HAKKISBUKG - The drafting
of proposed legislation to rescue
Pennsylvania’s bankrupt and
stalled Milk Security Fund may be
completed early next month.
A sub-committee composed of
dealer, co-op and farm group
representatives met for the third
tune this week on the proposed
legislation.
“Vie met for the third tune this
week and are getting some con
census of agreement among
representatives of the co-ops, farm
groups and dealers,” explained
Harold Ely, chairman of the
legislative section of the Penn
sylvania Association of Farmer
Cooperatives, who is heading up
the effort.
"We’ll be meeting ..again on
Friday, June 3, and hope to fine
tune the proposals and get some
specific language in the draft of the
legislation.”
Ely said the proposed legislation
will concentrate on the two mam
areas of need to attempt to solve
the present fund dilemma.
-First, tighter regulations will
be written into the bill so that the
fund doesn’t experience a reoc*
curence of the immediate drying
up of the fund following the
bankruptcy of three dealers.
-Additional contributions will be
needed to rebuild the fund back up
to a certain sound financial level.
In addition to Ely, members of
the sub-committee working on the
proposed legislation include
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Grange; Jim Fahere, of Inter-
State Milk Producers Co-op; Dan
Cook, of PDA’s legal department;
Henry Geissuiger, of the Pa. 'Milk
Dealers; and Earl Fink, of the
Milk Marketing Board.
Also in Harrisburg this week, the
State Council of Farm
Organizations held its annual
legislative breakfast to bring
members up-to-date on what’s
happening with farm-related bills.
The session also stressed con
cern over the state budget and
particularly as it affects the
Department of Agriculture, Penn
State, University of Pennsylvania
Veterinary School and the DEK’s
Bureau of Soil and Water Con
servation.
Particular concern was ex
pressed over the amount budgeted
for the PDA. As an example, it was
pointed out that the staff of the
Bureau of Foods and Chemistry is
down some 20 people.
The overall recommendation of
the Council was to push for a $3
million increase m the PDA’s
budget.
The Council session also
reviewed the status of various
farm-related bills:
- The Senate bill to require date
of packaging on perishable food
has been tabled m the Senate Ag
Committee.
-The Senate bill to lift the 8
percent ceiling on the stock
dividends that can be paid by co-
legislation draft nears completion
ops has been reported out of
committee.
Other bills discussed included
those dealing with exempting
grain bins from property taxes,
prohibiting hunting in unharvested
fields with enforcement by the
Helfrick pushes for new dairy legislation
HARRISBURG - Senator
Edward W. Helfnck, Chairman of
the Pennsylvania Senate
Agriculture and Kural Affairs
Committee is urging members of
the House Agriculture Committee
in Washington to adopt new
legislation to do away with the 50
cents assessment.
Helfnck, in a letters to members
of the House Agriculture Com
mittee and Subcommittee,
registered concern over the issue
of the federal Dairy Price Supprt
Program, and the various
proposals that are circulating
through the halls of Congress to
address the surplus situation.
The issue could spell economic
disaster to Pennsylvania dairy
fanners, said Helfnck, and as a
result, have a negative impact on
the entire state’s economy.
Pennsylvania’s 15,500 dairy
farmers provide the Keystone
State with a revenue of $1.3 billion
annually. With the present Ad
ministration's 50-cent milk tax that
is being assessed on each hundred
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Game Commission, the beverage
container deposit bill, permitting
owners to remove traps from their
land and the oil and gas lease bill.
The Council also accepted the
resignation of John Wylie, of
Auway, fp o m the Executive
pounds of milk marketed, Penn
sylvania stands to lose $45 million
in mcome, Helfrick asserted.
‘lt doen’t take a mathematician
to figure out that if our state’s
farmers are losing money, the
supporting industries - processors,
milk haulers, wholesalers and
retailers - will also experience a
financial slump,” warned
Helfrick. "When the 27,000 Penn
sylvanians employed on dairy
farms find their paychecks suf
fering the same fate as the far
mers’ milk checks after the 50-
cents per hundredweight of milk is
subtracted off and when the 12,000
people employed in Penn
sylvania’s 220 dairy processing
plants also find their salaries
correspondingly cut, hardtimes in
the dairy industry will no longer be
a theory alluded to by economists
-it will be a stark reality.”
Helfrick, speaking on behalf of
the Pennsylvania Senate
Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Committee, stressed the need to
find a better solution to the dairy
price support program than the
current 50-cent assessment. "We,
along with the major farm
organizations in the state—the
Pennsylvanis State Grange, the
Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association, and the Pennsylvania
Farmers’ Union—are strongly in
tavor of establishing a federal
Committee and named Gail Mc-
Pherson, of Penns Agri-Women, to
the committee.
Agway is realigning its offices,
and Wylie will be moving from
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dairy program which incorporates
an incentive concept for reducing
milk production, and thereby
reducing the purchases of the
Commodity Credit Corporation.
“We feel farmers who continue
to overproduce excessive amounts
of milk should receive a milk
support price that penalizes them
for ignoring the surplus problem,
one that is substantially lower than
the current $13.10 per hun
dredweight,” Helfnck said.
"Conversely, those farmers who
voluntarily cutback on their base
production should be rewarded for
their efforts and paid a premium
price for their milk. And for those
farmers who maintain a 'status
quo’ production level, a 'status
qup’ price of $13.10 should be paid
for their milk.
Helfnck said his committee does
not favor any price support plan
which will not encourage a
reduction in milk production, the
only sensible answer to the surplus
cheese and butter situation.
in (us closing remarks Helfnck
said, “Pennsylvania’s small dairy
farmers will not be able to absorb a
drop in the price support level and
stay m business without the ad
dition of cows to their herds to
generate the income needed to pay
fixed bills. This defeats the entire
rationale behind the 50-cent tax or
price support cut. ”
Sale
Reports
A Public Sale of farm
machinery and antiques
was held May 21 by
Verba Straub at the
Hehry Straub farm
along Rt. 104, 4 miles
south of Middleburg,
Snyder Co., Pa. There
were over 300 registered
buyers present.
Some prices were:
dry sink $BOO, quilts $125
to $4lO each, amber
carnival rose pitcher
w/7 tumblers $5lO,
tramp comb rack $110,6
plank bottom chairs
with original finish $l5O
each, set of 6 chairs with
original finish $125 each,
wood grain rake $2O,
wood block plane $2l,
Farmall H tractor $775,
N.H. wood saw $220,
apple butter kettle $220,
flour chest w/dough
tray $265 and blanket
chests3oo.
Auctioneer was Earl
W.Eash.
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A Public Sale of
Hereford cattle and
horse equipment was
held May 21 by Lester L.
Gruber, 11 miles west of
Hagerstown, Maryland
before a nice sized
crowd.
Some prices included;
Swab 2 horse wagon
$4OO, Wagon seat $6O,
wagon jack $5O, single
trees to $l2 ea., cherry
seeder $45, harness $3O
per set, teamster whip
$5O, breast chains $9 per
set, shoemakers last
w/10 feet $45 and
yearling Herefords to
$340.
Auctioneers were
John D. and A. Jack
Oowmn.