A34-Uncast*r Fanning, Saturday, November 26,1988
Atlantic Dairy Coop
(Continued from Pago Al)
million net margin realized
equaled 8.4 cents per hundred
weight Member equity for the fis
cal year reached $15.8 million.
“These added dollars are a direct
result of the merger and our ability
to work with other cooperatives in
our region,” Hand said.
Milk production at 3.4 S billions
pounds was down by 1.5 percent
from the previous year. Hand cre
dited the summer drought the herd
buy-out program and farmers
going out of the dairy business for
the production drop.
Farmers were able to maintain
their level of income through the
Atlantic’s success in securing $7.7
million dollars of over-order pre
miums for members. Members can
thank the cooperative and the
working relationship between
Atlantic’s buyers and both the
Middle Atlantic Cooperative Milk
Marketing Agency (MACMMA)
and the Regional Cooperative
Marketing Agency (RCMA) for
that income boost.
“We have a good relationship
with our buyers, ” Hand said, “and
they are aware of the difficulties on
the farm. They have been very
willing to negotiate over-order
prices.”
Since the time of the merger in
February of 1987 $27 million has
been paid out to members includ
ing $16.7 million in equity, $2.6
million in quality premiums and
$7.7 million in MACMMA and
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cooperative community.”
Haenlein was bom in Germany
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Resolutions
Two questions were raised
again at the annual meeting in the
discussion of resolutions and
again, as in the past, they continue
to be unanswered.
The first question: Who pays the
drivers’ time spent in line at the
plant waiting to unload.
The second question: How does
Atlantic prevent the loss of larger
volume producers to independant
buyers?
The resolution failed which
would have permitted Atlantic to
pay premiums to members who
produce larger volumes of milk
failed to prevent them from going
to independents.
“When we lose a large producer
we lose some of our efficiency. It’s
more efficient to write one check
for a larger volume of milk than
several checks,” explained James
R. Barnett, Member Relations
Manager. “But many members
feel that all producers should be
treated equally and we should not
make any concession to the larger
producers.”
But Barnett predicts that this is
not the last members will see of
premiums for the larger producers.
The cooperative presently gives
larger producers volume discounts
on hauling. This idea was first dis
cussed nearly ten years ago before
being passed. A change in the dues
structure and a change in the num
ber of votes for large producers are
also being discussed as incentives
for the larger producers to stay
with Atlantic although they have
not reached the form of a resolu
tion as yet.
According to Barnett there was
much discussion on the resolution
to pay haulers for drivers’ waiting
time in excess of three hours.
Apparently this is a discussion
which began nearly 15 years ago,
according to Barnett.
Some say the dairies pay driv
er’s for their wait, but the dairies
feel the drivers should adhere to a
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schedule. However, that’s difficult
to do when most farmers finish
milking at the same time and the
haulers head in to the plant.
“We are seeing less and less
plants. There used to be 3 or 4
plants in Philadelphia and now
there are none and we have as
much if not more milk being
shipped,” said Barnett.
Members voted to share the
costs of hauling milk from West of
the Susquehanna River to the
primary fluid markets in the
Philadelphia-New Jersey area with
its members located west of the
river who have absorbed these
increasing costs in the past. “As
less farmers are located in Berks,
Montgomery and Philadelphia
areas our milk supply moves west
while the bottlers and the markets
remain or move farther east.
Twenty years ago our supply, bot
tlers and markets were located on
one side of the river compared to
today where the center of our supp
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and Carlisle and our plants have
continued to move even farther
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“We feel this practice encour
ages the farmer to call his field rep
resentative to have it checked
which saves the coop money rather
than contaminating a whole truck
load or a 50,000 gallon tank at the
plant,” said Barnett.
The cooperative is liable for
milk which is contaminated at the
plant which could run as high as
50,000 gallons. Fortunately nearly
90 percent of the plants ADC ships
to screens truckloads before they
are unloaded.
A proposal which would have
paid farmers 5 cents/CWT for
meeting minimum standards on
standard plate count, somatic cell
count, or PI count and an addition
al 5 cents should they meetall stan
dards failed. According to Barnett
members felt overall quality might
suffer. Producers would be paid
premiums for certain counts while
another may be unacceptably high.
Atlantic continues to wait for its
sister cooperatives to approve pre
mium payments for protein. To be
successful the action needs 2/3
approval of the federal order.
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