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BIGLERVILLE - World
events and national politics
have a major impact on
pnces received by farmers.
Uncertainties in the world’s
situation and the fact that
1980 is an election year,
make it difficult to predict
any price improvement for
farmers.
Used
This was the consensus of
farmers and Penn State
Agricultural Economist Lou
Moore, participants in the
Young Farmer/Extension
Service sponsored Outlook
Meeting held last Thursday,
at Biglerville High School.
Vincent Lobaugh, R 1
Aspers, President of the host
Young Farmers Group,
introduced County Agent
Thomas E. Piper. Piper
presided over the meeting
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Farmers, ag economist share
pnce
At Adams County meetin.
predictions for 1980
and called on Larry Yager,
Extension Area Marketing
Agent, to moderate a panel
of farmers.
“High beef prices have
provided support for pork,”
said Charles Lobaugh, R 6
Gettysburg, expressing his
opinion on the market
outlook for swine. He urged
pork producers to stick
together to promote pork
and work in unity to improve
market conditions.
Caution is ruling cow/calf
producers who are slow to
rebuild cattle herds, said
Ronald Funt, Arendtsville.
However, farmers finishing
cattle are holding them to
heavier weights - a costly
process. This is squeezing
profit margins. Higher
supplies of pork and poultry
has placed the damper on
prices. High interest rates
and a conservative attitude
among consumers will work
to the disadvantage of the
beef market, concluded
Funt.
Fertilizer and fuel costs
pose as decisive questions
for crops farmers in 1980,
according to Clair Wolf, R 1
Biglerville.
Conversion of some
soybean acreage to cotton in
the south culd help soybean
prices. Commenting on
tomatoes. Wolf cited
carryover problems which
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 22,1980—D13
will influence 1980 con
tracting- He suggested that
Adams County growers may
benefit from the fact that the
Musselman Company ex
pects to obtain fewer
tomatoes in Lancaster
County m 1980.
What food commodity
offers more value on a cost
per pound basis than eggs?
This question was posed by
Norman Blocher, R 1 Aspers,
who presented the view of
the poultry industry. Citing
the cost of production per
dozen of 53.6 cents in 1980,
Blocher predicted an 88
cents per dozen cost in 1990
and warned that the industry
would have to adjust. He
suggested that homemakers
serving more egg dishes
would brighten the outlook
forpoultrymen.
Looking at processed
apples inventory, Nelson
Kane, Bendersville,
reported inventories of
applesauce up 9 percent,
juice up 45 percent and
sliced apples down 50 per
cent from this time last year.
He suggested that higher
costs for fuel, spray
materials and labor would
increase grower costs in
1980.
Dairy farmers have en
joyed several good years but
the future will have its ups
and downs as the industry
adjusts to changes, ac
cording to Vincent Lobaugh.
He predicted 1980 milk
prices to be favorable, but
revealed that cow prices
show how farmers are
continuing to build herds.
This will cause burdensome
surpluses which can depress
future prices.
“The Politics of
Marketing” was the title
which Lou Moore, Extension
Agricultural Economist
from the Pennsylvania State
University placed on his
agricultural outlook sum
mary for 1980. He listed
concerns for Afghanistan
and Iran, the Russian gram
embargo, gold, inflation, the
energy crisis, high interest
rates, wild expansion in
poultry and hogs, consumer
buyer power and attitudes as
a basis for uncertainties we
face.
In summary, shorter beef
supplies have helped to keep
poultry, pork and dairy
prices up, said Moore.
However, considering the
rising price for inputs, net
farm income is expected to
drop 20 to 25 percent in 1980.
For consumers, the
“bottom line” remains that
consumer income has been
rising faster than their costs
and food is still the best
bargain on the market,
concluded Moore.