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Wooster Garden Festival, Secrest Arboretum, OARDC, Wooster, tion State Show, Hookstown Fairgrounds. “New Generation" No-Till Field Day, Steve Groff Farm, Holtwood. Cattlemen Summer Field Day, York County 4-H Center, 9 a.m. Show, Denver Showgrounds. Price Dairy Producers Watch Prices Plummet AMES, lowa Unusually high hay costs in portions of the country, combined with farmer pay prices the same as those in 1979 have forced thousands of the nation’s dairy fanners to the brink of a financial crisis. If conditions persist, it could mean higher dairy prices for consumers, and more price volatility for producers. Beginning in the early ’6os, the benchmark price dairy farmers were paid for their milk doubled every decade. They received $3.11 per hundred pounds in 1963, $6.30 per hundred pounds in 1973, and $12.49 in 1983. Dairy industry experts calcu lated that today producers should be receiving $21.00 per hundred pounds of milk, just to equal the price they received in the late ’7os. 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In the heart of dairy country, Minnesota and Wisconsin com bined create the largest dairy pro ducing sector in the U.S. Togeth er, the states have lost nearly 13,000 producers in the last seven years. And the situation has grown worse since last fall. Milking cow herd replacements are down be cause milk production is not prof itable, and producers are begin ning to send more of their cows to slaughter, eventually shortening milk supplies. “Many Americans take their food supply for granted,” said Gene Paul, President of National Farmers, an organization repre Give Us A Call! We would be pleased to show some of our completed facilities senting thousands of the nation’s dairy farmers. “Dairy fanners in this country have taken a financial beating, and untold numbers are going out of business, which should not only concern the dairy industry, but every U.S. consumer. U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, (R- Penn.), has introduced legislation that would help restore hope to dairy farmers. The proposals would factor in feed costs and other cash expenses to determine the Basic Formula Price (BFP), which is the basis for the price farmers are paid for their raw milk. “An important part of Specter’s legislation was a renewed request for Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to stop the dairy devastation, by imposing a $13.50 short term farmer pay price. We’re asking the Senate Agriculture Committee to move this proposal to the forefront, for the good of producers and consumers,” Paul emphasized. li» >- i.
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