20—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. May 14. 1977
Merle and Aaron Click review a
summons which was delivered to
their farm earlier this year by a
federal marshall. Although the Clicks
say they're operating entirely within
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remarks such as Felt
ner’s. Telling Lancaster
Fanning he started from
“scratch,” he said he and his
family have worked hard to
get to where they are today.
He wants to protect his
livelihood and insists he’s
operating entirely within the
law except that he isn’t filing
a monthly report to the
Federal Milk Marketing
Administrator in Alexan
dria, Va. As far as he’s
concerned, his production
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the law, federal authorities demand
that to prove it they must file
production and sales figures to them
on a monthly basis.
and financial figures are
none of the government’s
business.
The Federal Order people,
however, have a different
view. Glick'has failed to file
reports since Order 4 ex
- panded into his area in June
of 1975. After repeated
fruitless attempts to get him
to file, the Federal Order
decided to issue a summons.
It was delivered to Click last
January by a federal
marshall. Ordered to appear
in court, Click and his
lawyers have since suc-
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definitely. But the Lancaster
County dairyman is con
vinced the issue will come up
again. Feltner’s words,
among others, have him
worried and he’s concerned
about protecting his in
vestments. The nearly
$300,000 of borrowed money
he spent in late 1974 covers
only the processing room,
store, equipment, fur
nishings, and inventories-not
the dairy herd, land, and
other fanning essentials.
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Milk jugger f
Emphasizing that be has
nothing against the Federal
Order and milk inspectors,
and pointing out that the
milk produced and sold on
his farm has consistent
excellent ratings, Glick says
his only coinplaint is being
lumped into fee same class
with dairy store giants such
as supermarkets. He’s
against filing complicated
reports and paying an
assessment of IM> cents per
pound on all of his produc
' tion.
Provisions within the
Federal Order allow juggers
such as Glick to purchase
10,000 pounds of milk per
month to meet their own
marketing needs. If they do
that, they’re required to pay
Vh. cents into the pool on
each pound of milk which
was not produced on their
farm. Juggers who exceed
that figure, however, are
assessed for every pound
sold on fee farm. It’s a
penalty designed to keep
juggers from absorbing too
much milk in any given area.
The law would still allow
them to do so, but as such
they would become pool
handlers rather than
juggers.
In Click’s case, fee federal
authorities do not know what
or how much Glick is buying
and selling. They do not
know whether or not he’s a
producer-handler (jugger)
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or a pool handler (big dairy).
The dividing lines can be
pretty thin, depending on
how much milk the business
takes in from outside. Until
Click files his reports, the
Market Administrator won’t
know how to classify him or
what his assessment will be,
if any. He is not assessed at
all now, and has not been.
According to Market
Administrator Joseph Shine,
Click is one of very few
(possibly the only) jugger
out of 60 within Order 4 who
still refuses to file monthly
reports. Many juggers have
found the filing of reports to
be a difficult pill to swallow
at first, but they are filing
nonetheless. “It’s like filing
income tax forms-most of us
don’t like that either, but we
have to do it,” commented a
staffer at a milk marketing
cooperative.
Click claims the forms are
too bard to fill out and would
require the hiring of a
secretary. Shine says it
would take a half hour per
month at the most, adding
that the form only looks
complicated because it’s the
same one used for all han
dlers of milk-be they juggers
or big supermarkets. Shine
explained further that all his
office needs from Click are
two figures: 1. total farm
milk production and 2. total
sales of milk.
“We have no way of
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determining a
unless he files
Shine told Lani
ming.
Click ackno\
he has records
produced and
Shine suggests,
producer alreai
figures for his
doesn’t take mi
the figures to '
Although Glit
officially uni
Shine points '
classification
been made for
legal recourse
to contest it.
involve filing a
which is mere!;
a hearing.
The southei
County dairyman
problems as a ‘
when Federal
panded into his area. He
claims it has discouraged
other dairymen from going
into jugging.
Bill Foust, chief of the
Division of Milk Sanitation,
Bureau of Foods and
Chemistry, Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture,
affirms, however, that new
jugging operations have
sprung up in the area within
the past two years. On the
other hand, .some have also
gone under. The total
number of juggers in the
state has not increased. As of
Thursday afternoon 189
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