~- MDCD=lDGAN tFARM THE ACTION PUBLICATION OF THE MICHIGAN FARM BUR Vol. 49, No. 6 Focused ()n The Future , 1970 June is Dairy l4()nth Farm Bureau Environmental Quality Annual ~leeting "Grapestakes" Plans IN THIS ISSUE Policies page 6 Institute page 7 page 9 page 9 TWO June 1, 1970 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS EDITORIAL PRESIDENT'S COLUMN JUNE IS DAIRY MONTH Voice For Agriculture Freedom To Buy It has been said that history repeats itself and The modern supernlarkct handles 8,000 prod- from time to time issues and organized efforts ucts for the consuming public. One product, keep reoccurring. Lately I have been reading fresh California table grapes, is being denied about a so-called "Farm Coalition." The mem- the right to compete with the other 7,999 or so bership list of this ncw coalition reads much products on the shelf. \\That is it that makes the same as it did a fcw years ago when some grapes so special as to be excluded from the organizations attempted to unite in support of grocery shelves? It's obvious that it is outright a government-run supply management farm discrimination. Grapes are the object of a program. One of the major objectives of the planned attack to make the farmer knuckle group, then and now, is to oppose or neutralize under to big power pressure. the effectiveness of the Farnl Bureau and its position on a farm program. For more than five years the United Farm \Vorkers Organizing Committee, financed "Then reading about the "Farm Coalition" of by the strong-box of the AFL CIO, has failed today, one would think that it represents all in its attempts to organize the grape workers of agriculture except Farm Bureau. Let us list of California into compulsory unionism. just a few of the major farm groups which are NOT a part of this so-called new "Farm Coali- Grape workers are among the top paid agri- tion": The American Farm Bureau Fedcration, culture employees in the United States. Through National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, a compulsory unionism workers have nothing American Soybean Association, National Cotton to gain and indicate that by refusing to support Council, American National Cattlemen's Associ- the action. Less than 2% of all California Farm ation. National Livestock Producers Association, workers have joined. ~ational Livestock Feeders Association, Inc., However, the UF'VOC continues in attempts i\'ational Pork Producers Council, National to organize the worker against his will. The Lamb Feeders Association. National Federation object is the potential dollar volume available of Grain Cooperatives, National Turkey Feder- for union dues. So they created a mass propa- ation, American Poultry and Hatchery Feder- WHAT BETTERWAY TO PROMOTE ... "June is Dairy Month" ganda campaign to dupe the public into be- ation and 1\ational Egg Council. than with a pretty girl putting up a pretty poster? Loretta Haw- lieving there is a need to "save" the migrant. ley, MFB Personnel Dept. employee, posted the colorful poster Fann Bureau has been criticized for not in the lobby of Farm Bureau Center. The purpose was to choke the market and jumping on the coalition's bandwagon to pre- force the farmer to sign a compulsory union sent a united front for a farm program. The contract. For the worker it would mean join ~1ichigan Farm Bureau joins the American Dairy Association the union or don't work! kind of fann program the coalition is backing in its 34th annual salute to the dairy industry. is in no way compatible with the policies of Farm Bureau opposes compulsory unionism! In June, the ADA of J\1ichigan will recognize the 15,000 the Farm Bureau. Fann Bureau can not dairymen in the state and their continuous effort to promote But during the course of time a commitment change its policies in the middle of the year one of J\1ichigan's leading industries. For the J\1ichigan dairy to the scheme by the American public was as do some organizations. The voting delegates, farmer, in 1969 his products were worth more than $250 million, lacking. A nation bred on the free enterprise once each year, set forth the policies of Farm Bureau as a true voice of the farmer. the largest single source of farm income in the state. About system would not be swayed. The UFvVOC 450,000 dairy cows eaeh contributed nearly 9700 pounds of milk. plot was too big of a pill to swallow by any The greatest farm coalition ever assembled Six major breeds of dairy cattle are the favorites of the means. It looked as if citizens would continue was put together 50 years ago when the Farm American dairymen - the Holstein-Friesians (about 80% of to decide what they wanted to buy at the Bureau was founded in 1919. Farm Bureau the nation's total, 12.7 million), the milking Shorthorn, Brown marketplace. offers a means whereby producers of every Swiss, Jersey, Guernsey and Ayrshire. It was clear to union organizers that a better commodity from all sections of the country Jack Dendel, president of the ADA of Michigan, and Don tool was needed if the campaign was to con- can get together, regardless of their political Carlson, manager, of the Lansing based organization, recently tinue. A device that would stab the jugular affiliations, to reconcile their differences and announced their organization's participation in the newly of the freedom to market principle was needed. de\'elop "honest to goodness" farm unity. Farm formed DRINC (Dairy Research, Inc.). They stated that The grape campaign took an ugly twist. Bureau is a coalition of over twenty-eight ADAM became a charter member by pledging $100,000 to be hundred organized county Fann Bureaus in 49 llsed in the non-profit research and market development or- Grocery stores are now being coerced to states and Puerto Rico united together as the ganization to develop new and increased uses for milk and with-hold grapes from their produce cases. The voice of agriculture. Fann Bureau is a tnler dairy products. arithmetic is easy enough to figure. It takes representative of agriculture today than ever i"fr. Dendel and Herman Koenn, Chelsea, a director of more money to replace smashed plate glass before, because a greater proportion of farm ADA~1, were named to the DRINC board of directors. windows than what grape sales volume can families belong to Farm Bureau now than ever Proving that milk cows and milk production is big business, provide. From a store owner's viewpoint, justi- before. As a matter for fact, a higher propor- records show that the nation's milk cows produced 116.2 fying blackmail to blackjack tactics stems from tion of American farmers belong to the Farm billion pounds of milk in 1969. It is expected that 1970 will the need to do business through the other Bureau than do laborers to any labor union, or show a move in dairy farming toward larger, more highly 7,999 products. Grapes are only one product businessmen to any business organization. ... but are they? organized dairy operations. J\fichigan dairymen are joining with dairymen from all across Beef could be next or vegetables, or virtually Farm Bureau doesn't represent just one com- the nation. They state that "~1-i-l-k" spells bargain! It is one any of the thousands of products on the grocer's modity or segment of agric\.1lture. Its member- shelves could be controlled by a few; if these of your best food buys. 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