Farm Continued from Page A 10) VFUckmger will speak on feeding hay and silage. Delaware Vegetable- and Potato Conference, Sheraton Inn, Dover, continues . through January 30. State Horticulture meetings, Convention Center, 7% $ Jl □ Please send me color catalog on the Cherokee horse stock trailers and GN flatbeds. □ Please send me literature on Silo-Matic Feeding Systems. lAME >dre: SMUCKER'S SALES & SERVICE • Good used diesel engines Install a blower fan for better diesel & refrigeration cooling. Longer life on diesel. LET ME BREATHE! FOR PROMPT SERVICE CALL 717-354-4158 OR IF NO ANSWER CALL 717-354-4374. i t Calendar Hershey, continues through January 31. Sewing with Plaids clinic, 9:30 a.m., Hunterdon Co. Extension Center. Dauphin Co. COWAMP meeting, 7 p.m., Swatara Twp. Building. Garden Spot Young Fanners meeting, 7:30 p.m.. Union FICKES SILO COMPANY, INC. P.O. Box 7 Newville, PA 17241 Phone: 717-776-3129 Trailers Well Worth Their Cost. RD #2, BOX 21 NEW HOLLAND, PA 17557 DISTRIBUTOR FOR: LISe, PERKINS & SLANZI DIESELS Grove School, topic will be ventillatmg bams with ducts. Wednesday, January 30 York Co. workshop, “The Incredible Crepe”, 10 a.m., Pleasant Acres Meeting Room. Thursday, January 31 Sewage disposal seminar, 7 p.m., Penn State Fruit OSHo SYSTEMS y STATE ZIP. • New Sputnik wheels and parts We mount diesels on balers, crimpers, cornpickers, etc. For lower cost per hour power, rely on isferj DIESEL POWER Research Lab, Bigler ville. Town Meeting, 11:30 a.m., Encks, Baron, Stiegel Family Restaurant, Manheim. Farm and Home Foundation Meeting, 6:30 p.m., Lancaster Co. Farm and Home Center. Enterprising dairy far mers who are planning to operate an off-the-farm jug milk store in Pennsylvania need to acquaint themselves with the Commonwealth’s Milk Marketing Law. This regulation has a great bearing on whether it pays to expand and open new stores on land away from the home farm, or whether the business will have to stay confined within its boun daries. The entire law, Act No. 294, amended July 31, 1968, fills 63 pages of a cream colored Commonwealth paperback. The original act was passed by the state’s General Assembly in 1937. Along with the law, there is a milk marketing board. This board was set up to see that Pa. dairy farmers have an equal chance to market their milk, along with payment securities through bonding of milk dealers (a rather controversial subject at present). This board is also in terested in the consumer, and makes sure that the milk sold m the state is pure and wholesome, and is at a fair price. All this seems to fall in line with the jug milk producer until Section 402. This sec tion spells out which milk dealers or handlers can get exemptions and which ones can’t. incaster Farming, Saturday, January 26,1980—A27 Farm finance meeting TERRE HILL - The Adult Farmer Program, Eastern Lancaster County School District will sponsor a Farm Finance Meeting on Wednesday evening, Brief answers to short questions Sheila's Shorts By Sheila Miller Exemptions to what?-The state licensing requirements. In Sect. 402 it states, “That in cash sales of milk to consumers, if he shall have produced all the milk on the farm where sold and such milk has at no time left the producers’ farm prior to its sale to the con sumer and he shall have neither purchased, handled, or received any milk from other producers or handlers for cash sale or any other purpose and his total sales to consumers do not exceed two gallons to any one consumer in any one day, the producer so selling milk shall be exempt from the provisions of this act.” In other words, the dairy fanner who puts up a jug milk store on his own farm, with the cows and the processing plant, is not required to be licensed with PMMB. Any deviations, and the exemption is lost. Another section of the Act that gets involved with the jug milk opration is section 802, on prices. In small type, the law is defined to allow the milk marketing board to fix the minimum and maximum wholesale and retail prices to be charged for milk sold by any dealer in the state... “except for cc.isumption at the store where sold.” This means that a jug milk operation located entirely on February 6 at the Union Grove School. The meeting will discuss many areas of farm finance and farm management as related to todays money market including; the short money supply, higher in terest rates, tiie problems the higher rates are creating, hedging as a management tool to insure a profit, where does leasing fit the money management system today and the use of Market Reports in farm management. Speakers for the evening will include: Ronald Bard, Federal Land Bank; Richard Hess, Commodity Broker, Shearson, Loeb, Rhodes; Fred Greenfield, Telmark Inc. Leasing; and Les Houck, Agri- Broadcasting System. All interested persons are invited to attend the Farm Finance Meeting to be held at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday evening February 6 in the Union Grove School. For more information contact Bob Anderson at 215/445-5041. one farm, from cows to cartons, is not governed by PMMB’s maximum and minimum price regulations. Here again, though, any deviations and the special provisions are washed down the drain. This exemption business is important for every jug milker to keep in mind when expansion thoughts start cropping up. It’s best to have all the information and angles, and know the con sequences before makingtoo many financial and emotional commitments. And, if you run out of in door things to do on a snowy winter day, curl up with a copy of the Pa. Milk Marketing Law paperback. With any luck, you'll learn something you weren’t sure of before you started reading, and it will help you get to sleep.
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