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Show Jane 18, 1871 IKE CITIZEN - T Dairy Business Has Become Big Business Dairy industry cash receipts' wild hit $6.5 billion in 1971 according to leading dairy economists. Income will get a boost from increased milk production, which was 117 billion pounds in 1970; population growth; rising incomes; 'and higher dairy food prices. Sales of dairy products will Increase leas than population and Caron use of home produced dairy products is falling. Therefore per capita Consumption of milk in all forms is expected to remain dose to the 67 pounds estimated for 1970. Per capita consumption of low fat dairy products will increase as consumption bf high 'fat items declines slightly. The move in dairy farming in the 1970s will be toward larger, more highly organized ' Bigger operations. dairy herds,and bigger processing larger cooperative plants marketing organizations will be part of the changing dairy industry. A major factor in improving .the dairy picture is the increase in support prices by the government. More federal (pending In the government surplus removal program has changed dairying busiinto a ness in comparison with oth- tions, merchandising, educational and new product deThis velopment programs. wiH reduce competition from imitation dairy products and increase per capita consumption of low fat dairy products. The experts also predict that farmers marketing of dairy products will become more complex. They note that elements of the dairy in' dustry which produce, process or market dairy products as they did during the sixties will be out of step in the seventies. M a r k e ting organizations wiH become fewer and larger. They will be able to im- - farm pickup and plies to manufacture products of milk to plants, in line with current market demands. thereby reducing farm Such plants will and trans- help reduce dairy manufacportation charges. New, larg- turing costs and return more er plants will replace small retail dollars to the ' dairy obsolete dairy plants. These farmer. wiH be located strategically Any way you took at it, to minimize hauling costs dairy farming is big busi and wiH allocate milk sup ness. ! trove de-ive- ry to-pla- nt over-the-roa- d Lewiston State Bank, Producer's Milking Parlor and Cow Herd, is money-makin- g million, down one Busi- ness in Cache Valley. We have been financing 65 years. per- cent from 1970. Average annual decline in cow numbers has been three percent tor the past 10 years. Increased per-coproduction has more than countered the decline in herd size, however. Average annual output We Dairymen for have grown to- gether with dairying and are proud of the part we have play- w of 9,370 pounds an essential part of the Successful Dairy er types of fanning. This renewed ' interest in dairying has slowed' the steady decline in the number of dairy Cows. Milk cows on farms as of January 1 totaled 12.4 like the ed in this growth. per cow in was 33 percent higher than in 1960 and 75 percent 1970 hither than in 1950. (Experts differ in their predictions to the future of the dairying industry. One USDA economist predicts dairy surpluses win decrease while a university dairy specialist thinks increased government purchases wiH enlarge the dairy surplus stockpile. Recently, a leading dairy journal noted editorially that ithe outlook statements by ' econoland-gracollege mists, an deven the 'USDA outlook, must be accepted with the full knowledge of the limitations under which the projections are made." However, dairy industry experts do agree on certain points, basing their predictions on the status quo. By 1960 they expect the following changes to occur: Half of the 400,000 dairy farms wiH be gone with small ' nt ENJOY THE DELICIOUS These . . . ' PRODUCTS OF- . . . Market Have Some Today. wifi double. be 75. The dairy industry will lfflimrh aggressive advertising, promotions, pdbMc rela TEN Favorite dairy farms practically extinct. Commercial dairy farms with sales over $10,000 number per dairy farm will DAIRY Locally Produced, Locally Processed Foods are at Your ' Cow numbers wiH decline about 30 percent ' to nine or 00 million with production 30 perper oow increasing by annualcent to 12,000 pounds ly. Number of cows per farm will triple and the average TRITIOUS AND NU- LEWISTON STATE BANK LEWISTON, UTAH PHONE 248 - 2456 |