Milk Check MEDINA, Ohio “When dairy farmers in western Pennsyl vania and eastern Ohio receive iheir March partial milk check, they will be shocked - just as I am - to see the advance milk price of $12.22 per hundredweight(cwt). After realizing record milk prices in December and January we are now seeing the largest monthly drop in history-$1.72 below February’s advance price. This is disturbing to local dairy farmers because milk is in short supply in Pennsylvania which does not warrant this substantial price decline. More importantly, the recent drop in our March advance price is just an indication of the milk prices we will be receiving in subsequent months,” said Lowell Friedline, an indepen dent dairy farmer from Somerset County. The problem, according to Friedline, is that milk prices for western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio are based on national mark eting conditions. Since the nation’s milk supply is increasing to the same level as last year, our milk price is falling even though our milk production in January was down 8-percent compared to a year ago. Paul Mader, an independent dairy farmer from Harrison Coun ty, Ohio, sees the same thing hap You can be assured that with our Plastisol-coated roof panels and our Kynar 500* sidewall panels over G9O zinc galvanizing, Jhat your building will continue to look good for years to come and is guaranteed to be free of red rust for 20 years- - When you purchase from your local Morton Buildings’ office, you’re buying directly from a company with over 85 years of customer satisfaction and with the financial strength to honor all commitments made by our written warranties. Call or write today and take advantage of our spring savings. Biggest Drop In History pening in Ohio. “Milk production in Ohio is also lagging far behind the nation al trend. In January, U.S. milk pro duction was at the same level as last year, but milk production in Ohio was down six percent,” Mader said. “The law of supply and demand in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania should keep the milk price from faljing, but apparently it is not and we are experiencing a $1.72 per cwt drop in our milk price,” he said. “Obviously, local dairy farmers have little control over the milk price they receive. If we are to maintain a viable dairy industry in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, we need to stabilize our milk price. Particularly at a time when our milk production cost is not falling like the milk price. For example, since last spring, I have been supplementing my dairy ration with more than the normal amount of soybean meal in order to help offset the poor quality of feed we have harvested during last year’s extraordinary wet spring,” Friedline said. Both Friedline and Mader accepted a position as director for the Producers’ Equalization Agency to represent dairy farmers in an effort to address the dilemma of lower prices, high milk produc tion costs and a falling milk Warranted 20 Years Against Red Rust *21,684°°* supply, “We have established a dairy farmers organization to help sta bilize the current milk price. Our organization is designed to price milk which would provide an over-order premium to all dairy farmers in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio in the form of a third check,” Fnedline said. “We do not intend to market milk, so dairy farmers would con tinue to receive their normal milk check and ship their milk to the plant of their choice. The cost of operating the agency (about one cent per cwt) would be taken from premiums after they have been collected and therefore dairy far mers would not have to pay any dues. This organization should be acceptable to all dairy farmers in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio and provide a solution to the problem that we are now exper iencing,” Friedline said. “To make this agency work, dairy farmers in western Pennsyl vania and eastern Ohio must become involved by learning more about current marketing conditions and the agency. Then the vast majority of dairy farmers in western Pennsylvania and east ern Ohio must agree to price their milk by signing a marketing agreement,” Friedline said. Price below includes 54'x75' > IM'XWT'KO 1 22-6" Xl3' DSD 1 S9OO B Ma waft door 14'X3'» Ma «Mow 4 SkyWM 2' EndMl overhang* « / ■!-< u i anvwM ownwigi PnUctlvi txtorior MiMCOt 15' additions.. .$2,671.00 Include* material, labor and delivery within 40 mllaa of a Merten Building*' aalaa olfle*. Local tax** are not Included. Cuatemar muat provide a level building elt* and participate In the 3 atap payment plan. Thl* offer le good from data of publication until April IS, 1990. Wins Buttermaker Award SOUTHAMPTON (Bucks Co.) Holly Milk, a subsidiary of At lantic Dairy Cooperative, is the 1990 recipient of Land O’Lakes “Master Buttermaker” award. Presented at Land O’Lakes an nual meeting in February, the award recognizes outstanding achievement in manufacturing the Land O’Lakes brand butter. Selec tion is based on reguar examina tion of critical manufacturing pro cesses and practices, such as sani tation, product flavor and overall quality. “It’s great,” Holly’s chief operating officer William L. Schreiber said of winning the award, which he believes exem plifies Holly’s commitment to teamwork and excellence. This was a team effort from be ginning to end,” Schreiber said. “Everyone plays a role, from the person unloading the milk trucks to those in charge of monitoring the butter process.” Holly Milk, headquartered in Mt. Holly Springs, began produc ing butter for Land O’Lakes in February 1981. The more than 25 million pounds of butter processed in 1989 was sold in bulk and one- Fraa weather vane with every building purehae*. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 7,1890-C3 pound packages Holly processes butter an aver age of six days a week. A total of 20 employees, working four shifts, oversees the manufacturing process. According to Schreiber, the butter manufactured at Holly is sent to one of several Land O’Lakes distribution centers. From there the butter is delivered primarily to stores in Pennsyl vania, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. Competition for the Master Buttermaker award is “intense be tween the facilities which produce Land O’Lakes butter,” said Dick Fogg, group vice president of dairy foods for Land O’Lakes. ‘This year, Holly Milk’s super ior performance edged out a num ber of excellent competitors from other facilities,” he said. “We sa lute their achievement.” Land O’Lakes is a food and agricultural cooperative head quartered in Minnesota. 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