Milk security clears one hurdle , faces others
BY CURT HARDER
HARRISBURG - Three of
four major farm groups
involved m pushing for a
milk security fund restated
their support for the present
fund bill as written.
And the House Agriculture
Committee, before ap
proving the measure,
overwhelmingly defeated a
proposal which would have
changed the proposed one
cent per hundredweight
contribution by dealers lo
two cents.
But the state Association
of Milk Dealers Thursday
discovered what may be a
major oversight m the bill as
written. Correcting it will
require some revision of the
bill.
As written, SB 1287 repeals
Section 5 of the Milk
Marketing Act. One part of
the Section established
provisions for sub-dealer
bonding. Sub-dealers are
those who buy milk from
dairies to sell on their own as
cheese or butter.
At least 175 sub-dealers
are missed in the current
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draft, to the tune of $105,000
in bond i evenue.
Meantime, a legislative
memorandum signed by
Leonard Zemaitis, Penn
sylvania Farmers’ Union;
Charles Wismer, Master of
the State Grange: and
Charles Ord, representing
the six co-ops in the Dairy
Cooperative Coahtion, was
delivered to the House. It
calls for speedy passage of
SB 1287, the milk security
fund bill, as written.
Their move came as
Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association representatives
continued to press for a two
cent per hundredweight
checkoff.
“Significant modification
of this bill will jeopardise
passage of the bill,” the
memorandum to House
members said.
It also said those who want
and need the security bill
would be disturbed if in
fighting in the farm com
munity spelled the death of
the bill in the legislature.
The House Agriculture
Committee Friday gave SB
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1287 the same speedy
treatment accorded the
measure m the Senate.
The House Ag Committee
defeated by a vote of 13 to 2 a
proposed amendment to
raise the checkoff to two
cents.
Only technical am
mendments to the bill were
permitted.
Even those minor ad
justments, let alone changes
to include sub-dealer bon
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later on. Any ammendment
must be approved by the
Senate which already gave
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SB 1287 its overwhelming
support
Supporters of SB 1287 say
they fear the battle over the
fund may be resumed m the
Senate where legislators
may be urged to vote non
concurrence with any
modifications made m the
House.
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replaced or if the funding is
raised by the House from a
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program, demanding some
farmer contribution. The
bonding may cost even
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back and forth activity could
doom the milk security fund
bill to die at the end of the
session. Should that be the
case the entire long process
of making a bill into law
would have to be begun
again.
Most observers say the
legislators will pack up and
go home by this Wednesday
at the latest, perhaps even
by Tuesday.
If the current bill is not
sent to the governor by then
it is likely it never will
become law.
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