A34-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 22,198 C Why the buyout program will work INTERCOURSE Will the herd buyout program work? Theoretically, an Eastern Milk Producers economist told a group of producers at the co-op’s annual informational meeting. Joseph Mathis, Eastern’s Manager of Economics and Government Relations, stated that the buyout’s goal of removing 12 billions pounds of milk from the market can be achieved because it requires participants to stay out of dairying for five years. During the five years of non production which are required, the dairy situation will continue to change drastically. New technology will be available which will have to be incorporated and learned. These advances are ones which would normally be in corporated as they became available on the market. New items such as growth hormones, isoacids, embryo technology, and on-farm ultrafiltration and blanching will be more common. Cropping changes will continue and market conditions may not be attractive due to lower prices and adequate supplies. To return to the business, a participant would have to reinvest in dairy animals and equipment. Present equipment would need rehabilitation or modernization after disuse for five years. These total costs of restarting after a buyout contract expires are ex pected to be high enough to discourage reentry in dairying. In addition, bidders can sup posedly expect to be as well off financially outside of dairying, with the addition of a nonfarm income, as in dairying, said Mathis. That’s why the dairy herd buyout program will work, Mathis explained. The dairy herd buyout or milk termination plan is only one segment of the dairy title of a larger bill known as the Food Security Act of 1985. Mathis went For top quality tobacco, plant with a Holland. The Holland Transplanter sets and spaces your plants just right. Then it adds just enough water, to assure fast, healthy growth. 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This provision gives the secretary of agriculture authority to place up to $lOO million from the Commodity Credit Corporation in an endowment. The interest from the endowment will develop new dairy products and processing techniques. Joseph Mathis, Manager of Economics and Government Relations for Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative. This Act also looks to the future with the creation of the National Commission on Dairy Policy. This Commission will be composed of 18 dairy farm organization leaders who will determine the type of program necessary when the current bill expires in 1990. Mathis also informed the group that the bill provides for the ex tension of the government donation program. The act also creates a dairy export incentive program, which allows the government to sell surplus dairy products to exporters on bid basis in an at tempt to stimulate a commercial export market. After providing details on the dairy herd buyout program, Mathis went on to discuss the InTiqiMwrrA I Model 1302 ■ Two row, with 300 poly tank and canopy segment of the bill Which attempts half will be used by the military to minimize the effect of the buyout ar, d i* l ex P°rt programs, on the other livestock producers. “The entire picture is com- Mathis noted that one buffer is plicated, and will require a good the requirement that the USDA deal of searching before any purchase 400 million pounds of beef decisions are finalized. Mathis above the normal amount. Half of concluded. He suggested that those these purchases will be used for interested in the program contact domestic programs and the other their extension agent or the ASCS office in their area. York extension meeting planned YORK - The 69th annual meeting of the York County Agricultural and Home Economics Extension Service will be held Friday evening, March 14, 1986 at WisehavenHall. 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