Cornell Conference To Explore Pros and Cons of Milk Quotas ITHACA, N.Y. - The pros and cons of establishing a nationwide mandatory milk quota system for the U.S. dairy industry to curb chronic milk surpluses and to improve prices for farmers will be debated in Syracuse on Nov. 13. The debate will be part of the day-long Cornell Conference on Supply Management Programs for the Dairy Industry at the Sheraton Inn on Electronics Parkway beginning at 10 a.m. David L. Call, dean of the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, which is sponsoring the conference, will make welcoming remarks. Speaking for establishment of a milk quota program will be Ronald Knutson, a professor of agricultural economics from ili iil B :hambersburg Skinner A Walton Dairy Service Raymond Skinnar Gary Walton 717-352-7606 COCHRANVILLE Farm Construction A Equipment Robert L. Janney 215-593-2365 Mewwilmingtoi Chuck Moose, Inc. ♦l2-533-3077 Texas A and M University. Op posing views will be given by Bernard F. Stanton, a professor of agricultural economics at Cornell. Conference participants also will examine various aspects of quota systems, including the past, present and future directions of dairy policy, considerations in the design and implementation of a national compulsory supply management program, potential impacts of quota systems on economic efficiency and equity among dairy farmers. Cornell University agricultural economist Harry M. Kaiser, who is organizing. the conference, said that intense grassroots interest in alternative forms of supply management for the nation’s dairy industry has been developing over Westfafig Milking ■INBURI Wahr’s Dairy Equipment Mark Wohr 717-966-1396 MT. BETHEL K.C. Dairy Service Kevin Correll 717-897-5141 LEOLA Fisher A Thompson, Inc. Amos Fisher Rick Thompson 717-656-3307 Equipment And Computer Sales Centers iPARTANSBURi Brennor Dairy Equipmont Abort Brenner 814-654-7309 PA Dairy Automation Service, Inc. Mba Wright 412-538-FARM TROY Dairyland Sales A Service Jim Kelley 717-297-4128 the last several years. “Most notable among such programs is a national mandatory milk quota system,” Kaiser said. “If such a system is adopted, it would create tremendous changes and would have significant ramifications on all segments of the dairy economy.” Public interest in mandatory supply management or production quota programs has been rising because of fears that the burgeoning surpluses of dairy products, high costs of removing surpluses under the federal price support program and declining prices for producers will persist, according to Kaiser. “Some people are also con cerned that our experiments with ‘voluntary’ forms of supply A New Way Mf' pi f WESTFALIA OXFORD Langanackar iMptaimnt W k I Dairy Salt* WILLIAI Dal* Longaiwckar 814-793-3731 Williams Farm Systams Dav* Williams 717-398-2692 HAMBURG Shartlasvill* Farm Sarvic* Dal* Wong*r 215-488-1025 NEW MILFORD S*ga’s Dairy Service 717-465-7506 management such as the recent federal whole-herd buyout and milk diversion programs are merely a band-aid approach to the problems facing the dairy in dustry,” he said. Supporters of a national man datory quota system point to similar systems adopted in other countries such as Canada and members of the European Com munity as success stories that could be repeated in the United States, according to Kaiser. m lip HI lil; B Sisss| Kjlv. to Better Milking -J/\ f A f fen »AIR\ I I ly*V \ M AIR SrSTEMAT. Bill Guhl 717-529-2569 lAGERSTOWN. MD Trl-Stat* Farm Automation 301-790-3698 iYKESVILLE. MD Dairyman Inc. Mid-Atlantic Division William Stairffar 301-795-2727 301-781-7020 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 1,1986-A25 “But the mechanics and im plications of milk quota systems in effect in those countries are poorly understood,” he said. “The structure of the dairy industry as well as social and political in stitutions are quite different in these countries.” For more information about the conference program and registration, contact Harry Kaiser, Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 14850 or at (607) 255-1598. 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