A2O-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, June 30,1990
CAMP HILL (Cumberland
Co.) The slate’s largest farm
organization said today that it was
disappointed that the Casey Admi
nistration cut $300,000 of general
fund appropriations from the
budget of the Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Board (PMMB).
Eith W. Eckel, president of the
Pennsylvania Farmer’s Associa
tion (PFA), urged “reconsidera
tion and restoration of the
$300,000 general fund cuts in the
PMMB’s budget.”
In a letter to Governor Robert P.
Casey the farm leader wrote that
PFA supported an amendment
(Act 13S) to the Milk Marketing
Law in 1988 giving the PMMB
authority to increase administra
tive fees, which can be imposed
on all segments of the milk mark
eting industry. The legislation was
introduced and passed at the urg
ing of the Casey Administration.
“We supported that legislation
in the face of considerable resis
tance . .., realizing that it was
important for the milk industry to
do its fair share to supplement the
strong and continued commitment
of Commonwealth funds in the
administration of the impotant
functions of the Milk Marketing
Board.”
“At no time during the period
of consideration and enactment of
Act 13S was there any discussion
that the $300,000 raised by fee
increases was intended to replace
the commitment of monies from
the general fund. Nor was there
any expression of any intent by
your administration to reduce
budgetary commitments of gener
al fund monies in response to
increases in revenues resulting
from (passage of) Act 135.
“In light of this action, we who
supported Act 135 feel betrayed
by the recent effort by your admi
nistration to cut $300,000 of gen
eral fund monies from the PMMB
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PFA Disappointed With Milk Board Budget
(budget).”
PMMB performs “an integral
service to all aspects of milk pro
duction, marketing and consump
tion in Pennsylvania.
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SYRACUSE. N.Y.— Dairylea
Cooperative Inc. has announced
its plans to build a new corporate
headquarters at Brittonfield, the
SB-acre office park in the town of
DeWitt.
Dairylea. is purchasing a
4'/i -acre lot from the Brittonfield
Office Park owner, Buckley Road
Properties Inc., according to
Dairylea officials.
The cooperative’s
16,000-square-foot, single-story
building will be designed by
Fuligni-Fragola and constructed
by Heuber-Breuer Construction
Co., both of Syracuse.
Approximately 40 Dairylea
employees will be involved in the
move from their existing offices at
831 James Street in Syracuse. The
relocation is expected to be com
pleted by the beginning of 1991.
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order producer premiums and
other regulatory measures by the
board have been hailed by milk
marketing experts both within and
outside Pennsylvania,” Eckel said
in his letter.
The 83-year-old cooperative
has been located in Syracuse since
1982. It also maintains a member
testing laboratory in Syracuse.
“We are excited about the new
building and the convenient new
location,” said Clyde E. Ruther
ford, president of Dairylea
Cooperative Inc. “Since divesting
of our manufacturing operations
on late 1988, the cooperative has
been more competitive, has estab
lished innovative member pro
gramsand services, and has gener
ated a strong earnings stream.
Moving to our new headquarters
complements the cooperative’s
new focus and will allow us to
continue our progress with a
streamlined management and sup
port group.”
Brittonfield is located immedi
ately west of, and adjacent to.
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“If the board is to continue to
remain responsive to the needs of
the milk industry and to.milk
marketing conditions existing
within our Commonwealth, suffi
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Dairylea Cooperative Inc. is a
farmer-owned dairy cooperative
with 2,300 farmer members
Milk Production Down
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Milk production in Pennsylva
nia during May totaled 887 mil
lion pounds, down 3 percent from
May 1989 production, according
to the Pennsylvania Agricultural
Statistics Service (PASS).
The number of milk cows in the
state during the month averaged
677,000 head, down 3,000 head
from April and 18,000 less than
the previous May, PASS reported.
Production per cow averaged
1,310 pounds, up 70 pounds from
Muncy, PA
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PFA is a general farm organiza
tion with 23,000-plus family
members in Pennsylvania and is
affiliated with the American Farm
Bureau Federation.
throughout the Northeast It parti
cipates in a milk marketing net
work stretching from Maine to
Pennsylvania and Boston, MA, to
Buffalo, NY.
April 1990 but unchanged from
May 1989.
In the 21 major producing
states. May milk production tot
aled 11.2 billion pounds, up 2 per
cent from the same month last
year.
The number of milk cows in
those 21 states averaged 8.51 mil
lion head, 6,000 less than May
1989. Production per cow was
1,317 pounds, 43 pounds more
than April and 22 pounds above
the previous May.
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