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purchases are expected to exceed
10 billion pounds.
• Give the Secretary authority to
increase support payments 50
cents a hundredweight, if surplus
purchases drop to two billion
pounds or less.
• Order the Secretary to com
plete a study of Class I dif
ferentials, giving special attention
to changes in cost of tran
sportation. USDA would also be
required to study the desireability
of establishing a payment limit for
the dairy program.
• Express the “sense of the
Senate” against the imposition of
an assessment on dairy farmers to
finance any program to reduce
production, specifically, a dairy
diversion program.
The House’s version, on the other
hand;
• Creates stand-by diversion
authority. In a program similar to
the one which expired April 1, the
legislation would authorize USDA
to institute a diversion program if
government purchases exceed five
billion pounds equivalent, and
would require a diversion plan if
purchases reached seven billion
pounds. As with the previous
program, producers would be paid
$lO a hundredweight to reduce
their marketings, and would sign a
two-year contract.
• Authorizes a whole-herd
buyout. The Secretary would also
have the authority to accept bids at
other payment rates under a 100-
percent buyout plan.
• Levies an assessment on
producers to fund the diversion
program. Producers would be
required to pay an assessment
sufficient to fund the cost of dairy
programs on all milk produced
above the five-million-pound
surplus level. Current figures
place the assessment at 40 cents a
hundredweight.
• Ties price supports to cost of
production. Each year, the
Secretary of Agriculture would
compute a preliminary support
price, based on changes in cost of
production, as compared to a base
year. If projected government
purchases at this price level are
expected to exceed four billion
Conference underway on 1985 Farm Bill
pounds of milk equivalent, the
Secretary is authorized to reduce
the support figure by 2.6 percent
for every additional one billion
pounds of surplus, up to a
maximum of 7.8 percent. For the
current marketing year, it is
estimated the formula would
produce a support level of about
$11.74 a hundredweight.
• Requires a study of marketing
orders. Within 120 days of the
Yoders, Peachey, Bradstead win Mifflin DHIA awards
LEWISTOWN - Percy S. and R.
Glenn Yoder, Belleville RD, won
High Herd Fat honors, while
Bradstead Farm of Lewistown RD
1 walked away with the High Herd
Milk trophy for Mifflin County’s
DHIA.
The Yoders’ 82 cows averaged
770 pounds of butterfat, while also
producing 19,499 pounds of milk
and 636 pounds of protein.
Bradstead Farm’s 37-cow herd
averaged 21,605 pounds of milk,
also producing 759 pounds of fat
and 663 pounds of protein.
High protein honors went to John
A. Peachey of Mill Creek, whose
55-cow herd averaged 666 pounds
of protein, also recording 21,187
pounds of milk and 765 pounds of
fat.
Other top herds included:
Charles L. Forgy, McVeytown RD
1, 762 pounds of fat; Merle E.
enactment of the legislation, the
Secretary of Agriculture would be
required to raise the differentials
in 33 marketing orders. This
provision, which establishes those
figures by law, is designed to
assure adequate supplies in the
Southeast. The bill also would
permit milk handlers who provide
market-wide service in marketing
orders such as moving milk into
deficit areas to get service
Yoder, Belleville RD2,723 pounds;
Kore E. Yoder, Belleville RD 2,
722; Mark S. Yoder, Belleville RD
1, 721; Joseph E. Kurtz, Belleville
RD 1, 713; Paul J. Zook, Belleville
DOYLESTOWN - Theodore S.
Wilson of Richboro had the leading
herd for the year in the Bucks
County DHIA.
The 50-cow Wilson herd topped
all others in the county in milk
output (20,203 pounds), butterfat
(734 pounds) and protein (645
pounds).
Walter and David Wurster of
Ottsville RD 1 were second in milk
production, with 19,604 pounds,
also averaging 630 pounds of
protein, for runnerup honors in
that category as well.
Richard 0. Smith, New Hope RD
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spreading servicing costs among
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order area.
• Creates a National Dairy
Research Endowment Institute
which would conduct research on
nutritional needs for dairy
products and on ways to develop
new dairy products.
• Authorizes USDA to purchase
an additional 200 million pounds of
meat, whenever a dairy diversion
RD 1, 712; Louis S. Peachey Jr.,
Belleville RD 1,710.
Also, James H. Allison,
Belleville RD, 708; Joshua D.
Yoder, Belleville RD 2, 706;
Bucks honors to Wilson
2, placed second in butterfat
production, with 717 pounds of fat
from his 63 registered Guernseys.
Also averaging more than 700
pounds of fat for the year was the
30-cow herd of Holsteins owned by
J. Howard Roth of Kintnersville
RD 1, which averaged 706.
Other leading herds in butterfat
production were: Harry E
Thompson, Newtown, 699 pounds;
Delaware Valley College,
Doylestown, 698; William and
Eleanor Gunser, Newtown RD 1,
696; Willow Ridge Farm.
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chases, which would be donated to
domestic food assistance
programs, are designed to offset
the effect of the additional num
bers of dairy cows sent to
slaughter.
• Requires that USDA conduct a
study to determine whether im
ports of casein interfere with or
render ineffective the current
price support program.
Marvin K. Kanagy, Belleville RD
1, 705; Sylvanus S. Peachey,
Belleville RD, 701; Kore J.
Peachey, Milroy RD 1, 700; and J.
Loren Yoder, Belleville RD 2,700.
Buckingham, 691; Robert-Donald
Crouse, Riegelsville RD 1, 684;
Raymond Gross, Plumsteadville,
682; George and David Bishop,
Doylestown, 682.
Also, Delaware Valley College,
679; Moyers Village Farm,
Perkasie, 677; Crooked Acres
Dairy, New Hope, 672; Paul L.-
Kevin Bishop, Perkasie, 665;
Breezydale Farms, Yardley, 656;
David R. Wolfinger, Ottsville RD 1,
655; Joe and Linda Ford, Kmt
nersville, 655; and James Pavlica,
Kintnersville, 653.
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