Lebanon Co. DHIA
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of feed. That compared with
a figure of $519 the year
before, and $647 throughout
the state for 1974.
Two new directors were
elected to serve on the
county DHIA board for
three-year terms, and one
was reelected. Edwin E.
Funck, Jonestown EDI, was
reelected and will continue
to represent members in the
zone which is served by
DHIA supervisor Art
Kunkle.
Raymond Getz, Mycr
stown RD3, was elected to
serve members in John
Arnold’s area, and Clifford
Groff, Lebanon RDI, will
represent DHIA members in
Leon Arnold’s service area.
These eight Lebanon County DHIA members
were honored with production awards presented
Tuesday night at their annual DHIA banquet Each
of them had a herd average that topped 600
pounds of butterfat for the past year. The dairymen
in the first row are, left to right Isaac Zimmerman,
March
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Chicago on October 8. Dairy
fanners and their
organizations from ail 61
federal milk marketing
orders were at the hearing to
plead their case for higher
prices. They were asking for
a $7.50 floor under the
Minnesota-Wisconsin cheese
price. This is the price which
determines class 1 milk
prices in all federal orders.
To get a price for federal
order 4 producers, a $2.78
differential is added to the
M-W series figure. The M-W
price is currently around
$6.80.
Dr. Paul Hand, chief
economist for Interstate
Milk Producers Cooperative,
pointed out to Lancaster
Farming that the farmers in
Lanc<»ter Farming. Saturday. Nov. 23,1974
Lebanon RD3; Robert Martin, Myerstown RD2;
Hershey Bare, Lebanon RD2; Donald Bollinger,
Newmanstown RDI. Back row: Dale Hostetter,
Annville RD2; Abram T. Lefever, Jonestown RDI;
Raymond N. Getz, Myerstown RD3; Edwin Funck,
Jonestown RDI.
Chicago were asking for a
price that was equal to the
price they were receiving
last December, before the
increased costs of this year
were piled on.
The march on Washington
is being organized by In
terstate, which will be
running buses out of the
Guernsey Sales Pavilion,
Tuesday morning, and out of
the Quality Court Motel
about half-an-bour later.
Hand said the deadline for
commenting on the USDA’s
lade of action is December 4.
“Their statement about milk
prices is just a recom
mended action. They don’t
have to follow that recom
mendation, and we’ll be
doing everything we can to
see that they don’t,” Hand
said.
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