—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 9, 1977
96
Love wants
embrace for
cooperatives
By LAUREL SCHAEFFER
Berks County Reporter
ONO, Pa. - Members of the
Myerstown Local, Eastern
Milk Producers Cooperative
gathered at the Ono Fire
Hall recently to listen to
Freebum Love, marketing
representative of the
cooperative.
Love reminded the con
cerned dairymen of the'
above normal increase in
mild production now faced
by all producers, and how
important cooperatives are
in finding markets for this
milk. “Cooperatives need
yor support,” he told the
dairymen. We have markets
for your milk but they are
becoming harder to find, the
speaker continued. To
combat this situation the
cooperative has baken over
the Middlebury Center
processing plant for use in
‘distress’ situations. The
plant may be in a poor
geographic for hauling, but
because of this the
cooperative has been able to
purchase the plant for a
‘distress’ price, Love in
formed the area producers.
“The plant will insure an
outlet for om milk.” he ex
plained.
The speaker also voiced
concern over the federal
governments move to in
crease the milk support
price. “I’m afraid this move
will come back to haunt us in
the future,” Love exclaimed.
It will only compound the
problems we are already
facing, he added.
The government has
substantial supplies of milk
on hand now. They have two
times as much cheese, three
times as much powder, and
more butter stockpiled than
they did one
year ago. Add this to the
misconceptions in the recent
news releases about the
increases in the price of
milk and our situation
becomes next to impossible,
Love told the local
producers.
Another topic of concern,
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Freeburn Love
dealt with the USDA Grading
Standards. “The grading
standards are here to stay,”
Love stated. The cooperative
should not tolerate any
producer who won’t produce
top quality milk. Let them go
to a manufacturer on their
own, he continued.
Milk is a very perishable
product and it is easy to
produce milk that does not
come up th standards. The
market for this milk is very
limited, the dairymen were
remindedi The cooperative
has a difficult time
marketing top quality milk
at this time as it is, the
representative added.
Producers were told they
have a requirement to be in
compliance with the USDA
grading standards.
In closing, Love stressed
the need for more adequate
bonding for milk handlers.
Love gave the dairymen an
account of a dairy which
recently went bankrupt. He
pointed out how adequate
bonding would have helped
the situation more. Bonding
would make our
job easier, “lam glad to see
Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Board is backing
legislation to that effect,”
Love concluded.
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