AIS-Lancastcr Farming, Saturday, March 23,1985
READING - The U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture’s milk
diversion program entered its 15th
and final month on March 1,1985.
The voluntary program offered
dairy producers and incentive
payment of $lO per hundredweight
for reducing their commercial
milk sales from 5 to 30 percent
between January 1, 1984 and
March 31,1985.
Diversion payments were made
to eligible milk producers after
each quarter of the contract
period, Donald E. Lutz, chairman
of the Berks County ASC Com
mittee said. Payments to Berks
County’s dairy fanners totaled
$550,960.00 at the end of the 4th
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Milk diversion program enters final month
quarter. For the final payment,
program participants are required
to provide acceptable evidence of
total milk marketings for the
entire contract period, and certify
that their marketing reductions
were not offset by expansion of
production in other facilities in
which they had an interest.
In this, the final month of the
program, Mr. Lutz said contracted
dairy producers should make sure
that they do not market more milk
than is allowed by their contract.
To qualify for diversion payments,
a producer must limit milk
marketings on a contracted unit to
the difference between the
established base for the unit and
the contracted reduction level for
the unit. In addition, if a producer
has an interest in an uncontracted
unit, the milk marketings on the
uncontracted unit are also limited
by milk marketings on the un
contracted unit during the period
December 1, 1982 and November
30, 1983. Milk is considered
marketed when it is disposed of in
raw or processed form, by
voluntary or involuntary sale,
barter or exchange or by gift.
According to Lutz, 34 dairy
■Trademark, Shell Chemical Company
producers in Berks County par
ticipated in the program and
contracted to reduce their fluid
milk output by 7,406,600 pounds. To
achieve the required reduction in
mUk sales, the farmers enrolled
1,195,503 hundredweight of their
milk bases and diverted 55,459
hundredweight.
The ASCS official said dairy
producers may apply for their
incentive payment in April, after
they recceive their final sales
receipt for all milk marketed in
March, 1985.
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