AlB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 4,1982 Block announces dairy deduction collection steps WASHINGTON. DC - Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block has announced the procedures the U.S. Department of Agriculture will use to collect the 50 cent' jer hun dredweight from the pioceeds of milk marketed by the nation’s dairy farmers after Dec. 1. In fulfilling the intent of Congress expressed in the Om nibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1962, this money will go to the Commodity Credit Corporation to offset part of the cost of dairy product purchases CCC makes under the dairy support program. Block said the procedures, which will be administered by USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, are: —Those who pay the dairy fanners for their milk in most cases milk handlers and dairy cooperative associations will make the deductions and pay the Bulls on test number 80 in N.Y. ITHACA, N.Y. - A total of 80 registered bull calves have “made the grade” and are beginning their stay at college as they participate in the New York State Bull Test at the Cornell University Livestock Teaching and Research Center. The young bulls have Jjeen consigned by 47 beef cattle breeders in New York, New Jer sey, New Hampshire, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. The current “Class of ’B3” includes 35 Angus, 18 Polled Herefords, 11 Simmentals, nine Charolais, three Red Angus, three Shorthorns and oneSalers. The bulls will be weighed every 28 days and results will be sent to their owners. Those bulls that meet certification standards at the CCC. Dairy farmers who sell their milk directly to consumers will be responsible for making their own payments to the CCC. —Payments are due on the date final payment is made to the dairy farmer. The first deductions will apply to milk marketed in December and payments to USDA on the milk volumes for which they have made deductions. —Those responsible for making payments will be required to file a brief report to USDA on the milk volumes for which they have made deductions. The Omnibus Budget Recon ciliation Act of 1962 is designed to reduce the cost of the dairy program which has exceeded $2 billion each year for the last two years. Under the Act, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to collect SO cents per hundredweight of milk marketed if conclusion of the 140-day per formance testing program will be offered for sale May 6. The New York Bull Test is jointly sponsored by the New York Beef Cattlemen’s Association, Cooperative Extension, the State Department of Agriculture and Markets, and the animal science department at Cornell. The program gives breeders an op portunity to have young bulls tested under uniform, unbiased conditions and evaluated for genetic and economical traits. The program also gives cattle producers an opportunity to select herd sires that will improve herds and add pounds of weaning weight to calf crops. CCC dairy surplus purchases are expected to be above 5 billion pounds milk equivalent for the marketing year. Since purchases are expected to be well above this level, the Secretary implemented the first phase of this program Wednesday. The law also provides for a second phase of this program. Block said. It could go into effect April 1, 1963 the earliesT date authorized by Congress if estimated CCC purchases are at least 7.5 billion pounds milk equivalent durig the marketing year. This phase provides for deducting an additional 50 cents We Take Pride In Our Reputation ONLY PREMIUM GRANULAR FERTILIZER with a guaranteed analysis for your crop and soil. 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