WASHINGTON - “The Grange
is fighting hard in Washington,
D.C. for a dairy program in the
1985 Farm Bill which will provide
stability both for producers and
consumers,” said Edward An
dersen, Master of the National
Grange. He said the dairy program
should reduce present surpluses
and meet the goals of budget
reductions without severe price
cuts or mandatory quota-based
supply controls.
Andersen said these goals could
be met through a series of coor
dinated programs. For example,
the Grange supports the con
tinuation of the Federal Milk
Marketing Order System and a
dairy price support program in
which the Commodity Credit
Corporation (CCC) would pur
chase surplus cheese, butter and
nonfat dry milk at announced
prices.
“The Grange recognizes the
country is faced with a national
surplus of dairy products,” said
the national farm leader, “and we
are recommending a voluntary
standby diversion program with
producers being paid $lO/cwt to
divert between five percent and 30
percent of their production.”
Producers who participated in a
previous diversion program would
be given credit for the amount of
milk they diverted plus an average
production increase of non
participating producers when
figuring their base for purposes of
participating in the new program.
The cost of the program would be
financed by an assessment on
dairy farmers on a per hun
dredweight basis. The Secretary of
Public Auction Register
Closing Date Monday 6 00PM
of each week s publication
JULY
THURS. JULY 25 -11 AM
Hackman Milking Herd
Dispersal; 47 High Grade
Holsteins. Located on
Dean Hill. 3 mis. from
Wellsboro, PA. Take Pearl
St. out of Wellsboro.
Willard G. Hackman.
Herd of Grade
Cows, pick 45 out
of 60, average 61
lbs.
717-354-4374 .
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SALE OF SMALL ITEMS 9:00 A.M.
New customers and out of state buyers must have current bank letter of credit with
guaranteed amount or cashier checks
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listing in the July 27 issue.
Abe Diffenbach, Manager
For more information contact Abe Diffenbach or Norman Kolb at 717-354-4341
NEXT EQUIPMENT SALE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
Grange backs standby dairy diversion plan
Agriculture should have some
discretionary authority to ad
minister the diversion and/or
assessment program apportioned
on the basis of geography in order
to recognize present regional
successes in reducing current milk
production and to avert severe
shortages of milk in local market
areas.
To establish C.C.C. purchase
prices, the Grange supports
replacing the parity formula with a
new dairy pricing index which
would take into account cost of
production and increases in dairy
NEW YORK, NY. - Dairy
farmers who supplied milk plants
regulated under the New York-
New Jersey marketing orders
during June 1985 will be paid on the
basis of a uniform price of $11.47
per hundredweight (24.7 cents per
quart).
Market Administrator Thomas
A. Wilson also stated that the price
was $11.78 in May 1985 and $12.2? in
June 1984. The uniformprice is a
marketwide weighted average of
the value of farm milk used for
fluid and manufactured dairy
products.
The seasonal incentive plan
removed $.40 per hundredweight
from the June uniform price, a
total of $4,112,312.62. Deductions
for March through June 19085
aggregated $13,476,710.97. The
fund, plus interest, will be
distributed in the August through
November uniform price
calculations.
Owner. Arlow Kiehl, Auct
Gordon Wood, Sale Mgr.
FRI JULY 26 - 12 Noon
Dairy Sale Penns Valley
Livestock Auction, Centre
Hall, PA. Ron Gilhgan,
Auct
SAT. JULY 27 - 9 30AM
Public Auction of Farm
Eq„ Riding Mowers, Air
Compressor, Car, Tools,
Hshld., Antiques. Located
alors Rt. 443, 3 mis. W. of
Lehighton; 7 mis. E. of Rt.
309. Sale held at former
McCall farm. Sale by:
Gene Duringan. Curt,
Doug, & Tim Houser,
Aucts.
SAT JULY 27 -10 AM 3rd
New Holland Sales Stables, Inc.
New HoIImI, Pa.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2,1985
cow productivity. The Grange also
wants a separate supply-demand
adjuster index to give the
Secretary of Agriculture the
discretion to raise or lower C.C.C.
purchase prices within a predic
table range based on estimated
purchases for the coming year.
under present conditions at in-
The Grange is opposing current- creased costs to dairy farmers and
legislative proposals to amend , differential price adjustments
several Federal Market Order WO uld be redundant if current
Class I (fluid milk) transportation market pool and transportation
differential prices. Andersen said proposals, which the Grange
the Grange opposes the proposals support are used instead to meet
for three ®»ns;
June Order 2 price $11.47
June’s uniform price was
lowered $.05 per hundredweight
because $467,348.76 less was
available in unreserved cash from
the May 1985 pool. Failure of
Northeast Dairy Cooperative
Federation, Inc. to pay its pool
obligation for May accounted for
this shortage.
A total of 16,487 dairy farmers
supplied the New York-New Jersey
Milk Marketing Area with
1,028,078,155 pounds of milk during
June 1985, an increase of 3.2 per
cent (about 32 million pounds)
from last year. The gross value to
dairy farmers was $119,235,428.03.
This included differentials
required to be paid to dairy far
mers but not voluntary premiums
or deductions authorized by the
farmer.
Regulated milk dealers (han
dlers) used 364,106,799 pounds of
milk for Class I, 35.4 percent of the
total. This milk is used for fluid
milk products such as
Annual Southern Tier
Mennonite Relief Sale.
Located Steuben Co.
Fairgrounds, Bath, NY
50 Hand Stitched Quilts
PIRRUNG AUC
TIONEERS, INC.
SAT. JULY 27 - 9AM
Public Auction of Garage
Eq. & Tools. Located in
Chadds Ford, 1 mi. S. of
Rt. 202 and Rt. 1 in
tersection of Baltimore
Pike. Terms by; Robert &
Susanna Griffeth. Horning
Farm Agency, Inc.: Alvin
Horning. Auct.
