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MADISON
SIIOS NUTRI
MATIC
MADISON SILOS
Div Chromalloy
American Corp
1070 Stemmetz Rd
Ephrata Penna 17522
Phone 733-1206
LOCAL DEALERS
MESSICK FARM
EQUIP. INC.
Elizabethtown 367-1319
FRANK SNYDER
859-2688
Akron
CALEB WENGER
Quarryville 548-2116
LANDIS BROS. INC.
Lancaster 393-3906
CARL L. SHIRK
Lebanon 717 274-1436
SOLLENBERGERFARM
SUPPLY
Centerport, Pa
Phone 215 926-7671
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THE FOOD STAMP ISSUE
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The marketing bill-the
total cost of transporting,
processing, and distributing
farm food products
registered gains for all
major food groups. Meat
products cost the most to
market ($2l billion),
followed closely by fruits and
vegetables ($19.1 billion).
All of last year’s $3.9
billion jump in the
marketing bill reflected
steeper costs of marketing
services. Normally, a rise in
volume marketed and more
marketing services add to
New scientific
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Continuous chart with plexiglass cover lets you see
at a glance all the details and condition of each
individual cow You can immediately check for
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you a permanent visible health record of treatment
and other important data Write or telephone for
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the bill, but farmers
marketed less food last year
than in 1972.
Labor costs, the major
component of the marketing
bill, rose over 7 percent to
$40.3 billion last year and
accounted for almost half of
the marketing bill. The in
crease came from mounting
labor costs and total hours
worked by employees of food
marketing firms.
Packaging farm food
products cost $lO billion,
about 6 percent more than in
1972, Wholesale prices of
many containers rose
sharply. Petroleum based
materials such as plastic
wrap, trays, and cartons
were in tight supply and
prices spurted during the
last half of 1973.
Rail and truck tran
sportation remained at $6.1
billion. Although boosts in
transportation rates
averaged about 4 percent
last year, they were offset by
a drop in volume of farm
foods handled. Costs to
truckers have been climbinv
because of fuel price hikes,
reduced speed limits on
highways, and higher wage
rates. Transportation costs
last year accounted for 7
percent of the overall
marketing bill.
Capital costs, including
depreciation, rent, and in
terest, rose to $6.9 billion or 8
percent of the food
marketing bill. Part of the
bulge mirrored growing
construction costs, which
upped depreciation costs and
commercial rental rates for
food marketing firms.
Advertising again took
almost 2 cents of each food
dollar. Food processors
spent half of the $2.3 billion
for advertising all farm
foods in 1973. Advertising
costs were three times
greater for television than
for newspapers and other
print media.
Corporation profits
reached $4.6 billion before
Federal income taxes, a $l.l
billion increase from 1972.
These profits represented 5.6
NOTICE
A comprehensive seminar packing 25 years of
advance knowledge and field experience into a six
session format designed to bring you a fresh new
approach to the management of your operation.
The format is designed to educate, stimulate, and
excite you into re-evaluating your present
operation and the purposerof initiating practices
that can assure you a successful farm operation.
Sponsor: The Eastern Division of Advanced Ag
Associates, one of America’s large soil consulting
firms operating in over 20 states and Canada.
Speakers: Donald L. Schriefer, Soil Biologist, and
Richard Coughenour, Field Director of Operations
in Pennsylvania.
Place: Morgantown Fire Hall, Morgantown, Pa.
Date: Tuesday, December 10, 1974
Time: 8:45 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. & 5 P.M. to 8 P.M.
Seminar fees payable at the door: $25.00 per
person or farm operator and $5.00 for additional
immediate family members.
percent of the marketing bill
in 1973 compared with 4.5
percent in 1972.
Business taxes climbed 3
percent to $3.3 billion in 1973>
almost twice what they were
10 years ago.
EQUIPMENT STORAGE BOIIDIMGS
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Phone (215) 285-4011
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Siar UMBAUGH POLE BUILDING CO., INC.
Contact Milford Mast, Elverson,
Pennsylvania,
Phone 215-286-9118.
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Thoughts In Passing
Due to the Thanksgiving
Holiday, there will be no
Thoughts in Passing column
published in this week’s
issue. The column will be
continued in the next issue,
however.
Yogurt
Liquid yogurt, either fruit-fla
vored or plain, retains a creamy,
milkshake-like consistency with
the fruit remaining in suspen
sion. More than 10% of U.S.
families buy yogurt at least once
a month. The highest yogurt
consumption areas are on the
East and West coasts, in large
cities, by higher income families.
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