2-33, M
26-33; DUCKS 20-35; DRAKES
7-35; RABBITS 5-35, M 25-33;
GUINEAS 155%; PIGEONS
(PER PAIR) 1.00-4 35; JUMBO
SQUAB 3 00-435. TOTAL
COOPS SOLD 356
New York Eggs
Wednesday, June 30
Prices fractionally lower on
large and standards: about
steady on balance Demand
spotty; fairly good for limited
volume of jumbos however,
there is an increasing willing
ness to discount prices on light
er weights in an effoit to stimu
late movement Supplies of
large fully adequate, mediums
plentiful, extra large near bal
ance, standards ample and
smalls irregularly distributed
but slow to clear Arrivals from
nearby areas moderate, south
ern receipts irregularly light
but adequate on large and
ample on mediums. Cai'toning
activity slow in Metiopolitan
area and only fair at best in out
lying areas Undertone weak
Eostern Pa. and N. J.
Wednesday, June 30
Prices steady. Offerings of
light type hens adequate though
occasional plant reported un
able to fill needs Demand con
tinues only fair. Offerings of
heavy type hens adequate for a
fair demand.
Prices paid at farm: Light
type hens Wz-GVz M B'ASVz in
Pa., M 5-5% in N J. Heavy type
hens TFEWK
■*% ?
LEAVE IT TO A PRETTY GIRL to bring this resident
of the Philadelphia, Pa., zoo out of his shell. Alice
Everett, 10, of Wilmington, Del., makes a friend.
Weekly New York Egg Mkt
From Monday, June 28th to Friday, July Ist
WHITE
Fey. Ex. Large 42
Large 36
Mediums 25
Pullets 19
Peewees 13
BROWN
Fey. Large
Mediums
Pullets
Peewees
Standards
Checks
Tone Market still lacks ample trade confidence.
Copyright 1971 by Urner Barry Publications
Independent Milk Firms Important to Dairying
“The most important single
problem in the milk indusiry to
day is that independent milk
companies are not assured a cost
of produce epual to the cost of
their principal competitors,
namely operating cooperatives,”
slated John C. York as he de
livered his general manager’s
report recently at Eastern Milk
Producers’ Annual Meeting in
Syracuse, N.Y.
York stated that “efficient and
effective work improves net in
come. The average members of
Eastern netted $2OO above other
regional cooperatives in the
northeast. A fine tribute to the
conduct of Eastern and to its pro
grams and philosophies.
“Proprietary, independent
milk companies are part of the
industry and important to maxi
mum prices farmers receive.
Operating cooperatives engaged
in processing and packaging milk
are extracting substantial mem
bership dues to undersell and
underbid independent milk com
panies in the marketplace. Elim
ination of private independent
milk companies could spell dis
astrous returns to farmers. Like
labor, farmers must appreciate
the need for private corporations.
“I am reminded of the time
when a controversy arose be
tween labor and the corporate
employer Franklin D Roosevelt,
who was supported by labor said,
to describe this serious problem
... ‘A plague on both your
houses ’
“Problems ahead could stran
gle the dairy industry. We must
take a rational and human ap
proach to the problems.
“For example, Board of Health
standards are becoming ever
more pressing and disturbing to
the producers of milk. New stan-
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dard of sediment testing is ag
gravating milk producers. New
waste disposal requirements
could and may eliminate both
farmers and milk plant opera
tors. Interest rates are high. In
creased workmen’s compensation
laws are effecting dairy farmers.
“Prices in relationship to those
in the mid-west over the past 10
years show Chicago prices are
16 percentage points higher than
those in New York. The general
attitude of “sock it to the
farmer” exists with regard to
cost of items normally not the
farmer’s expense. High taxes
and welfare costs are running
rampant.
“Impact of the above could, in
a few years, eliminate the dairy
industry as the number one in
dustry in the state of New York
as well as the second highest
milk production state in the
Union, as well as the position of
the Dairy Industry in other
states in the northeast. This
could have a devastating effect
on the general economy of the
northeast region.
“I read an article the other day
by a cooperative leader who also
was proposing forward integra
tion of cooperatives, and he said,
“There is no question but that
competition will be tough Large
industries have not shut their
eyes to the potential, and re
member that big business has
capital, management skill and
computer bolstered courage.”
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18%
31
18 %
What’s New?
Control of Southern Corn ?n a “ate (very slight
Leaf Blight, Helminthosporium infection) to 5 0 (very heavy in
tnaydis, with low-volume aerial section), all treatments with
sprays of Dithane M-45 fungi- Dithane M-45 at 3 gallons per
cide has been obtained on Fieri- acr ® Save control ranging from
da field corn in replicated •** *° A 6 gallon treatment
trials conducted by Rohm and was rated 0.85. The untreated
Haas Company and the Univer- control averaged 2.76.
sitv of Florida. made on a
40 foot swath with a Pawnee
Effective control was achiev 2 35 aircraft equipped with a
ed on a highly susceptible varie- standard boom and 24 properly
ty with five applications of 1.5 spa Ced hollow cane nozzles It
pounds of Dithane M-45 in 3 was found that the addition of
gallons of spray per acre. Triton CS-7 spreader-sticker im-
Sprays were applied at weekly proved control. There apppear
intervals from early tasseling e d to be no advantage to in
to dough stage. Disease was creasing the spray volume to
barely evident at the time s ix gallons per acre,
sprays were started, emphasiz- Disease ratings were made by
ing the importance of spraying Dr. N. C, Schenck, research
before heavy disease damage plant pathologist at the Univer
se*ll-3' sity of Florida, and Theodore J.
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18%
Disease ratings according to Stelter of Rohm and Haas,
the Ullstrup corn blight scale Dithane and Triton are trade
were made six days after appli- marks of Rohm and Haas Com
cation of the last spray. Based pany.
“I suggest, let these companies
have the capital, the managemnt
skills, and we should have the
courage to bargain with industry
to receive a return for our pro
duct equal to our cost of produc
tion and a reasonable profit.
“To ask farmers to further in
vest beyond their huge invest
ments in their own farm opera
tion into vertical integration will
spell disaster for the dairy farm
er and more cheap food to the
consumer.
“I foresee emerging out of
this huge problem, because of
the urging of some people to
ward vertical integration of
farmers into processing coopera
tives, the development of a new
bargaining philosophy or atti
tude. The present National Ag
ricultural and Bargaining Acf is
an indication of the direction
that will he taken. I am sure that
farmers will demand and will
•achieve, in spite of all the op
position to bargaining, legislation
that will give them equal bar
gaining rights with other seg
ments of our economy; that
farmers will bargain with pro
cessors whether it is a coopera
tive processor or independent
proprietary processor. Until this
happens, farmers will never ex
perience a price from their pro
duct equal to what the market
price should return to them for
the production of the products
from their farms.
“Again, I should remind you of
those who are urging integration
of farmers of expenses that
should he applied to the market
price paid by the consumer.
“Many of the United States
Department of Agriculture peo
ple appear to have the consum
er’s interest at heart instead of
the farmer’s interest, and there
fore, find that cheaper food
prices for consumers can he
achieved by shifting the cost
onto the farmers instead of the
consumers.
“ But we must realize that
farmers today are better in
formed, and less likely to accept
the approach than ever before.
“Packaged water is selling for
$.34 per quart, as much as milk.
Does this make sense? I ask
you,” York concluded.
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