Maryland
Holstein
Convention
Held
(Continued from Pago A2O)
The ladies program included
a visit to the Maryland home
and Garden Show, held at the
exhibition hall at the fair
grounds. After touring the show
the ladies had how-to-seminars
and lunched at the exhibition
hall.
The juniors held their meet
ing on the light rail train on
their way to Camden Yards. In
the afternoon they toured the
Baltimore Aquarium, and
returned on the train.
(See Award Winner
Placings Next Week)
Dairy Co-ops
Want Compact
Legislation
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.) —"The old status
quo of dairy fanning is out die door,” says Gor
don Hoover, Lancaster County daily producer.
“Dairy compacts are another tool that fanners
can use in these changing times for pricing their
milk."
Hoover, a director of Land O’Lakes, was one
of several dairy cooperative leaders and staff rep
resentatives who met last Friday with Senator
Noah Wenger, acting chairman of the state Sen
ate Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, to
discuss the issue of dairy compacts. Joining for
ces in the drive for compact legislation to be ad
dressed in Pennsylvania are Dairylea, Dairy
Farmers of America, Land O’Lakes and Mary
land and Virginia Milk Producers.
On Match 10, Senator Wenger’s office an
nounced an informational bearing on dairy com
pacts to be held April 3 in Williamsport for in
dustry and public input on the legislative issue.
The hearing is scheduled to run from 9 a.m.
through 4 p.m. at the Professional Development
Center of the Pennsylvania College of Tech
nology, with time allowed in the agenda for pro
ducer comments.
Dairy cooperatives are taking a lead role in
pushing for compact legislation to be addressed
in Pennsylvania. Though Senate Bill 170 went to
the Senate Ag Committee in January 1997, a
House Bill. HB 2302, was introduced and refer
red to the House Ag Committee on March 11, co
rponsored by 40 of the state’s legislators.
Push for the compact legislation comes on the
heels of higher Class I milk prices being paid to
dairy producers involved in the New England
Dairy Compact That compact, birthed under the
auspices of the 1996 Farm Bill and upheld
through court challenges since taking effect last
rummer, has established a $16.94 hundred
weight price on all Class I milk sold in the com
pact area. As the federal order Class I price fluc
tuates with seasonal formula price swings, the
Compact collects the additional monies above
the federal order level and returns it to dairy pro
ducers within the pricing area.
Under the statutes of the compact structure.
Rates contiguous to a compact state can join in
die umbrella of regional compact pricing. How
ever, to do so. a joining state must have identical
thiry compact legislation passed in its state
(oveming body. New Jersey has passed compact
legislation. It has passed in New York’s Senate
and is under debate on the Assembly side. Dairy
cooperative leaden eye having Pennsylvania
legislation passed and in place if New York’s is
successful.
With the compact’s current pricing structure
set to run only to April 1999, when Federal Order
(Turn to Pago A 22)
Progressive genetics herd award winners, from left, Cam
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and Mike Allen, Glen-Toctin.
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