VOL. 25 Ho.
Hog market
nudges $5O
at Lancaster
BY SHEILA MILLER
LANCASTER - The hog
market has reached its
highestlevel m over a year.
Midwestern and local
markets are reporting a rise
in prices paid by packers,
reflecting the competition
and demand for the lower
numbers of hogs being
marketed.
Lloyd Hoover, hog
salesman for Walter M.
Dunlap & Sons, Lancaster,
reports that the St. Louis
prices were their highest
smce June, 1979. “Our prices
here follow that market
close.”
Hoover points out that
ißrices in the mid to high
ls the highest on record
smce the n]Bw year began.
“In January the top price
was $4l, in February it was
$40.50. It kept going down in'
March, with a high of $3B,
and April hogs bringing
a top price of $3l. Then in
May the tide began to turn
Former Lehigh president
sues co-op for $153,000
BY VIVIAN PAUL
Staff Correspondent
ALLENTOWN - The
former president of Lehigh
Valley Cooperative Par
tners, Inc., Richard L
Allison filed suit this week
against the dairy for
damages in excess of
$153,000.
Allison claims he was fired
without cause in 1974 when
his .contract had more than
two years to run.
He claims that because of
the firing he could not secure
a new job for four months
In papers filed in Lehigh
County Court Allison said he
was fired “without just
cause or reason” and was
accused of “intentionally
concealing and improperly
We welcome Bradford DMIA
TOWANDA - LAN
CASTER FARMING is
pleased to welcome the
Bradford County Dairy Herd
Improvement Association to
the growing hst of county
gSHHA’s in our pages.
* Bradford is the second
largest dairy producing
county in the state behind
Lancaster County, which
produces over a billion
pounds of milk annually.
and prices went as high as
$34. The big jump came m
June with $44.”
Hoover says the industry
has seen a significant drop in
the numbers of hogs
slaughtered. “There are
75,000 to 100,000 fewer hogs
marketed per day now than
in April and May.
“That '2O-30 percent drop
'adds up to a lot of pork It
,has a significant impact on
the prices.”
Whether this price in
crease will last is hard to tell
at this point, says Louis
Moore, Penn State
Agriculture Economist.
“You see these seasonal
trends every year hog
prices always get better in
June and July,” he says.
He adds, however, there
has been a significant cut in
farrowmgs, to the tune of 8-9
'.percent These figures were
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manipulating the company’s
financial records and
making fictitious, false and
improper entries, and of
failing to make proper ad
justments and presentation
of financial information on
financial statements.”
He is asking for $128,416 in
unpaid salary plus legal fees
of $25,000 which were in
curred m legal actions in
which he was named as a
defendent because he was an
officer of the dairy.
One month after he was
fired Allison was placed on
probation by a Federal judge
after being found guilty of
consenting to a $50,000 dairy
contribution to former
Bradford produces 487
million pounds of milk an
nually, according to the Crop
Reporting Service. In third
place is Franklin County,
followed by Chester and 1
Berks.
We are happy to be
allowed to serve the state’s
dairy industry and look
forward to comtnumg to give
Pennsylvania the best dairy
coverage possible
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 12,1980
Governor Richard Thornburgh, front and center,
signed the milk security bill Thursday afternoon.
Among those looking on were, from left, Sen.
Governor signs milk security bill
BY CURT HAULER
HARRISBURG
Governor Richard Thorn
burgh signed the milk
security fund bill Thursday
afternoon, making official
the added coverage for
Pennsylvaia dairy fanners.
Signing of the Milk
President Richard M.
Nixon’s re-election cam
paign fund.
The dairy itself paid a
$5OOO fine after pleading
guilty to making the con
tribution.
