The Milk
Check
TOM JTOCHAK
County Agent
SEEING DOUBLE
The average producer might
think he is seeing double when he
gets his milk check tor June
deliveries to Order 2 handlers. The
uniform price was the same tor
June as it was for May • $12.83 for
3.5 milk at the 201-210 mile zone.
However, the price was the only
thing that stayed the same.
Everything else changed.
Production dropped from May’s
peak of 1.03 billion pounds to 905
million. That was three per cent
less than last month on a daily
basis but still the highest for June
in 10 years.
Fluid sales dropped two per cent
or 250,000 pounds a day to make a
Class 1 utilization of 37.2 per cent
the lowest for June in 25 years.
Your class prices changed very
little - down three cents on Class 1
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and one cent on Class 11 - reflecting
the recent drops in the Mmnesola-
Wisconsm Series.
However, there's comfort in
knowing that price-wise you’ve tut
the bottom for this year and there’s
nowhere to go but up. In June you
put 40 cents a hundred into the
Louisville Plan fund - the same as
May - but you won’t do that in July
so you’ll gain that much.
On the other hand, don’t expect
any improvement in your Class
prices either and with schools
closed for vacation you’ll be losing
Class 1 sales, if the hot/ humid
weather that cut your production
three percent in June can continue
into July you still may get all of
that 40 cents in your milk check
and perhaps a little more.
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FOUR WAYS
HAKI) WOKK
No one is cutiuzuig tlie Com
modity Credit Corporation tor not
buying enough butter, powder and
cheese to get the manutacturmg
grade milk price up to the support
price ot $12.80 tor 3.5 milk.
In June they were still 22 cents
short of the support price even
though they were buying over 500
million pounds ot milk equivalent a
week. No one complained because
the more they spend now the more
they’ll have to cut back when the
new price support program starts
in October.
However, you have to give them
credit tor working hard and
movmg the manufacturing milk
price up 13 cents since February
right through the biggest Sprmg
flush you ever produced. It took a
lot ot dollars to get it trom $12.45 in
February to $12.58 in June even
though it’s still not up to the $12.80
you expected.
In the meantime, the Minnesota-
Wisconsin Series, which deter
mines your Class prices, did what
it usually does in the Sprmg and
dropped eight cents trom March to
June. Back in February the M-W
was 21 cents higher than the
average manutacturmg grade
price but because ot the seasonal
decline in the M-W and the large
CCC purchases they are now only a
penny apart - $12.58 for
manufacturing grade milk and
$12.58 tor manutacturmg grade
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milk and $12.D9 tor the M-W in brought on by record -high
June. Another indication ot the production of milk and CCC pur
unusual marketing situation ' chases.
COLUMBUS, Ohio The fanner
members ot the National Corn
Growers Association concluded
their business meetings with the
election ot ofticers at the twenty
third national convention of the
association held here recently.
These otticers will serve on the
NCGA Board ot Directors of the
organization during the 1081/82
season, and will assume their
respective offices on October 1,
1981: William R. Mullins, Shab
bona, Illinois, president; Jack
Parsons, Wapello, lowa, first vice
president; John Stevenson, Cir
cleville, Ohio, vice president -
legislation; Fred Duncan,
Broadrun, Virginia, vice president
- research & education; Jim An
drew, Jefferson, lowa, vice
president - membership; Ray
Schaub, Ithica, Michigan, vice
president - public relations. Bill
Griffin, New Bern, North Carolina,
vice president - market develop
ment; Elwm Poe, Holyoke,
Colorado, secretary; and Drew
Stabler, Gaithersburg, Maryland,
treasurer.
The NCGA Board ot Directors
adopted a proposal
v/hcreby the past presidents of the
Association would serve as a policy
and advisory committee to the
Board ot Directors. They are:
Russell Arndt, Indiana; John
Curry, Illinois; Thurman Gaskill,
Iowa; and Walter Goeppmger,
lowa,
In addition, the NCGA Board ot
Directors appointed the immediate
past president, Russell Arndt, to
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 8,1981—85
Nat’l Com Growers
elect officers
represent the Association by
serving on the Commodity Policy
Advisory Committee of the United
States Trade Representative. In
this capacity, Arndt will par
ticipate as a corn grower advisor
m the U.S. government develop
ment of overall U.S. commodity
policy in international trade.
The NCGA purpose is to promote
the general welfare of U.S. com
farmers by working to develop
domestic corn production and
income support programs con
sistent with a market-onented
gram economy. NCGA state
members include Colorado,
Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas,
Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota,”
Missouri, Nebraska, New York,
North Carolina, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
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