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RCMA’s Discontinuation Should Have Little Effect On Milk Prices
BY KARL BERGER
Special Correspondent
FREDERICK. MD—Area
dairymen, whose milk checks have
begun to reflect the recent drama
tic increases in the bellwether
Minnesota-Wisconsin manufac
turing milk price, probably won’t
even notice the suspension of over
order premiums by the Regional
Cooperative Marketing Agency
(RCMA) in much of New York
and Pennsylvania.
With prices on the rise and a
tight milk market prompting vol
untary premiums, the RCMA deci
sion, announced September 11,
should have little to no impact on
farm milk prices in the Northeast,
Wolff, Kroger To Kick-Off
Cooperative Month
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) The Honorable Boyd
Wolff, Pennsylvania Secretary of
Agriculture, will preside at the
sixth annual Cooperative Month
kick-off breakfast, set for Septem
ber 26 at the Harrisburg Sheraton-
West at 8:00 a.m. The Secretary
will present a “Cooperative Month
t Proclamation” by Governor Casey
and will give an update on the
“Challenges facing Pennsylvania
Agriculture”.
The breakfast, a traditional
. component of the Pennsylvania
Association of Fanner Coopera
tives (PAFC) annual meeting, pro
vides legislators and the public
* with an opportunity to recognize
* the scope of agricultural coopera
|tives > n the Commonwealth.
In addition. Dr. Manfred Kro
Four Sections
according to industry leaders.
“The fact that RCMA iself is not
going to operate for the next sever
al months doesn’t mean that the
premiums are going to disappear,"
said Robert Dever, assistant gener
al manager of Atlantic Dairy
Cooperative, which is headquar
tered in Southampton, Pa.
Dever said two major factors—
the continuation of the $1.05 diffe
rential by the Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Board and the region’s
competitive milk market—make it
likely that area dairymen will cen
time to receive higher prices than
thf minimums set by the federal
order system.
PMMB’s $1.05 a hundred-
ger, professor of Food Science at
The Pennsylvania State Universi
ty, will address the group on the
annual meeting topic of food safe
ty. Dr. Kroger, a recognized figure
in the area of food safety, advises
numerous associations including
the American Council on Science
and Health and is a consultant to
the International Food Informa
tion Council in Washington. A
very popular professor at Penn
State, he was awarded Penn
State’s Lindback Award for Out
standing Teaching in 1983.
Although best-known in the
agricultural sector, the coopera
tive business form is applicable to
any economic endeavor. Non
agricultural cooperatives include
the Associated Press, the FTD
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September* 23,1989
weight premium, which is added
onto the minimum farm prices it
requires Class I handlers to pay,
recently was extended through
May 1990. It was instituted origi
nally in September 1988 in
response to unfavorable conditions
resulting from that year’s drought.
Although PMMB’s jurisdiction
is limited to in-state handlers, the
$1.05 has become a kind of stan
dard throughout the Northeast. For
instance, the Middle Atlantic
Cooperative Milk Marketing
Agency (MACMMA), RCMA’s
counterpart in Federal Order 4, has
set the same $1.05 over-order pre
mium through May and this boosts
prices for dairymen in Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia and New
Jersey, as well as southeastern
Pennsylvania. MACMMA’s price
will not be affected by the RCMA
Special
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September 25-29
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Garber Family Commended
For Farm Safety Measures
BY LOU ANN GOOD
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
—The Fred Garber family of Lan
caster made national news this
week for protecting agriculture’s
most precious resource—children.
While state and local politi
cians, agricultural officials and the
news media assembled for the
award ceremony, Garber stressed,
“I don’t want the meeting to focus
on Spring Lawn Farm or the Gar
bers, I want the focus on safety.”
The incentive for making the
Garber’s farm a safer place for kids
actually began three years ago. At
that time there were nine children
under the age of five who lived on
the farm’s properties. Garber,
alarmed by the many fatalities and
injuries to farm kids, resolved,
“God forbid that should happen to
our children.”
Garber and his wife Nancy, who
have three children "b&ween the
ages two to seven, took a closer
look at the danger spots on their
farm. They locked seeds, herbi
cides, insecticides, pesticides and
other poisons in a building that is
action, Dever said.
The discontinuation does affect
dairymen in New York and north
ern Pennsylvania who ship to inde
pendent handlers and those regu
lated by Federal Order 2. Howev
er, most, if not all, of this area’s
fluid dealers should continue to
pay premiums because of the tight
market for milk. Even handlers
buying Class II milk for cheese
production are paying premiums,
observers say.
RCMA’s difficulties stem in
part from this highly competitive
market, according to Gregg McAl
lister, an RCMA spokesman. In
recent months, the bargaining
agency has met “overwhelming
Baylor Honored By American
Society Of Agronomy
CAMP HILL (Cumberland
Co.) —Dr. John E. Baylor, Direc
tor of Market Development for
Beachley-Hardy Seed Company,
is the recipient of the Career Ser
vice Award from the Northeastern
Branch of the American Society of
Agronomy. In addition to the spe
cial honor, Dr. Baylor was also
installed as president of the organi
zation, at their annual meeting
recently at the University of
Vermont.
Dr. Baylor, Professor Emeritus
of Agronomy Extension, Pennsyl
vania State University, has made
extensive contributions to the seed
industry, both here and abroad. He
assisted in the development of the
Penn State University Forage Test
ing Service, and provided early
leadership in the evolution of Pen
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$12.50 Per Year
off limits to children. The Garbers
installed a tank and drainage basin
to prevent run off when filling the
chemical spreader. They installed
a “Slow—Children at Play” sign
and painted the word slow in yel
low letters along their drive advis
ing drivers to slow down.
Nancy, who noticed that the
children often rode their bikes on a
bam hill, was concerned that farm
traffic could not see the children. A
yellow line was painted across the
bottom of the hill to warn children
that the area is off limits.
Garber, who acquired numerous
injuries from farm accidents dur
ing his childhood, had read that 50
percent of children’s farm fatali
ties happen from children falling
under a tractor. He recalled that he
almost lost his son Jeff while try
ing to pull a truck from the field.
Garber’s foot had slipped on the
clutch and Jeff fell off in front of
the tractor, fortunately. Garber
was going backward, butac said,
“Exupt by the pace of God, we
would be another statistic.”
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resistance” to its over-order
charges from Class I dealers who
considered themselves to be at a
disadvantage in competing for
milk with Class II handlers who
didn’t pay the RCMA premium,
McAllister said. In particular,
Class II handlers in the Order 2
milkshed could pay non-RCMA
premiums directly to their produc
ers while Class I handlers paid
their premiums into a pool that was
distributed evenly across the entire
RCMA membership in the region.
This situation was exacerbated by
certain provisions of Order 2 that
aObw unusual lati
tude in competing for milk,
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Dr. John E. Baylor