C24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 9,1980
WASHINGTON, D.C -
Rotten weather and
potential crop failures have
helped at least one segment
of agriculture.
The Carter Administration
has announced it will make
no request to Congress
asking that USDA be allowed
to forgo the semi-annual
price adjustment due Oc
tober 1.
At the same time the
Administration indicated it
would not press to have the
dairy price support level
lowered from 80 percent of
parity to 75 percent One
proposal under con
sideration would have
required the drop if Com
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York plowmen
to compete
in county contest
YORK County plowmen
will compete for honors in
the level and contour
divisions this Tuesday when
the Joe Stump farm off
Route 30 west hosts the
annual York County plowing
contest
The first furrow will turn
at 12 30 sharp as entrants in
both the small and large
plow divisions will compete
on level land and countour
category entrants take to the
hills Winners will represent
York County at the state
plowing competition,
scheduled for Saturday,
Augpgt 16, at Hershey
Estatps-j
Each - plowman is
responsible for supplying his
own equipment
The host farm is on Hull
Drive, just behind the
Use of water for livestock
(red meat, poultry, eggs,
and milk) is expected to
increase from 1.9 billion
gallons a day to 2.5 billion
gallons a day by the year
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Dairy support level should remain at 80%
stocks were to reach a
certain level
Large pui chases of sur
plus dairy goods, many of
them by CCC, were cited as a
major incentive for a
potential change in the dairj
support program
As the law stands now,
dairymen will receive 80
percent of parity adjusted
semi-annually to keep up
with inflation.
With no change for
thcoming in current
regulations, dairymen can
pencil in an upward ad
justment m dairy support
prices of between 75 cents
and $1 per hundredweight,
effective October 1,1980.
Whether the oversupply in
Leisureville Apartments on
Route 30, west of York
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milk production will be
augmented because of the
support price hike remains
to be seen.
But the near disaster in
crop production in the
midwest which i • •■!%>
into the government s
thinking on the dairy support
question, seems to have been
the dominant factor in the
final decision
Less grain production
should mean higher feed
prices for cows
USDA and other
agricultural analysts said
they figured dairymen would
cut back on the amount of
feed given cows, thus cutting
production.
Consumer and farmer
groups were asking whether
it would be good policy for a
government agency to en
courage more dairy
production in the face of a
great oversupply
Of course, any major drop
in milk output could chew
away the surplus and con
fuse the milk marketing
system
The thinking of farm
leaders that the adjustment
would be needed to meet
higher costs of production,
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including a pi ejected grain
price boost, apparently
carried the battle in
Washington
Also entered on the
economic graphs was the
possibility that poultry and
red meat prices could jump
in the last quarter of this
year or early the first
quarter of 1981 An increase
in those areas would make
dairy products more at
tractive to the consumer
A number of arguments
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against a price increase fell
by the wayside
The nation’s dairy herd is
well culled, so little decrease
will come from animals
leaving the milking string
Per cow milk production is
expected to continue to in
crease due to the better
genetic makeup of the cows
now on farms
But as farmers well know,
economic projection
remains one of the most
imprecise of sciences
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While an increase in
support prices now seems a
certainty, the ultimate effect
the increase will have on
both farm and consumer
prices remains to be seen.
At present it looks as
though farmers will have
something under a dollar per
hundredweight more sup
port under their milk checks,
a figure which could cost the
consumer between one and
two cents per quart more for
milk at the store —CH
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