D2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 18,1981
The Milk
Check
TOM JUHGHAK
County Agent
Program Costs
As soon as the dairy price sup
port program came under attack
as the first target of the Reagan
economic recovery program, the
air was white with reports from
dairy groups pointing out that its
cost was minimal to the govern
ment.
Rather than the $1.3 billion for
the 1980-81 marketing year
reported by the Commodity Credit
Corporation as the net cost of the
program (purchases minus sales),
Washington was bombarded with
information showing that the cost
was much less. Figures all the way
from $1 billion to $315 million were
offered as the “real” net cost.
It’s true that if you take credit
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for all the CCC dairy stocks used
for everything from school lunch
programs to welfare programs to
overseas give aways plus the cost
of casern imports and value the
present CCC inventories at current
prices, you can have a pretty low
figure on the bottom line
However, it seemed like no one in
Washington was listening.
Just don’t worry about the
confusing amounts that you will
hear about the “real” costs
because it depends on who’s
pushing the pencil and what
they’re trying to prove. It’s all
good information and should be
used but it may be “water over the
dam” as far as Congress is con
cerned
The figures that may be of more
interest to you (and to Congress) is
what will be a drop in the support
price cost you. You already know
that a drop to 75 percent of parity
will cost you 88 cents a hundred as
it djd on April 1. You can double
that if the support goes to 70 per
cent making the drop $1.76 a
hundred. After that, it doesn’t
matter much. If you get no support
price, the best guess is you’ll lose
about $2 a hundred and won’t have
to worry about 65 percent of parity
Smart Money
While most of us were hoping you
would get the April 1 adjustment
before Congress acted to stop it,
the smart money among buyers
was betting there would be no
increase.
At least that’s the way it looks
because butter, powder, cheese
and the Minnesota-Wisconsin
prices barely moved from
February to March. Usually with a
support price adjustment expected
the commodity prices take a jump
the month before, but not this time.
Butter prices stayed the same
while powder and cheese prices
dropped a fraction of a cent and the
M-W gamed only one penny. The
manufacturing grade milk price
was still 24 cents below the support
price.
With a March M-W of $12.67
you’ll have a Class II price m
Order 2 for that month of $12.62 or
six cents less than February. Your
Anything other than BAYMIX
Crumbles is only a one-cow
solution to a whole herd problem
THE LOGIC BEHIND WHOLE HERO DEWORMING
In an unwormed dairy herd, all animals
deposit worm eggs on the farm and all
animals are subject to further
recontamination from infective
larvae as herd parasitism continues
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Baymix, egg deposition is dramati
cally reduced, and as a result herd
recontamination is also signifi
cantly reduced with herd produc
tive efficiency maintained. In fact,
a recent study shows a benefit of
4.8 Ibs./milk/cow/day average when
cows are dewormed as late as 200
days into lactation despite the fact
they were dewormed at freshening.
A baymix is available at
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SUPPLY DEALER
Class I price in March will be
$14.89 which is three cents better
than February, but won’t make up
for the six cent drop in Class II
milk. In addition there will be a 20
cent deduction from the pool for
the Louisville Plan, so don’t look
Farmers Union honors
retiring county agent
FARRAGUT More than 60
local fanners honored retiring
county extension agent Paul
Rothrock in the fifth annual
Farm/City banquet held Wed
nesday night at the Farragut
United Methodist Church.
Rothrock was honored for his
outstanding accomplishments over
many years to area farmers. The
Farm/City banquet is an annual
affair hosted by the Lycoming
County Farmers Union.
The local organization president,
Verus Shaner, presented Rothrock
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In a herd dewormed only at
freshening, an average of 10
out of 12 animals have not
been dewormed Because egg
deposition has not been signifi
cantly reduced, and because of
infective larvae already present
on the farm, all animals are sub
let to heavy further recontamination
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for the first month of your Sprme
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This looks like a bad month for
good news in milk marketing but it
looks like things may get worse
before they get better.
a handmade Pennsylvania slate
wall clock as a gift
Guest speaker at the dinner
meeting was Orville Carver, State
Director of Pennsylvania Green.
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Also attending Wednesday
evening were Reverend Sam Reed
of Avis, and Leonard Zemaitis,
Director of the Pennsylvania
Farmers Umon.
The Farm/City, banquet
culminated several days of far
mers union membership activities
in the area.
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