Volume-Belt:
cattle feeder
by JAMES WAY
Simply better
Designed with fast, quiet, dependable—and low
cost—feeding in mind. Volume-Belt cattle feeder is
simple ... has no cables, no chain, no traveling
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Everyone remembers the
litmus paper used in high
school chemistry classes to
determine if a compound
was acid or alkaline.
Well, I think a good litmus
test for marketing conditions
is the Minnesota-Wisconsin
Price Series. Even with its
shortcomings it’s the best
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Litmus Test
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The Milk
Check
TOU JURCHAK
County Agent
economic indicator that we
have.
It won’t give you a uniform
or blend price. But neither is
it loaded with a lot of extras
that can be misleading. And
with 60 percent of your milk
being sold at the Class II
price which is basically
the M-W in Order 2 it’s a
much better indicator than
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Box 121, RDI
Myerstown, PA
717-933-4758
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ever before.
Besides, it’s still the basis
for determining your class
prices when converted to 3.5
percent butterfat and it
called the Basic Formula
Price in all federal milk
marketing orders.
However, even with the M-
W we can be misled because
it is influenced by the pnce
support program. U.S.
Department of Agriculture
purchases of butter, powder
and cheese are made to
increase the M-W price so
producers all over the
countryjrill benefit from the
support program.
Keeping this in mind you
can use the M-W price like
the litmus paper in the
chemistry class.
Looking back over the last
four months since the new
support price of $12.07 was
announced on April 1, the M-
W price never really moved
from $11.68 in April until it
increased a measly five
cents in July to $11.73 still
far below die support pnce
of $1207 in spite of USDA
purchases.
Wait and Watch
However, that five cents
increase small as it was
looked so good that a lot of
people interpreted it as the
beginning of the end of milk
marketing problems.
There were a lot of reasons
centering mainly around the
heat wave in the western
states. We even got some
encouragement when butter
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prices reached the support
level for the first time since
April (even though they
didn’tstaytbere).
The best news of all was
the decision by USDA to do
nothing to delay the
scheduled increase in the
support price due October 1
even though we were still 49
cents below the current
support level in July.
Even government pur
chases of butter dropped by
more than two third in late
July.
All of these were helpful
signs that changes may be
on the way. But when my
litmus paper test showed
only a five cent increase in
the M-W this month, I
decided I better wait and
watch.
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