Eastern Co-Op Board Adopts Resolutions
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 11,1972
The number of consecutive
terms which a district director
may serve on the board of
Eastern Milk Producers
Cooperative Association In
corporated has been extended,
effective March I.
Over 200 delegates from
Eastern’s seven-state area took
action on several issues
presented to them during their
winter conclave at Valle’s
Restaurant in Syracuse, NY.
recently. ■>
Representing over 9,000
Eastern dairy farmer members,
the delegate body also increased
the total assessment for each
member by one cent per hun
dredweight of milk, effective
April 1. Although the cooperative
finished on the black side of the
ledger the past year, this action
was deemed necessary to stay
abreast of the expected in
flationary increases in costs of
running the Association. The
delegates also took this approach
to remedy the need for larger
operating capital.
The number of years a director
may serve is now limited to three
consecutive three-year terms if
so elected by the constituency in
his district However, he cannot
serve longer than nine con
secutive years under any cir
cumstance. Following an ab
sence from the board for one
term of three years, he is then
eligible to run for the office of
director again.
Prior to the passage of the
above amendment to Eastern’s
By-Laws, a director could serve
only two consecutive three-year
terms or six years.
Resolutions adopted by the
delegates of the milking
bargaining cooperative included
approval of the 1972-1973 budget,
taking steps to secure immediate
revision of United States Public
Health regulations with respect
to buried well casings; sup
porting the Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Law as it now stands
and authorizing Eastern’s Board
of Directors to petition the U. S.
Secretary of Agriculture to ex
pand Federal Orders to cover the
market areas which are
represented throughout the
entire state of Pennsylvania.
Motions made and carried by
majority vote of the delegates
present included moving in the
direction of getting Market
Service Payments for non
cooperative members in the New
York - New Jersey Federal Milk
Marketing Order, following a
study by Eastern’s Board of
Directors, protesting to
whomever is responsible con
cerning the television ad
vertisement used by Blue Bonnet
Oleo which shows a bam and
dairy cows in connection with
their product.
Eastern Milk Producers, which
has experienced a continued
growth in membership,
marketed over three billion
pounds of milk this past year with
independent milk companies
throughout the nation’s nor
theastern region.
Although Eastern predicts the
handling of a larger volume of
milk this coming year, it expects
to be confronted with numerous
marketing problems within the
milk industry and urges dairy
farmers to keep apprised of the
many changes now taking place.
Sighted Land
Roderigo de Triana, a sail
or aboard the Pinta, one of
the three vessels led by Co
lumbus, was the first to
sight land—at 2 a.m., Oct.
12. 1492.
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