KAREN BUTLER
Maryland Correspondent
Mt, Pleasant, Md. Almost
100 daily fanners and industry
representatives attended an infor
mational meeting here by a grass
roots organization intent on rais
ing the farm gate price of milk to
producers. The American Raw
Milk Producers Pricing Associa
tion, Inc. (ARMPPA) is a Wiscon
sin based organization seeking to
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Raw Milk Pricing Representatives Speak in Maryland
build national membership. Spon
sored in Maryland by volunteer
coordinators Eddie and Beth Boy
er, dairy farmers from Jefferson,
the meeting was held at the Ruri
tan Hall in Mount Pleasant.
According to John Kinsman,
vice president of ARMPPA and
himself a Wisconsin dairy fanner,
the orgnaization acts as a pricing
agency, bargaining on behalf of its
members to contract raw milk
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equivalent to the cost of produc
tion plus a profit. It essentially
functions as a broker through
which family farms can pool their
milk to obtain optimum milk
prices, making federal orders
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In order to effectively
bargain for the higher
prices ARMPPA must
enrol! members
throughout the nation
whose combined raw
milk production
amounts to 20% of
domestic production,
Kinsman explained.
Members enroll by pay
ing a $20.00 member
ship fee and signing a
contract now that goes
into effect on the
anniversary date of a
farmer’s current con
tract with his coop.
Once the critical
mass of 20% of the milk
produced has been
enrolled in the associa
tion, ARMPPA will
determine a price that is
reasonable for the milk
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Organizing the Maryland meeting were Eddie and Beth
Boyer, dairy farmers from Jefferson, pictured with daugh
er Heidi.
based on cost of production fig
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coops and offer them the option of
‘either paying that price, or losing
the ARMPPA members’ milk. If
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November i, 1997-A27
set price, ARMPPA will contract
the milk to a buyer who agrees to
pay the price. ARMPPA members
stand to gain bargaining power as
more farmers join the organization
and their milk becomes part of the
pool.
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Though not yet at the
20% goal they have set
for themselves, ARMP
PA members in Wis
consin are already see
ing the benefits of the
pricing agency, accord
ing to Joel Greeno, a
dairy farmer from Ken
dall, Wisconsin, who
spoke at the meeting.
“So far agencies have
been more than willing
to pay the price and
move the milk for
ARMPPA members,”
he said. Greeno esti
mated 1,200,000
pounds of milk per day
is being moved by the
marketing agency. Mr.
Kinsman stressed it was
in the milk plants’ best
interest to work with
ARMPPA instead of
competing with it “It’s
to their benefit because
if we go out of business,
they go out of busi
ness,” he explained.
Delegate Paul Stull,
commenting after the
program, appealed to
the dairy farmers to
unite behind a bill that
he could submit to com
mittee in Annapolis.
“Whatever the bill
would be," he urged, “I
encourage the dairy far
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on whatever would be
submitted. Get together
on something, and
please let your dele
gates know, because
they need to know how
you feel,” he said.
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