—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, May 7, 1977
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NFO selling cows as protest
CORNING, lowa - April 11, are being held at
Meetings have been held over 200 NFO livestock
across the nation by marketing facilities
members of the National nationwide and are being
Farmers Organization coordinated through NFO’s
(NFO) to schedule sell-offs Dairy and Cattle bargaining
of dairy and beef cows as a departments,
protest against low prices for
milk and for beef cattle. “I am encouraging all
The sell-offs, began on NFO dairy producers to take
Free blood pressure
tests available
LANCASTER, Pa. - You
can have high blood pressure
and still feel good. In fact,
many people with high blood
pressure have no unusual
symptoms. They don’t even
know they have this disease.
The American Heart
Association, Lancaster
Pennsylvania chapter urges
you to have your blood
pressure checked. It is the
only way to find out if you
have high blood pressure.
Stop in at one of the sites
listed below for a free blood
pressure check during the
month of May: Pharmacy
Labs, 355 W. King Street,
Lancaster. Weekdays from
1:30 to 3 p.m.; Strasburg
Pharmacy, IW. Main Street,
Strasburg, Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday, and
Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.,
Wednesday and Saturdays
from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.;
Sloan’s Pharmacy, 61 E.
Main Street, Mount Joy,
Tuesdays from 2 to 4 p.m.;
McElroy’s Pharmacy, 100 E.
Main Street, Lititz, Wed
nesdays from 1 to 4 p.m. and
Fridays from 7 to 8:30
p.m.; Community Nursing
Service, 459 N. George
Street, Millersville, Mon
days from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m.; American Heart
Association, Lancaster Pa.
Chapter, 246 W. Orange
Street, Fridays from 2 to 4
p.m.; Willow Pharmacy,
Willow Street, Third
Tuesday (May 17) from 6 to
8:30 p.m.
Quarryville Drug Com
pany, 15 E. State Street,
Quarryville, Third Friday
(May 20) from 2 to 4 and 5:30
to 7 p.m.; Rpyer Pharmacy,
2 E. Main Street, Ephrata,
Third Wednesday (May 18)
from 9 a.m. to noon and 6 to 8
p.m.; Manheim Township
Ambulance Headquarters,
Municipal Drive, Fourth
Monday, (May 23) from 9 to
11 a.m. and 6 to 8 p.m.;
Lancaster- Osteopathic
Hospital, Outpatient Clinic,
during May which is
hypertension month, every
Tuesday from 9 a.m. to noon.
Box cars
scarce
While boxcars and covered
hopper cars are expected to
be in generally good supply
during 1977, freezing
weather and drifting snow
last winter have lowered
barge grain loading and
brought about significant
shorages of covered hopped
cars in com and soybean
producing areas. USDA
economists warn that some
shortages could develop once
the May-June wheat harvest
gets underway. At that point,
tiie Southwest could face
some interacting shortages
of storage capacity and
railcar space, as well as
some short-lived congestion
at Gulf ports.
TRY A
CLASSIFIED
advantage ot this coor
dinated cow - sell
off,” commented Ed Grat,
director of NFO’s Dairy
Department. Supply
management is needed in
order to get fair prices for
dairymen, and culling of
dairy herds is one method of
supply management.”
The pnce dairymen are
now receiving for their milk
in some areas is as much as
$4.00 a hundredweight below
what they need to meet their
production costs and pay
them for their labor and
management, Graf said.
The future of the American
cattle industry is even
dimmer, according to Bill
Sellhorst, Head of NFO’s
Cattle Department. Cow-calf
men are losing as much as
$l5O a head on their 500
pound choice steers, which
means cattle feeders need an
additional $2BO on 1000
pounds slaughter steers to be
able to pay cowmen what
they need and still clear a
profit.
Despite these losses,
Sellhorst says, the culling of
herds across the country has
slowed due to manufacutred
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everyone that ranchers between dairy and beef and
optimism about Fall really mean ‘No Price, No most have been with calf. All
markets-more optimism Production”. are going to slaughter in
than realism, Sellhorst says. Sellhorst said cow sell-offs order to prevent them from
“The buyers are using have already been held by reappearing in the markets
numbers agauist us,” said NFO members in various later.
Sellhorst, “and have the areas and have met with
upper hand. Our plan is to excellent response and
- conduct organized sell-offs participation from
at our collection points until producers. Cows already
it becomes obvious to sold have been evenly mixed