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The Un-Granular Solution LiHcaster Firtnlng, -SaUHtaV, 3t,* 199£A23 ARMPPA Presents Case (Continued from Page A 1) cost of production. According to Kinsman, any increase in price will be negotiated in a phased-in effort through local MAIC’s with hand lers or cooperatives that have the proper ratio of assets to liabilities. The agreements will be in place before a price is announced. Con tracts will be negotiated for a six month period. The basis for the belief that this organization of fanners can suc ceed at this time is the belief that regardless of statistical reports there is no surplus of milk in the nation. The goal has been set to capture control of 20 percent of the milk at the farm level. ARMPPA officials believe the diversion of this milk to handlers who are in need of milk to keep their plants running, or even the threat of this diversion, will be enough to get him a higher {nice, maybe even without changing handlers. To get started, Ken 8011, ARMPPA’s marketing manager, was quite forthright at the meeting about what needed to be done. “If you have a contract, you need to get out of it so you can be free to move milk when we get a better price,’" he said. “If you are shipping to an organization that will not take your milk without a contract sign up with an existing MAIC before you make the break so you will sdll have a milk market if they cut you off." Here is where the wagon wheel hits the manure pile for many far mers. The point where action must be taken. The point where each farm family’s present personal sec urity of a milk market is weighed against the future right to bargain for and move milk to where the best price can be obtained. Apparently many in the local Amish farm community have already weighed the alternatives and decided to join ARMPPA. In a phone call to Lancaster Farming Thursday morning, initiated by an Amish farmer in the Ronks area who had been at the meeting, this fanner said about 400 of the dairy men present at the meeting had already signed up at other meetings and were there to simply show sup port for die movement According to tins source, many more signed up at this meeting, and he esti mated that by now, 85 percent of the farmers at the meeting were members of ARMPPA. The movement has almost taken on an emo tional, religious fervor. In the meeting’s open ing invocation, a refer ence was made to David and Goliath. George Donnon, a Rising Sun, Maryland, farmer, who hosted the meeting along with his wife Debbie, spoke of the small percentage the farmer is getting out of the “$3l per hunderd weight the consumer is paying in the store.” 801 l talked of the far mer’s need to be the primary receiver rather than a “residual recipient” Paul Prozak, a fanner from Wisconsin who spoke at the meeting for the association, said ARMPPA is strictly a pricing organization without any intention of owning milk plants. “The only objective is to narrow the layers of business between the farmer and those plants that buy the milk. Power is the milk in the bulk tank, and we have a right to set a price on it We know the milk prices have been in the basement But we have enough members in this room to start setting our price right now.” Kinsman said be had visited many European countries in the last 12 years. “These farmers keep telling me to keep our farm economy strong because if it fails, the whole country’s economy fails,” Kins man said. “From experi ence they say that it takes 300 years to get the country’s economy back. When the farm economy is healthy, the total economy is health y. This is the right time to move on this because of the lack of milk supp ly almost everywhere.”
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