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BY ROBIN PHILLIPS
Staff Correspondent
COLUMBUS, Oh. - In a
renewed effort to initiate
legislation that would enforce
higher minimum standards for
milk and a fair pricing system to
dairymen producers, the
American Jersey Cattle Club has
launched a nationwide campaign
to include all dairymen.
Aimed at starting with the
“grass roots”, this “new kind of
PAC (Political Action Committee)
seeks to implement a healthier
milk market and a better, more
uniform milk for the consumer.
Stating that the committee is
open to anyone interested in a
better milk market and an im
proved product, Guy Crews,
assistant secretary, National All-
Jersey, Inc., advocates these
policies as a possible solution to the
current dairy crisis.
“We’re trying to reach people
that will really do something
call their legislature,” he stated.
The American Jersey Cattle
Club has developed literature and
research on these two issues.
Anyone interested in lending their
support can contact the AJCC at
614-861-3636, or write P.O. Box
27310, Columbus, Ohio 43227. More
information will be sent and a list
of congressman and addresses will
be included.
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milk standards campaign launched
The case for higher minimum
standards and component pricing
is not a new one. In 1972, Dr. James
Devero, research associate,
United Dairy Industry Association
reported:
“It is well established that the
additions of solids-not-fat (SNF)
will improve the flavor and con
sumer acceptance of milk
beverages.”
In 1983, AMPI did a consumer
milk preference survey at the Food
and Fitness Fair in Washington,
D.C. Three out of five people
surveyed preferred the taste of
milk at higher standards over its
counterpart at current standards.
Almost all said they would be
willing to spend a few cents more
per half-gallon to purchase it.
In their campaign to have
dairymen and consumers write to
their congressmen to support
higher standards, the American
Jersey Cattle Club asserts that the
consumer deserves a certain kind
of milk.
“The consumer deserves a
uniform product of excellent
nutritional composition,” it states.
According to a report by Grant
Grayson, Federal Milk Market
Administrator, there is a
significant lack of uniformity of
milks offered for sale to consumers
by 73 handlers in 11 Federal Order
milk markets. Fifty-nine percent
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were evaluated failed to meet the
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labeled “fortified” were not for
tified at all.
“And yet,” stated a spokesman
from the AJCC, “the consumer is
led to believe that milk is milk - it’s
all alike. Consumers deserve to
know more about the extreme
variations in the nutritional con
tent of milks. They deserve to have
regulatory guarantee that certain
minimum nutrition standards will
be met by all milk products.”
The terms - component pricing,
end-product pricing, protein
pricing, solids-not-fat pricing, etc.
- all are designation of a milk
pricing system that relates
producer milk values to the sales
value of product made from this
milk. Component pricing will
spotlight and give pricing em
phasis to those milk constituents
which lend most to flavor and
nutrition. It will send up a signal to
producers of milk since it will price
milk on true values instead of
quantity. It will send a signal to
processors that they too are
responsible to provide a more
nutritious, more uniform product
to consumers.
“The opponents of component
pricing and minimum standards
contend that consumer prices must
go up if these changes are in-
CHAMBERSBURG - The South
Central Regional Fitting ' and
Showmanship Workshop, spon
sored by the Pa. Junior Guernsey
Breeders’ Association in
cooperation with the Franklin
County Extension Service, is
scheduled for June 11 and 12 at the
Stuppensburg Fairgrounds.
The two-day event is open to any
youth who has a dairy project,
regardless of breed affiliation.
Participants will be shown how to
clip, trim hooves, wash their show
animals, learn skills of
showmanship and how to prepare
the show box.
Demonstrations will be set up so
that each participant works with a
calf under trained supervision. The
programs will be presented by
outstanding dairy showmen and
fitters.
troduced. In markets where the
nutritional qualities of milk are
low, this could happen. But, the
real truth is that the consumer
would be getting honest value in
milk products for the first time,”
the AJCC explains. '
The case of the AJCC is this:
1. A form of pricing must be
instituted that reflects the true
value of the product which
dairymen bring to the market
place.
2. There must be a fair
distribution of monies among
producers that reflects the real
market value of their individual
products.
3. There would be no incentive
for adulteration. The incentive
would be there for dairymen to
produce a more tasty and
nutritious product.
4. No other pricing system under
consideration provides advantage
for both producers of quality milk
and consumers who have shown
their desire for a more flavorable,
more nutritious product.
The National Milk Producers
Association, AMPI, Mid-America,
The National Farm Bureau,
several individual co-opssuch as
Dairylea and others (by published
resolution) now stand in support of
both these propositions.
Two congressional represen
tatives, Boxer and Harkin, have
introduced bills to raise standards.
Two states, Illinois and Wisconsin,
are dealing with legislation which
would raise standards. The
Federal Order Market Ad
ministrator has a task force
studying a system of component
pricing. Knowledgeable breeders
of any persuasion are recognizing
the need for both these changes.
What the American Jersey
Guernsey breeders to
sponsor regional workshop
Cattle Club encourages all
dairymen to do is;
1. If a bill is introduced in your
state legislature to raise milk
standards, let your represen
tatives know of your interest and
support.
2. Let your co-op leadership
know of your personal concern and
support.
3. Write or call your
congressman (a list is available
from the AJCC) and tell them that
you support the higher standards
bills already before them. (Boxer
HR 3178 and Harkin HE 4441).
4. Write the Food and Drug
Administration and tell them that
you want standards raised, (ad
dress. 5600 Fishers Lane, Rock
ville, Md. 20852.)
5. Write the Secretary of
Agriculture and tell him the same
story. (The Honorable John R.
Block, Dept, of Agriculture, The
Mall between 12th and 14th streets,
Washington DC 20250.)
6. Write the National Milk
Producers Federation and tell
them the same, (NMPF, 1840
Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Va.
22201).
7. Write the Milk Industry
Foundation and express your
displeasure at its opposition to
higher milk standards and its
opposition to standardization of
milk taste and quality to dilute
your 15 cents contribution to
national advertising. (MIF, 888
Sixteenth St., NW, Washington DC
20006).
8. Tell friends, neighbors, club
members, nutritionists, food
editors, anyone, of your position.
“Your reward will be a healthier
milk market and a better, more
uniform milk for the consumer,”
concludes the AJCC.
Registration begins at 2 p.m.,
June 11, followed by group fitting
and showing demonstrations,
evening supper, sports activities, a
movie and a campout. Tuesday’s
program will include individual
work on each calf and lunch
followed by a Fitting and Showing
Contest at 12:30.
The workshop will conclude with
the Fitting and Showing contest,
and awards will be presented.
Families are invited to attend the
evening meal June 11, the luncheon
on June 12 and the Fitting and
Showing contest.
Registration deadline is June 1.
For additional information and
registration forms, please contact
the Pa. Junior Guernsey Breeders’
Association, 3107 Sollenberger
Drive, Chambersburg, Pa. 17201.
The phone number is 717-263-3367.