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SCRANTON (Lackawanna Co.) The Minnesota-Wisconsin Price
Series set a record high of $12.77 for March.
The old record of $12.67 for March was made in 1981, following an
increase of 74 cents in the support price to $13.10 in October 1980.
That $13.10 was the highest dairy support {nice on record, but that
$12.67 M-W price was as close as it ever came to the $13.10 support.
Which has something to say about how high you can try to push prices
either through support juices, mother methods, if the market doesn’t exist
to warrant the higher prices even if the Commodity Credit Corpora
tion is one of die buyers in the market.
For more recent comparisons, that $ 12.77 M-W price for Match was 36
cents more than last month, and $1.75 better than last year.
From a low of $11.17 last August, it has made steady advances for the
last seven months that total $1.60 and average nearly 23 cents a month,
with more to come even as we start the spring season.
Reasons to this counter-seasonal good news, for producers with good
feed supplies or sources, are the same as they have been all winter
milk production that has been slow to increase for a variety of reasons,
and continuing good demand from handlers who don’t want to risk the
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prospect of even lower production in the future.
In addition, the Dairy Export Incentive Program is finally revived and
adding to the demand side particularly for milk powder.
Another Record
The reason for the record high M-W price centered largely on a record
high cheese price.
On Friday (April 1), the National Cheese Exchange reported prices of
nearly $1.40 a poundfor Mocks and over $1.37 for barrels. This was the
result of nine weeks of price increases that totaled over 9 cents on Mocks
and nearly 12 cents on barrels.
The previous highs of $1.39 and $1.36 were also set in April last year.
The high continued through May when they started a steady decline of 18
cents in 10 weeks before starting up again in August
Perhaps there is something in this pattern of a year ago that may give
some clues to the future.
No one believes cheese prices can continue their present course much
longer. Some forecasters have already predicted an imminent crash. They
just don’t agree on when it will come.
Of course, the cheese prices haven’t been all that have contributed to
the higher M-W. Powder prices have gone as high as $1.16 with the help
of subsidized exports under DEIP, and butter prices have almost put CCC
out of business as a price supporter.
Lower production that hangs on in the upper Midwest has milk moving
from Florida to Wisconsin as production increases in the warmer climate.
Market Adjustment
As in the past, all of these trends can change in the future. Just as the
stock market needed adjustment and recovered, watch for a similar
adjustment in milk prices as the factors that produced these record high
prices shift in response to changing conditions and certainly to the higher
prices that they produced.
What goes up can come down, and certainly we should learn from the
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Conservationists
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
NORTH CORNWALL (Lebanon Co.)
A proposal to establish three separate conser
vation awards was approved at a committee
meeting of conservation groups Monday
night.
According to Chuck Wertz, Lebanon
County Conservation District manager, the
awards will honor the conservation landow
ner of the year, conservationist of the year,
and conservation educator.
The awards were patterned after guidelines
established by the Pennsylvania Association
of Conservation Districts (PACD), according
to Wertz. A committee established by several
county conservation groups used some of the
guidelines of the PACD and combined sever
al categories to come up with three basic
awards, said Wertz.
According to the district manager, the Con
servation Landowner Award is patterned after
PACD’s Conservation Fanner of the Year
Award category but is open to any farmer,
landowner, civic organization, government
agency, business, or industry. The Conserva
tion Landowner Award will examine how
conservation has been applied to varying land
uses, including but not limited to farming,
woodlot management/forestry, watersheds,
wildlife/recreation, urban conservation, and
resource recovcry/recycling programs.
For some time, the conservation district has
only sporadically honored a conservation
educator, according to Wertz. The Conserva
tion Education Award would honor either a
paid professional or volunteer educator who
has contributed time and expertise to the
promotion of conservation through education.
“We’re not going to exclude people who
are not paid as educators,” said Wertz.
The Conservationist of the Year Award
will stress voluntary conservation efforts of
an individual or group entity that is not neces
sarily a landowner practicing conservation,
according to Wertz.
“We never really had a good, comprehen
sive awards program due to lack of public
support,” said Wertz. He indicated that local
representatives of the Lebanon County Feder
ation of Sportsman’s Clubs, state fish and
boat commission, game commission, state
bureau of forestry, and other groups serve on
the committee.
The awards will be presented at the annual
county conservation meeting on November 3
at noon at the Lebanon Valley Agricultural
Center.
For more information about the awards,
contact Wertz at the district, (717) 272-3377.