Deadline for milk price support
HARRISBURG - The US
Department of Agriculture is
seeking public comment until
February 17 on its midyear ad
justment of the support price for
milk and the prices and terms of
purchase for butter, cheese and
nonfat dry milk by the Depart
ment’s Commodity Credit Cor
poration
CCC suppoits milk prices by
purchasing surplus products from
the market
Congress mandates that USDA
must adjust the milk support price
to reflect changes in the parity
index in the first hah of the
marketing yeai. The adjusted
support price will be effective
April 1 through September 30, the
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AT NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC.
New Hqlland, PA
If you need 1 cow or a truck load we have from
100 to 200 cows to sell every week at your price
Mostly fresh and close springing holstems
Cows from local farmers and our regular ship
pers include Marvin Eshleman Glenn Fite Kelly
Bowser Bill Lang Blam Hotter Dale Hostetter
HD Matz and Jerry Miller
SALE STARTS - 12:00 SHARP
Also Every Wednesday,
Hay, Straw & Ear Corn Sale -12:00 Noon
All Dairy & Heifers must be
eligible for Pennsylvania Health Charts.
For arrangements for special sales or
herd dispersals at our barn or on your
farm contact
Abram Diffenbach, Mgr
717-354-4341
OR
Norman Kolb
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NO
FINANCE
CHARGES
UNTIL
DEC. 1. 1981
Make your
>est
John Deere snowmobile now while
we have a big selection.
Snowmobilers don’t miss this one From now
through March 31 1981 you can buy the new
John Deere snowmobile of your choice and no
finance charges will begin to accrue until
December 1 1981
Make your best deal on the hot Liquifire
Sportfire Trailfire or Spitfire snow
mobile It’s a great time to buy
Stop in soon and pick out your
favorite John Deere
snowmobile
LANDIS BROS.,
1305 MANHEIM PIKE
LANCASTER. PA 17601
717-291-1046
comments
second hall of the marketing year
The index' of prices paid, in
terest, taxes and wage rates (the
parity index; is projected to in
crease about 6 9 percent between
October 1, 1980 and April 1, 1981
This would result in a 6 9 percent
increase in the support price on
April 1
The support price in effect since
October 1, 1980, the beginning of
the 1980-81 marketing year, is
$l2 80 per hundredweight for
manufacturing milk with 3 5
percent milkfat content or $l3 10
per hundredweight for milk with
3 67 percent milkfat, the national
average
Written comments should be
directed to the Director,
on a new
lea
jOmm octal
INC.
is Feb.
“CONTACT-US”
For
“MANURE PIT ELEVA TORS, "
AND PROPER PIT DESIGN
TO USE AMPLE BEDDING
WE ALSO BUILD
ROTO BEATERS
COMBINATION MOWR UNITS
SILAGE CARTS ETC.
LARGE
SELECTION OF WISCONSIN
AND ALLIS CHALMERS
POWER UNITS IN STOCK
SHEARING AND PRESS WORK ,
MACHINE WORK AND
FABRICATING
SMUCKER
WELDING & MANUFACTURING
2110 Rockvale Road, Lane , PA, 17602
PH 687-9198
EAR CORN
Paying Top Prices For
Good Quality Ear Corn
Wet or Dry
No Quantity too large
or too small
Fast Unloading -
Dump on Pile & Go
Easy access - 2.2
miles off 283 bypass-
Manheim, Mt. Joy
exit
Daily Receiving 7:30
A.M. to 5 P.M. - un
loading evenings &
Saturdays by appt.
Trucks available for
pick up at your farm.
Call Anytime For Price
717-665-4785
JAMES E. NOLL CRAIN
17
Procurement and Sales Division,
ASCS-USDA, PO. Box 2415,
Washington, D C., 20013 All
written comments will be
available tor inspection at the
Office of the Director during
regular business hours
Potato Growers
LANCASTER - The Penn
sylvania Cooperative Potato
Growers, Inc will hold their an
nual potato institute in Lancaster
this year
The 30th annual Institute will be
held at the Host Town, 30 Keller
Avenue, Lancaster The motel is
located just west of Rt. 501 South of
the Route 30 bypass
The meeting will be held
LANCASTER Twenty-five
head, including two grade cows
and two bulls, averaged $1,346 at
the Special Guernsey Sale held
January 29 at the Sales Pavilion.
