—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Dec. 4, 1976
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Regulations found depressing
GETTYSBURG - The farm leader said that
Government over-regulation one of the major issues that
was topic of concern for state seems to be surfacing in the
delegates throughout the policy development sessions
recently held PFA conv- is government regulations,
ention, here. York County
president Roger Perry “One of the suggestions is
states, “Farmers are not putting the U.S. Congress
able to just stay at home and and Pennsylvania General
farm. Too many things Assembly hack in control of
outside the realm of fanning agency regulations,” he
affect the ways and means remarked. “Too often laws
by which the farmers are passed by a legislative
produce food and fiber for body and forgotten while
the non-farm consumer.” some government agencies
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ministering the law. state, while the scrapbook
“These rules are called compiled by Joyce Bupp
regulations and seem to go depicting the association in
way beyond the intentions of the news won blue ribbon
the lawmakers who passed recognition,
the law in the first place. We ..... , .
want legislative control over , w ® want is to produce
the regulation process.” and make a decent
Perry explained that in- a j; concluded the
creased interference with County dairyman,
steadily mounting regulation Although grocery store
compliance in agriculture P r * ces don t always, show it,
carries a price tag too high 9® arm
for fanners to bear. Many drastically at tunes with no
are just getting out to avoid re Sard for the prices of
hassles. Soon it will be the production that steadily
food and fiber shopper who have been rising. Govem
bears the costly brunt of regulations, although
over-regulation in end well-intentioned, - are adding
markets. greatly to the cost of staying
The York County Far- in business. And without
mers’ Agri-Journal edited profit, farmers can’t hang in
and, published by Gail Me- there for ever. That same is
Pherson won best of all business.”
Upward trend continues
HARRISBURG - Penn
sylvania poultry production
continued its upward trend
during the week ending
November 20, above last
year’s production and ahead
of the 1976 national
production, according to the
Pennsylvania crop Repor
ting Service.
Placements of broiler
chicks were 1,750,000. The
placements were 27 per cent
above the corresponding
week a year earlier and six
per cent above the previous
week.
Average placements
during the past ten weeks
were 24 per cent above a
year ago.
Placements in the 21 key
poultry states were
62,693,000, five per cent
above the previous week and
five per cent more than the
same week in 1975.
Average placements in the
21 key states during the past
ten week were seven per cent
above a year earlier.
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Milk prices announced
SOUTHAMPTON, Pa. - Area dairy farmers who are
members of Inter-State Milk Producers’ Cooperative
received $10.49 per hundredweight for milk they produced
during October.
This price, known as the weighted average price, is the
actual average price all Federal Order 4 dairymen receive
for milk containing 3.5 per cent butterfat, and is adjusted
' accordingly for higher or lower butterfat content. ,
The October weighted average blend price is equivalent to
22.6 cents per quart. The October price compares to $10.36
per hundredweight for the previous month and $9.96 per
hundredweight for a year ago. Quart equivalent prices were
22.3 cents for the previous month and 21.4 cents for a year
ago.
The farm base milk price for October was $10.76 per
hundredweight while the excess price was $8.35 per hun
dredweight. The butterfat differential was 10.4 cents for each
point above or below 3.5 per cent. The base price is up eight
cents per hundredweight from the previous month and up 65
cents per hundredweight from a year ago. The excess price is
down 20 cents per hundredweight from the previous month
and up 65 cents per hundredweight from a year ago.
A total of 453 million pounds of Federal Order 4 producer
milk was pooled in October of which 62 per cent was sold as
Class I, compared to 62 per cent for the previous month and
72 per cent a year ago. A total of 7,967 Order No. 4 producers
provided 14.6 million pounds per day to dealers during Oc
tober averaging 1,834 pounds per farm per day. Total value of
producer milk was set at $47.3 million for the month.
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