—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. February 3, 1973
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Goddard Sees 1973
'Reasonably Good'
Year for Farmers
Farmers in the Northeast can
expect somewhat higher prices
for the commodities they produce
this year, but probably not
enough higher to offset an
ticipated increases in production
costs.
This is the farming outlook for
1973 as seen by Ronald N. God
dard, executive vice president
and general manager of Agway
Inc., Syracuse, N.Y.
In a communication to Agway
members, Goddard outlined his
assessments of the year to help
farmers develop their plans for
the coming growing season.
Agway is a farm supply and food
marketing business owned by
111,000 farmers in 12 nor
theastern states.
The Agway chief executive
cited last year’s poor harvesting
weather and continued heavy
grain exports as the principal
causes of short supplies and
advancing prices of most feed
stuffs. Until data for this year’s
grain planting commitments can
be assembled, many feed
ingredients will probably con
tinue to command higher-than
usual prices, he said.
Goddard predicted that
pressure to raise the price of milk
paid to farmers would increase
during 1973. Commenting on the
price of eggs, he noted that
although the egg market has
strengthened, he questioned
whether it will be strong enough
to undo what he termed “the
damage of the past two years.”
Egg prices paid to poultrymen
have been at or below the cost of
production in the Northeast for
many months.
Goddard said commercial crop
growers will probably feel the
effect of price controls indirectly
as price restrictions on food
processors serve to impose
ceilings on prices paid for raw
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The energy crisis also came in
for some discussion because
Agway is a large producer and
distributor of petroleum products
for agricultural, home, and in
dustrial use. Goddard advises
that supplies of power fuels for
farm use are adequate “at this
time,” but says indications are
they will tighten up next summer.
He noted that heating oil supplies
are tight right now. The Agway
executive said prices for gasoline
and fuel oil are likely to go up as
the year progresses.
In Goddard’s opinion, it is
going to take more money to
farm in 1973. He sees labor, land,
taxes, equipment, and production
supplies generally costing more.
However, he said, lending agency
officials have told him there will
be no shortgage of money to
finance capital improvements or
pay for production needs. But
interest rates will probably be up
slightly.
In summary, barring un
foreseen events, 1973 should be a
reasonably good year for nor
theastern farmers, Goddard said.
In Fact...
AH HOFFMAN SEEDS ING
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LANDISVILLE (Lancaster County), Pa, 17538
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Dec . Base
The December uniform price
for base milk in federal market
order 4 in
creased 1 cent from the previous
month. Excess milk showed an
increase of 11 cents.
In comparison to December
levels one year ago base milk was
up 29c and excess up 43c.
The weighted average price for
the market was $7.06, an increase
of 3lc above December 1971.
A total of 386.2 million pounds
of producer milk was pooled in
December of which 64,8 percent
was sold as Class I, showing a
decrease of 4.4 percent of
deliveries made in November,
and 1.4 percent decrease from
Dec. a year ago. 8,305 Order No. 4
producers provided 12.4 million
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