m ■ * w/ { > I ■' < v.■ |,. v . (/1 —nk 1 _ ia:'*'' „ H . Bkß qnWsMH^^Bbbd ■■f V. l|| JMnsgSTßf ■ 1 .y»|i| j \ii iiihi Voi. 41 No. 13 Mount Joy Farmers’ Cooperative Reports Growth EVERETT NEWSWANGER Managing Editor MT. JOY (Lancaster Co.) The ML Joy Farmers’ Cooperative increased its members and total pounds of milk shipped in 1995, but the price of milk was down. This report was given at the annual cooperative meeting Wed nesday at noon. Marlin Benedict gave the finan cial report. He said the 221,757,601 pounds of milk hand led by the cooperative represcn- Don Rlsser, president, left, and Roy Alger, retiring direc tor who served the Mount Joy Fanners Cooperative for 28 years, attend the cooperative’s annual meeting. At the crops conference, the Pennsylvania Five-Acre Com Club awards ware presented. First place awards went to, from left, Jack Coleman, Ronks, In the shelled grain class three-acre-plus harvest size; John Crist, Jsrssy Shore, tor the shsllsd grain class machine harvest size; 604 Par Copy fated a 31.9 percent increase. This milk was valued at over six million dollars in spile of a 25 percent decrease. The avenge milk price to members declined 74 cents from $14.21 in 1994 to 13.47 this year. The actual net price to members was $12.60. With the declining milk price, the cooperative continues to try to pass along to members as much of the received price as possible. Thus the year-end “13 th check,” and the Corn Growers Could Face Vote On Checkoff Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 3, 1996 (Turn to Pag* A 32) Five-Acre Awards Presented At Two queens and a princess. From left, Jona as the national honey queen, Emilie Miller is the Pennsylvania Polled and Emily Anderson was crowned Pennsylvania honey queen last month. IrflpilHon. the contestants for the New York Dairy Princess Pageant are ready for their biqiieat later this month and some of their present dairy princesses have been named u lflpwiiNi l . N Staff writer Lou Ann Good has stories on this royalty, the J. Leslie Landis family, and more In Section B. Washington Political Extremes Cloud Farm Bill Probabilities VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Farming Staff CARLISLE (Cumberland Co.) The shape of the next Farm Bill is far from known, and proof is the switch in speakers to discuss the Farm Bill at the Tues- day morning general session of the 1996 Pennsylvania Crops Confer ence held at the Embers Inn, in Richard Kraklar, Lebanon, for tha ahallad grain, three-year average, three-acre-plus harvest size; Hannan Manbeck, shelled grain claaa, three-year average, regular harvest size; and Ed Snook, ahallad grain class, regular harvest size. Carlisle. Michael L. Wagner, executive director of the Ohio Com Growers Association was the speaker, though he replaced Susan Keith of the National Com Growers Asso ciation, who had replaced Keith Heard, vice president of the NCGA. The reason for the speaker- Conference Four Sections switching was because the U.S. Legislature restarted discussions on the Farm Bill and the higher level representatives of the NCG A needed to be in Washington D.C. to help argue on behalf of com growers. Wagner started his talk with an example of how lobbying efforts (Turn to Pago Al 9) ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Fanning Staff CARLISLE (Cumberland Co.) Pennsylvania com growers could be asked to vole in a referen dum in the near future on a possi ble checkoff. The checkoff, mirrored after a similar one in New York, could collect 1/4 cents for each bushel of com at point of purchase, accord ing to Curt Rakestraw, president of the Pennsylvania Master Com Growers Association (PMCGA), on Tuesday afternoon at the Penn State-sponsored Pennsylvania Crops Conference. According to Rakestraw, the price could even be reflected in com purchased by feeders from milk. Increasingly, there will be less and less support by the U.S. gov ernment on com product promo tion, research, and development This could have a far-reaching and significant impact on growers (Turn to Pago A 27) $25.00 Nr YMr
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