AlB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 19,1980
Region’s dairy leaders meet to discuss concer
BY CURT HAULER
LEOLA Dairy leaders
' from eight southeastern
Pennsylvania counties met
Tuesday to discuss a wide
range of dairy concerns.
Top on the list is the
reconstituted milk proposal,
a petition from the Com
munity Nutrition Institute
for a public hearing on the
regulatory treatment of
reconstituted milk under the
Federal Order system.
The meeting was called by
Jere Stales, chairman of the
Lancaster County Farmers’
Association milk marketing
committee.
In attendance were
several dairy marketing
experts and representatives
from Lancaster, Chester,
Berks, Bucks, Montgomery,
Lehigh, Lebanon and
Franklin counties.
Members felt the meeting
was successful enough that
they agreed to meet on a
quarterly basis. The next
meeting is tentatively
scheduled for somewhere in
Lancaster County this
summer.
Sidles said he asked for the
meeting because he felt
dairy committees were not
really doing their job.
He pointed out that dairy
farming is the state’s largest
agricultural industry.
He said the meetings were
to distribute general in
formation.
“If a reportercalls a dairy
leader, the fanner will get
proper information out to the
consumer if he is well in
formed. These meetings
should give us the chance to
get that information and
exchange ideas.”
Hollis Hatfield outlined a proposal to increase
parity for milk as percentage of government pur
chases drops.
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Jere Skiles, left, chaired a meeting of Pennsylvania Farmers' Association dairy
leaders held in Leola. Topics of discussion included parity and the CNI proposal
on reconstituted milk.
Among those impressed
with the meeting were Berks
County representatives Don
Duncan, Robesoma; and
John Stump, Bemville.
Duncan pointed out that
farmers often don’t get the
chance to hear the kind of
expertise that was available
at the meeting.
“We got a full story plus
the behind-the-scenes
things,” he noted.
To promote free
discussion, the workshop
part of the meeting was
closed to the public.
“We constantly are being
hit for what we have,”
Duncan continued. “We’ll all
get ulcers before we fmd a
solution.”
Stump said the meeting
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gave some direction, gave
hints as to which way to go.
He said a proposed pricing
program to drop parity in
times of surplus should help
cut back on surplus milk.
The proposal, explained by
p arm Bureau’s Hollis
Hatfield, calls for a sliding
scale on the dairy support
price.
Hatfield pointed out the
potential for problems of
using parity as a political
tool.
Under the proposal
outlined, if the government
is buying up to three percent
of the milk marketed by all
dairymen, then the parity
level would be between 80
and 90 percent.
If government purchases
represent three to five
percent of milk marketed,
then the parity level would
drop to the 75 to 80 percent
range to discourage
production.
If the government buys
over five percent of the milk
produced, the parity level
would be 75 percent.
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More important to some
farmers was discussion of
the CNI proposal.
John Stoner, Franklin
County, said he thought he
knew about the reconstituted
milk proposal before he
came to the meeting but he
discovered there was more
to it than meets the eye.
“They say it is to get
cheaper milk for low income
families,” he started. “But
those families can get dry
milk right now and add
water to it.
“Really, the CNI proposal
is a tool of consumer ad
vocates to undermine some
of the dairyman’s best
marketing interests,” he
said.
Stoner pointed out those at
the meeting took no stand on
the proposal. Most were
against it. He added there is
a chance the hearings never
will take place.
Norm Hershey, In
tercourse, said the meeting
brought out the full potential
of what could happen if the
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original hearing calls for,”
he said. He said he feels such
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