A2B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Inly 3,1882 SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Delegates of Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative Tuesday approved a significant change of by-laws which modifies the distribution of dues income from members. Effective on milk produced in July, members no longer will pay administrative dues in the form of a flat charge per hundred pounds of milk, but will pay a monthly membership fee of $15.00 along with a charge of 10 cents per hundred pounds. The dues change proposal had been unanimously supported by the Board of Directors and was strongly endorsed by Eastern managment. The move was seen as a necessary step to correct the inequity of dues charged on a flat basis—currently resulting in some members paying less than $lOO.OO per year while higher production members pay up to $5,000 an nually. The new dues structure is ex pected to have virtually no impact on the majority of Eastern Md. 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ADDRESS COUNTY PHONI Eastern revises dues; eliminates flat rate members producing near the Association average but will raise the dues of the lowest production members and decrease the dues of high production members. Eastern management views the change as a means to become more com petitive for new producers in the Northeast. General Manager, Michael Donovan, commended Delegates saying, “This action enables Eastern to keep a healthy mix of members in all production sizes. We can now maintain a financially strong organization to serve all our members. Our cooperative has taken a progressive approach to dues which more equitably ap portions the actual costs of providing cooperative services.’ ’ The proposal required a two thirds vote of delegates present and voting their local membership. It passed narrowly, following about one hour of discussion. During the discussion preceding the vole, Eastern President, Stanley Korona, dismissed the idea the issue could be reduced to a is swine brucellosis free tools to locate infection so it can be eliminated is the market swine testing program. Under this program, breeding swine are identified when entering market channels. If blood tests at slaughter show they are infected, the identification is used to find and clean up the infected herd of origin. Fichtner presented a certificate recognizing Maryland as validated brucellosis-free to Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Hugh E. Binks in Annapolis June 17. Other states that have achieved validated swine brucellosis-free America’s most popular dryer - Farm Fans! 24 month parts and labor warranty! 90 days for cash, 24-hour emergency repair service! Complete stocking warehouse! STATi '• small versus big" issue. Korona assured Delegates the organization holds members of all production levels in equal im portance. “The proposal,” he said, “is simply a recognition of the realities of the marketplace.” In an interview following the Delegate meeting;, General Manager, Donovan, % provided additional detail concerning ef fects of the proposal: Those shipping 1,750 pounds every other day (EOD) will pay about $52.00 more annually. Producers shipping 2,500 pounds will pay the same dues under the new structure." Above that amount, those shipping 3,250 pounds EOD will save $95.00 annually. Those at 10,000 pounds EOD will save about $540.00 a year, while Eastern’s largest single producer at 18,000 pounds of milk EOD, will have dues reduced by about $1,200 next year. The newly adopted dues con figuration is projected to raise slightly leas dues income than last status are California, Colorado, Idaho, lowa, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hamp shire, North Dakota, Penn sylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming, plus Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. or lease plans! year but should more than correct this situation by encouraging additional membership. In other delegate meeting matter, members learned the cooperative ended last fiscal year with a $38,000 surplus in the Ad ministrative budget, compared to a $460,000 loss in the previous fiscal year, ending March 31,1981. Ap proximately 50 percent of this improvement resulted from cost- than two-thirds of their crop or livestock. Producers who use the marketing service should be committed, said Goss. "They can’t be in and out of the market. We expect delivery.” In emergency cases if a farmer loses an entire crop to drought or hail a provision does allow the contract to be "bought back” by the farmer. But, Goss noted, there will be a slight peiudty to discourage this practice. If this PPA attempt at futures contracting is successful, Goss projected that the ultimate goal of his marketing service would be to secure reliable exporl markets for Pennsylvania farmers. “Pennsylvania agriculture needs to look to the world market, or in ten or fifteen years we’ll be in the same boat as steel and automobiles,” concurred Miller, noting the state has only developed its agriculture enough to meet domestic markets. “We need to look at exports now, not just when we have a surplus.” He likened the world export market to the local roadside market of a few years ago. "The IX6I ASKDB> R.D.I MOUNTAIN RD. DILLSBURG, PA cutting programs implemented in the Syracuse office and a major reduction of 1154,000 in Ad- i ministrative interest expense. Similar improvements were experienced in reducing the costs of marketing member milk. During much of the last year, Eastern’s marketing performance has allowed the cooperative to pay the full blend price to more than 90 percent of its members. PFA futures (Continued from Page A 27) world market is no different now than the roadside market in my father’s day when four farmers in an area were competing and killing each other's prices." Miller said farmers have to investigate the possibilities of bartering with poorer countries, and banning imports from countries who place tariff restrictions on U.S. farm imports. Contract marketing, said Miller, can provide the effective "handle” farmers need to win their marketing revolution. "We’re not interested in building packing houses and elevators,” commented Miller, who added producers, processors and packers have been fighting with one another too long. "Contract marketing can help pass agriculture’s costs on to the con sumer and ensure a profit for both the farmer and the processor by leveling off the cycles controlling prices. We need to work as a team .j tor the good of all agriculture.” For more information, contact ' Goss at PACMA’s Middletown office, 532 Kmaus Street, P.O. Box 289, - Middletown, PA 17057, - telephone 717/944-5561. 17019 • 717-432*9738
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