14—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 3, 1972
Unemployment Insurance a
Studying a “what if” situation,
economists and sociologists of
Pennsylvania State University
are analyzing the potential effect
of extending Federal unem
ployment insurance to farm
workers.
In charge of the Penn State
study are Dr James S. Holt and
Dr Rex H Warland of the
Department of Agricultural
Economics and Rural Sociology,
College of Agriculture, at
University Park
Drs Holt and Warland are
making the study at the request
of the U S Department of Labor
which turned to the Agricultural
Experiment Station at Penn State
for analysis of the effect of ex
tending unemployment in
surance Congress had con
sidered such a proposal in 1970
If the proposal should become
reality, average benefits would
vary from $3lB to $375-dependmg
on the coverage provision.
Benefits would vary from 2 to 2 8
per cent of total taxable wages
agam depending on coverage
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Harold Knechel
Harleysville, Pa.
"The
Harvestore
System
was the
way I had
to go to
make a
good living
and keep
my family
interested
in farming...
My family tells me we are
handling 110 cows easier than
60. The same acres of high
moisture corn will last four
months longer than dry corn
Our butterfat test is up 2%
and milk is up 2,000 lbs per
cow Before our new set-up,
we produced $30,000 00 worth
of milk. We had to invest
some borrowed money but we
will sell $llO,OOO 00 worth of
milk in 1971 "
PENN-JERSEY
HARVESTORE
SYSTEMS, INC.
New Holland, Pa.
Phone- (717)354-5171
1971 HARVESTORE
DEALER OF THE YEAR
Possibility
The study also found that a
much nigher proportion of
migrants, for example, would be
beneficiaries of short-term
unemployment insurance than
non-migrants. Although migrants
studied made up only 15 per cent
of the farm labor force in Penn
sylvania, they accounted for half
the total benefits estimated to be
received by workers surveyed.
As for estimated cost rates, this
March Butter
Production Down
Production of creamery butter
in the United States during
Marach was estimated at
106,775,000 pounds, the Crop
Reporting Board reports, four
per cent less than March 1971. In
the four leading butter-producing
states, output was down one per
cent in Wisconsin, nine per cent
in Minnesota, seven per cent in
lowa, but up 19 per cent in
California
The January-March production
total for 1972 at 307,640,000 pounds
is two per cent less than the 1971
total for the same period of
312,605,000 pounds.
RED ROSE
FARM SERVICE, INC.
MAIN OFFICE
N. CHURCH ST
QUARRYVILLE, PA.
786-7361 BUCK, rA.
284-4464
DAIRY
BOOSTER
A new feed which contains 10 grams of Methionine
Analog per pound. It is designed for use as a “top dress”
feed, or for use in Red Rose Supplement mixes.
Red Rose customers are getting excellent results with
feeds containing Methionine Analog. This new feed is
needed where dairymen feed in milking parlors or use
supplement mixes.
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IN OUARRYVILLE AREA
RED ROSE
for Farmers
was relatively low in Penn
sylvania and ranged from 1.9 to
2 9 per cent of taxable payrolls.
This cost was comparable to the
present cost of non-agricultural
coverage, Drs Holt and Warland
report.
They believe the low cost rate
would be due to the fact that
about 25 per cent of the labor
force do not qualify as potential
beneficiaries These are persons
with very low normal levels of
employment. Also, some workers
succeed m combining two or
more seasonal jobs, thus
reducing the period of unem
p'oyment
Even of farms where seasonal
employment is concentrated,
there are substantial numbers of
permanent workers These
permanent workers have little
unemployment but contribute
heavily to the taxable wage base.
This factor, plus the
predominance of dairy and
poultry farms m Pennsylvania
with relatively little seasonal
labor, also contributes to the low
labor cost
Employers’ rates of con
tributions, where workers ex
perience substantial unem
ployment, would rise-possible to
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the maximum of four per cent of
taxable payrolls. However, the
cost of benefits to firms whose
workers have substantial
unemployment may exceed four
per cent. For migrant worker
employers, this could come to
about 7.5 per cent of taxable
earnings.
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PELLETS
IN ATGLEN AREA
BROWN & REA, INC.
If unemployment insurance
should be extended to all
agriculture in Pennsylvania, it
would add an estimated 63
million dollars to the ap
proximately $l2 billion in taxable
payrolls presently under the
Federal system, Drs. Holt and
Warland point out. This is an
increase of less than one-half per
cent.
The number of covered em
ployers would increase by less
than five per cent, they claim,
even after a generous allowance
ffor employers of few workers.
Such employers were not well
represented in the survey
sample
ATGLEN, PA.
215-593-5149