Dairy Policy Options
(Continued from Page A 36)
Problems, Goals, and Policies
for the Future
Due to lower production and
higher consumption, USDA net
purchases and government costs
were lower in 1964 than 1983.
Nevertheless both measures of the
dairy problem are at high levels.
Prospect for 1985 are that net
removals will at best stay at the
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1984 level. The closer supply
demand balance is clearly an
improvement, but it is also clear
that current policies have not
solved the short-run nor the long
run problems facing the dairy
industry.
Any number of policy options are
available and several will be
seriously advanced during 1985.
Some people will support a price
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In the following leaflets, several
dairy policies are discussed. They
are different not only in the way
they work but, more importantly,
in what they seek to accomplish.
Policy goals are neither right nor
wrong; they are based on in
dividual or shared values and
beliefs. Likewise policy options are
neither good nor bad unless they
are judged by a set of policy goals.
The challenge before policy
makers in 1985 will be to resist the
temptation to legislate another
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to be discussed
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meetings have been scheduled for
Thursday and Friday to explain a
proposed Pseudorabies (PRV)
eradication program drafted by
members of a special pork in
dustry PRV committee.
The committee, formed several
months ago by members of the
Pennsylvania Pork Producers
Council, hopes to free Penn
sylvania swine herds of this
dangerous virus that is currently
responsible for the quarantine of
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persistent short-run problems, but
which fails to face the long-run
issues.
Will dairy policy in 1985 seek
primarily to preserve and protect
dairy farm interests as they exist
today, or will it sacrifice a
measure of individual protection to
promote a greater flexibility and
adaptability to the technological
and economic changes that will
buffet and challenge the dairy
industry as it approaches the 21st
century?
some 30 swine units, located
primarily in Lancaster County.
Two meetings are scheduled for
Thursday, April 11; one at 2 p.m. at
the Penryn Fireball along Newport
Road, and another at the Lan
caster Farm and Home Center at 7
p.m. A third meeting will take
place on Friday, April 12, at the
Earl Township Building on Huyard
Road at 10:30 a.m.
Swine producers,
agribusinessmen and all other
interested persons are urged to
attend.
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