The Milk Check TOM JUHCHAK County Agent No, Virginia It doesn’t look like Santa Claus will be coming to town for dairy farmers this year.'The uniform price for Order 2 shippers dropped 13 cents for November milk; you may be losing the parity formula as a basis for the dairy support price program and butter prices hitting their usual end-of-the-year slump. First, the uniform pnce in Order 2 for November milk fell to $13,74 mainly because there was only 33 cents a hundred left in the Louisville Plan account compared to the 45. cents you got in November. . The other penny was lost by a drop in the Class 1 utilization from 47 to 46 percent. Your total production was down about 100,000 pounds a day but you sold about 300,000 pounds less per day of fluid milk. This was due mainly to the five weekends in November - believe it or not. It’s not because people, don't drink milk on weekends but because fluid milk bottling is not done on weekends. Most* of the bottling - it’s still called bottling even though milk bottles are Introducing to the Mid Atlontic Area the Nitterhouse Upright Bunker Silo Featuring a single component design for fast erection and completion. The sections bolt together and the tongue and groove creates a sealed wall (.surface. The sections may be dismantled and re-located, customers may select any length or width in increments of 5 feet 2 inches. In addition to silage storage, these upright units may be used as retaining walls or manure pits. • -u© MANURE PIT ,rffj BUNKER SILO STOI • ' Concrete Products Inc. Kl | ttorhm ICO Farm Products Division n 11101 nwuac Box N chambersburg. Pa. 17201 717-264-6154 collectors’ items - is done early in the week and hauled off to all the supermarkets for end-of-the-week sales. Milk brought in from farms late m the week is pasteurized and held m silos until the following week. So, since utilization isn’t reported by the handler until he sells the milk five weekends, fluid milk sales look bad. Pancake Every time you read a farm magazine (or newsletter) these days someone’s telling you that milk prices will be “flat” into the “forseeable future”. Just how Qal they can be was demonstrated by the November prices. Taking away the Louisville Plan payments for October and November you got the same $13.42 for your milk both months. The Class 11 price was exactly the same at $12.58 as, of course, was the Minnesota-Wisconsin series at $12.52. Class 1 prices were a cent lower in November at $14.71 and manufacturing grade milk prices were down five cents to $12.38. That’s the one that’s sup posed to be supported at $12.80. However, it’s not peculiar to Oc- TONNAGE TABLE FOR 8 FT. SIDEWALLS* 1 38 , 40 50 60 WIPE wine wide wide •• 323 432 540 646 > w ■ 376 504 630 753 ■ ,m 431 576 720 862 485 648 808 971 -.."RKfi 539 • 720 900 1078 ‘ lltf ' 593 793 989 1187 120 648 864 1080 1296 688 936 1170 1376 I%',’ 755 1008 1260 1510 S lil' 808 1080 1350 1616 lober and November bm it's really the same uniform price you were getting a year ago m December 1980. All of this money that you put into the Louisville Plan tund and the seasonal differentials on Class 11 milk make the numbers go up and down, but when you get to the bottom line, the market price has been the same fora year. Over or Under Dairy farmers are divided on whether they are over producing ten pounds of milk for every 100 pounds they send to market if the public is under consuming. If it’s over produced, we need a reduc tion of 50,000 pounds of milk a year by each dairy farm or get 25,000 fanners to quit milking cows. If you believe the answer is getting people to eat more dairy products, then all we have to do is increase per capita consumption by 12 percent. The second idea has the most appeal for young farmers, but all dairymen in Pennsylvania will have an opportunity to decide next spring when the Department of Agriculture conducts a referen dum to determine if producers want to contribute equally to finance the efforts to get that 12 percent increase in dairy product consumption. The details will be worked out by the Dairy Promotion Advisory Committee before Christinas but it looks like about 10 cents per hundred contribution to provide a $9 million fund for advertising Pennsylvania dairy products. Some farmers are paying more than that now but all ’other programs Would be discontinued and everyone would pay the same rate based on his milk production. Watch for more details. -BASED ON LEVEL FILL WITH 45 LBS. PER CU FT Lancaster Farming, Thursday, December 24,1981—C3 York ASCS announces election results YORK The York County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service recently held its elections for 1982 com mitteemen. Elected chairman of the county committee was Richard L. Deardorff, with William Nace selected as vice chairman. Glenn P.' Warner makes up the third member of the county board with Dean Maifold and Geary Hunt sberger serving as first and second alternates, respectively. The following community committeement were elected; Community #1 Fair view and Newberry Townships Geary W Huntsberger. Rl Etters. E Wayne RI New Cumberland Robert G Traver. Lewisberry. Eugene W Ort, R 2 Etters Henry W Brenner, R 2 York Haven Community #2 Carroll. Monahan 4 Franklin Townships GuyM Hoffman, R2Dil(sburg. Paul A Myers R 3 Dillsburg, Fred S Kimmel. Rl Dillsburg Norman H Shelly Sr. R 5 Dillsburg, Philip Van Lieu Rl DiUsburg Community ff 3 Warrington & Washington Townships Gary Altland. Rl Wellsville. Ray E Orner R 2 DiUsburg Roy E Berkheimer Jr. Rl Wellsville, Sterling J Mummert, R 2 Dillsburg, Dale E Myers Rl Wellsville Community 14 Conewago, East Manchester £ Manchester Dotl L Zirkle. R 2 Manchester. Noah B Hershey, Rl York, Russel Rentzel. Rl Mt Wolf, Blame Knepper, R 5 York. Eugene B Taylor. R 2 Man Chester Community IS Dover £ West Manchester Townships Richard E Stough. R 6 York, Walter S Laird Dover. C Fred McGhee. Dover. Albert Garber. R 6 York. Richard A Better, R 2 Dover Community #6 Jackson & Paradise Townships Donald M Eyster. R 4 Spring Grove, Rodney C Eisenhart. Rl Thomasville, Carlton L Jacobs. Rl East Berlin, Philip D laughman. R 2 Thomasville. George L Ruth, Rl East Berlin Community 17 Spnngettsbury. HeWam & Spring Garden Town- Marly n E M'ller, Rli York. 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Andrew S Myers, R 1 Dallastown, John VV Hunt, R 1 Seven Valleys Community #lO Chanceford & Lower Chanceford Townships Henry E Tyson. R 2 Airville, Robert Jordan. R 1 Brogue Desota Burchett, Rl Airville, Ray E Bacon R 2 Felton. Ellis Crow! R 2 Airville Community 911 Fawn& Peach Bottom Townships L Ear! Gross. Fawn Grove. Eugene D Scott. Rl New Park. David Wilson. Rl New Park, Charles E Richardson, Rl Fawn Grove John M Brown. Rl New Park Community 912 Hopewell. North Hopewell £ East Hopewell Townships Harold R Miller Jr, R 3 Stewartstown. John W Marsteller Sr. R 3 Slewarstown. W Dean Manifold. R 2 Stewartstown, Roy G JacKsonJr R 3 Felton J Daniel Wolf. R 2 Stewartstown Community 113 Shrewsbury Township Vernon L Sieling, Rl New Freedom, Harry C Wolf. Rl New Freedom John S Thompson Shrewsbury. Luther S Arendt. Rl Glen Rock, Aaron A Amspacher. Rl Glen Rock Community 914 Codorus £ Manheim Townships Donald E Meckley. R 3 Glen Rock, Roy D Gladfelter, R 3 Glen Rock Clark A Thomas. 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