A26-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 12, 1988
CAMP HILL Should Pen
nsylvania dairy fanners set their
own milk prices?
“We must,” said Roy Romber
ger, an official with Regional
Cooperative Marketing Agency, in
announcing meetings on over
order pricing next week in Berks,
Lebanon, Lancaster and Chester
counties.
RCMA’s director of market
relations sees time running out on
Pennsylvania dairymen.
“Just how long can we wait for
USDA or dealers to take action on
plummeting milk prices?” he
asked.
We can blame cuts in support
prices, Romberger points out. And
we can waste a lot of time wonder
ing what the price of cheese milk in
Agricultural Land
Preservation
Meeting
Several weeks ago, a meeting
was held at the Brecknock Town
ship Municipal Building where a
representative from the Lancaster
County Agricultural Preserve
Board explained the concepts of
how Agricultural Areas are
created. Guidelines of the Pennsyl
vania Act 43 while enables land
owners to propose the creation of
agricultural areas were explained.
Wednesday, March 23, 1988, at
7:30 p.m. a follow-up meeting will
be held to present proposed sketch
es of 500, or more, adjoining acre
plots to be considered as agricul
tural security areas. This meeting
will be held at the Brecknock
Township Municipal Building in
Fivepoinlville.
Any person interested in learn
ing more about how incentives to
encourage farming and to discour
age development in declared agri
cultural areas and/or proposed ag
areas for Brecknock Township, is
invited to attend.
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Minnesota and Wisconsin has to
do with Class I prices in Pennsyl
vania, he said.
Neither makes much sense to
Romberger. Not for Northeast
dairymen of handlers faced with a
milk shortage. Not when 70-cow
dairymen in Pennsylvania will see
milk checks shrink by $8,300 in
1988.
But the RCMA official says he
does have an answer—over order
pricing. RCMA has set a fair mark
et price of $14.45. And have asked
dealers and handlers to meet it.
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using milk premiums to make up
the difference between RCMA’s
and the federal order’s Class I
price.
Such over order pricing will be
among the major topics on the
agenda at the March meetings, he
said.
It’s not a new idea, either.
According to Romberger, dairy
farmers in 30 major U.S. markets
now receive such premiums.
RCMA happens to be one of the
biggest bargaining agencies with
22,000 members in 11 northeast
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“It’s farmers working together
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“In the Chicago federal order in
January,” he pointed, “over order
pricing gave producers a $1.91
Class I premium. We could do the
same here. This spring.”
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The four new meetings include:
Berks county -1 p.m., March 14
at Berks County Ag Center, Route
183, Leesport.
Lebanon county -1 p.m., March
15 at the Lebanon County Court
house, 400 South Bth Street,
Lebanon.
Lancaster county - 8 p.m.,
March 15 at the Lancaster County
Farm and Home Center, 1383
Arcadia Road, Lancaster.
Chester county -1 p.m., March
16 at Russellville Grange Hall,
Routes 10 and 896. Russellville.
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