The alleged financial
mismanagement resulted in
Allison’s dismissal
Shortly after Allison’s
firing from the dairy, now
known as Atlantic
Processing, Inc, it was
revealed that the company
had paid $5.2 million in over
distnbutions to members. In
order to keep afloat the
association assessed its
members $3 8 million
Allison’s suit against the
dairy is the fifth action now
pending involving the 1974
shakeup
A possible sixth action is
being ’ considered by
preferred shareholders of
the former Lehigh Valley
Cooperative Farmers, Inc
whose stock was reduced to
15 percent of its value when
the dairy sold its assets to
Atlantic Processing in June
of this year
Producers and Cooperative
Security Fund Act, SB 1287,
establishes a $4 million
proprietary dealers fund and
a $2 million cooperative fund
as an alternative to the old
system of requiring a
$200,000 bond as a means to
secure payments from milk
dealers.
In signing the bill, the
Governor noted that since
1976 dealer defaults have
cost milk producers almost
$7.3 million, of which only
$1.7 million was recovered
from bonds.
“This law will better
protect milk producers at an
overall lower cost than the
current bonding
requirements, and will thus
give consumers a more
reliable supply of milk at
potentially lower cost,”
Thornburgh said.
The signing of the bill was
preceded by a dairy lun
cheon held at the Depart
ment of Agriculture
building.
The lunch, attended by
over 60 persons who had
1980 wheat crop a bin buster
BY PAT KAUFFMAN
LANCASTER A bumper
wheat harvest is being
harvested in Lancaster
County. According to Arnold
Lueck, Lancaster extension
agent, wheat yields this year
are running on the high side.
Lueck said that there has
been surprisingly little
storm damage. While leaf
disease problems emerged
in early June, he said the
sunny weather has brought
the wheat into good
maturity. Straw length is
exceptional this year, he
said.
pale Herr, R 1 Kirkwood,
said that he had harvested 75
Patrick Stapleton, Rep. Noah Wenger, Sen. Frank
O’Connell, Agriculture Secretary Penrose
Hallowell, and Rep. Reno Thomas.
worked on the milk security
bill, featured a host of dairy
dishes, including several
varieties of cheeses, beef,
and milk. 9
At the luncheon, SB
1287’s author, Senator
Patrick Stapleton, chairman
of the senate ag committee;
Senator Frank O’Connell;
Representative Reno
Thomas, chairman of the
house ag committee; and
Rep. Noah Wenger, vice
chairman, all were present
to take bows for the work
accomplished.
Agriculture Secretary
Penrose Hallowell bid them.
In This Issue
SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Perry princess, 15;
Duroc wins York show, 17; Combine adjustment, IS;
Letters to editor, 24; Vintage auction, 28; Blacksmith
at 86,36; Lebanon DHIA, 39.
SECTION B: Shirk on dairy, 2; Flower trials, 5;
Santee Acres Dairy, 6; Dairy challenges, 10; No more
cheap calves, 15.
SECTION C: Homestead notes, 2; Home on range, 6;
Milk Check, 22; Bradford DHIA, 23; Dauphin dairy
princess, 28; Joyce Bupp, 32; Silo soliloquy, 34.
bushels an acre off of 8 acres
on his place. Herr said that
the wheat he custom com
bined was running around
45-55 bushels per acre.
He said his wheat con
tamed 14.2 percent moisture,
and that this year’s crop was
the most wheat he’s ever cut
off any field in his 10 years of
custom combining.
Herr planted Pioneer
wheat on top of last year’s
tobacco fields. He said he
didn’t have any trouble this
year with smut.
Herr attributed his large
yields to the variety he
planted and the fact that he
spread a little nitrogen over
$7.50 Per Year
“Hats off and thanks. You’ve
done a good job for the
Commonwealth,” he told the
lawmakers.
At the signing ceremony in
the Capitol, attended by
representatives of many of
the state’s dairy co-ops,
farmer organizations, dairy,
princesses and other in
terested parties, Hallowell
thanked Thornburgh for his
work m helping get die bill
passed.
The signing was packed
with people in the Gover
nor’s Conference Room.
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the field this spring. Those
factors coupled with the fact
that the field contained
tobacco last year he said
probably contributed to the
bumper crop.
He said that he planted it
fairly late, something he
said the extension offices
recommend, but farmers
often don’t abide by. He said
this gets over the fly period a
little better
, Jim Nolt of Nolt’s Mill said
that the crop coming in was
a big one. He said the test
weight was very good. He
attributed the bumper crop
- to a lack of rain over the
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