A34*Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 17, 1991
State Pricing Orders
(Continued from Pago AIS)
market power,” Samuel said. ‘The
governor says they (the dealers)
should pay the over-order pre
mium... But they’re big enough
that they don’t have to. Because
they can’t show that this will hurt
them.”
The dispute has turned a little
nasty in New Jersey, according to
Charlie Miller, an official with the
New Jersey Farm Bureau. Miller
said there is evidence that proces
sors have juggled their mUk sup
plies to lower their Class I utiliza
tion percentages on milk produced
in New Jersey, thereby reducing
the amount of the premium paid to
the state’s dairymen.
Both the state Farm Bureau and
Atlantic Dairy Cooperative, which
has a number of members in the
southern part of the state, have
filed briefs in support of the New
Jersey state order. In addition, the
Farm Bureau’s board of directors
recently asked the office of the
state’s attorney general to look into
the overall issue of farm and retail
milk prices in New Jersey.
Feed
Grain
Comments
Due
POTTSVILLE
(Schuylkill Co.) The
U.S. Department of
Agriculture is planning
the 1992 Feed Grain
program and asking for
public comments by
August 28 on whether
the acreage reduction
percentage (ARP) for
com should be 5, 7.5,
10, 12.5, or some other
percentage within the
considered range.
Feed grain producers
and the general public
are also invited to com
ment on whether the
sorghum and barley
ARP should be 9,5,7.5,
or some other percen
tage within the consid
ered range. By law, the
1992 oats ARP must be
0, according to Susan
Rhode, program assis
tant of the Schuylkill
County agricultural Sta
bilization and Conser
vation Service.
She said the depart
ment has proposed 1992 1
corn ARP options,
along with an analysis
that includes estimated
planted acreage, pro
duction, domestic and
export use, ending
stocks, season average
producer price, and the
program participation
rate.
Comments on the
1992 Feed Grain Prog
ram should be mailed to
the Director, Commodi
ty Analysis Division,
USDA/ASCS, Room
3741-S, P.0.80x 2415,
Washington, D.C.
20013.
Wettlin disputed the contention
that the Class I utilization percen
tages for June reflected anything
out of the ordinary. He also said
the dealers are suffering from a
kind of character assassination.
“We have been portrayed as
anti-farmer,” he said. “We’re not
We’re pro-farmer.”
One indication, he said, has
been the processors ’ willingness to
pay premiums even before the
state (Hieing order became effec
tive, at a time when there was no
shortage of milk in the marketp
lace. In southern New Jersey,
where marketing is governed by
Federal Order 4, the processors
have long paid the $1.05 premium
charged by the Middle Atlantic
Cooperative Milk Marketing
Agency, known as MACMMA. In
the northern part of the state gov
erned by Order 2, processors have
been paying 40-60 cents a hun
dredweight even to the indepen
dent dairymen (those not asso
ciated with a cooperative). The
processors are still paying these
premiums and holding in escrow
only the difference between these
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amounts and 77 cents, Wettlin
said.
The spokesman said the proces
sors have objections to some spe
cific features of the New Jersey
order as well as a fundamental dis
agreement with the imposition of
government controls in the
marketplace.
“This is a market-wide prob
lem,” Wettlin said. “This is not a
New Jersey problem. There is too
much milk in the Northeast, parti
cularly in Federal Order 2. We’re
not doing the dairy farmers any
favor by imposing a temporary
premium that may or may not be in
existence at this time next year.”
The MACMMA premium,
which parallels the one established
by the Pennsylvania Milk Market
ing Board, is one common ground
that has escaped the fallout from
this latest battle between producers
and processors. Bob Dever, the
assistant general manager of
Atlantic Dairy Cooperative, said
the cooperative helped propose
and continues to support die New
Jersey state order. But he was care
ful not to criticize the processors
for their concerns about the legali
ty and scope of the new slate pric
ing orders. MACMMA leaders,
meanwhile, remain committed to a
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Wettlin also pointed to the
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dealers could support more readily
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