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PORK, DELICIOUS AND NUTRITIOUS
FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
EAR CORN
Paying Top Prices For
Good Quality Ear Corn
• Wet or Dry
• No Quantity to large or
to small
• Fast Unloading - Dump
on Pile & Go
• Easy access - 2.2 miles
off 283 bypass-Manheim,
Mt. Joy exit
• Daily Receiving 7:30
A.M. to 5 P.M. - unload
ing evenings & Saturdays
by appt.
• Trucks available for pick
up at your farm.
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717-665-4785
JAMES E. NOLL GRAIN
After leaping 24 cents m
March in anticipation of the
new support price of $12.07
on April 1, the Mmnesota-
Wisconsm price dropped to a
crawl last month advancing
only nine cents in spite of
accelerated purchases of
butter, powder and cheese
by the Commodity Credit
Corporation.
That rune cents brought
the M-W for April milk
testing 3.5 percent butterfat
to $11.68 still far short of
the support price. However,
it does give you an inkling of
the effort that will be needed
to get to the support price in
the face of increasing milk
production and dwindling
demand.
More on that later.
The $11.68 does mean a
Class I price in June for
Order 2 handlers of $13.93
($11.68 plus $2.25, the Class I
differential) and an April
Class II price of $11.59
($11.68 minus nine cents, the
seasonal adjustment).
Your Class I price for
April, determined by the
February M-W, will be $13.60
m Order 2. These Class
prices are only pennies (two
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Crawling
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pennies on Class I and five
pennies on Class 11) higher
than March when your blend
was $12.08.
So, rf you keep up your
trend of the last five months
of increasing productions
and decreasing Class I
utilization (not con
sumption) don’t expect a
better blend pnee for April.
Your Louisville Plan take
out will be ten cents higher in
April than it was in March
(and ten cents higher in May
than m April).
What I’m saying is that
your blend price will have a
hard time making $12.00 the
next two months in Order 2
while you’re setting new
records in milk production.
Things to Come
If the first month of the
new price support program
was any sign of things to
come, it will be a long uphill
battle from now until Oc
tober.
During the first three
weeks of April, the CCC
purchased 40 million pounds
of butter, 46 million pounds
of powder and five million
pounds of cheese. But all
that did was to raise the
Chicago butter price four
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cents, the powder price three
cents and the cheese price
two cents.
You’re still six cents short
of the support price of butter
and three cents on powder
and cheese. In addition,
butter production in April
jumped 16 percent over last
year to keep ahead of the
milk production and CCC
was making purchases
higher than anytime in the
last 26 months.
Because CCC purchases
only Grade A butter, the
price of that grade was the
only one showing pnce
improvements while prices
for Grade AA and B were
dropping two and three
cents.
All of this could be taken m
stride if we weren’t talking
about April with May and
June yet to come.
It isn’t only your in
creasing production that
makes the problem. It is
Schuylkill 4-H’ers
attend teen/retreat
SCHUYLKILL - Seven
area 4-H’ers had the op
portunity to leam more
about their environment
during the Northeast 4-H
Teen Retreat held recently
at Stony Acres near Mar
shall’s Creek.
The three-day experience
was titled “Your World, My
World,” and according to
Tom Ellis, Director of
Pmchot Institute and in
structor for the event, the
program was designed to
provide the teens with an
opportunity to develop why
our world is having
ecological problems and how
they can help.
Schuylkill County was
represented by seven teen
leaders from various parts
of the county. The par
ticipants were: Theresa
helped by many different
economic problems facmg
you and the people who buy
what you sell.
Seven percent unem
ployment nationally isn’t
helping you a bit and here in
the industrial northeast it’s
hitting even harder. It not
only affects your milk sales
but lowers beef prices -
reflected from low pork
prices - discourages both
culling and cheese con
sumption.
You can name a lot more
like credit restriction,
curtailed government
spending and lots of other
things that are happening at
the same time you’re in
creasing production for
some of the same reasons. So
the market is signalling
lower prices while the
support program is trying to
increase them against some
very heavy opposition.
Gahen, Mahanoy City;
Christine Temple, Rl
Begins; Nancy Tallman,
Tower City; Kathy Balmer
of Rl Begins; Danielle Carl,
St. Clair; John Williams,
New Ringgold; and Mike
Temple, Rl Begins.
Judi Keefer, 4-B agent,
served as chaperone for the
event and reports that the
young people discovered it is
essential that everyone helps
m the task of keeping our
environment healthy. The
seven teens will be con
ducting a two-day camp at
Camp Pine Grove, July 23-24
to share the experience they
had with other 4-H’ ers in the
county. Plans for the two
day event include guest
speakers on environmental
safety, a nature scavanger
hunt, hikes, and games.