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ZOOK’S FARM STORE
Honey Brook, PA
A. L HERR & BRO.
Quarryville, PA
717-786-3521
S. JOHNSON HURFF
Pole Tavern
Monroeville, NJ
609-358-2565 or
609-769-2565
STOUFFER BROS. INC.
Chambersburg, PA
717-263-8424
ARNETTS GARAGE
Rt. 9 Box 125
Hagerstown, MD
301-733-0515
NEVIN N. MYER
& SONS, INC.
Chester Springs, PA
215-827-7414
drop below the release level,
the loan program will go into
effect once more and the
farmers still under the
program will not be able to
sell their gram without
penalty.
A second type of release
level in the program is
known as a “call level.”
When the price of grain on
the open market reaches this
height - 140 per cent of the
loan rate for com and 175 per
cent for wheat - the entire
program is cancelled and the
farmer is required to sell tus
product and repay the loan.
If neither of these levels is
reached and the loan runs
the entire length of the three
year contract, at the end of
three years the farmer is
responsible for paying the'
principle plus the ac
cumulated interest at six per
cent.
Should a farmer decide,
however, that he wishes to
Early Buyer’s
Cash Bonus
Now you can get cash
back from Gehl with the
purchase of eligible forage
harvesting and haymaking
equipment. See us for full
details.
(Offer valid on eligible equip
ment retailed between Dec. 19,
1977 and Mar. 31,1978)
UMBERGER’S MILL
Rt 4 Lebanon, PA
(Fontana)
717-867-5161
BINKLEU HURST BROS.
133 Rothsville Station Road
Lititz, PA
717-626-4705
PEOPLE’S SALES
& SERVICE
Oakland Mills, PA
717-463-2735
WILLIAM DAUGHERTY
R.D. #2
Felton, PA
717-244-9787
ERNEST SHOVER
FARM EQUIPMENT
19 W. South St.
Carlisle. PA
717-249-2239
remove this grain from the
program before either type
of release level is reached,
he will owe the amount of the
loan plus interest, as well as
all the storage advanced
from the time the agreement
plus the mterest on that
storage. This serves as a
type of penalty for early
withdrawal.
According to the ASCS
office, if the grain in storage
should begin to deteriorate,
the three-year program has
built into it a system
whereby the fanner may sell
his ’77 crop and replace it
with the ’7B crop. This must
be done within 30 days and
must be approved by the
county committee. However,
the grain must already be
harvested and be in storage
before the replacement can
be made.
According to Carl Kauf
man, state executive
director of ASCS, the pur
pose of the three year
program is to take some
grain off the market to
Up to $lBO CASHI
Up to $125 CASH!
N. G. HERSHEY & SON
Manheim, PA
717-665-2271
AGWAY, INC.
Chapman Equip Center
Chapman, PA
215-398-2553
CHAS. J. McCOMSEY
&SONS
Hickory Hill, PA
215-932-2615
WERTZ GARAGE
Lineboro, MO
301-374-2672
LEBANON VALLEY
IMPLEMENT CO., INC.
Richland, PA
717-866-7518
CLAIR J. MYERS
Lake Road R 1
Thomasville, PA
717-259-0453
subsequently mcrease the
value of the free floating
remaining grain.
“We want to isolate this
gram from the market as a
stop gap measure,” states
Kaufman, “and, we want to
get the set aside program
going and reduce produc
tion.
In 1977 when the Farm Bill
first went into effect, prices
did go up because millers
anticipated the smaller
amount of grain. So, in ef
fect, our aim is to isolate the
market and when the price is
up to appropriate level, to
rlease the excess gram onto
the market.”
To participate in the
program, a farmer must file
a request for price support
by February 28 for the ’76
crop of barley, oats, and
wheat, and by March 31 for
the 1977 crop of barley, oats,
and wheat.
The market
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purchased had little more resem
blance to the drink I enjoy than the
mere fact that it was a liquid The
milk in that particular plastic jug had
a repulsive taste, and was of visibly
poor quality Fortunately, I do know
what good milk tastes like and I
continue to consume considerably
large quantities of that thirst
quencher. But think of the housewife
who isn’t that well acquainted with
milk. Will she increase her purchases
of milk, or attempt to avoid it from
nowon?
Granted, the farmer isn't always to
blame for an inferior product that
shows up in the grocery store. In
fact, the farmer might only be
responsible a fraction of the time It’s
true that the dairyman can’t do a
whgje lot about milk sales in the
theater. But maybe his co-op can. It’s
also true that the egg producer has
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 4,1978
N.Y. packer charged
NEW YORK, N.Y. G. & L.
Packing Co., Inc., New
Mills, N.Y., has been
charged with violating
financial and payment
requirements of a federal
fair trade practices law for
the livestock, poultry, and
meat industries.
The firm is a meat packer.
It purchases meat, meat
food products, and poultry
throughout New York and in
Boston.
The firm has been charged
with operating as a packer
while its current liabilities
exceed its current assets;
and issuing insufficient
funds and failing to pay,
when due, for more than
no way of controlling what his buyer
is doing with the eggs Bad eggs in
New York City are out of his reach in
more ways than one
All that considered, it remains
certain that the farmer is the one
who takes it on the chin, whether he
deserves it or not.
As a former dairyman, I can
confess that the milk in a cow’s
udder wasn’t always fit for the tank,
and the milk in the tank wasn’t
always up to the standards set by the
cooperative which handled the milk.
That serves as an example that
farmers can do something to in
crease the quality of their product if
they’re a little more careful and a
little more conscientious. There's an
untapped market potential out there.
It exists for milk, meat, eggs, and
virtually anything else the farmer
produces. All we have to do is do our
part to assure quality production,
and search for marketing areas such
as theatres where our products
might be served.
$146,000 worth of meat, meat
food products, and poultry.
G. & L. Packing Co., has a
right to a hearing. If the
charges are proven, the firm
would be placed under a
cease and desist order.
Food Costs
Consumers spent almost
$164 billion for food
originating on U S. farms in
1976 When the food left the
farms, these foods had a
value of $54 billion The
marketing bill of $llO billion
was spent on transportation,
processing and distributing
these foods.
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