Jersey Breeders Seek To Market Their Milk On A High Solids Basis
BY GINGER SECRIST MYERS
Adams Co. Correspondent
SHIPPENSBURG - Milk
marketing and young sire sam
pling were the major topics of
discussion at the Cumberland
Valley Jersey Breeders’ Annual
Chicken Barbecue held Sept. 6 at
the Shippensburg Fairgrounds.
Thirty-five members and their
families gathered to enjoy the
meal and to hear the featured
speaker, Dennis Erpelding,
marketing specialist with National
All-Jersey, Inc., Columbus, Ohio.
For the last 18 months, Er
pelding has worked to market the
approximately 50,000 pounds of
Jersey milk produced by the group
on a high-solids basis. He opened
his discussion stating, “We are
talking here about how to get you a
better milk market. That means
getting you the most dollars in
your milkcheck.” Reporting on his
progress, he told the group that he
received viable offers from two
groups Eastern Milk Producers
Cooperative, Syracuse, N.Y. and
Jefferson Cheese Co., Hagerstown,
Md.
Eastern’s proposal includes 6
cents per point over 3.3 percent
protein and 10 cents per hun
dredweight for milk with less than
350,000 SSC, under 25,000 plate
count, and a freezing point
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minimum of 4.2. The protein
payments ties directly to the
quality bonus. Failure to meet all
the criteria for the quality bonus
also results in a lose of the protein
payment. Membership fees to the
co-op would average 21 cents per
hundredweight shipped.
Jefferson Cheese is considering
a different protein program.
Jefferson, who needs milk now that
supplies are down, will need to
structure the best program
available in the area to attract
shippers, according to Erpelding.
The proposal under con
sideration by Jefferson Cheese
includes a Class 111 price of $ll.ll,
a 16.5 cent fat differential, and a
protein program of 15 cents per
point. Their quality program
would be independent of the
protein payment.
Since the groups desires to
market their milk as a block, and
each producer is tied to other co
ops by different anniversary dates,
Erpelding outlined a procedure by
which each producer could join the
Equity Co-op. The Equity Co-op,
which is operational in other parts
of the country, would be organized
here as a local and run by local
membership. It would serve as the
marketing agent for the entire
block of milk.
The group plans to proceed with
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a detailed comparison of the two
proposals and a decision will be
made at a later meeting.
On the national scene, Erpelding
told the group that the Reagan
Administration adamently opposes
any kind of supply management or
quota system. So much so that they
have refused to call an Order
Meeting in the Northwest so as to
prevent any discussion on these
topics.
While the next Gramm-Rudman
deductions are scheduled for Oct.
1, Erpelding is leery of any drastic
cut in the support price due to the
political ramifications to the
Republicans in the Senate.
However, he predicted that the 60
to 80 cent assessment would be
deducted on that date.
On the brighter side, Erpelding
reported that cheese and butter
prices should continue to rise for
the next several months. He noted
that the drought in the South has
strengthened their markets and
that milk is now being hauled into
that area from the Mid-West.
A short business meeting
followed Erpelding’s presentation.
The discussion focused on
Liberty Jersey Sires, a duly
organized cooperative of owners of
Jersey cattle. Its objective is to
cooperatively sample and prove
additional young Jersey sires in
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order to provide genetic material
for the continued improvement of
the Jersey breed. There are 24
participating herds in the
program.
Bill Dietrich, Cumberland
Valley Jersey Breeders president,
breeders to attend two
August Milk Set At $12,67
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Middle
Atlantic Order Market Ad
ministrator Joseph D. Shine an
nounced an August 1986 base milk
price of $12.67 per hundredweight
and an excess milk price of $11.35.
The weighted average August
price was $12.66 and the butterfat
differential for the month was 17.7
cents.
The base milk price was up 21
cents from July and was 13 cents
higher than late August. The
weighted average price was up 21
cents from July and was 20 cents
higher than a year earlier. The
gross value of August producer
milk was $67.0 million, compared
to |65.8 million a year ago.
Shine said that producer receipts
totaled 531.3 million pounds during
August, an increase of 2.3 million
pounds from late August, and the
average daily delivery of 2,620
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upcoming events the general
membership meeting of US on
Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 1 p.m. in
Room B of the Farm Show Com
plex, and the Pennsylvania State
Jersey Sale scheduled for 6 p.m. on
the same day-in the small arena.
pounds per producer increased 73
pounds or 2.9 percent from a year
earlier.
Class I producer milk totaled
242.7 million pounds and was up 6.2
million pounds or 2.6 percent from
last August. Class I milk accounted
for 45.67 percent of total producer
milk receipts during the month,
compared with 44.71 percent in
August 1985. Base milk accounted
for 91.85 percent of total producer
milk receipts in August compared
with 88.24 percent last year. The
average butterfat test of producer
milk was 3.48 percent, unchanged
from last August.
Middle Atlantic Order pool
handlers reported Class I in-area
milk sales of 201.5 million pounds
during August, an increase of 2.1
percent from a year earlier after
adjustment to eliminate variation
due to calendar composition.
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