WASHINGTON, D.C. - Family
dairy fanners, consumers and
taxpayers all will benefit from
enactment of new dairy legislation
introduced recently by U.S.
Representative James Oberstar of
Minnesota, representatives of the
Pennsylvania Farmers Union said.
"The Oberstar bill, which em
bodies the dairy stabilization
program drafted by the National
Farmers Union Dairy Task Force,
will do far more to reduce the
cost of the federal government’s
dairy price support program than,
the dairy program announced by
the Reagan Admmstration,” said
M. James Brown, president of the
Pennsylvania Fanners Union.
The Commonwealth’s family
farm organization was
represented on the NFU Dairy
Task Force by Jack Rynd, a dairy
farmer from Crawford County and
president of the Farmers Union
Milk Producers Association
Cooperative of western Penn
sylvania.
ventilation for summer
UNIVERSITY PARK "If
you’re planning on keeping your
cows in the stall barn this summer
be sure you have adequate ven
tilation capacity to keep them
cojnfortable," says Robert
Graves, Penn State Extension
agricultural engineer. Usually
mechanical ventilation systems
are designed for fall, winter and
spring conditions. Graves says
that you may need twice as much
fan capacity for summer con
ditions than spring. 1
You wiii need adequate exhaust
fans and properly located inlets.
You need about 200 square inches
PFU proposes dairy surplus solution
The Oberstar-NFU Task Force
plan guarantees dairy farmers 75
percent of parity on a percentage
of their milk production, but
heavily penalizes farmers who
produce over their production goal
assigned to each producer
After two years the time
during which dairy surpluses will
be brought more in line with actual
demand dairy farmers
nationwide would be given the
opportunity to vote in a referen
dum whether to continue
operations of the Dairy
Stabilization program.
"Passage of the Oberstar bill
will mean America’s family dairy
farmers will receive an adequate
income to enable them to survive
these harsh economic times which
are forcing many families out of
business,” Brown said The
Farmers Union president noted
that taxpayers would benefit since
the Oberstar-NFU Task Force Bill
would reduced the cost of the dairy
program by 11 billion annually.
Prepare mechanical
ot inlet capacity lor every IUOO
cubic fqet per minute of exhaust
fans to get a sufficent amount of
air m the barn. If you have about
200 cubic feet per minute per 1000
pound cow with adequate inlets
and are still not satisfied with barn
conditions you may wish to add
some circulating fans
Circulating fans can be used to
direct air on to the cows. Number
and location of these fans will be
determined by your particular
barn. Place the fans so that they
are directed at the cows heads
(along manger) or over their
backs. If more than one fan is used
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Consumers would also gain
through the continued availability
of adequate supplies in the future
The Pennsylvania Farmers
Union has been working in con
junction with its sister
organizations in other states to
develop the Dairy Stabilization
Act During the recent Milk
Marketing referendum conducted
by the state Department of
Agriculture, Pennsylvania Far
mers Union Pointed its opposition
to the generic advertising program
stating that the surplus problem
was a nationwide dilemma that
could not be attacked on a
statewide level
We were called negative and
destructive in our opposition to the
milk referendum, but all along we
have been working with
Washington to come up with a
solution to the surplus problem in
the form of legislation Hopefully,
our work in Washington will quiet
our critics, who say we are op
posed to everything.” Brown said
be sure that all fans are moving air
in the same direction and not
fighting one another
A circular air pattern around the
barn is most satisfactory ac
cording to Graves In bams with
large numbers of doors and win
dows it may be possible to turn off
all exhaust fans and use cir
culating fans to move air around
inside the bam and depend on
breezes to move air in and out of
the bam. Your individual ex
perience and observations are the
best way to determine this.
Be sure that your mechanical
ventilation system is in top notch
running condition. All fans,
housing, motors, inlets and outlets
should be clean and free of dust
and other foreign matter. Be sure
that all automatic louvers are free
to open completely and belts are
tight.
Also check for items blocking fan
discharges and outside inlets such
as piles of junk, large machinery,
weeds and trees. Be sure that all
guards that protect personnel from
moving fan blades or belts are in
place.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jun« 5,1952—A19
Farmers Union charged that the
Reagan Administration's dairy
plan would force many dairy
farmers into bankruptcy, cost the
federal government more tax
dollars, and ultimately mean
consumers would pay higher
prices when supplies of milk
products became scarce
’Consumers and the American
taxpaying public will not benefit if
dairy legislation is passed that
forces family dairy farmers off the
farm and onto the nation’s
unemployment rolls," Brown said
Mam Provisions of the Dairy
Stabilization Act are
Each dairy farmer would be
assigned a production base equal
to his 1981 production In the event
of breeding or herd problems, an
adjustment would be permitted
The price of milk would be
supported at 75 percent of parity,
The Secretary of Agriculture
would have the authority to adjust
the support price after two years,
but the price could not be adjusted
below 75 percent
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Prior to each marketing year,
the secretary will establish a
production goal for the coming
year. He would set the percentage
of each producer base that will be
supported at 75 percent of parity
by taking into consideration the
demand of dairy products
Milk produced in excess of the
production goal, but not in excess
of the producer's base, will be
subject to a five percent marketing
assessment to be deducted at the
first point of sale
Milk produced in excess of the
producer s base will be subject to
an additional ten percent
marketing assessment to be
deducted at the first jxunt of sale
Within two years producers
would have the opportunity to vote
in a nationwide referendum on
whether or not to continue the
Dairy Stabilization Program