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:B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 3,1982
The Milk
Check
TOM JUBCHAK
County Agent
Suggestion Box
As 1 have participated in
meetings to explain the milk
marketing proposal to producers,
it has been interesting to hear the
suggestions on what should be done
to correct the current marketing
problem.
1 should have taken a
“suggestion box” to the meetings
to get them all but I can easily’
remember those that were most
often made. Of course, there are
still some producers who don’t
believe there is a marketing
problem and others who concede
there’s trouble but believe it isn’t
their problem Whether or not the
marketing proposal is approved, I
hope the producers will remember
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some of the suggestions they made
and work on them in the future
with or without set aside financing.
High on the list of suggestions is
milk quality improvement.
Everything from increasing the
present mmimums for butterfat
and solids to requiring
refrigeration for participation in
the school lunch program.
Shutting off imports is usually
suggested without realizing that
they are equivalent to only about
two percent of our production. But,
every little bit helps
Fighting the “cholesterol stuff”
is important to many who even feel
doctors aren’t as informed as they
should be. Right behind cholesterol
comes misleading oleomargarine
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ads and losses to mutation dairy
products, especially cheese.
From more knowledgeable
producers comes the suggestion of
changing seasonal incentives to
reduce the sprmg flush of milk that
. is an annual marketing problem.
Among the strongest and most
often heard suggestion, however,
is supply management. The idea
I that somehow, some way,
producers will have to do
something to keep milk production
in line with sales even while they
are expanding markets. Solutions
suggested include everything from
production quotas as part of the
price support program to in
centives for culling cows.
Most interesting is the idea that
any or all of the suggestions made
could be part of a dairy promotion
program now or in the future but
only if producers want them and
work for them.
The idea of cow culling in
centives came up so often along
with the question, “what would it
cost,” that I was tempted to find
out.
Here in Pennsylvania, we’re
producing 26 percent more milk
than we’re consuming, so we would
have to cull 187,000 of our 721,000
cows.
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If we have 40 heifers in waiting
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national average, we’ll have to
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Assuming a normal 25 percent
annual culling rate, we would still
have about 167,000 head to send to
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cost would be about $26 million
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the marketing proposal is ap
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money but not nearly as much as
the $l.B billion spent last year for
dairy price supports.
The problem, of course, is what
do you do with all that beef? Beef
prices are worse than milk prices
and you only would be trading
problems without reaching a
solution. (.JJ)
Beef producers wouldn’t stand
for it because they have per capita
consumption problems even more
serious than milk producers. Many
beef producers are already having
second thoughts about the
referendum they defeated two
years ago and wish they had a
second chance.
Perhaps you can learn from
them.
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