A34-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 16, 1991
Price Stability Sought
(Continued from Pag* A 22)
to maintain operations during per
iods of break-even milk prices, or
survive temporary financial losses,
or the ability to buy materials,
feeds or fuel at bulk wholesale
prices, independent producers are
at a disadvantage in the competi
tion to market milk.
On Tuesday, a 59-year-old
established dairyman in Lebanon
County bemoaned the days when
an average milking herd was 25 to
30 cows. He now has almost 60
registered Holsteins and said he
doesn’t think conditions will
improve for the traditional
dairyman-
But even before those days of
25-head milking strings, many
family farm milking herds had 10
to 12 cows, somq even fewer.
Changes in the dairy industry
have been slowly, but consistently
following a pattern.
Improved technology has elimi
nated a great deal of labor with
milk production and allowed lar
ger milking herds and theoretically
more income, but it has also
increased the need for higher over
head costs and additional
education.
Jersey
Cattle
Shown
LOUISVILLE. Ky.
Seventeen Pennsyl
vania Jersey juniors and
their animals competed
in the AH American
Jersey Cattle Shows,
held in conjunction with
the North American
International Livestock
Exposition, in Louis
ville, Kentucky.
The animals and
owners participated in
the All American Junior
Jersey Show last Satur
day, and also in the
open competition, held
on Monday.
Pennsylvania juniors
participating in the
Louisville trip include
the following; Interme
diate Calves, Kimberly
Miller, Cambridge
Springs and Benjamin
Voorhies, Stoneboro;
Senior Calves, Sarah
Brocklehurst, Mercer,
and Jennifer Miller,
Cambridge Springs;
Summer Yearlings,
Jason Miller, Cam
bridge Springs, and
Brian Reichard, Cham
bersburg; Junior Year
ling, Amy Plummer,
Chalfont; Intermediate
Yearling, Roger Ale
xander, Mansfield;
Senior Yearling in
Milk, Adam Dean, New
Castle; Junior Two
Year Old Cow, Paul
Plummer, Chalfont;
Senior Two Year Old
Cow, Roy Skinner,
Mercersburg; Three
Year Old Cow, James
Moffitt, Chambersburg;
Four Year Old Cows,
James Crouse, Green
castle and Tammy Yea
ger, Spring City; Five
Year Old Cows, Tiffany
Yeager, Spring City,
and Melanie Dietrich*
Newburg; and Six Year
Old Cow, Chad Kunz,
Centerville.
Without the monetary rewards
needed to pay back the cost of edu
cation, the impetus for indepen
dent producers to start into busi
ness does not exist
However, jobs on large farms
are providing opportunities for
specialists within the dairy
industry.
Money received on the farm for
milk apparently will continue to
fluctuate and only provide a margi
nal profit for the small producer,
according to the observations by a
number of people within the dairy
industry.
There are exceptions with niche
marketing of milk, such as dairy
farms with retail stores which offer
a variety of products and have
locations near large populations of
people. These dairy producers can
undersell the normal retail super
market stores and chains.
However, the ability to under
price milk products does not guar
antee such niche marketing is pro
fitable. A combination of location,
demand and other aspects which
create customer appeal are needed
to make such venture work, as was
evidenced by the large number of
on-farm retail stores which were
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(Continued from Pag* A 32) Fair. join Pennfield as a broiler flock
poultry, educates members, and As far as his goal as the Poultry supervisor. As always, Pantano
supports activities that strengthen Association president, Pantano was eager to find more out about
the industry. The Association said, “Do everything better than the industry, and the chance to
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funds the 4-H embryology project, is optimistic that this year will be tano jokes that it took him six years
and has a food stand at the Ephrata even better. He said, ‘The Associ- to realize that he was working with
ation has strong backing and the the wrong chicken,
county’s poultry industry is Although Pantano is now work
strong.” ing with broilers that doesn’t mean
Some of this year’s successes that he isn’t concerned about the
for the Poultry Association salmonella problem facing egg
included having more people producers,
attend and exhibit at Poultry Prog- He said, “I have a positive out
ress Days and having the largest look. We came through Avian
crowd ever attend the pageant and Influenza, we can get through sal
the annual poultry banquet monella also.”
For the first time, the Associa- Colored Easter chicks are no
tion awarded Poultry Family Spirit longer given to children as pets and
Awards this year in recognition of Pantano understands the reason
families who have helped make the why, but he will never forget how
industry strong. those chicks steered his interest
As an avid stamp collector, Pan- into a poultry career,
tano has worked to have the U.S. He said, “I really enjoy my
Post Office print a postage stamp work. I love working with farmers,
honoring the poultry industry. One There’re lots of opportunities in
had been printed in 1948 comme- the poultry industry,
morating the industry’s centennial. “We’re the number one ag
industry in the county and the
county has the largest egg produc
tion in the U.S. It makes me feel
good to be part of such a fine
industry."
created and failed during the
19705.
The demand for fresh milk is
still as great as it was for the past
decades, but it is not increasing,
according to industry officials.
The greatest increase in demand
has been for milk byproducts and
components.
Currently, officials calculate
that of the milk produced in the
Pennsylvania area, about 40 per
cent is used for fluid consumption,
while 60 percent is used to make
other products.
The milk processors have not
completely lost their demand for
fresh raw milk, but there are many
businesses which can ship milk
products into Pennsylvania at a
cheaper price than it what it costs
to maintain a work force and
equipment to extract those com
modities from fresh milk.
Fluid milk cannot be stored for
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