—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 22,1979
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Eastern says milk dealers lack understanding of
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - “A
recent news story quoting
Henry R. Geisinger,
Executive Vice-President of
the Pennsylvania
Association of Milk Dealers,
Harrisburg, clearly
illustrates his lack of real
understanding of the milk
industry outside his very
limited sphere of activities
in some parts of Penn
sylvania,” said Arden
Tewksbury, President of
Eastern Milk Producers
Cooperative.
Charges by Geisinger that
some people have been
blaming the recent
bankruptcy of Grandview
Dairy on the Pennsylvania
Milk Marketing Board or on
the lack of a State Security
Fund certainly cannot be
attributed to any officials of
Eastern, Tewksbury said.
Officials of Eastern Milk
Producers have repeatedly
said the Marketing Board
lacks proper jurisdiction
over milk sold out of state.
One of the main reasons we
have been pushing in the
direction of the Security
Fund is to protect the milk of
Pennsylvania farmers that
is sold out of state, he said.
Certainly, if the Milk
Marketing Board is in
terested, at this time, in
licensing out of state milk
dealers, Eastern will
cooperate to the fullest to
assist in that effort, be said.
ACP
LEESPORT - The Berks
County Agricultural
Stabilization and Con
servation Service recently
announced that they are now
taking applications for their
1980 Agricultural Con
servation Program.
Henry Bohn, county
executive director reminded
farmers that they need to
wait for the approval of the
County Committee before
they begin any practice in
order to be eligible for cost
shanng. He also mentioned
that the maximum cost-
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Geisinger charges that
Eastern has circumvented
the authority of the Milk
Marketing Board by
changing title of Penn
sylvania-produced milk in
New York State. This, one
more time, shows his
ignorance of the way the
majority of the milk is
marketed in New York City
and New Jersey, Tewksbury
said.
It is quite apparent
Geisinger does not realize
that approximately half the
Pennsylvania-produced mdk
is sold out of state. A large
portion of this milk is sold
through cooperatives to
handlers in new Jersey and
New York City who have,
during the last few years,
decided not to develop their
own supplies of milk and
depend on cooperatives to
provide them with tailored
supplies, he said.
Consequently, when a
cooperative delivers milk
into New Jersey or New
York City, the title of the
milk cannot possibly change
until it reaches its final
destination.
Another important reason
why Eastern has been
pushing for a Security Fund
in Pennsylvania is to be sure
that all these handlers in
New Jersey and New York
City buying milk through
cooperatives would have to
pay money into a fund to
sign up begins
share for each person will be
$3500.
Practices included under
this program are:
establishing permanent
vegetative cover (seeding);
improving permanent
vegetative cover (lime and
fertilizer); stripcropping
systems; terrace systems;
diversions; grazing land
protection (spring
development); cropland
protective cover (cover
crop); sediment retention,
erosion or water control
structures; sod waterways;
protect the welfare of the**:
dairy farmers, Tewksbury
said.
“Charges made by
Geisinger that Eastern has
maneuvered large supplies
of milk produced by our
members in New York State
out of Grandview Dairy and
supplemented it with Penn
sylvania produced milk are
completely ridiculous,”
according to Howard Mc-
Donald, the cooperative’s
general manager.
For a number of years,
Eastern has been the major
supplier of raw milk to the
fluid market in New York
and New Jersey. At times,
Eastern has serviced as
many as 12 accounts in this
market. Eastern’s records
clearly indicate that a vast
majority of that milk has
always come from Penn
sylvania farmers, he said.
“Eastern has, historically,
worked closely with the
proprietary sector of the
dairy industry to benefit
both dairy farmers and
handlers,” Tewksbury said.
“We plan to continue this
program in the future.”
There are a number of
reasons why a particular
,buyer may be serviced from
different supply areas, such
as available supplies,
commitments to other
buyers, location of plant
facilities, etc, he said.
animal waste facilities;
permanent wildlife habitat;
forest tree plantations; and
forest tree stand im
provement.
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“The majority of our New
York State milk is com
mitted to local markets in
Upstate New York.
Therefore, it has always
been more convenient for
Eastern to use re-loaded
milk out of the State of
Pennsylvania for the
markets in northern New
Jersey and New York City,”
he said.
“Actually, today, Eastern
does not have a re-load
station in the State of New
York and because many of
the handlers in New York
City have limited storage
capacities, it becomes
almost impossible to service
those accounts with off-the
farm milk. Consequently,
these accounts must be
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“Geisinger, in his story,
speaks as if he were on the
inside of the chain of events
that occurred in the Grand
view situation,” McDonald
said.
In fact, he has relied
totally on what he has read
in other newspaper articles,
McDonald said.
He said Geismger repeats
several quotations from
Herb Kling, Director of the
Dairy Division, New York
State Department of
Agriculture & Markets, and
has used these quotes to give
the impression that Kling
was critical of the way
Eastern serviced the
Grandview account. -
“Kling, in fact, has stated
to Eastern officials that the
original news stories
misquoted him and bore
very little resemblance to
the facts that he had given to
the original Mc-
Donald said.
“It is obvious that
Geismger’s true purpose is
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to undermine producer
support, as well as
legislative support for the
Security Fund which is
particularly needed to
protect dairy farmers in the
State of Pennsylvania,”
McDonald said.
“Regardless of
Geisinger’s double talk, the
facts are that if there had
been a Security Fund in
effect in Pennsylvania,
farmers would have
received full protection in
the Grandview situation just
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State of New York,” ob
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criticism of Geisinger’s
group because of eastern’s
continued effort to line up all
of the farm organizations m
the same direction on the
Security issue.
Tewksbury said many
members of Eastern Milk
Producers helped to write
the policy of other
organizations on the Penn
sylvania Security issue.
In conclusion, Tewksbury
said he is publicly
challenging Geismger to a
debate on issues facing
Pennsylvania dairy farmers
and would be willing to
travel anywhere in the state
of Pennsylvania for the
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