Production
Milk production in 1973
should exceed the 120.5 bil
lion pound output of 1972 by
more than a billion pounds,
or about 1-1/2 per cent, the
same increase as last year.
Although milk prices are at
an all time high, feed prices
are even higher, thereby
hurting the average farmer’s
profits.
Improved feeding and
management practices were
responsible for increased
milk production per cow of
2.7 percent in 1972. The de
cline in milk cow numbers
was only 1.2 percent because
of rising milk prices, herd
replacements, and an ade
quate labor supply.
Thus, dairy output con
tinues to rise because pro
duction per cow is going up
faster than the number of
cows is going down. The
farmer, therefore, will re
ceive less for his milk this
year unless demand is in
creased in 1973 and beyond.
Prices and Income
Gross farm income was a
record 19 billion dollars last
year. Dairy income was close
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WALTER BINKLEY & SON G R MITCHELL, INC
Lititz
BROWN & REA, INC.
Atglen
ELVERSON SUPPLY CO.
Elverso.
HENRY E. GARBER m n „ eE
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Elizabethtown,Pa SERVICE, INC.
N Church St, Quarry ville
E. MUSSER HEISEY
& SON
R D 2, Mt Joy, Pa
HEISTAND BROS.
Elizabethtown
DAVID B. HURST
Bowmansville
H. M. STAUFFER
MARTIN'S FEED MILL * SONS, INC.
Ephrata, Pa
to Rise Profits to Fall
to 7.2 billion and by all indi
cations should be nearly 7.5
billion in 1973.
Milk prices are expected
to remain high and may in
crease almost four to five
percent over 1972.
However, inflated com
modity prices and process
ing costs have contributed
to a squeeze on farmers’
incomes.
According to Truman F.
Graf of the University of
Wisconsin’s Department of
Agricultural Economics, 1972
farm milk prices increased
only six percent but daily
concentrate feed costs went
up 21 percent. “Thus farm
milk prices, and ultimately
consumer milk prices, are
not high when farm produc
tion costs are taken into con
sid. *ation,” states Graf.
Consumption of Dairy
Products
Consumption of dairy
products increased three per
cent in 1972 and per capita
consumption rose one per
cent, the first such rise in 15
years.
The largest jump was in
COWS
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MOUNTVILLE
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Columbia
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Terre Hill
E. P. SPOTTS/ INC.
Honey Brook
Witmer
the consumption of cheese,
a rise of 11 percent. Sales of
fluid skim and lowfat milk
were up 12.5 percent, and
yogurt sales increased 43 per
cent! More modest gains
were made in the sale of
butter, cottage cheese and
frozen desserts. In general,
per capita consumption of
low fat products has been
increasing steadily, while
consumption of high fat
foods is declining.
One of the factors contrib
uting to increased demand
of dairy products is thought
to be higher meat .prices.
Milk and related products
are an excellent lower-cost
source of protein. Also’ in
creased dairy promotion,
higher consumer incomes,
and a broadened government
food stamp program may
have helped the rise in de
mand.
The increased interest in
some dairy products will con
tinue in the coming year.
The outlook for cheese sales
should remain bright and the
demand for low fat dairy
foods is expected to advance
steadily. But the overall sales
gains of dairy products are
expected to be limited in
1973 and per capita consump
tion may decrease slightly.
Government Support
Because "the rise in 1972
consumption was large
enough to use up increased
milk production, the USDA
price support purchases were
down about 20 percent from
the 7.3 billion pounds of milk
purchased in 1971. Due to
government cost-cutting this
trend will probably continue
in the coming year.
As of April 1, 1973, the
support for milk of
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average test is $5.29 per hun
dred pounds, an increase of
36 cents over last year. This
figure is estimated to be the
minimum 75 percent of par
ity, and should produce an
adequate supply of milk for
the nation.
Dairy exports were over
twice as large as dairy im
ports during the first five
months of 1572, but the next
seven months brought a dra-
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made drop in exports due to
increased milk production in
other major dairy countries.
Total dairy exports were
almost 1.5 billion pounds in
contrast to 1.7 billion pounds
of imports. Due to Common
Market restrictions, increased
world milk production and
limited United States import
restrictions, the export-im
port situation for dairy prod
ucts is not likely to improve
in 1973.
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