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THOMAS^ JIJKCHAK
Lackawanna County
SCRANTON (Lackawanna Co.) It went up higher and stayed up
longer than anyone predicted but dairy products prices and the milk supp
ly finally caught up with the Minnesota-Wisconsin Price Series.
It fell 38 cents in December to $12.10 after eight months of increases.
It's still $1.91 better than last year and did manage to keep your farm
price on the increase to the end of the year.
Cheese prices dropped slowly losing only two cents on blocks and five
cents on barrels this month but still 14 cents above the support price. Pow
der prices dropped more than cheese losing 14 cents in one month but
again still well anove supports.
Butter prices dropped below supports but that was only two cents from
where they were last month.
The drops in product prices aren't as disturbing as the increases in milk
supplies. It doesn't show up so much on the production charts but there's a
lot of milk selling at under order prices in the East and the upper Midwest.
Usually some milk is moving out of the M-W area to tighter markets
but now there's more milk moving in. If this keeps up we may see a real
spring flush for the first time in several years.
If the drought cut feed supplies in the Northeast it certainly isn't show
ing up yet in the milk supply.
The Disaster Assistance Program has been added to the Emergency
Livestock Feed Program and may give added relief to dairymen suffering
crop losses in 1990 or 1991.
This program is for nearly all crops, including grain and forage crops,
where losses were over 40 percent without crop insurance and 35 percent
with crop insurance. Losses for crop years 1990 or 1991 are covered and
the farmer has the choice. Take one year or the other but not both.
However, losses on two different farms operated by the same producer
could be eligible in either year but not two different crops on the same
farm in different years.
Congress limited payments to $995 million so the rate of payment
won't be known until all the claims are in to see how far the money goes.
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The sign up period begins February 3 and ends on Match 13.
It is possible that a farmer could qualify for payments under both the
Emergency Livestock Feed Program and the Disaster Assistance
Program.
While you're at the ASCS office you can also make appplication for
your five cent refund as soon as you have your December milk check stub.
All you have to do is prove that you produced no more milk in 1991
than you did in 1990 and you get back the five cents a hundred you akeady
paid in 1991 under the Budget Reconciliation Act
You'll need each of your monthly statements from 1990 and 1991 and
they will be matched to determine if you had more, the same or less milk
shipped in 1991.
The monthly matching is important If you quit shipping milk in 1991
only those months that can be matched with 1990 will be counted. If you
shipped milk from more tlutn one farm you will have to report on all of
them. This will include all the farms in which you or your wife have an
interest. You can transfer the 1990 base if you sell the business but only if
it's the entire operation and goes to a member of vour family.
You can make application anytime now up to March 16 and probably
get a check as soon as you qualify. There are no payment limits and you
don't need a conservation plan for this refund.
However, you should know' that how much is refunded for 1991 will be
reflected in the assessment for 1992.
Starting with January milk you will be paving 11.25 cents a hundred
but this can change in May.
When all of the applications for 1991 are made and the refunds paid, the
total will be announced by April 30. That's when the decision will be
made on how much more the assessment will be for the last seven months
of 1992.
You may not have paid much attention to the five cent assessment in
1991 but the stakes are going up and it may get your attention in 1992 or
1993 and it isn’t over until 1996.
With the help of a near record high Class I price of $14.92 in December
and in spite of a record low of 40 percent Class I utilization you still made
the highest blend price of the year in December in Order 2.
It was just two cents higher than November at $13.34 but it was $2.11
higher than last December and that sounds a lot better.
You were still getting the benefit of the higher M-W price in October in
your Class I milk so it went up4B cents over November to $14.92. the sec
ond highest Class I price for December.
The Class II price at $13.41 was also 48 cents above November but the
Class 111 price at $12.16 took the full blow of the 38 cent drop in the M-W
this month.
Total receipts took a jump of a million pounds per day over November
so it's no wonder there were son-e bargain prices in the market last month.
Lower butter pices dropped the differential down to 10 cents which
you haven't seen in 30 vears. At least the $ 13.34 for December milk saved
my prediction that farm prices would increase to the end of the year but I
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LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
—The Lancaster Red Rose DHIA
board of directors held its annual
re-organization meeting on Janu
ary 27. The following officers
were elected: P. Robert Wenger,
president; Joseph Graybeal. vice
president; and Gerald Risser, sec
retary. The board also endorsed
Joseph Graybeal as a candidate for
stale director from the Southeast
region to replace J. Robert Kindig,
who announced his decision not to
seek re-election.
The re-organization committee
reported that it is attempting to
work through a new committee set
up by the state board to come up
with a new federated agreement
for counties who do not wish to
centralize.
Lancaster feels that it would be
in the best interests of both local
members and the whole state to
attempt to keep Pa. DHIA unified.
The major concern is still the trans
fer of records from Pa. DHIA to the
DRPC at Raleigh to provide access
to the most up-to-date technology
currently available in dairy records
processing at a reasonable cost
Due to difficulties in arriving at an
agreement with Pa. DHIA, the
February 1 goal for Raleigh pro
cessing is no longer a possibility. It
is hoped that an agreement can be
reached with the next two months.
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