over Pennsylvania. I whitewash dairy barns as a sideline to supplement our farm income and I get many ideas from listening to the heart of America, “the true American farmers.” As I travel around to thirteen counties in our state I hear, and see many different things that most farmers don’t realize are happening or better yet are never informed about or maybe I should say “don’t have time to care about.” Always rushing to keep work ing harder because they are told to, make more milk and we will market it for you. It is my opinion that if they are true dairy leaders, if they truly wanted to tell the farmers IaSSS* jigs Sp MONDAY, \ CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS Unless Otherwise Marked A t-iquamyeln I . } COFFEE ▼ & COOKIES r?— ll^— A D a ° A<>A 0 a OOpA °A° a <> o ♦ Farm Forum ❖ mad from Pago A 10) something that they should do, that would be in their best inter est, they should tell them to stop producing as much milk for a while until we can get a hold on our share of the market price. Do you think that the co-ops who are supposed to speak in the best interest of their produc ers... are? The majority of the milk pro duced in America is still con trolled by the co-op concept. Yet why has the price farmers receive to produce milk way below cost? Are the large co-ops process ing co-ops? Understanding your sorrow. Peter A. Seman Thompson Storewide Savings DEC. 31 50% OFF Closing At 3 P.M. - Dec. 24 Christmas Eve 4 PM • New Year's Eve ilCf Hardware 1739 West Main Street, Ephrata - V YEAR-END DEC. 27 - FRIDAY, Editor; Thank you for your editorial (Dec. 11, A-10) Your assessment of the situation dairy farmers are facing is very accurate. The future of the dairy industry is very bleak and I wanted to let you know that as a dairy farmer I appreciate someone in the farm press finally having the guts to state that all is definite ly not well. I can only hope that producers will use this latest financial melt-down as an oppor tunity to join as a united front and to rail against a system that has very nearly eliminated them. At this time, if we all curl up in balls in the corner then you are absolutely right good bye dairy farmers! Thank you again. Cyrus S. Cochran Westfield 0 Low Prices, High Quality, Friendly Service, Convenient Hours Monday-Fnday 7:00 am-9:00 pm Saturday 8 00 am-s'oo pm (717) 738-4241 Lancaster Faming, Saturday. December 18, 1999-A3l (Continued from Pag* Al °) Annual Dairy meeting with Glenn Shirk, Vo-Ag Dept., Octorara High School, 7:30 p.m. Pa. Tobacco Marketing Associa tion Auction at Orion Indstrial Fulton County Agribusiness Breakfast, McConnellsburg American Legem Post 561, 8 Lancaster Farming office closed. t-l 50% COLLECTIBLE ERTL BANKS CASH & CARRY CHECKS, CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED h ❖ Farm Calendar * Siilurtlin. December 25 Merry Christmas! lUskyßusiness-Solutions, Finan cial Management Seminar, Fogelsville, 9 a.m. Solanco Young Fanner Program, Money Management In The Ag Solanco High For You!, Lebanon County Fxno Center. Lebano|L_2-aJIL Adams County Holstein Associa tion Annual Meeting, York Springs Fire Hall, York Serines. 7 p.m. OFF MB \ \\ • D.I A * * • • ft; • . • • • • A • • *□ •^\- ■V (ITml □ > d
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