Among buyers, the stock pur-
to meet
nesday and Thursday, March 4 and
5
Registration for the Institute
must be made by Friday,
February 20
Reservations for both meals and
rooms are required because of the
size of the turnout expected at the
meeting.
Reservations can be made
through the Co-op office at 25 N
Progress Avenue, Harrisburg, or
by calling 717/652-4200
A complete potato growing
program will be presented, in
cluding talks by several Penn State
specialists
Keynote speaker at the Wed
nesday evenmg banquet will be
CE. Howes of the Council on
Agriculture Scientific Testing
Wed-
Howes will talk about federal
government in agriculture
Senator charges decontrol
WASHINGTON, D.C - When
President Reagan ordered the
immediate decontrol of oil prices,
farmers were among the biggest
losers.
His order not only put an im
mediate end to price controls, but
it also ended the special protection
which had been extended to far
mers to make sure they get the fuel
they need when they need it
for planting and harvesting, said
lowa Senator Tom Harkm
“A serious shortage which pops
up during planting or harvesting
time as we learned in lowa just
last spring can have irrevocable
and disasterous consequences on
the nation’s farms. Once a crop is
planted late, harvested late, or not
planted at all, the damage is
done,” he said.
‘We had a special rule that
made delivering fuel for farm use
a top priority. The President’s
order abolished it, and I think
that s a big mistake It we have
another shortage farmers are just
going to be left at the mercy of the
big oil companies,” he continued.
“I like the idea of reducing
government rules, regulations and
red tape. But the Reagan Ad-
The over-mch levers
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DIESEL
TRACTOR
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 7,1981—C43
Guernsey sale
averages $1346
will hurt farmers
'Ou re up to your bumper bolts in snow with
;es to go its comforting to now you have
'anmar compact diesel tractor to plow your
th to freedom
limply attach a bucket or blade 1c any ol our
i 15 19 24 and 33 HP over achievers and get
;ady to make the snow (ly
BUY NOW AT OLD PRICES!
• Waiver of Payments And Interest
Til March 1.1981
Turf &
Ag Tread
MARTIN HARDWARE & EQUIPMENT CO.
Rt 501 l 1 ? Miles South of Schaefferstown PA
Phone 717 949*6817
Open Mon Fn S ol Wed »1012 Sat lt©s
chased and prices were:
Avalong Farms, Inc., R 7, York -
Golden Dew Topcats Roxy, $l4OO.
James G. Delong, Bowers, Pa. -
Anchor & Hope Laurel, $1350.
K D. & Else Unde, Rl, Oxford -
Sunnydell Frederick Fanny, $1775.
Stanley L. Miller, 501 Doe Run
Road, Manheun - Greystone Dale
Uda, $1450; Larry K Dari Fayvor
Merry, $1200; Her Ra Maxim
Lavma, $1350; Sunny Lanes Calla
White $1250; Wightman Nance
Myrna, $1200; Sunnydell Star
Sophia, $1550, Her Ra Bart
Wendilla, $1350, Anchor & Hope
Laurel, $1250;
Kevin Nedra, Clifton Springs,
NY- Sunnydell J Cameo Rose,
$1950
Robert H. Nehrig & Son, R 2,
Homer City - Stoney Hill Sondra,
$l5OO, Greystone Sultans Helena,
$725, Kelso Bankers Frank, $725;
and Mt Murren Fabulous Dino,
$lO5O
Wilson Bros., Englewood, Tn -
Sunnydell Jupiter Floret, $1700;
Eastleigh C. L Cedai, $1500;
Burgess Farm Fay vors Jill, $1425;
Smithside B Lila, $1150; Chedco
Wistar Janet, $l3OO, Sunny Lanes
Snow Berry, $l4OO, Sunny Lanes
Scarlet Red, $l4OO, Greystone
Stella, $1200; Jenny Lynn, $l5OO.
ministration would do well to learn
early on that not all rules and
regulations are bad Some serve a
very valuable purpose
“We may be lucky and not have
any serious disruption of supplies.
Given the instability of many of
our Middle Eastern suppliers, we’d
be very lucky if that’s the case. If
that happens, higher prices will be
the only cost we have to hear.
“If we don’t have good luck, the
nation’s farmers may very well be
among the first called upon to
demonstrate the importance of an
old saying to the new ad
ministration: Be careful not to
throw the baby out with the
bathwater,” he concluded.
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