LOCK HAVEN - The Penn
sylvania Farmers Union Dairy
Committee under the leadership of
William Sturges at their pre
convention meeting in Lock Haven
recently made the following
recommendations for the delegate
body and board of directors to con
sider concerning the future of the
American dairy industry.
They determine that federal
milk orders and price supports are
still needed to continue to stabilize
the dairy industry for the benefit of
both farmers and consumers.
If the milk marketing orders and
supports were eliminated the fluc
tuation of price and milk supply
would disrupt the entire milk in
dustry and force many farmers
and handlers into bankruptcy.
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PFU favors continued milk price supports
The following changes in
marketing orders and price sup
port programs were recommend
ed:
1. More uniform prices
nationwide.
2. Eliminate pockets of non
market order areas.
3. Change orders into a base
surplus program.
4. Establish national uniform
payment dates.
5. Uniformly reduce the length of
the payment period, such as
establish two 10 day advance
payments prior to final
settlement.
6. Restrict imports of dairy pro
ducts that help create
American surpluses.
7. Update (increase) zone
STATE
differentials to more
realistically reflect current
transportation costs.
The Pennsylvania Farmers
Union Dairy Committee also decid
ed that classified pricing and pool
ing are still needed and that the
milk marketing order price should
be the effective floor or minimum
price only. The Dairy Committee
also recommended that methods to
speed up the process of making
changes in milk marketing orders
be explored.
Sturges noted that Class I dif
ferentials are necessary to make
the costs of marketing milk
uniform across the country and
should be maintained and updated.
The costs of moving milk from one
order to another needs to be
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recognized in the pricing system to
remove regional inequities in price
support programs. The ap
propriate objective is price
stabilization and not income
enhancement.
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price support level goals should be
100% of parity and that parity
goals can best be achieved by a
base-surplus production plan and
not by the present government pur
chase programs.