Farmers Visit Washington
CAMP HILL (Cumberland
Co.) Pennsylvania’s Congres
sional representatives were urged
not to retreat from earlier com
mitments to agriculture when
about 200 Pennsylvania Farm
Bureau (PFB) members visited
Washington March 19 - 20 for
the farm organization’s 2003 Na
tional Legislative Conference.
The meetings occurred as the
U.S. House Budget Committee
considered a cut of as much as
Land O’Lakes Testifies In Favor Of Pooling Premium
CARLISLE (Cumberland Co.)
Pooling is the only fair way to make
sure that the premium dollars col
lected by the Pennsylvania Milk Mar
keting Board will benefit all produc
ers in the state, Land O’Lakes Dairy
Committee Chairman Gordon Hoo
ver told members of the Senate and
House Agricultural and Rural Af
fairs Committees Wednesday.
Hoover, a dairy producer from
Gap, joined Dennis Schad, Land
O’Lakes director of Mid-Atlantic
marketing and regulatory affairs, to
testify on behalf of Land O’Lakes at
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help balance the federal budget
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“Farmers have not partici
pated in the economic growth
and prosperity that many others
enjoyed during the last decade.
Poor commodity prices, reduced
market opportunities, and natu
ral disasters have further eroded
the farm economy,” said PFB
President Guy F. Donaldson.
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a hearing before the combined ag
committees, conducted in State Col
lege.
During the hearing, Land O’Lakes
testified in support of the Pennsylva
nia Milk Marketing Board’s (PMMB)
regulation to pool 45 percent of the
Pennsylvania over-order premium
among all producers in Pennsylva
nia. The hearing was part of the reg
ulatory review process for the regula
tion, released by the PMMB in
February.
“The reason Land O'Lakes has
spent the last five years urging the
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sues were other focal points for
the Congressional meetings.
Farm Bureau members told law
makers that agriculture depends
on reliable and affordable sources
of energy.
“As world events now remind
us that our energy supply can be
unstable, America needs to be
come more self-sufficient. Agri
culture can be part of the solution
through production for ethanol,
bio-diesel, and methane,” Don
aldson noted. “Passage of a com
prehensive energy bill should be a
Congressional priority.”
PMMB to pool the Pennsylvania
over-order premium is simply be
cause the program was created to
help all Pennsylvania dairy produc
ers,” Hoover said, adding that Land
O’Lakes members face the same eco
nomic challenges and produce the
same quality milk as producers who
ship to processors with higher Class I
utilization.
“There is no just reason why Land
O’Lakes producers in Pennsylvania
should not share equally in the bene
fits of the over-order premium.”
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Heifers Wanted For PH A Sale
STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.)
The Pennsylvania Holstein Associ
ation (PHA) invites all Holstein dairy
producers and heifer growers to con
sign to the PHA ID Heifer Sale, Fri
day, April 25, at 11 a.m. sharp, Mid
dletown, on the premises of the
association’s farm.
Pennsylvania Holstein Association
and Stonehurst Farm, cooperative
managers of this sale series, seeks
high quality Holstein heifers bred less
than 7 months down to 400 pounds
at sale time. These heifers should be
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steins.
put years of deliberate thought and
study into how the Pennsylvania
over-order premium could be distrib
uted most appropriately to benefit all
Pennsylvania producers.
“The PMMB, an agency which the
General Assembly has charged to be
expert in matters of the dairy indus
try, has sent you a reasoned regula
tion which considers the interests of
all of the state’s dairy farmers,” he
said. “The board drafted this regula
tion because they determined that
the level of the over-order premium
was based on conditions faced by all
Pennsylvania
dairy farmers
and that fair
ness dictated
that the premi
um be more
equitably pool
ed.”
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Physical conformation and health
are the keys. The association wel
comes high quality groups and indi
viduals from Pennsylvania and all
surrounding states. The association
plans to sell 400 head. The commis
sion is only 7 percent. If you have
extra heifers, then let the PHA ID
Heifer Sale be the place to market
them.
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Farm at pha@vicon.net, djlentz@pa
holsteins.com, stonhurst@super
net.com, or by calling (814) 234-0364
and (717) 329-9202, or (717)
687-7475. Consignment deadline is
April 15.
premiums among their members,
and all dealers in Pennsylvania use
this payment-pooling methodology,”
Schad said.
Both Hoover and Schad reaf
firmed Land O’Lakes commitment to
keep any proceeds from the Pennsyl
vania over-order premium within the
state and pay its members those re
turns. “Pooling is not about Land
O’Lakes or who it represents any
more than is about any other dair>
industry organization supporting or
opposing the regulation,” Hoover
said. “It’s about the dairy producers
who will be affected by it.
“More producers in Pennsylvania
will benefit from pooling than those
who won’t,” he explained, adding
that one-third of the state’s dain
producers currently receive 84 per
cent of the premium proceeds
“Those producers who wll benefil
from pooling work just as hard, are
just as valuable members of the com
munity, and deserve those premium
dollars just as much as any other
producer in the state. That’s why we
urge the passage of this pooling regu
lation.”
Pooling has
been in practice
for more than
65 years, with
about 85 per
cent of the na
tion’s milk sup
ply priced and
pooled through
the Federal
Order milk
marketing sys
tem.
In the March 15 issue of Lan
caster Farming . we misidentified
a state FFA officer. Seated in
photo is Julie Flinchbaugh, state
FFA reporter. Lancaster Farm
ing apologizes for the error.
“The PMMB
already allows
individual pro
cessors to pool
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