JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
FREDERICK, Md. Despite
months of work toward a 1990
Farm Bill by congressional com
mittees and representatives on
Capitol Hill, legislation governing
the dairy industry will ultimately
be budget driven, says the presi
dent of Dairymen, Inc.
‘They’re talking now about a
five-cent assessment per hundred
weight for fiscal 1990, and a ten
ant assessment for the four fol
lowing years,” said Ray Moss
Tucker, president of the south
east’s largest dairy cooperative
Tucker addressed the annual
meeting of the dairy cooperative's
Middle Atlantic Division, held
October 12 at the Frederick Holi
day Inn. Dairymen, Inc., is head
quartered in Louisville, Kentucky,
with division offices at Sykesville.
The Finchville, Kentucky, dairy
farmer noted that a ten-cent per
hundredweight assessment on
milk would equal $l5O million per
year deducted from dairy farmer
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“We’ll ask the Secretary to do a
study of alternatives to the ten
cents,” he added. “Our concern is
that if no alternatives are found,
the assessment could become
permanent”
The current round of GATT
talks on international trade should
also be of great concern to dairy
farmers, he warned. While Secret
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previously told ag leaders he
would not trade one commodity
off for another, it “looks like he’s
willing to give up Section 22
(import protection) in dairy, and
that would not be favorable to
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A current round of hearings on
the federal order system is “strict
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with the Justice Department
involved and aiming at doing
away with the order system. Of
some 80 expected proposals, only
10 have yet been presented after
several hearings. That leaves a
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prolonged final hearing, sche
duled during November in Texas.
Several southeast region coopera
tives, including Dairymen, Inc.,
are working together through a
joint fund to participate in the
hearing process.
Tucker reviewed Dairymen’s
decision last November to close
some processing plants and cover
costs over the next ten months.
That financial adjustment period
is now complete. In addition, the
cooperative cut operating costs by
$3 million.
Division president Fred Butler,
speaking briefly on Dairymen
restructing, told Middle-Adandc
members that the cooperative is in
good financial condition and that
“tough decisions” had been made.
Competitive pay prices for
member-producers, he said, is the
focus for the coming year.
Butler, a dairy farmer from
Inwood, West Virginia, expressed
concern over the inability of the
nation’s leadership in Washington
to have “the backbone to reduce
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deficit spending by cutting costs.”
“America is 100 strong to be so
weak,” he cautioned.
Commending members for the
quality of milk they are producing
for the market, Butler asked them
to continue their “good work.”
Farming, he added, has become
everybody’s business, and every
one, fanners included, want safe,
wholesome food, clean air and
water. But the public percection of
what is acceptable is what is
changing.
A promotion presentation by
Jim Williamson, Southeast United
Dairy Industry Association,
updated Dairymen members on
the use of the “local” ten cents of
the IS-cent advertising checkoff.
Also addressing the gathering was
division Young Dairymen winner
Michael Herring, Uniontown.
Herring, and his wife Debbie will
represent the division at the
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cooperative’s Young Dairymen
contest during the annual meeting,
December 13 and 14, in Nashville;
Tennessee.
Board committee reports to the
Middle Adantic division member
ship were presented by member
ship chairman Jesse Burall, Mon
rovia, hauling chairman Harold
Martin, Oxford, Pennsylvania,
and supply chairman. Marlin Mar
tin, Smithsburg.
Harry W. Hummel, Grantsville
R 2, was honored on his retirement
as director from District #ll. Five
directors were ratified by the
membership to serve three-year
terms on the division board. They
are: Jesse Burall, Monrovia; Dis
trict #4, Joyce Bupp, Seven Val
leys, Pa., District #7, William
Jackson, New Salem, Pa., District
#ll, Marlin Martin, Smithsburg,
District #l2, and Paul Waybright,
Gettysburg, District #l3.
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