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Cleona
BY SHEILA MILLER
STOUCHSBURG - Two
representatives from the
Northeast Dairy
Cooperative brought
members of the Cleona Milk
Producers Cooperative up
to-date on two important
pieces of legislation con
cerning the dairy industry,
along with a summary of the
current trends in marketing.
Ralph Smith, Director of
Education for NEDCO,
Syracuse, N.Y. told the
dairymen at their Wed
nesday evening meeting that
the co-ops are the foundation
of the whole milk marketing
system. “Whenever things
get tight, co-ops provide the
needed outlet for the milk
you produce.”
He pointed out that prior to
1920, there were only dairy
co-ops. But after the
Repression and World War I,
the government stepped into
the dairy industry and
created marketing orders.
The orders, he explained,
set up an environment where
the handlers were required
to pay the dairymen the
established minimum price
based on the intended use of
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co-op asked to defend
the milk. This base, he said,
was geared to the Mm
nesota-Wisconsin series
because the milk in that area
was used primarily for
manufacturing.
Today, this price based on
supply and demand is
declining because now the
dairymen in the M-W region
are able to market their milk
for fluid use, along with
manufacturing.
The marketing order was
set up to allow dairy farmers
to vote and make changes by
petition, with the heating
and referendum route
following.
Smith pointed out a recent
petition filed last Friday
calls for a change in Order 2.
It calls for a nickel increase
in the amount paid for
transportation credit and
deduction for hauling.
Currently, a 15 cent
transportation credit, taken
out of the pool, and a 15 cent
deduction for hauling, seen
as a deduction on the milk
check, are said not to be
meeting the current costs.
Smith also mentioned the
proposal to expand the New
York-New Jersey order to
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Horsepower to The Ground
...TRACTION Better Weight to Power Ratio Means Less Spin and
Greater Lugging Power
...PERFORMANCE Greater Lugging Power Turns Into Better
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...TIME TO DO OTHER THINGS When a Tractor Performs
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include Northeastern
Pennsylvania. TWs would
mean a better milk price for
farmers in that area, he
said.
Concerning the current
marketing trends, Smith
pointed out there has been a
25-30 pound drop in per
capita consumption of Class
I milk in this area. However,
nationwide, the 50 billion
pounds used for fluid milk
has remained steady
because of the increased
population. But, he said, the
type of milk consumed by
the population is changing.
In New York, the con
sumption of skim milk has
increased 15 percent from
1972 to 1979, whereas the
consumption of whole milk
has dropped 23 percent. The
number of farms delivering
milk in that state has
dropped 18 percent, but the
average production per farm
has gone up 28 percent. In
1972, the average farm
produced 476,000 pounds
each year, and last year the
average was 610,000 pounds.
This has been done with 21
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William A. Moore, R 1 Myerstown, Secretary of the Cleona Milk Producers Co
op, left, speaks with James Beaver, District Director for Co-op #lO, center, and
Ralph Smith, NEDCO’s director of education.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 29,1980—A15
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