Eg—Uncaster Farming, Saturday, January 5,1980 NEDCO calls consumer move 4 serious threat ’ SYRACUSE, NY - Calling it the most serious threat to the Federal Order program and dairy farmer incomes smce the Order’s inception smce 1937, the Northeast Dairy Cooperative Federation is calling all the dairy cooperatives to band together to thwart recent efforts by the Community Nutrition Institute (a con sumer organization) to remove reconstituted milk from the federal order system of classified pricing. According to NEDCO’s President Edward Mc- Namara, CNI has petitioned Agriculture Secretary Bergland to call a hearing to exempt reconstituted milk from classified pricing, thus doing away with the entire federal order system. “This is a very serious matter to all milk producers,” he said. “Only a national effort by all cooperatives can solve this problem. We should not try to crusade ourselves with the entire industry at stake,” cautioned the dairy leader. NEBCO currently is working through the National Milk Producers Federation and its 200 member cooperatives to prevent the hearing requested by CNI. According to McNamara, a call to unity is the only way the dairy industry can hope to survive m the future. “The dairy industry is being attacked on all sides. Its basis for existence, to say nothing of any growth potential, will depend solely on its ability to rally together in one voice and a singleness of purpose,” he said. NEDCO, and the National Milk Producers Federation have requested a 180-day extension of time for the filing of comments con cerning the reconstituted and filled milk issue. NEDCO also recently mailed letters to each of its nearly 3000 producer members asking them to contact their congressional representatives m strong opposition to the hearing desired by CNI. nBHTFfiRE WITH COMMON SENSE! DEAD STOCK REMOVED PROMPTLY ANYTIME ANYWHERE We Charge For Distant Pickups. A. F. BRANDT’S SONS RENDERERS ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (717) 367-6026 “For the sake of a few pennies, these certain consumer advocates are willing to destroy the lives of hundreds of dairy' families, who would surely be forced to sell out if their fluid milk price is taken away,” said McNamara “They speak too of con sumer lower prices, yet the very approach they are taking would have to mvolve a processing cost to add water to the powdered milk, a simple procedure that can be done now by the con sumer himself. “Let me explain something else,” he added. “Ultimately, if there is only one class of milk under the federal order bringing the lower manfacturmg milk price, this would have meant a reduction in the November blend price to the fanner of $1.29 per hundredweight; translating over a year mto a loss of $B,OOO to the average producer...more than many farms even show as a net income! “I don’t think our con sumer advocate friends even took the tune to consider the impact on themselves and the people who’s cause they are pursuing,” he said. “I think it’s safe to say that over the long haul, without a pricing structure, chaotic marketing would develop among the dealers, eventually making it nearly impossible for anyone to find a quart of fresh milk anywhere ” McNamara went on to say that short range cheap food policies in the end defeat themselves. “They can only guarantee long range shortages of food and higher prices to the very consumer they are trying to protect,” he said. “It is wrong to forsake an entire industry for the sake of a few special interest consumer groups, such as CNI, who plunge mto them worthy causes often with blinders on. 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