122—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 12,1980
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Wheel Spinning
Every farmer must have
experienced the feeling of
getting stuck in a wet spot in
the field knowing it was
there but taking a chance
with a plow or a disc then
sitting there with wheels
spinning cursing the
decision. Stuck up to the
axles with no help m sight,
it’s a half mile walk home
That’s about the size of it
with your increasing milk
production and the price
support program
You knew better than to
try to cross that wet spot that
got you into trouble in the
past You were warned that
it was worse than ever this
year. But you drove right
into it because you gambled
that this year, with a bigger
tractor and more weight,
you could make it
But it didn’t work All that
extra power and weight onl>
helped to bury you deeper
After three months under
the new support price that
started April 1, you’re back
to exactly where you started
The Mmnesota-Wisconsm
average price for 3 5 test
milk for June was $ll 68 -
exactly the same as it was in
April, the first month after
the new support price of
$l2 07 was announced
You can argue that those
rascals at USDA aren’t
doing their job, but in the
last three months they have
purchased over 100 million
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TOM JURCHAK
County Agent
pounds of cheese, 157 million
of butter and 240 million of
non-fat powder Their
purchases have been
able to mcrease the average
prices of butter, powder and
cheese because they’re
paying far above the
market price But because of
your increasing production,
they haven’t been able to
affect the price of milk
You’re spinning your
wheels by producing more
milk and keeping prices
down while USDA is spin
ning their wheels trying to
buy dairy products fast
enough to raise your milk
prices The end result is that
your prices stay the same
while USDA spends $1 billion
to raise dairy product prices
that will be passed on to
consumers and affect your
sales
It's a situation that can’t
continue Already Secretary
Bergland has blown the
whistle with a meeting in
June to figure out the least
painful method of avoiding
another support price in
crease on October Ist
If the wet spot in our story
represents the problems of
trying to keep milk
production on a level with
demands so market prices
stay up and the tractor
represents the price support
program that is supposed to
help you over the wet spots
temporarily while you make
production adjustments,
like you haven’t seen for 20
yeais
I only hope > ou don’t have
to take the tracloi apart to
get it out
Security Fund
Secured
You didn’t have it for June
Dairy Month as promised
but when the Pennsylvania
Legislature finally approved
a milk security fund on July
2nd, no one was complaining
about the date
The Pennsylvania Far
mers Association worked
hard in the legislative
committees to raise the
contributions to two cents a
hundred in line with their
organization policy Without
any help from other groups,
it was an uphill battle that
they lost - a rarity for them
The dealers wanted the
producers to share in the
cost That wasn’t included
either
Basically, it was the same
Senate Bill 1287 introduced
on March 10 that never did
include everything the farm
organizations wanted, but
was good enough for most of
them to support It still gives
the handler the option of
using bonds or other
securities to cover two
month’s milk purchases or
participating in the security
fund at one cent a hundred
How fast the fund builds up
to the $4 million level ex
pected will depend on how
many dealers participate
The effective date is 90 days
after the Governor signs the
bill so we won’t know until
next Fall
After that - for producers
selling to handlers con
tributing to the Security
Fund - the payment for
claims will be only 75 per
cent So farmers must ac
cept some responsibility for
shipping milk to financially
sound handlers
To get the fund started,
dealers who wish to par
ticipate must pay in one cent
a bundled fur the milk
part nased in the last three
months Even so, it will be a
long tune getting to 14
million - it may take years
The Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Board, respon
sible for administering the
fund, has some leeway in
regulating its growth 'to
protect the interests of
producers” The ad
ministration and the
legislature have promised
some help if it gets caught
short
Don’t count on too much
security until you get some
money in the bank to draw
on when you need it In fact,
the hest wav to treat it is like
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Another Lesson
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A lot of farmers were
upset and even some
misguided i eporters got
into the act when Farmland
Dairies decided to drop some
of its producers and told
them to join Eastern Milk
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to buy milk Neither is there
any cooperative or handler
who can require a farmer to
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tractor
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what reasons Farmland had
for droppmg them or what
reasons Eastern had for
wanting them. The decisions
were up to the producers
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