RCMA Letter
(Continued from Page Al)
chairman, visited the Lancaster
Fanning office Wednesday to
layout the newest effort in the
ongoing RCMA effort. Ninety-five
percent of all northeast dairymen
must join the program so RCMA
can ask the market for more than
the minimum price set by the
government for Class I milk. This
additional price will be asked when
favorable market conditions allow
such a move. But everyone must
be involved so some independent
handlers are not put to a disad
vantage. It’s obvious that if one
handler must pay more for milk
than the competition, the higher
paying handling will be at a
disadvantage, and the program
will not work. The only way far
mers can get the extra money for
the milk that the market conditions
allow is by having everyone in
volved. Join together and ask
every handler for the same extra
price. That’s the purpose of
RCMA.
The government sets the
minimum price farmers get for
their milk. To get more than this
minimum price when market
conditions allow a better price,
farmers can go to RCMA. They can
do this as individuals or through
their milk cooperative, who will do
it for members. When these
market conditions allow it, ECMA
goes to the bottlers for an extra
IR'S PROGRAM
PROD!
Thursday, February 19
Main Ballroom
8:00 a.m. Registration - Doors open
to Trade Show
lesslon:
Chairman -
Kannath Kaphart
9:50 a.m. Hog Market Outlook
H. Louis Moore
10:45 a.m. Management to Obtain
Future Profits
Art Leman
11:30 a.m. NPPC Programs, National
Pork Council Representative
Afternoon Session;
Chairman -
Clyde Myars
1:30 p.m. A Practical and Painless
Record-Keeping Approach
Michael Miller
2:00 p.m. Is Dust a Hazzard in Hog
Houses?
Daniel Meyer
2:30 p.m. Will a Producer-Owned
Packing Plant Work?
Eric Wowra
3:30 p.m. Ask the Specialist
Kenneth Kephart
Daniel Meyer
Michael Miller
CONGRESS BANQUET - February 19.6:00 p.m.
Master of Ceremonies
Speaker
Speaker sponsored in part by Pfizer, Inc.
MichaelH.Firestine AfA ¥ - «r n
vice president Uo Lebanon Valley
Sr. Agricultural Loan Officer National Bank
Agriculture Group
Robert Donaldson
Agricultural Loan Officer
Larry Groff
Agricultural Loan Officer
Sean McKinney
Agricultural Loan Coordinator
price over the government
established minimum. The bottlers
may go to the retail market.
In this proposed program, the
consumer often pays only a cent or
two more for milk in the store. But
the extra money can benefit the
bottler to a small degree and make
a great difference to the dairy
farmer’s survival.
Along with Ely and Ranck,
Donald Duncan, the regional state
chairman, has also signed the local
letter. And a separate personal
note from Ranch’s Verdant View
Farm is enclosed to urge
recipients of the mailing to sign the
agreement and send it back today.
“You’ll help keep dairying strong
here in the northeast where we
have the largest market for Class I
milk in the nation,” Ranck says.
“Remember, only signers will
benefit from RCMA.”
According to Ely, the bottom line
was best described by Tom Jur
chak, Lackawanna County Ex
tension director, in Milk Market
News. “Producers have the op
portunity to build an
organizational vehicle that can
negotiate for prices above the
minimums set by the support price
on butter, powder and cheese that
purculate down through the
federal orders to the milk checks
going to each producer. The
success of the over-order milk
pricing efforts in 11 northeastern
states are within spitting distance
of success. That depends on 2500
Pennsylvania producers signing
contracts to participate in the
program. The time has come when
every producer who wants higher
KEYSTONE
PORK CONGRESS
PORK COUNCIL WOl
PROGRAM
Thursday, February 19
Keystone E Room
Morning Session;
Melllo Oolso, Presiding
10:00 a.m. Business Meeting
10:30 a.m. Flower Demonstration
Ray Grumbine
Afti
12:30 p.m. Jr. Public Speaking Contest
2:30 p.m. Will a Producer-Owned
Packing Plant Work?
Eric Wowra
KEYST
Thursday, February 19
Kaystena D Room
Kannath Wlnabark, Presiding
9:30 a.m. Preliminary Eliminations
2:00 p.m. Final Eliminations
Coffee and Doughnuts sponsored by
Purina Mills, Inc.
This Advertisement Courtesy Ok
prices from the market and not the
government will take the initiative
to recruit nonmembers wherever
they are. Those who want to
participate can no longer afford
the time for someone to come and
ask them to join then come back
and pick up the contract. They will
have to take action now on their
own to become part of the effort.
Or in the future live with the
realization that they were part of
the minority that prevented the
establishment of over-order
pricing in eastern markets. It also
a responsibility of every producer
who has already joined the effort
either through a cooperative or
independently to help in recruiting
producers who are resisting these
efforts for higher prices by not
participating. The opportunity and
the need are here. Let’s make the
most of it,” Jurchak says.
