—Lancaster Farmim 18 Dairy referendum [Continued from Page 1] USDA’s recommendation was brought about as a result of a public hearing in New York City and Syracuse a year and a half ago. The hearings were requested by Dairylea Cooperative, Inc. and NEDCO, a federation of dairy cooperatives. The two groups, whose members supply milk to handlers in the New York-New Jersey market, said they are losing some of their market outlets for fluid milk because of the wide disparity in milk costs to New York-New Jersey handlers and to handlers in neighboring markets, particularly in the Philadelphia area. Recent increases in hauling costs have intensified the problem, the producers said. The outcome of the vote will affect dairymen in southeastern Pennsylvania and neighboring areas, regardless of whether they ship into the Order 2 poll or elsewhere. Those dairymen who are currently under Order 2 will be faced with hauling charges which were previously carried by handlers. The lower prices suggested in the referendum will ripple through Orders 1 and 4 as well, and upset the entire pricing structure, Hand argues. Inter-State and its sister cooperatives in the Penn marva Federation, as well as cooperatives in New England have therefore gone on record as being opposed to the proposed changes. Hand, in fact, would rather see Order 2 go down the drain, saying in his editorial; “Perhaps the best solution would be for Order 2 dairy farmers to vote out Order 2. His solution to the alleged problem of disparities would be that “Many producers and dealers in northern New Jersey would be regulated by Order 4, a few would be regulated by Order 1, and the remainder in New York State would have the benefit of the New York State Milk Control.” He sees such an outcome as signifying a new birth of farmer unity and a re-kindling of cooperation between dairymen and dairies within Order 2. pnm/SSSW WITH QUALITY SEEP ORDER SMALL GRAINS NOW FOR FALL SEEDING BARLEY WHEAT Barsoy Rapidan Volbar Henry Monroe Abe Arthur Arthur 71 Potomac Red Coat Coker 747 McNair 4823 All Grains are Certified & Treated. KERR-M^GEE CHEMICAL CORPOHATIOH Located at Rt. 322 & Reservoir Roads Honey Brook, Pa. Phone (215) 273-3546 Saturday. September 3,1977 “New thinking needs to be applied to Order 2 - or all dairy farmers in the Nor theast will be faced with lower prices and incomes. Any attempt to expand the provisions of Order 2 to other Northeast markets should be strongly resisted. A positive force for change is vital,” the economist declares. Despite the opposition and warnings from Middle Atlantic and New England dairy cooperatives, the proposed measure is ex pected to go through, ac cording to a spokesman at one of the cooperatives. Voting on the referendum ends Sept. 11. The referendum which is now underway will deter mine whether or not dairymen in the affected areas approve of the proposed hauling allowances for handlers. Herbert L. Forest, dairy official in USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), says the changes in the order’s transportation allowances would bring them more in line with present costs of assembling milk from farms and transporting it to plants for processing. The changes would also make the minimum price of raw milk to handlers regulated under the order more competitive with minimum prices in other federal order markets, particularly the adjacent Middle Atlantic market. This is needed, he added, because handlers in these two markets are actively competing in overlapping distribution areas for Class 1 sales. Uniquely, under the New York-New Jersey Order, bulk milk is priced at the farm, and handlers who pick up the milk at the farm bear most of the cost of tran sporting it to their plants, according to Forest. Any cost increases are borne by handlers, who must either absorb the increases or pass them on to consumers. In other markets, Forest said, milk is priced at the plant where it is received, and producers rather than handlers pay most of the milk transportation cost, including cost increases. CALL Upder the proposed changes, Forest said, the order’s transportation allowances to handlers would be increased to reflect the higher hauling costs that they are experiencing. This would mean that milk producers serving the market would have more of the cost of moving their milk to market reflected in the minimum prices that handlers 'must pay producers. Forest said the recom mended changes in the New York-New Jersey order should help minimize these cost differences between adjacent markets. Also, within the New York- New Jersey marketing area, the proposed changes would help equalize the minimum price of milk to all handlers in that area, regardless of their location or whether they get their milk direct or NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC. 12 Miles East of Lancaster on Route 23, New Holland, Penna. WEEKLY FEEDER PIG SALE EVERY WEDNEI Sale to Start Promi We Will Receive Your Pigs Anytime From 7 A.M. Wed. Mornim State Graded Until 12 Noon. All pigs inspected by State Approved Veterinarian. State tags available at our office for you to tag pigs at home to save 2 5 cent* tagging charge. Tags delivered if you call 717-354-4341 our office in advance. NOTE: Special Hog Breeding Stock Sales Saturday, Sept. 10, 1977 1:00 P.M. Hampshire Hogs for Franklin Feeser, Tanytown, Md. Saturday, Sept. 17-1:00 P.M. Purebred Duroc Hogs {or Dutch Valley Farms, Mark Nestleroth and John Chapman. Also Sweigard’s Duroc for Bill and Gene Sweigard. Calf Sale To Be Held In New Sales Pavilion Every Thursday At 4:30 P.M. NORMAN KOLB ABE DIFFENBACH 717-397-5538 OFF FLAVOR PROBLEMS? ZERO INTRODUCES THE SUPER COOLER FEATURING... ★ Quicker cooling to lower temp. ★ Lower installation cost ★ More efficient cooling ★ Solid state controls ★ Lower service cost CONSULTING through supply plants, Forest added. Dairy farmers who sup plied milk to the New York- New Jersey marketing area in March 1977 will be eligible to vote. Two-thirds of those voting must approve the amended order before it can become effective. Failure to approve the amended milk marketing order will result in ter mination of the Order, ac cording to Dr. N.K. Garber, assistant market ad ministratorfor Order 2. He urges all eligible producers who are not members of a cooperative. association voting collectively and who do not receive referendum material to write' to the Referendum Agent at 208 East 43rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10017. For more specific details on the recommendations encompassed by this vote, 717-393-4464 MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIPMENT acorn | EQUIPMENT I V*/ fZen» ) VSuper Cooley SPREADERS & PUMPS please see page 91 of the Aug. 27 issue of Lancaster Farming. Hand sees lower blend prices in Order 2 as an im mediate result if the referendum passes. Block voting in Order 2 will likely pass the measure. He also .foresees a movement of -Class 1 sales from Orders 1 "and 4 to Order 2, resulting in a lower level of blend prices throughout the Northeast region. “The members of Penn marva believe this to be a serious threat to dairy farmers’ incomes and to market stability, both contrary to the purposes of Federal Orders,” Hand wrote in his editorial. “Both New York - New Jersey cooperatives and the mm fidelity electric TRUE ALTERNATORS CLEANERS & SANITIZERS IyiODERIMIZIIMG Dairy Division at USDA should face the facts that neither farm point pricing nor cooperative payments are in the best interest of dairy farmers or cooperatives. The legacy of Order 2 is reduced cooperative membership and lower farm prices,” the economist stated. Ah, America If you want your father to take care of you, that’s paternalism. If you want your mother to take care of you, that’s matemahsm If you want Uncle Sam to take care of you, that’s socialism If you want your comrades to take care of you, that’s communism But if you want to take care of yourself, that’s Americanism
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