Dl2—-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 25,1M1 The Milk Check TOM JUHCHAK County Agent More Surprises When Secretary of Agriculture Block appeared before the Senate Agriculture Committee at the end of March and asked for legislation allowing him to determine the dairy price suport between 70 and 90 percent of parity, it was a big surprise to the general farm organizations as well as the dairy cooperatives. They were expecting a support price between 75 and 90 percent with a bracketing arrangement that determined the exact level according to how much milk equivalent was purchased by the Commodity Credit Corporation as butter, powder or cheese. Block went back to the White House and wrote the ad ministration’s new farm bill this month, he said... “the Secretary is authorized to support the pnce of milk at less than 70 percent of parity if the Secretary determines that the Commodity Credit Cor Crow Rabbits. Quail. Pheasant. Racoons. Chickens. Turkeys. Guinea Pigs. Any small animal. 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However, NMPF says the administration proposal really gives the Secretary a choice between zero and 90 percent of parity after 1981 whenever he feels that CCC has accumulated “ex cessive” quantities of milk products. Easter Recess All of this happened before Congress adjourned for a two week Easter recess on April 9. It was introduced as Senate Bill 943 by wire mesh Complete modular rabbit raising systems All at direct-to-you low prices stop in today and save' Favorite Manufacturing, Inc, 114-lie Earland industrial Park, Building #1 Just East of New Holland off Route 23 Phone (717)354-4586 Open weekdays 7-30 am to 4 so pm Fridays 7 30 AM to 6 00 PM Saturdays 7 50 am to n 30 AM Senator Helms and titled the Agricultural Act of 1981. A companion bill is expected to be introduced in the House and the agriculture committees of both the House and the Senate will start working on the bill when they return on April 27. We can only speculate on the reasons for this second surprise in the administration’s demands on the dairy industry. It could be that they misinterpreted a lack of opposition to the removal of the April X adjustment as a willingness of dairy producers to settle for whatever the administration of fered. Or, it could be a grand stand play to show that the administration is really trying to help consumers cut food costs. Or it could be as we’ve said before that reducing ex penditures on the dairy price support program to levels projected by the administration three months ago will take deeper cuts than they expected. However, if this is an effort by the administration to test the backbone of agriculture and the dairy industry, they may have gone too far. Almost as soon as the news bit the street, there was a reaction from farm groups, they would only try that much harder to get what they originally went after 4th ANNUAL CUMBERLAND VALLEY DUTCH AUCTION SALE SAT. 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