Three new persons have been
named to the Pennsylvania RCMA
steering committee to make it
easier for local dairymen to get
information. These new committee
members are Kenneth Mummert,
6358 Rowe Run Road, Cham
bersburg, PA 17201, 717-263-1507;
Horace Tang, Rl, Cochranville,
PA 19330, 717-529-2396. Those
reported previously are Carl
Brown, PFA, R.D. 3, Box 288, Pine
Grove, PA 17963, 717-739-4187;
Donald B. Duncan, Grange, R.D. 1,
Box 362, Robesonia, PA 19551, 215-
693-5213; Karl Kroeck, PFA, R.D.
1, Box 990, Knowville, PA 16928,
814-326-4308; Robert Pardoe,
Grange, R.D. 1, Milton, PA 17847,
717-524-7625; Arden Tewksbury,
PFU, R.D. 2, Box 165, Meshoppen,
PRESENTS THE NINTH
FEBRUARY 19, 1987
At Penn Harris Motor Inn
P.O. Box 2653, Harrisburg, PA 17105
PHONE 717-763-7117
Mr.
Mrs.
Address.
IRK BOWL
H. Louis Moore
. Scott McKain
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"YOUR MONEY MATTERS"
12 Convenient Offices
(717) 274-6906
REGISTRATION & DINNER TICKET
RESERVATIONS
KEYSTONE PORK CONGRESS
FEBRUARY 19, 19R7
Code
PRE-REGISTRATION
Individual $3 00 _
School Age $lOO _
REGISTRATION AT DOOR
Individual $4 00 _
School Age $lOO _
Stuffed Pork Chop
Dinner $l5 00 _
Total Remittance
Make Checks Payable to:
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Pre-Registration forms cannot be accepted
after February 9, 1987 Pre-Registration
passes can be picked up at the registration
desk. Banquet Tickets must be purchased by
February 9 and can be picked up at the reg
istration desk
SEND RESERVATIONS AND
BANQUET RESERVATIONS TO;
STEPHEN BURKHOLDER
R.D. 1 BOX 763
ALBURTIS, PA 18011
- 215-682-2871 (Hnomnw) 2ls-285-6519
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Farm Calendar
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Smart Farm Decisions Workshop,
Lancaster Farm and Home
Center, 9:30 a.m. to noon.
Monday, February 16
Atlantic Breeders Annual Meeting,
Penn Township Fireball,
Huntsdale, 7:30 p.m.
SE Regional Soybean meeting,
Meyers Restaurant, Route 309,
Quakertown, 9:30 a.m.
Tuesday, February 17
Penn-Jersey Tillage Conference,
Stabler Arena, Lehigh
University, Bethlehem, Pa.
Northeastern Pa. Turfgrass and
Grounds Maintenance School,
Luzerne County Community
College, Nanticoke.
Farm Management Series,
Cumberland Extension Center,
Carlisle, 12:30 p.m.
Lancaster County Crops and Soils
Day, Lancaster Farm and
Home Center, 8:30 a.m. to 3
PA 18630, 717-833-5776; Harold
Wolfe, PFU, R.D. 2, Box 157,
Centre Hall, PA 16828,814-364-1349.
The state coordinators are Ely and
Arthur Little, 831 James Street,
Syracuse, NY 13203.
No. Amt
p.m.
Atlantic Breeders Co-op, Southern,
Quarryville Fairgrounds, 7
p.m.
Cecil County Dairy/Livestock
Day, Calvert Grange Hall, 9:30
a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 18
York/Lancaster Tree Fruit
Meeting, Rutter’s Restaurant,
York,
AD ADC Annual Meeting at the
Sheraton on 7th North Street,
Syracuse, N.Y. Continues
tomorrow.
SW Min-Till Meeting, Mt. View
Inn, Greensburg.
Bradford County Milker School,
Extension Office, Towanda, 10
a.m.to3p.m.
Thursday, February 19
Draft Horse and Mule Sale, Farm
Show Complex, Harrisburg.
Atlantic Dairy Day, Seven Valleys
Fireball, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
York County Beekeepers, Pleasant
Acres Meeting Room, 7 p.m.
Keystone Pork Congress, Penn
Harris Motor Lodge, Camphill.
Atlantic Dairy Co-op, noon,
Lancaster Farm and Home
Center.
Atlantic Breeders Co-op, Blue Ball
Fireball, 7 p.m.
Cecil County Agronomy Day,
Calvert Grange Hall, 9:30 a.m.
to 2:30 p.m.
NW Regional Tillage Day, Days
Inn, Meadville, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Smart Farm Decisions Workshop,
Lancaster Farm and Home
Center, 9:30 a.m. to noon.
Friday, February 20
Pa. Cattlemen’s Annual Con
ference, Allenberry Resort,
Boiling Spring; continues
through Feb. 22.
Franklin County Horticultural
Society Annual Meeting,
Lighthouse Restaurant,
Chambersburg.
Area Commercial Tree Fruit
Meeting, Ramada Inn, York, 9
a.m.
Maryland Holstein Convention,
Westminster; continues
through Feb. 21.
Saturday, February 21
York County 4-H Alumni Night, 4-H
Center, 7:30 p.m.
Cumberland Valley Cooperative
Annual Meeting, Shippensburg
Senior High School; luncheon,
11:30 a.m. Business meeting, 1
p.m.
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