Lehigh marketings increase 8.6 percent in ‘B5
BY KATHY E. GILL ■ dredweight. Member equity
Staff Correspondent certificates total $5,631,559 for a
LANCASTER Lehigh Valley six-year period.
Farmers marketed 954 million Stout attributed the good year
pounds of milk in fiscaHl9B6, an partially to a two percent decrease
increase of 8.6 percent over fiscal in operating costs. He commented
1985, General Manager William M. that the effort to obtain over-order
Stout told producers and guests at pricing through the Regional
the cooperative’s sixth annual Cooperative Marketing
meeting here Wednesday! Association (RCMA) has been
Tying his remarks around the stymied because “independent
theme “New Horizons,” Stout said farmers are slow to participate.”
that Lehigh farmer-owners Treasurer Robert R. Gehman
received $768,000 in quality presented the unaudited finan
premiums in fiscal 1986 and dais, which showed a net margin
another $340,000 in other bonus of $2.68 million. He reported that
payments. In the last five years, Lehigh Valley Farmers owns 73
producers have received $4 million percent of the assets of Atlantic
in premiums and bonuses, he said. Processing, Inc. (API), totalling
Patronage is being returned this $9,984,000 in equity,
year on a cash and certificate Pennsylvania Agriculture
basis: cash at 3.6 cents and cer- Secretary Richard Grubb was the
tificates at 14.4 cents per hun- guest speaker at the annual lun-
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cheon, held in the Cabaret Room of
the Host Farm in Lancaster. In an
optimistic address, Grubb ap
plauded the “more market
oriented” approach of the 1985
Farm Bill and predicted that land
prices have bottomed out.
In admitting that all is not roses,
he said, “The debt load of the
average Pennsylvania farmer is
significantly lower than that of
those in neighboring states.
However, cash flow is a problem
for many Pennsylvania farmers.”
“It doesn’t take an economist to
compare” the prices paid and
prices received by farmers to
realize that there is a problem, he
said, however. From 1977-84,
prices paid by farmers increased
64 percent; prices received in
creased 27 percent.
He reminded the audience that
LANCASTER - National Milk
Producers Federation staff
member John Adams suggested
the current milk contamination
and scare in Arkansas and bor
dering states be a lesson to dairy
farmers across the country.
“You must learn to be aware of
what you are purchasing, whether
it is feed or seed. You need some
assurance that the product is free
of contaminants. If you cannot get
such an assurance, then don’t buy
the product,” he admonished.
Adams’ comments were in
reference to a nationally-breaking
news story which told of 60 plus
dairv farms which have been af-
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Keystone Mills Sow Feeder Meeting
March 26,1986, Leola Family Restaurant
8:30 a.m.-
9:00 a.m.-
The Keystone Mills Hog Dept., David Snyder,
Steve Foreman, Jay M. Weaver, Gene Weaver
since 1980, agriculture has been the
leading economic sector of the
Commonwealth, led in part by the
state’s fifth ranking in dairy, first
ranking in mushrooms, and third
ranking in egg production.
He closed with a plug for Penn
State’s first “Future In
Agriculture” conference slated for
March 19-20 at the Harrisburg
Holiday Inn.
Also at the luncheon, President
Alpheus Ruth recognized District 7
director Earl Reighard, who has
sold his farm and retired from the
board after nine years of service.
He has been replaced by Robert
Nearhoof, Sr. of Hundingdon
County.
At the close of the afternoon
session, several Lehigh farmer
owners were recognized for
producing quality milk.
Milk scare can be a lesson
BY KATHY E. GILL
Staff Correspondent
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 15,
fected by a contamination with
heptachlor.
The affected farmers apparently
purchased mash from a gasahol
plant, Adams said. The plant’s
owner had processed seed corn and
other distressed com, some of
which had been treated. The
chemical was present in the mash
and was passed on through the food
chain to the milk.
The dairy farms shipped their
milk to a Little Rock, Arkansas
plant, which distributes
throughout the mid-West.
It will take' six months for the
dairies to milk out the chemical,
Adams said. NMPF is attempting
to obtain indemnification monies
for the farmers.
to the
AGENDA
Thank You,
Alpheus L