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Milk Prices Make Record Gains
BY KARL BERGER
Special Correspondent
Near record gains in the
Minnesota-Wisconsin price series
have left area dairy economists
happily shaking their heads and
given farmers an unexpected
boost for the holiday season.
After jumping an “unheard oT
SO cents between August and Sep
Poultry Survey Indicates Changes Needed
BY LOU ANN GOOD
LANCASTER Poultry pro
ducers across the U.S. are focusing
on the Lancaster Poultry Associa
tion to see which way the industry
plans to go in response to the egg
crisis.
Lebanon Milk Producers Praised
BY PAT PURCELL
PRESCOTT (Lebanon)
Lebanon County DHIA members
received a pat on the back at their
annual meeting and awards ban
quet held Tuesday evening at the
Prescott Fire Hall.
Ken Winebark, Lebanon Coun
ty agent gave milk producers that
pat on the back for increasing their
herd average in milk production by
1,258 pounds. “That says a lot for
the character of milk producers
here. This has not been an easy
year, but you all got behind your
operations and you made Lebanon
County second in the state in milk
production,” stated Winebark.
Lebanon placed second in the
state in butterfat production per
cow at 656 pounds which is 45
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tember, the M-W (a measure of
die prices paid for milk by manu
facturing plants in the upper Mid
west) climbed another 40 cents in
October, to $ll.BB a hundred
weight for milk containing
3.5-percent butterfaL Since April,
when it bottomed out at the federal
government’s $10.33 support
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In order to sec what direction to
lake to stabilize the egg market, the
association had mailed 2,100 ques
tionaires to producers nationwide.
On Monday, November 21, Dr.
Milt Madison from Penn State and
a Poultry Association committee
Ken Sellers, (left) Leba
non County DHIA 1988
Director presents the top
award for herd milk produc
tion to Roy E. Nolt (right).
Nolt’a herd captured the top
spot In the county with a
herd average of 23,006
pounds of milk.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 26,1988
BY
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
LANCASTER-Even though the
U.S. economy is now finishing its
sixth year of expansion, Mike
Jensen, NBC News, chief financial
correspondent, said he expects the
good times to continue through
1989. Jensen gave the key-note
address at the Lancaster
Agriculture-Industry banquet here
Thursday evening.
“I think we’ll have another
expansion year ahead of us,”
Jensen said. “So I don’t see a
recession in 1989. However, Ido
see very serious difficulties in
terms of the federal budget deficit
that has nearly tripled in the last
Atlantic Dairy Coop Members Reap Benefit:
BY PAT PURCELL
LANCASTER Hie Atlantic
Dairy Cooperative hosted more
than 500 members at die 71st
Mid-Atlantic Conservation
YORK After 14 years, the
annual Mid-Atlantic No-Till Con
ference has a new look and a new
name. It’s now the Mid-Atlantic
Conservation Tillage Conference.
The name change represents an
effort to present a broader scope of
information for crop farmers in
Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Virginia and West
Virginia.
As in past yean, the event is
being sponsored by the Coopera-
reviewed the first 600 question
aires received. To date, 824
responses have been retured.
The survey elicited responses
from 40 percent of the producers
who with their combined opera
tions produce 60 percent of the
birds nationwide.
Jay Irwin, county extension
agent, said, “Normally, a survey
generates about a 20 percent reply,
but in this case more than 40 per
cent have responded.”
According to Irwin, the
responses reveal a significanl
belief that some type of control
management and marketing order
should be sought for the egg
industry.
A 1 Wenger, manager of Wcngci
Feeds in Rhccms and a spokesper
son for the committee, said the
committee is not going to drop the
issue because the survey’s results
dictate a need for some type ol
supply management and market
ing order.
To pursue further direction a
national meeting is planned in Chi
cago on December 8. At that time,
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Financial Correspondent
Sees Good Year Ahead
eight years. My concern is that the
Geoige Bush adminstration’s idea
annual meeting held in Lancaster
Nov. 17-18. This was the second
annual meeting since the merger in
February 1987 of Lehigh Valley
Tillage Conference
live Extension Service at land
grant universities in the participat
ing states, with assistance from
interested agribusiness representa
tives. This year’s one-day educa
tional meeting and industry dis
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SOt Per Copy
Mike Jensen
Cabbage Harvest Time
Andy White, a senior at Garden Spot High School In New
Holland, spent sometime last week harvesting some of his
cabbage crop. The vegetable was part of a supervised occu
pational experience (SOE) project. Andy intends to sell his
produce at a road-side stand in front of his house.
$lO.OO Per Year
of reducing (he deficit slowly may
not work in time.”
Since President Elect Bush has
ruled out cuts in two/thirds of the
federal budget, Jensen thinks a
recession in 1990 may stop eco
nomic growth and thus reduce the
federal government’s income to
the point where the deficit may
grow to 200 to 300 billion dollars
from the present 255 billion. “We
will have a recession,” Jensen said.
“You can’t stop the business
cycle. But after we get over the
turbulent time-the bubble of
undoing the damage of the budget
deficit of the last eight years-I see
good times ahead.”
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Fanners and Interstate Milk Pro
ducers.
Atlantic nears its two-year mark
in strong financial shape.
Although member numbers and
production figures were down
from last year, Atlantic members
received $7.7 million from over
drier premiums. In addition to
over-order premiums, $B.l matton
in equity payments were made to
members.
Atlantic can boast of a good
year, according to General Mana
ger Dr. Paul E. Hand. The $2.9
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