-A2B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 4,1981
MCMP
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service activities, all point to the
inevitability of larger cooperatives
with a broad financial base for
operations, he said
According to Allison, MCMP is
looking in three directions for
merger possibilities Maryland
Even milk promotion has moved into the Space Age.
Maryland Cooperative Milk Producer members came face to
face with the flashing lights and synthesized voice of “Milky"
the robot during their annual meeting Saturday. Milky's
friend is Dave Baker, of the Mid-Atlantic Milk Marketing
Agency.
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All three are tanner-owner milk
marketing cooperatives
Noting that merger has been
explored for several years, Allison
emphasized, “We are not dragging
our feet This is the most important
decision we as members of MCMP
have ever had to make 1 expect a
board recommendation veiy
boon '
Maryland and Virginia Milk
Hi oducerb hab 13UU membeib with
headquarteib in Arlington,
Virginia
The Cooperative operateb a
butter-powder procebbing tacihty
at LdUrel, Md , and a bottling plant
in Virginia Their current mem
bership intermingles with much ot
MCMP’s miikshed.
Inter-State Milk Producers, ot
Southampton, Pa , includes over
3000 members, mostly in south
central and southeastern Penn
sylvania They re equal partners
with Maryland Cooperative in the
Holly Milk butter-powder
processing facility in Mt. Holly
Spring. Members bt the two
cooperatives are intertwined
throughout the southern tier
counties of Pennsylvania.
Dairymen, Inc , is a Louisville,
Kentucky, based cooperative, with
over 6500 members across 14
southeastern states Their
organizational structure operates
in 11 divisions, and if a MCMP
inciger would take this direction,
the Maryland Cooperative ship
pers would continue to function as
the Maryland Division of DI
Much of D I ’s milk is processed
and sold through the fluid market
under their own Flav-O-Rich label
Members also heard an upbeat
report on the recent performance
of the Holly plant, plagued since its
opening over two years ago, with
in-plant technical problems and
environmental wrangling over the
sewage disposal system
Holly, according to the
cooperative’s officials, was the
salvation of area dairymen during
the annual holiday milk-marketing
headache And, according to
MCMP treasurer Leßoy Norfolk,
the plant is showing a milhon
dollar improvement on the
financial books and operating at a
break-even level
Ohio farm wive and author Pat Leimbach was the featured
speaker for the MCMP luncheon. Later, she autographed
books for some of her fans in the audience.
Sam Foard, MCMP board
member and vice-president ot
Holly Milk, told Maryland
Cooperative members that the
plant is now undergoing a major
update ot the sewage disposal
system
Butter printing equipment
was also recently purchased tor
the plant, and the 68-pound bulk
chunks ot butter produced at the
facility are being cut and packaged
in an agreement with Land-U-
Lakes
Foard said that duiing the week
between Christmas and New Yeai,
when many bottling plants shut
down tor the holiday vacation,
Holly handled some 20 million
pounds of milk
That s the equivalent ot 400
tractor-trailer loads that backed
up in long lines to unload then
stainless tanks full ot milk because
there simply was no place else to
go
Approximately 14 million pounds
ot that production was processed
at the plant, while the remaining
six million pounds were reloaded
onto trucks and hauled tor sale at
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Calling the holiday milk glut a
bad situation that would have
been disastrous without Holly ,
Foard added that the tirst week ot
January became a repeat ot the
same problem
Continuing his annual lepoil to
the membership, Wessel said the)'
Cooperative was supporting the
April suspension m dairy puce
support increases
He admitted that, in the tace ot
pi eduction costs up 11 percent and
milk prices up only seven percent,
the increase suspension was a
tough stance to lake, but
escalating production and
declining consumption demand the
cutback
The Cooperative also urges
passage ot legislation aimed at
slashing the imports ot large
quantities ot casein, a chemical
derivative ot milk that is widely
used in imitation cheese products
Supporters ot the limitations on
casein had hoped to cut imports to
halt the quantities ot the last five
years
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