PRINTER'S NO. 1968
No. 141 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY RUDY, MORRIS, STUBAN, LUCYK, SHOWERS, BALDWIN,
COY, HERSHEY, BROUJOS, LLOYD, SEVENTY, GRIECO, HALUSKA,
HONAMAN, REBER, CALTAGIRONE, JOHNSON, SALOOM, FRYER,
D. R. WRIGHT, McHALE, ALDERETTE AND KUKOVICH, OCTOBER 12,
1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, OCTOBER 17, 1983
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
1 Memorializing Congress to remove the $1 per hundredweight milk
2 assessment.
3 WHEREAS, An economically healthy dairy industry is vital to
4 the economic well-being of Pennsylvania and the Nation; and
5 WHEREAS, The dairy farmers of Pennsylvania are in dire
6 economic straits due to the summer's prolonged drought which has
7 resulted in a sharp escalation in feed prices; and
8 WHEREAS, The new milk assessment of $1 per hundredweight,
9 promulgated by the United States Department of Agriculture, has
10 not caused any decrease in the production of milk to alleviate
11 the dairy surplus situation, but will create a financial burden
12 of about $200,000,000 annually for the dairy farmers of
13 Pennsylvania; and
14 WHEREAS, Incentive proposals to reduce milk production,
15 rather than a milk assessment, will more effectively deal with
16 the dairy surplus problem; therefore be it
1 RESOLVED (the Senate concurring), That the General Assembly
2 of Pennsylvania memorialize the Congress of the United States to
3 rescind the $1 per hundredweight milk assessment and to support
4 the concept of an incentive proposal for the reduction of milk
5 production; and be it further
6 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
7 the President of the United States, the presiding officers of
8 each house of Congress, the United States Secretary of
9 Agriculture and to each member of Congress from Pennsylvania.
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