G2o—Lancaster Firming Saturday, January 12, 1980 NEDCO holds meeting on milk industry problems By JANE BRESEE Staff Correspondent WAVERLY, N.Y. - Of ficials of the Northeast Dairy Cooperative Federa tion, Inc. hosted 24 directors and wives of the Penn-York and Empire-Keystone milk cooperatives at a dinner at Tomasso’s Restaurant near Waverly, N.Y. recently. Thr purpose of the meeting was to inform them about problems facing the milk in dustry and what their milk cooperative is doing. Fenton Murphy, treasurer of NEDCO, and a member of the Penn-York Co-op, in troduced Leo Bnggs, vice president of NEDCO; also National President of Dnnc,* LacT (Dairy Research, Inc.) and a USDA seeks to raise cattle. NEW YORK, N.Y. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing to change the federal in demnities paid for cattle and swine destroyed because of tuberculosis. The department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service says the proposed higher indemnities paid to owners of either affected or exposed cattle, as well as authority to pay com pensation for swine need more Room? to() SSSI: Read The Classified m y*j ouys *v••,/ Real Estate Ads BULK * MOTOR OIL from Agwoy... the best way for the large user to buy motor oil COMPARE OUR PRICES! If you're a large user, Agway will save you some money. (Call 717-397-4954 AGWAY PETROLEUM BOX 1197, DILLERVILLE ROAD LANCASTER, PA director of _ National Milk Federation, Inc. Briggs reported that on March 31, 1979 there was a net margin of $477,289 after paying $lOO,OOO mcome tax. Many deductions will not be available this coming year and more mcome tax will have to be paid, he sur mised. A decision to get solidly in to “Direct-To-Farraer Sup plies” has been made, he went on, and the venture is breaking even financially. Benefits will be passed on to the membership. The Internal Security Fund now totals over $700,000, he reported. The fund was called into use to pay NEDCO members for delinquent milk checks when the Grandview Dairy went swine indemnities destroyed because of ex posure to bovine tuber culosis, would serve to minimize financial dif ficulties faced by owners who must destroy their animals. Maximum indemnities would be raised from $350 to $750 per head for affected cattle, and from $lOO for nonregistered and $2OO for registered exposed cattle to $450 per head for all exposed cattle. Also, there would be a into bankruptcy. The board of directors must approve all payments from the Security Fund. Bnggs also reviewed na tional issues m which NED CO as a member of the Na tional Milk Federation is in volved: a suit against the Food and Drug Administra tion to prevent the labeling of imitation products such as “cheese substitutes”; to pre vent the hearings that the CNI is requesting the Department of Agriculture to have around the country about selling reconstituted milk as Class I Milk; and ex pansion of milk promotion programs m New York State and Pennsylvania. Ralph Smith, education director of NEDCO, was the $2OO per head maximum for TB-exposed swine. The new proposal, based on recommendations of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, would help provide a more effective tuberculosis eradication program to protect the public. For further information, or to submit written com ments pertaining to the porposals, contact R. W. Bennett, USDA, APHIS, VS, Rm. 802, 6505 Belcrest Rd., HyattsviUe, Md. 20782. 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He reported that 2600 letters to the entire membership had been sent asking members to write to the U.S. Department of Agriculture asking that hearings not be held oncem ing the reconstituted milk issue. A general mcrease m pounds of milk marketed was noted, he said, because 30 or 40 more producers have joined the cooperative. Smith explained the need for expanding promotion of dairy products because the sale of Class 1 milk in Order 2 has dropped 6.1 per cent m the past year, and per capita consumption of milk fat is steadily decreasing because of the use of oleo and dairy subsitutues. Murphy noted this was the first information meeting to which wives of the directors had been mvited. Since they are business partners they need to be kept informed also, he stated. In conclusion Murphy remarked that he felt that as a whole co-op members do not pay enough attention to what their organization is doing. 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