new*. The decline in cow numbers
j! FARM FORUM Ouejibaders write f T or - off * ct “p*
NbLJI Auction per cow, so we are finally
(Continued from Pago A 10) thing made in the USA.'From Through the first six of
appeared a profile of a South what we read, it would probably 1989, the number of dairy cows
American man with his wife and be Coca-Cola or jeans, but never- sent to Slaughter has increased,
two children trudging up a moun- theless he would be a consumer, and milk supplies have tightened
tainside with their burro to pick Can’t you also imagine die pan- dramatically,
those coffee beans. How quaint, ic if he decided he wouldn’t climb During the Week of July 17-21,
But all of a sudden it hit me that that mountain for that much the CCC purchased 422,447
no matter how high the price of ‘ money? The whole country pounds of print butter and
coffee goes, that poor man with wouldn’t show up at work and if cancelled 910,142 pounds of bulk
the little donkey will NEVER they did, they wouldn’t be able to butter. There was no cheese or
have a decent bed for any of, his do anything. nonfat dry milk activity. The milk
family. It all translates back to the far- equivalent, on a milkfat basis, of
“But,” people might say, “that’s mers in America to a lesser these'purchases is a negative 10.1
the way it's supposed to be. It's degree. We are all in die same million pounds, the lowest in at
always been that way. Why should situation. We will get only what- least eight yean. During the same
we feel guilty about that?” ever we demand. It is so extremely week, 182,904 pounds of govem-
We dairy farmers are in much hard to wrest another penny from ment owned butter was sold back
the same position. the system. The consumer to the trade and butter cancella-
What would be so wrong if wouldn’t care. One emit a gallon lions exceeded butter offerings,
these poor people were allowed to wouldn’t even be noticed, and it This is the second consecutive
share in the tremendous profits would add a tremendous amount week that the CCC had no cheese
enjoyed by she “middle man”? of money to each farmer’s cash activity. In the East, surplus milk
Don’t try to tell me that he’s riding flow, which I suspect would go supplies are limited. Spot cheese
around on a donkey! It would be immediately to the nearest prices in the Midwest have reach
so easy for each coffee company machinery dealer. There doesn’t ed “name your price” for barrels,
to add one penny to the price of seem to be any way to get that with five cents offered to mote
the pound of coffee and pass it penny from the consumer to the then one seller. Current projec
hack to the “farmer.” We wouldn’t fanner. Maybe because “that’s die lions at some firms show invento
even notice the penny. (Especially way it’s supposed to be.” This is ties wUI be at minimal or below
me because I don’t drink coffee.) supposed to be a commodity col- levels for some time to come. In
Can’t you imagine what a huge umn, but I get so agitated, the West, competition for milk is
difference that penny would make The Dairy Market News, which increasing. There has been no
in his lifestyle and even his health is published weekly by the United cheese activity with the CCC in
and that of his children? He might States Department of Agriculture, more than three weeks,
in time even be able to buy some- has some VERY encouraging Fluid milk supplies in die South
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are tight with huge volumes being
imported from the Northern areas.
Declines in Southern milk produc
tion, lower Cat tests, and strong
cream demand are all contributing
to the tight cream supply. The
milk situation in Wisconsin was
described as “chaotic” because of
the shortage of milk. In the West,
plants are aggressively looking for
milk supplies. Large quantities of
nonfat dry milk have been com
mitted to the export market
Growth in milk per cow has
.slipped. Retail dairy prices prob
ably will rise five to six percent
this year, the largest since 1981.
June 1 commercial stock of
American cheese remained below
the low levels of a year earlier,
and will be a price boosting influ
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Pork Delegates
KUTZTOWN (Berks Co.)—
The election of 1 pork producer del
egate candidates for the 1990
National Pork Producers Delegate
Body will take place at 7:30 p.m.,
Thursday, August 17, in conjunc
tion with a Board of Directors
meeting of the Pennsylvania Pork
Producers Council at the Region
VI office of the Pa. Department of
Agriculture in Summerdale, PA.
AU Pennsylvania pork producers
Uncwnr Farming, Saturday, August 5,19W-A37
IT .1 fir, commercial exports
have been considerably higher
than a year earlier, while imports
have slipped.
, It looks as though we are final
ly, after all these tough years, in a
good bargaining position. We
have to remember Juan Valdez,
die man with the donkey, and be
extremely strong in our negotia
tions. If we wait for the govern
ment to again set the price that die
handlers must pay us, we will lose
our chance. We are like children
who have grown old enough to
leave home and have to learn to
take care of ourselves.
UNLESS ALL OF US GET A
GOOD CONTRACT, NONE OF
US CAN!
Kay Zcoaky
National Dairy Chairperson
Turin, N.Y.
To Be Elected
are invited to attend.
Any producer, who is a resident
of the state and has paid all assess
ments due under the National 100
percent checkoff may be consid
ered as a delegate candidate and
participate in voting. Nominations
will be taken from the floor at the
time of election. For more infor
mation contact the Pa. Pork Pro
ducers Council, R.D.#2 Box 219,
Kutztown, PA 19530, phone
215/285-6519.