Letters To
The Editor
Dear Editor:
Congratulations on your
excellent editorial, “Why
supply-demand doesn’t
work.” You have used Mr.
Witts’ book to demonstrate
several of the positions held
by the Farmers Umon as this
Nation’s champion of the
parity.
The free market
economists have led farmers
down the primrose path for
years, and they have been
encouraged by politicians
who are addicted to a cheap
food policy for the nation. We
are slowly but surely trading
America’s family
agricultural strength by
failing to recognize that
supply-demand does not
work m agriculture. The
symptoms of the problem
have been clear for many
years here in Lancaster
County
In my lifetime I have seen
23 farmers within a mile and
a half of my farm in Lititz
leave agriculture. They
stopped farming because
after gambling on a crop,
and after working much
harder than most other
Americans, and after taking
the crops and livestock to
market they were told, for
one reason or other, that the
price was down just then.
They stopped farming
because they could not get
bM r the cost of production
aiTr a reasonable profit.
Parity would have been the
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difference.
In farming there is no
price flexibility when you
buy the impjuts, but selling
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farmer does not have any
control over either end
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Farmers are now in the
worst shape that they have
been during the last 25 years.
Family farming cannot
contmue to wait for a fair
pncmg fantasy like supply
demand and survive much
longer. They need something
now-they need Parity.
Remember that as family
farmers are squeezed out,
land ownership is con
centrated in the hands of
fewer and fewer. This
situation in many countries
around the world has led to
bloody riots and turmoil,
often followed by a new
regime promising a massive
land reform program. I hope
we have the wisdom m
America to act while there is
still time.
Forney Longenecker,
Chairman
PFU Advisory
Committee
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12:30 lunch, 3 pm. for
program.
Delaware Dairy Goat
Workshop, Kenton
School, Kenton
Delaware; Ipm
Monday, June 2
Dairy fieldmens conference;
Penn State; continues
through June 4.
Tuesday, June 3
Cedar Crest Young Farmers
Banquet; 7 pm.;
Schaefferstown Fire Hall.
Delaware grain marketing
seminar; Sheraton Inn;
Dover, Delaware; 7 30-10
p m
Farmers Union’s bus trip to
Washington, D C to lobby
for mushrooms leaves 6
p m from Oxford
Shopping Mall, returns
June 5.
Eastern Milk Producers Co
op; special session; Hotel
Syracuse; Syracuse, N Y
Wednesday, June 4
Hunterdon County, New
Jersey; ag board meeting
on gasohol; Extension
Center; Flemmgton,
N.J.; 8 p.m.
Eastern Milk Producers
Annual Meeting; Hotel
Syracuse Ballroom; 10
a.m ; Banquet6:3o p.m
Thursday, June 5
Anaplasmosis meeting; 8
p.m.; Courtroom, Old
Courthouse, Baltimore
and W. Middle Streets;
Gettysburg.
Friday, June 6
Delmarva Chicken Festival
and chicken cooking
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PA sheep field day and
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Bradford County Dairy
Princess parade.
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Fairgrounds, West
minster, MD; concludes
June 8.
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API gets milk license,
but pays $5OOO
HARRISBURG - New
Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Board chairman,
George Brumbaugh,
presiding over his first
meeting, granted a license
on Wednesday permitting
the operation of a newly
organized milk dealer as of
Junel.
Atlantic Processing, Inc.
which retains the same
management of its
predecessor Lehigh Valley
Cooperative Farmers, will
be able to begin processing
and bottling the milk of the
reorganized structure next
week.
The former cooperative
reorganized at its annual
meeting last month, forming
a new marketing
cooperative, Lehigh Valley
Farmers and a new cor
poration which assumed
ownership fo the co-op’s
plant facilities
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 31,1980—A15
Twin Valley sweeps Berks
FFA forestry contest
READING Sixteen
members of Berks County
FFA Chapters competed in a
forestry contest. Each
contestant had to name
twenty species of trees,
measure the diameter and
figure the number of 16 foot
logs that could be obtained
from the tree. They had to
determine the reasons for
cutting down a tree, for
instance, if they were
damaged or too close. Each
contestant had to decide
what the wood could be used
for, such as; fuel, pulp, mine
could be granted, pending
citations against the former
cooperative were required to
be settled. API agreed to a
consent order requiring
payment of $5OOO in fines for
numerous pricing violations.
The new corporation’s of
ficials also agreed that the
past records of LVCF could
be considered in any future
citation proceedings against
the new firm.
Brumbaugh, who was
sworn in on May 22 by Judge
Newton C. Taylor of the
Huntingdon County Com
monwealth Pleas Court,
noted at the hearing he was
concerned about milk
marketing violations par
ticularly in eastern Penn
sylvania.
“In the coming months we
will be directing particular
attention to possible
violations of pricing
regulations”, said Brum
baugh. “These marketing
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Twin Valley captured the
top four placmgs, as follows
1. Wade Bernard, 2. Martin
Miller, 3. Mike Beaton and
Brett Strough, both tied for
third and 4. Dave Naples.
Other placmgs were as
follows. 5. John Bastian,
Conrad Weiser; 6. Marc
Ray, Conrad Weiser; 7.
Dave Noyes, Twin Valley; 8.
Dave Schlimme, Twin
Valley; 9. Todd Eckert, Twin
Valley; and 10. Tom Mc-
Dermott, Twin Valley.
in fines
violations will be dealt with
in accordance to the Penn
sylvania Milk Marketing
Law, which not only
provides for the right to levy
fines but also to suspend
operating licenses.”
biimibaugh also noted
priorities would also be
given to revise newly
amended tolling regulations
which are presently
suspended in light of pending
litigation at Commonwealth
Court. He noted a number of
pricing hearings are also
scheduled this summer.
The PMMB, noted
Brumbaugh, provides
stability to Pennsylvania’s
one billion dollar dairy in
dustry. The board’s control
of the commonwealth dairy
industry, he said, ultimately
benefits the consumer by
assuring an adequate supply
of milk and maintaining
reasonable prices.