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business men from dairy
industries, waited their
turns to testify.
Twenty-eight people from
Pennsylvania, Vermont,
New Jersey and New York
were listed on the roster to
speak, but as the day wore
on, it became apparent that
some present were not
listed, so by 4 m the af
ternoon when the meeting
adjourned nearly 40 had the
opportunity to speak their
opinions.
Representatives of the
Grange, Farm Bureau, and
milk cooperatives all voiced
emphatic opposition to the
Community Nutrition In
stitute request for a hearing
for deregulation of recon
sitited milk from Order
pricing.
According to Wilson W.
Moffatt, Jr., Director of the
Division of Dairy Industry of
the New Jersey Department
of Agriculture, the CNI issue
is the greatest-challenge to
the dairy industry in the past
decade and would be a
disaster to dairy fanners. It
would cost New Jersey dairy
farmers at least $7OOO a year
if the price for fluid milk
were lowered 90 cents to
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of the calves were fed improved Agway Veal
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original formula Veal Starter and Finisher
compete with the recon
stituted milk, he estimated.
One dairy farmer
representing the New York
State Farm Bureau suc
cinctly remarked that he
could see no sense m using
the energy to take the fluid
out of milk to dry it, and then
use more energy to put the
water back in to sell it a few
cents cheaper than fresh
fluid milk.
Charles D. Cook, New
York state Senator from
Delhi, defended the sale of
fresh fluid milk by saymg
that it is the greatest bargain
on the market today. The
average person works eight
minutes to purchase a gallon
of milk while ten years ago it
cost ten minutes of work to
buy a gallon of milk.
The only woman to testify
was Chris Braley, Farm
Bureau president from
Columbia County, New
York. She said the net an
nual mcome of 404 farms
studied in her county was
$13,126. She was most
concerned how the CNI
proposal would affect them.
The Federal Milk Order
System was thought to be
basically sound by most with
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Ed McNamarra, director of National Milk, Inc.
and president of Nedco, was among the many dairy
leaders who testified Monday.
the exception of Martin
Schanback, president of the
National Association for
Milk Marketing Reform of
Washington, D.C., an
association of independent
businessmen, not farmers.
He said he thought the
Federal Order system was
unresponsive in revising
transportation costs.
Irving Klein of
Metropolitan Dairies said he
felt strongly there should be
one Federal Order in the
Northeast to assure a
The results'? Agway animal nutritionists
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From start to finish at about 325 pounds, the
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uniform price for handlers.
He remarked that Order 2
producers are carrying the
surplus for other orders and
getting a lower price for
their milk.
All who spoke for the milk
cooperatives, including John
York for Lehigh Valley,
Joseph Mathis for Eastern
Milk Producers, Glen
Brown, Jr. for Nedco, Lester
Jones for Inter-State, Ed
ward McNamarra for
National Milk, Inc., Clyde
Rutherford for Dairylea,
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Congressman Al Jeffords, Vermont, shares a
smile with Neal Wallace, right, who testified on
behalf of the Tompkins County, N.Y. Agri-business
Council. Jeffords heard plenty of anti-CNI
testimony at the hearings.
Richard Langworthy for
Yankee Milk, and Loyd
Patterson, Northeast Dairy
Cooperative, agreed that the
Capper Volstead Act was
sound and should be
maintained.
According to Andrew
Novakovic, assistant
professor of Agriculture
Economics at Cornell, dairy
cooperatives are not
monopolistic. Less than half
of the milk in the northeast is
marketed by milk
cooperatives. Any change in
limiting the size of the coops
would be detrimental, he
charged.
The need for money for
research was a strong point
of Novakovic’s testimony.
He cited that between 1967
and 1977, the state and
federal funding for dairy
scientists was cut in half. He
encouraged the request for
more research dollars if the
dairy industry is to survive.
Energy, too, was on the
minds of most who testified,
.ooyd Patterson, of Vermont,
chairman of the Northeast
Dairy Cooperative, said that
a shortage doesn’t seem to
be the problem, but the ever
rising cost is increasingly
difficult to pay for.
Another hot issue men
tioned by nearly everyone
was the importation of
casein and other dairy
products.
The Farm Bureau,
Grange, and the
cooperatives were in favor of
shutting down all dairy
imports reasoning that some
dairy products come from
highly subsidized countries
and are processed under
health standards lower than
in the United States.
Novakovic of Cornell said
Australia should be allowed
to send us casern, and that
perhaps production of it in
the United States should be
encouraged.
Refuting those who argued
against the importation of
casein was Bruce Stewart,
president of the New
Zealand Milk Products, Inc.
of Rosemont, Illinois.
Speaking in a faint British
accent, he said that all dairy
products from New Zealand
are quality and subject to
U.S. inspection on arrival.
The functional and
nutritional qualities of
casern are unique and it
cannot be replaced by using
non-fat dry milk Cheaper
substitues from soy and
other sources will be in
ferior, he warned, and will
be sought if imports of
casern are not allowed
D D Nussbaum.
executive vice-president of
L D Schnebier Cheese
Company of Green Ba>,
Wisconsin, was another
advocate of importing
casein His company
produces 78 billion pounds of
natural, processed, and
cheese products per year, he
said, and their production
relies on casein.
Casern is a dairy product,
and research on other
products such as soy would
b 3 a threat to dairymen, he
stated. He cited the article'
“Dining in A.D. 2001” in the
February Readers Digest as
an example of how
Americans are going to eat
substitute foods in the
future.
He warned that if the price
of casein goes up, it would
cause his industry to seek
cheaper sources.
Norman Hecht, of Walden,
N.Y. was the only one who
spoke for the poultry in
dustry, representing the
Northeast Egg Marketing
Association and other
related organizations.
His long and humorous
testimony refuted the
argument that cholesterol in
eggs is harmful to the human
body. As a result of hundreds
of millions of dollars in
advertising, he stated, the
American public has been
brainwashed by the
technique of endless
repetition into believing that
cholesterol is a poisonous
substance rather than a
substance that our own
bodies make more of when
we eat less.
He said he knew of no
scientific work that shows
any material increase in
blood cholesterol levels in a
normal population as a
result of eating eggs, he
boasted.
Following the rush of one
minute testimonies, cut
down drastically due to lack
of time, Congressmen
Baidus and Jeffords thanked
all who came and assured
them that their written
testimonies would go on
record.
Additional stories on the
testimony for Dairylea and
Lehigh Valley Co-op appear
on pages A-20 and A-21.
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