Mach., 3 tractors. Trucks,
SAT. JULY 27 - 9:3OAM Produce, Etc. Located
Public Auction of Car- Klines Truck Drive, along
Knter Tools & Lumber. Rt. 254, 2 mis. E. of
cated along Cold Run Millville, PA; 12 mis. N. of
Rd. just E. of Rt. 82 in Bloomsburg. Columbia
Geigertown, Berks Co. Co. Owner- Douglas
Terms by: Albert A. Morns. Fraley Auction
Stallone, Executor. .Estate Co.,Aucts.
' FARM EQUIPMENT 10:00 A.M.
of Joseph B. Zeiders
Elton Horning Farm
Agency Elton Horning &
Rodney Horning, Aucts.
SAT. JULY 27 -11 AM
Short Notice Farm Eq.
Auct. Located Helen
Crouse residence. From
897 E. of Kleinfeltersville
take first road left to T
then left to sale site.
Conditions by; Lawrence
J. Mays. G. Harvey Weik,
Auct.
SAT. JULY 27 - HAM
Public Auction of Farm
• market orders should not be
amended legislatively;
• current projections show that
adjusting the differential prices at
this time could cause an increase
in milk production by up to two
billion pounds annually, all of
which would have to be diverted
Dairy Marketing
homogenized, flavored, low test, milk.
and skim milks. For June 1985, The uniform price is based on
handlers paid $13.87 per him- milk containing 3.5 percent but
dredweight (29.8 cents per quart) terfat. For June 1985, there was a
for Class I milk compared with price differential of 16.3 cents for
$14.32 a year ago. each one-tenth of one percent that
The balance (663,971,356 pounds the milk tested above or below the
or 64.6 percent) was used to 3.5 percent standard.
manufacture Class II products »„ • . . „
including butter, cheese, ice t k quo^ d ar K e { °F
cream, and yogurt. Handlers paid Smnp?„nffrn N Wt v"
*ll 09 ppr hundredweight for this 210 mile zone from New York City.
USDA working on viruses
to control grasshoppers
WASHINGTON - Viruses that
kill grasshoppers may someday be
a new control for this insect pest
now on a rampage in the West, a
U.S. Department of Agriculture
researcher said today.
“Seven viruses from overseas
look promising for grasshopper
control in North America,” said
John E. Henry, an entomologist
with USDA’s Agricultural
Research Service. They are en
tomopox viruses that cause
diseases, or poses, in grasshoppers
but not in humans and livestock.
“We want to find viruses that
would be a natural plague for
grasshoppers and only
grasshoppers,” he said.
Ideally, the viruses would be
ones that continue to infect suc
ceeding generations of
grasshoppers, said Henry, who
works at the Rangeland Insect
Laboratory, Bozeman, Mont. One
application might last several
years, he added, and could prevent
crop losses and damage to
rangelands.
He said hot and dry weather
conditions in the West have upset a
delicate balance m which
naturally-occurring diseases keep
grasshopper numbers fairly
stable. Grasshoppers thrive in this
weather, he added, and are
reproducing faster than their
natural diseases can infect them.
Secretary of Agriculture John R.
Block recently declared an
emergency to make an additional
$l5 million available to help
control grasshoppers, bringing this
year’s federal commitment to $25
million. So far, Idaho and Utah are
the hardest hit of 13 infested states.
Canada’s Alberta and Saskat-
Fisher to host
LANCASTER - A dairy goat
field day will be held Saturday,
July 20, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at
the home of Jacob Fisher, Windy
Hill Goat Dairy, Manheim. Anyone
interested in dairy goats is invited
to attend.
There will be demonstrations on
a variety of topics such as-hoof
trimming, dehorning, clipping,
deworming, etc. Milking, milk
handling and mastitis will be
discussed. There will be an op
the problems of milk-deficient
areas.
Andersen said the Grange is
strongly in favor of changing the
tariff classification of imported
dairy proteins (caseins) to a dairy
product from an industrial
chemical and limiting casein
imports to 50 percent of current
levels. He said imported caseins
used in imitation dairy products
displace genuine dairy products in
domestic markets and materially
interfere with price support
programs.
chewan provinces also are suf
fering severe damage.
“Chemical controls are effective
in knocking down grasshopper
populations in a hurry, but the
question is whether we can find
acceptable, long-term natural
controls that will suppress
populations below damaging
levels,” said Robert D. Jackson,
the agency’s national program
leader for research on insects.
Henry thinks viruses may be the
most promising new control
strategy.
“During a typical grasshopper
outbreak, six to 10 grasshopper
species predominate. Each is
slightly different and reacts to
viruses in different ways. Ideal
viruses would infect all
grasshopper species that are
pests,” said Henry.
Because he hasn’t found any
native viruses that are virulent
enough among the more than 600
species of grasshoppers in this
country, he is now sorting and
classifying ones he collected
worldwide.
Of the seven entomopox viruses
identified as promising can
didates, Henry has tested one on a
10-acre test plot and found “results
worth pursuing.” He is continuing
his studies this summer.
Henry and coworkers at the
Montana State University
laboratory also are researching
the basic science of grasshopper
viruses. They say they may need to
know the genetic structure of the
viruses should modification be
necessary to make them more
infectious among the many
grasshopper subfamilies.
goat field day
portunity to ask veterinary-related
questions.
Guests are invited to bring:
chairs, folding tables, and cold
drinks, plus recipes and samples of
their favorite dairy goat products
to share with other guests. Sam
ples of hay and “poisonous” weeds
are also welcome; they’ll be used
for discussion purposes.
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