TAKE A TOUGH-BUILT. RED BEDDING CHOPPER FROM OUR TRUCK And Put It To Work In Your Own Dairy Barn When you have cows, you want them to be comfortable and clean. And you don’t want to spend your total milk check to pay for bedding. That’s why in the past several weeks, a growing number of smart dairymen in Penn sylvania have turned to the science engineered red bedding chopper from US Farm Systems of Pennsylvania. While chopping bales of straw and old hay into short lengths, this practical machine fluffs the material into liquid absorbent bedding that your farm neighbors say uses a lot less straw. No more saw dust to hold mastitus germs under the cow. No more long straw to shake out and clog your liquid manure system. Designee the modern dairy farm, the tough-t-e I: red Dedding chopper eats full bases of straw and old hay with ease. UP AND UP With the highest production for October in 14 years, you got nearly two percent increase in your blend price over September for milk shipped to Order 2 handlers So, who says more milk means lower prices, if prices go up when produc tion goes up ? In any case, that two percent jump in the blend price was 26 cents, going from $l3 31 in September to $13.57 for October milk Once again, it’s a problem of understanding what the numbers mean The Min nesota-Wisconsm price took a 35 cent jump in October because of the increase in the support price and pur chases of butter, powder and cheese by the Commodity And blows out finely chopped bedding onto the cows’ stalls right where you want it. Powered by your choice of electric or gasoline motor, the chopper turns on a dime. You can move along a row of free stalls or tie stalls fast enough to be 70 cows in 20 minutes. Blow bedding into calf pens or dry cow box stalls. With winter work here to cause you extra bedding and manure handling problems, be smart. Take a tough-built red bedding chopper from our truck and put it to work in your own dairy barn. For a free on-the farm demonstration with no obligation, write to our home office: ||C farm ■ I SYSTEMS of Pennsylvania 4070 Blue Ball Road, Nottingham, PA 19362 Ph: (301)398-2948 The Milk Check TOM JURCHAK County Agent Credit Corporation That’s what gave you 18 cents of that 26 cent increase over half of it from last month’s price support program You got 18 cents because 51 per cent of the pool was Class II milk Six cents of the increase came from a Class I price mcrease of 13 cents over September. That traces back to a 13 cent mcrease in the M-W in August, agam due to CCC purchases and the price support program So, adding the 18 cent mcrease from Class I price to the six cent increase from the Class II price, you have 24 cents of the 26 cent in crease coming from the price support program The rest of the increase can be accounted for by one Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, December 6,1980—€33 cent less than you got m your Louisville Plan payment over September and three cents more from an im provement of one percent m your Class I utilization which went from 47.8 to 48.7 in October. That three cents out of 26 was the only indication of change in the market over last month in the Order 2 pool. It’s true higher production got you more money But not because the law of supply and demand was repealed only because it isn’t con sidered in the price support program which has been calling the shots in the milk market for over a year FIFTY-FIFTY I believe milk marketing is about 50 percent economics and 50 percent politics That’s an average. With a new administration in Washington next year, and all the milk marketing decisions that have been delayed until after the election, and a new farm bill to be written oy Congress, the proportions may change to 25 percent economics and 75 percent politics You probably don’t have anything to worry about, though, because many people believe that the dairy industry is better at politics than it is with economics You eertamlv can’t com- Direct marketing conference held in Maryland SILVER SPRINGS, Md - A national conference on direct marketing of agricultural products concluded Friday at the Sheraton Inn, Silver Spring, Md Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Jim Williams said the conference par ticipants reviewed and evaluated direct marketing activities, including those done under the 1976 Farmer to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act. “The development and expansion of commercial enterprise in which farmers can more profitably sell their commodities directly to consumers is benefittuig American agriculture and consumers alike,” Williams said. Win i .JM The War £ [gM onWinter i, With a Hearth Mate Fireplace Insert. • Installs cast!} and safely in minutes • Adjusts to any hearth • Up to 12 hours of economical heat • Up to 50,000 BTITs per hour the < Fllipfi^estoxk ■ IMHO HOWARD D. WEISS, INC. 2 Locations 206 Cumberland St Lebanon PA 717 274-5637 Open Mon Tues 4Fn sto 5 Wed 4Thurs 10 to 9 Sat 10 to 3 Home Phone 717-949-3755 plain about the job done in the past by dairy cooperatives and general farm organizations. In fact the dairy industry especially, among farm commodity organizations is often held up as an example to other farm groups on how to get things done m the market as well as m Washington. However, your political muscle may be put to the test next year, not only with the writing of a new pnce support program while you’re producing record volumes of milk but at the same time fighting off all those organizations like the Community Nutrition In stitute, the National Association for Milk Marketing Reform, and others who would like to take the federal milk marketing orders apart Former Pennsylvania Governor David Lawrence once said that there were more headaches m a quart of milk than in a fifth of whiskey Whatever else you thought of Governor Lawrence, you have to admit he was a good politician. If milk marketing problems tested his political talents, let’s hope 1981 doesn’t bring more headaches to the dairy in dustry than it can handle “USDA is working with states, cities, universities and industries across the country to help develop roadside stands, ‘pick-your own’ operations, open-air markets, tailgate markets and farmers’ markets mcludmg those in inner cities,” he said The conference included workshops where each type of direct marketing outlet and the various state and city projects supporting them was reviewed, Williams said “From those and other conference sessions,” he said. “We can assess the problems and potentials of direct marketing and develop future program plans.” . A = L 58 W Main St Myerstown PA 717 866-6274 Open Da' 1 7 toe Sat > to ;
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