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Stacy Snyder, left, receives rotating trophy for Mos* Active Club Member from Andrew Long. WRAP IN THE QUALITY WITH A FULL RANGE OF BALE WRAPPERS FOR FARMERS AND CONTRACTORS ■Mounted and trailed machines. ■ In Cab cable controls with the option of electric on the TR76. ■Handles bales up to 5' 6" in diameter and up to 1200 kg in weight ■Handles 500 mm or 750 mm ■ Twin nuns on TR76 loading arm. ■Mechanical cut and hold on TR76. ■ Bale counter standard BUILT FOR RELIABILITY AND STRENGTH PARMITER •<:r- , A Poultry Club Holds (ConUnuad (ram Pag* AH) fessor of food science, for his assistance with smoking turkeys for the club sale; • Certificates of appreciation • Round Hill Foods (for delivering turkeys for the spring sale) and David Garber (for providing trans portation for the club’s annual trip to Atlanta). The new officers for 1993-1994 are: Troy Eckert, president, Joe Garber, vice president; Doug Metzler, secretary; Brenda Mor gan. treasurer; Lydia Kepler, reporter, and Chris Walter and Eric Smith, Ag Student Council representatives. Club advisor Dirk Wise announced that the club had won the Club of the Year Award at the Southeast Poultry Association meeting in Atlanta this year. He said the new Penn State poultry facilities are under construction and are slated for completion this summer. The club’s activities included and participating in the Penn State selling smoked turkeys from Meats Spectacular at the Nittany Round Hill Farms, attending the Mall and the fad picnic and Ag Hill Lancaster County Poultry Days Olympics on campus. Indiana Livestock Botnar City, PA Ttmnday, April 29, 1993 Riport mpplM by Auction CATTLE 225. STEERS: HIGH CHOICE AND PRIME 83.50, CHOICE 80.00- SELECT 77,00, SELECT A CHOICE HOLSTEINS 70.00, HEIFERS. CHOICE 81.00, SELECT 76.00- COWS: BREAKING UTILITY A COMMERCIAL94.9O, CUTTER A BON ING UTILITY 47.00-91.00, CANNBR A LOW CUTTER 40.00-49.00, SHELLS 39.00. BULLOCKS: SELECT 70.25. Dairy Farmers Need $l6 A Hundredweight For Milk UmcntM’ ftmUng, Srturfry, Miy 1, m»A2t and International Poultry Expo, BULLS: YIELD GRADE NO. 1 60.0044.50. FEEDER CALVES: FRAMES: SMALL 90.00, MEDIUM 81.00; LARGE 77.50. CALVES: 95. GOOD 110.00. STAN- DARD A GOOD 60 LBS. 60.00,79 LBS. 70.00. HOLSTEIN BULLS «1 99-110 LBS. 160.00-175.00. #2 100-120 LBS. 140.00-150.00. HOLSTEIN HEIFERS 95 LBS. iBO.OO. HOGS 80. BAG US NO. 1-2 249 LBS. 49.00; US NO. 1-3 210-260 LBS. 40.00*4.00. SOWS VS NO. 1-3 440-500 LBS. 37.00-39J0. BOARS 3a FEEDER nos a SHEEP: 24 LAMBS CHOICE SO LBS. 45.0 a GOATS 12, MEDIUM 55.00, SMALL 18.00. MESHOPPEN (Wyoming Co.) —Surveys conducted by the Progressive Agriculture Organization (Pro Ag) during several meet ings with dairy farmers clearly indicate the average dairy farmer believes he should receive an average milk price of $l6 per cwt in order to cover operating costs plus making the needed investments in his farm. According to John Pardoe, president of Pro Ag, the organization held die meetings with dairy farmers under the banner of the National Dairy campaign. The campaign is an effort by dairy fanners and organizations across the United Slates in an attempt to unify dairy far mers in support of a New National Dairy Pblicy. Pardoe said, “Dairy fanners are tired of selling their capital assets, using up their equi ty and being forced to supplement their inadequate milk prices with off-farm income.” Arden Tewksbury, manager of Pro Ag, conducted the meetings. Tewksbury said, “Not only did the ( dairy farmers report the need of $l6 for milk, but they also strongly support a new milk pricing formula based on the national average cost of production as determined by the USDA. To prevent the pos sibility of increased, unneeded milk produc tion, the dairy farmers indicate they favor a supply management program such as a two tier program. It may be structured in different forms, but basically the program would allow the dairy farmers to receive a realistic price from the market place for the milk used in the commercial market (considered to be about 96 or 97 percent of the national production) and a much cheaper price would be paid for the remaining milk.” President Pardoe claims under the present pricing formula, approximately three or four percent of the National Production becomes the culprit that destroys all milk prices. Tewksbury has been a strong critic of the present pricing formula (M and W Price) for many years, calling the formula unrealistic, inadequate, and does not respond to the pric ing needs of dairy farmers. During the meetings, Tewksbury used the USDA’s 1990 cost of production figures and put together a formula that would return a pay price to dairy farmers in federal order #2 of $15.81. This figure allows $1,50 per cwt. as a return to dairy farmers for their management and risk. Tewksbury claims that some cost of pro duction pricing formulas that are being thrown around uses the selling of capital assets and off-farm income as a method of lowering the cost of producing milk. The USDA’s formula does not support the above methods. At a recent milk hearing conducted by the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board, (PMMB) Pro Ag did not support using the Pennsylvania Agriculture Statistical Service Formula as a method of establishing over order premiums. Instead, Pro Ag urged the PMMB to increase their premium from 80 cents per cwt. to $1.05 per cwt. on July 1, 1993. President Pardoc concluded by saying, “Pro Ag clearly supports a new pricing for mula based on die average cost of production, but the most realistic formula we see is the one used by the USDA