A34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 16,1983 CAMP HILL - The Penn' sylvania Fanners’ Association (PF A) has proposed changes in the dairy support program to the Senate Agriculture subcommittee on Agriculture Production, Marketing and Stabilization of Prices, holding hearings this week in Washington. PFA submitted a two-phase proposal which PFA president Keith Eckel said, “Is designed to quickly re-establish the proper balance between dairy supply and demand and then to maintain that PARADISE A preliminary meeting to organize a new area grange was held Wednesday, at the township municipal building. Del. names ag marketer DOVER, Del. Marketing and promotion of farm products is moving to the front burner in the i3elrtware Department of Agriculture. Gov. Pierre duPont announced at last Saturday’s Annual Agricultural Industry Banquet at the University of Delaware that a full-time marketing position has been filled in the Department of Agriculture. Beginning work in the position on Monday is William Sammons, who was bom on a Sussex County farm and has been living in Milton, Del., working as a TV newscaster in Salisbury, Md. Sammons, according to Dei. Ag Sec. Don Lynch will be working fulltime with the marketing and promotion of commodities and particularly with the nearby fresh market. THINK AHEAD... Read Futures Markets on Page 3. Here's What You Get For Less Than 15* A Week! i r ■ 11111' ~ ~ %Wm ★ LATEST INFORMATION from livestock markets and auctions of the East and Mid-West, including futures. ★ OUR MARKET REPORTS are received by phone up to 10 AM on Friday morning...just 2 hours before press time! Our total farm coverage also gives you NEWS (including Dairy & DHIA Reports)... FEATURES...BEST BUYS ON PRODUCTS & EQUIPMENT-FREE MAILBOX MARKET...and much, much more! . P.0.80x 366. Lititz, PA 17543 J 717-626-1164 or 394-3047 PFA proposes dairy support changes balance automatically.” PFA also proposed that its plan should be enacted in place of the two 50 cent/cwt. assessments which, it urged, should be repealed. The first phase of PFA’s proposal would reduce the current oversupply by providing dairymen with an economic incentive to reduce production. Under the proposal the average quarterly production levels for each producer would be calculated from January, 1980 through Decprr> , «>-, Paradise begins new grange Mike Brubaker, Hartman Station Road, Lancaster, was appointed as organizational chairman of the grange and “There will be work with Ex tension, the farm community and ag groups to coordinate marketing and promotion of Delaware ag products in programs that are of the greatest advantage to our farmers,” Lynch explained. Sammons will be located in the Commodity Development Section of the Delaware Department of Agriculture. Although created in 1979, the marketing post has remained vacant since that time. Delaware already has an apple promotion program and a soybean checkoff. Governor duPont has put primary stress on the state’s agriculture and said the greatest need was the promotion of that agriculture. In keeping with this philosophy, his ag secretary also comes from a sales background. 1 _*• ’ §?--=' -'■- -*»r*»«« j— , ms _ v -( --- At LANCASTER FARMING, we think we do a good job ot keeping you in lormed...and we have over 39,000 paid subscribers who think so too! At Senate hearing 1982. The Secretory of Agriculture would then determine the needed reduction by dividing commercial disappearance by total production. Farmers who reduce their marketings by this percentage would receive a bonus of 15% of the support price multiplied by their entire production. Those farmers who increased production by any amount would be penalized by the same percentage times their entire production. Adjustments to producer would be made in in stallments during the next quarter. Dorothy Zimmerman, 103 Harristown Road, Paradise, was named co-chairman. A membership committee was selected including: Lewis Denlinger, 61 Harristown Road, Paradise; Ruth Clark, R 1 Kinzers; and Gilbert Martin, R 1 Paradise. The election of officers will take place during the organizational meeting slated for May 4, at the municipal building, at 7:30 p.m. A permanent meeting time and place will also be established. Charles Wismer, Pa. State Grange Master, spoke about the effectiveness of the grange and its contribution to agriculture today. Mike Warner, a representative from the National Grange, spoke SERVICE SHENK'S FARM SERVICE SALES 501 E. Woods Drive, Box 225, Lititz, PA 17543 Phone 717-626-1151 Our Service Trucks Are Radio Dispatched 24 Hr. Service Offered - After 6 P.M. - Call: Mervin Nissley 717-872-4565 Ray Shenk 717-626-1152 Hardship cases would be han dled by local ASCS committees and new producers would enter the market at 90% of the current support price. Only members of the same family would be per mitted to pass on a production average. Administration of the program would be conducted through federal Milk Marketing Orders, state and county ASCS committees and state milk marketing orders. PFA estimates the first phase of about membership. Other speakers were Cliff Holloway, Pomona Grange Master, Thomas Galbreath, Lancaster County Deputy Master and Ken Meyer, Elizabethtown Grange Master. Persons interested in joining the Paradise grange should contact Clifford Holloway. RI Peach Bottom or Dottie Stauffer, Rl Quarryville. “The grange is a farm and rural community organization that families can participate in,” Stauffer said. “This organization works for the consumer as well as for the agricultural sector.” The Elizabethtown and Franklin County granges were also newly organized in the past year. its proposal could reduce CCC purchases to normal amounts In one year. Phase two of PFA’s proposal would keep supply automatically in line with demand by indexing the support price to CCC pur chases. As milk production goes up, the support price would decrease automatically. “This scale would allow the market, not the government to set both supply and price,” said PPA president Eckel. Under PFA’s plan, adjustment to the support price would be made quarterly by the Agriculture Secretary based on predicted CQC purchases for the upcoming 12 month period. The support level would range from 60% to 90% of parity and would be indexed to CCC purchases ranging from 2 billion lbs. to 11.6 billion lbs. This sliding scale would be im plemented when CCC purchases reach 4% of milk marketed. Eckel said, “We believe our plan will effectively work to keep both supply and price at a fair level. ” He added, “PFA’s goal in presenting its two-phase proposal is to reduce the amount of milk produced in this country, not the number of dairy farmers.” PFA is a general farm organization representing 23,000 farm families, of which about half are dairy farmers.
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