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
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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