AlB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 8,19>0
MCMP District 14 holds annual meeting
LEACOCK - The 78
producer-members of
Maryland Cooperative Milk
Producers District 14 met
Wednesday evening for them
annual discussion of co-op
affairs.
The overflow crowd saw a
turned-around balance
sheet, was given the outlook
for the coming year’s milk
market, touched on merger
posibilities, and heard a plea
for involvement in MCMP’s
activities.
The consolidated
operations balance for 1980
showed MCMP $472,000 in
the black compared to a loss
of $250,000 recorded in 1979.
Co-op business manager
Ralph L. Strock said the
figure looks good if seen as a
turnaround from last year.
But $306,000 of the $472,000
showing on ther bottom line is
the result of member retain
payments.
Members currently have a
five cent retain to reduce the
balance on a $1.6 million loan
from Baltimore Bank for
Cooperatives by $30,000 per
month. Roughly half of the
money goes to interest
payments, the other half to
principle.
Strode noted the per
centage will tip in favor of
principle on the loan as the
payments continue.
Lee Remsburg told District 14 members the path to prosperity is really a big
circle. The Adams County dairyma r> called for an informed, involved, interested
membership.
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A second five cent retain
goes to capital for
modifications of the Holly
plant. These included a
natural gas burner system
for the diyer, a 50,000 gallon
raw milk silo, a butter
freezer, additional storage
for spare parts and
chemicals, and
modifications to the existing
waste treatment plant.
“As Holly goes, so goes
MCMP,” Strock told the
members from Lancaster,
Berks and Lebanon Coun
ties.
Last year Holly showed
over $536,000 of red ink on
the MCMP books. This year
it is just barely in the black.
Next year, Strock said, the
Co-op expects Holly to make
a substantial contribution to
MCMP income.
Strock also told members
that the market is awash
with milk despite the good
price being paid.
He noted MCMP has seven
percent more member
deliveries and 51 new
members. That reflects Mid-
Atlantic trends which
showed September
deliveries up 5.7 percent
with 122 more producers.
All of that lead Strode to
question the likelihood of the
dairy price support con
tinuing at 80 percent of
parity under the 1981 farm
bill.
Co-op President Herbert
W. Wessel, Jr. said MCMP
continues to look at merger,
acquisition and con
solidation posibilities.
He promised members
their financial integrity will
be maintained in any move
the Co-op should elect to
make. He also said any such
move would have to main
tain the current level of
services to members, and
could not jeopardize the
Holly operation.
Wessel said he feels the
Co-op is in sound financial
condition.
He said the Federal Order
4 advertising program, to
which dairymen contribute
12 cents per- cwt or $5O
million total, is returning
$2.20 for every dollar spent.
He said MCMP is studying
the Pennsylvania milk
promotion idea. He said the
Co-op will net take a position
on the matter until officers
see. how it will mesh with
MCMP’s and Order 4’s
programs.
District 14 Director Victor
K. Ziegler, making his first
report to members of
MCMP’s newest district,
urged farmers to work
together.
He noted the many
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Herbert W. Wessel, Jr., told a full house of members of District 14. Maryland
Cooperative Milk Producers, the long-range outlook for the Co-op is good. He
also assured members that MCMP is in “sound financial condition."
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directions fanners can take
in the coming years.
He urged members to be
active and assure the dairy
industry gets headed down
the right road.
A similar plea for in
volvement was sounded by
MCMP’s Outstanding Young
Cooperator for 1980, Lee
Ramsburg.
The Adams - County
dairyman, pointing out how
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new District 14 members are
in the Co-op’s activities,
urged them to become a part
of MCMP.
“Gain a background in the
Co-op and industry you are
involved in,” he said.
He said MCMP is offering
a series of three or four
Young Cooperator training
sessions open to any
member 21 to 35 years of
age.
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