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Dever reports on Inter-State status at District 11 meeting
BY WENDY WEHR
COCHRANVILLE - Members
of Inter-State Milk Producers’
Cooperative District 11 met
Thursday, January 24, for their
annual dinner meeting, held in
Cochranville. Inter-State Assistant
General Manager Robert Dever
offered a review of 1984 and some
comments about the uncertain
prospects for the dairy industry in
1985.
Also addressing the dairy far
mers was Irish Williams, Director
of Communications for the Middle
Atlantic Milk Marketing Agency.
Elections of officers and delegates
were also held during the annual
meeting.
ector H. Lee Browri, left,
presents an award for five years continuous participation in
the co-op's cost of production study to Richard Buckwalter,
Cochranville.
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Last year represented a year ot
change for Inter-State, said Dever.
The cooperative experienced a 16
million pound drop in milk due to
the diversion program. While this
is a small percentage of the total
volume of milk handled, he added,
the drop followed several years of
unbridled growth in production.
Also during 1984, said Dever,
Inter-State’s largest customer
Abbott’s went bankrupt, leaving
the co-op with a $2.5 million loss.
While this was a serious blow,
every member did get paid,
reassured Dever. How much of
that loss can be recovered is un
certain, but Dever informed the
members that a creditors’ com-
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Inter-State is well represented.
“In 1985,” said Dever, “we do
have to address the supply and
demand question.” While the
President, and Mr. Stockman of
OMB, and the federal government
may want to get out of supporting
the farm program altogether, he
continued, at there very least we
will see some adjustment in the
support price program.
“As long as we’re looking at an
oversupply situation,” cautioned
Dever, “we’ll probably have lower
prices than now.” Increased
consumption may point to a good
long-run outlook, but in the short
run prices will be down.
Dever encouraged the farmer
members to talk to their U.S.
congressmen. Tell them what ag
and the family farm means to you,
what your votes mean to them, and
where you stand on the cost of
production and price of milk,
concluded Dever.
Sharing information with the
Inter-State dairymen about the
Order 4 milk promotion program
was Tnsh Williams of the Middle
Atlantic Milk Marketing Agency.
Inter-State is the largest con
tributor to MAMMA, and 10 of the
agency’s 19 board members are
Inter-State representatives.
Williams outlined the 1985
promotion program and showed
the members a sampling of dairy
advertisements being aired on
television. She reviewed the goals
of the dietary calcium ad cam
paign, which focuses on the health
risks of insufficient calcium in
take, minimum daily calcium
requirements, and dairy products
as the single best source of
calcium.
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Newly elected officers and delegates from the Cochranville
local included (left front) Terry Stauffer and William Parry,
and (left back) Duane Hershey and Harry Troop.
She noted that because the
Middle Atlantic area is a densely
populated consumer market, more
national advertising dollars are
being spent here than are
generated here. MAMMA’S 1985
focus will be on fluid milk ad
vertising, she added, inducting the
“It’s Fitness You Can Drink”
campaign.
Chairing the annual meeting was
Steve Mason, president of the
Oxford local, and presenting
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H. Lee Brown.
Brown presented Richard
Buckwalter with an award for five
years continuous participation in
Inter-State’s cost of production
study. Brown also recognized
Horace Prang, recently retired
Inter-State director.
Terry Stauffer delivered the
delegate’s report, reminding the
members of the history of the
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