HARRISBURG - M. James
Brown, President of the Penn
sylvania Fanners Union, an
nounced that Farmers Union plans
to add over 500 new members by
the end of January, 1985. Brown
said, “Membership recruitment
and involvement will be crucial as
we work to draft a 1985 Farm Bill.”
This general farm organization
was founded in 1902. Though it
started in Texas, its strength has
since grown through the Midwest
and as far east as Pennsylvania.
There are now thirty states af
filiated with this grass-roots
organization, with a long history of
successful advocacy on behalf of
the family farm. Some of Farmers
Union’s accomplishments include:
* The promotion of farmer
elected officials to administer
farm programs,
* The establishment of the Rural
Electric Association to bring
electricity to fanners and rural
communities,
• The establishment of the Rural
Telephone program as a part of
REA,
* The promotion of the National
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* The advocacy of Congress to
tighten laws on tax shelter far
ming.
* The promotion of an exclusion
from OSHA regulations for far
mers with fewer than ten em
ployees.
* Cooperation with the dairy
industry to fight the removal of
reconstituted milk from pricing
NEW YORK - Dairy farmers
who supplied milk plants regulated
under the New York-New Jersey
marketing orders during
November will be paid on the basis
of a uniform price of $13.91 per
hundredweight. Market Ad
ministrator Thomas A. Wilson also
stated that the price was $13.83 in
October and $13.63 in November
1983. The uniform price is a
marketwide weighted average of
the value of farm milk used for
fluid and manufactured dairy
products.
The seasonal incentive fund
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under the milk market orders,
* The pressuring of Congress to
defeat the coal slurry pipeline bill.
Brown stated that the Penn
sylvania Farmers Union is very
active in its support for Penn
sylvania agriculture. He pointed
out that the state organization was
instrumental in the development of
a Milk Security Fund to protect
dairymen in cases of dealer
iV.y., N,J, milk $13.91 for November
returned $2,552,665.72 (including
$575,293.63 interest) to the dairy
farmers’ unilorm price for
November, or $.298 per hun
dredweight. The fund was
generated by reducing the uniform
price paid to producers during the
high-production spring months.
A total of 16,751 dairy farmers
supplied the New York-New Jersey
Milk Marketing area with
856,208,591 pounds of milk during
• November. This was a decrease of
4.3 percent (about 39 million
pounds) from last year. The gross
value to dairy farmers for milk
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Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, December 22,1M4-Al9
bankruptcies. The Pennsylvania
Farmers Union also provided
testimony that helped keep the'
Milk Marketing Board alive and
maintained minimum pricing for
milk. He also cited the group’s
lobbying efforts toward respon
sible oil and gas legislation and tax
assessment exclusions for grain
bins and com cribs.
“The Pennsylvania Farmers
deliveries was $123,037,650.53. This
included differentials required to
be paid to dairy farmers but not
voluntary premiums or deductions
authorized by the farmer.
Regulated milk dealers (han
dlers) used 395,939,165 pounds of
milk for Class 1,46.2 percent of the
total. This milk is used for fluid
milk products such as
homogenized, flavored, low test,
and skim milks. For November,
handlers paid $14.89 per hun
dredweight for Class I milk
compared with $14.73 a year ago.
The balance (460,269,426 pounds
Milk production down
HARRISBURG
sylvania’s November 1984 milk
production totaled 753 million
pounds, four percent below last
year’s production, according to the
Pennsylvania Crop and Livestock
Reporting Service.
The number of milk cows in the
commonwealth during November
averaged 735,000 head, 9,000 less
than a year ago. Milk production
per cow averaged 1,0% pounds in
Union supports agriculture by the
local, state and national levels,
with all activities guided by
policies from our membership.
That makes us worth the small
membership fee,” Brown said.
Farmers throughout the state will
be called on to join the group
during December and January in
an effort to build support for a fair
Farm Bill in 1985.
or 53.8 percent) was used to
manufacture Class II products
including butter, cheese, ice
cream, and yogurt. Handlers paid
$12.78 per hundredweight for this
milk.
The uniform price is based on
milk containing 3.5 percent but
terfat. For November 1984, there
was a price differential of 18.2
cents for each one-tenth of one
percent that the milk tested above
or below the 3.5 percent standard.
All prices quoted are for bulk
tank milk received within the 201-
210 milk zone from New York City.
November, down 30 pounds per
cow from a year ago.
Penn-
U.S. milk production during
November totaled 10.6 million
pounds, also four percent less than
in November 1983. Total milk cows
in the United States averaged 10.8
million head, three percent less
than in November 1983. Production
per cow averaged 974 pounds, 11
pounds less than a year earlier.