RCMA Coordinator States Case
(Continued from Pag* Al)
should be reimbursed the cost ot
hiring someone to milk his cows.
FARMLAND CLAIMS:
RCM A is not bonded - that there is
no guarantee of your RCMA milk
check.
THE FACT IS; RCMA does not
need to be bonded since it only has
over-order premium money which
you would not receive if it were not
for RCMA. Farmland has to be
bonded, not because it wants to be,
but because the law requires it.
Farmland operates on your money,
sometimes owing dairymen for as
much as 45 days’ milk.
FARMLAND CLAIMS: It
treats all producers equally and
pays an additional 25 cents to
Farmland RCMA members as well
as non-RCMA members.
RCMA ASKS: Could it be coin
cidental that Farmland took this
position shortly after a number of
RCMA Farmland shippers in
Wayne County, PA, notified
Farmland that they were seeking
another handler because Farmland
was paying its shippers a 25-cent
premium and only 9 cents to his
shippers who were RCMA mem
bers? It brings to mind the old say
ing, “Oh, what a tangled web we
weave when first we practice to
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deceive.” If it is worth the 75 cents
per hundredweight premium that
Farmland is paying producers and
thousands of dollars in “hand
outs”, it should be worth twice that
much to dairymen to keep RCMA
viable.
FARMLAND CLAIMS: The
RCMA Board of Directors is com
prised of co-op dairymen.
THE FACT IS: Four out of the
10 members of the RCMA Execu
tive Committee are independent
dairymen, and the Board is a mix
ture of both independent and
cooperative dairymen.
THE FACT IS: The 25-cent pre
mium that Farmland is paying its
RCMA shippers is one-cent less
than they should have paid on Sep
tember milk and THE FACT IS
that it is 24 cents less than the over
order premium RCMA would have
been able to charge if all Northeast
dairymen were supporting RCMA
on September Ist.
THE FACT IS: That in New
England, where the majority of
producers are in co-ops and where
97% of the producers are RCMA
members, milk handlers agreed to
pay the full RCMA premium.
Those producers received 37 cents
per cwt. for their September milk
compared to 9 cents in the rest of
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the Northeast. These producers in
New England have also agreed to
share their premium monies with
Federal Order #2 producers to
prove RCMA would work. In
addition, over-order pricing is now
in effect in 30 western markets
where the average over-order pre
mium charged to handlers was 92
cents/cwt.
It is lime for all dairymen to ask
themselves a few questions.
Where were the premiums before
RCMA? Where will the premiums
be without RCMA? Is it discrimi
nation against a handler such as
Farmland if they are asked to pay
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the same over-order premium
other handlers have agreed to pay?
The price of milk rose an aver
age of 13 cents per gallon m New
York when over-order pricing
started. But only three cents of that
increase can be attributed to the
RCMA premiums. Where is the
rest of that money going?
The future of Northest dairy
farming is now at stake. Are you
going to be part of making it hap
pen, or are you going to sell out for
a few pennies that are here today
and gone tomorrow? Can you pro
duce milk for $10.50/cwt?
Dr. Randall Torgerson, Admini
strator of USDA’s Agricultural
Cooperative Service, recentlyl
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