Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, March 20, 1976, Image 84

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    —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 20, 1976
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Red Lion YF officers chosen
The Red Lion Area Young Farmers recently held
their annual banquet with close to 200 members
and guests in attendance. Officers and advisors of
the group standing, left to right: Terry Martin
(guest) vice president of Region 4 from Cham
bersburg; Donald Grove, past secretary of the
New York milk prices announced
NEW YORK - A uniform
farm price of $9.80 per
hundredweight (46.5 quarts)
for February milk deliveries
to pool handlers under the
New York-New Jersey
marketing orders was an
nounced recently by Thomas
A. Wilson, market ad
ministrator. The uniform
price was $10.13 in January
1976 and $8.09 in February
1975.
The butterfat differential
was 9.3 cents for each tenth
Serviceman takes training
Gerald Wyble, serviceman
for A.B.C. Groff, Inc., New
Holland, returned from a
week-long training program
at the Sperry New Holland
Service Training Center at
New Holland, Pennsylvania.
While at the center he at-
of a pound of fat above or
below 3.5 percent.
Receipts from dairy
producers totaled 742,156,017
pounds, 3.3 percent or
23,634,488 pounds more than
in February 1975, Mr. Wilson
reported. Handlers utilized
362,848,481 pounds of these
receipts or 48.9 percent for
fluid milk products (Class I).
In February 1975 the Class I
utilization percentage was
53.3. For February ,1976,
handlers paid $11.48 for
Class I milk compared with
$9.20 a year ago.
tended sessions in the ser
vice and repair of a wide
variety of modern farm
machinery.
Wyble, who resides in New
Holland, has been an em
ployee of A.B.C. Groff’s for
Vh years.
Penna. Young Farmers; Jack Dehoff, president of
RLAYF; and John Myers, advisor. Front row, 1.-r.;
Lester Holtzinger, public relations; Roy Jackson,
Jr„ secretary; Robert Burchett, treasurer. Vice
president Clarence Godfrey was not present.
Mr. Wilson stated that
receipts on bulk tank units
were 717,433,108 pounds, up
29,520,368 pounds. He added
that this was 96.7 percent of
the pool, compared to 95.7
percent a year ago.
A total of 375,096,268
pounds, or 52.3 percent, of
tank milk was used as Class
II and was subject to the
transportation credit which
amounted to $375,096.30.
Producers with tank milk
numbered 18,078, a decrease
of 4.0 percent. The ad
ministrator said that the
total number of producers in
the pool was 19,376, a loss of
6.1 percent. Average daily
deliveries per producer rose
77 pounds to 1,321 pounds.
Pool bulk tank units
decreased 27 to 186. Reports
from 113 handlers were used
to compute the pool, 4 less
than in February 1975. There
were 107 handlers with
producer milk.
The gross value to dairy
farmers of February milk
deliveries was $73,824,400.18.
Mr. Wilson explained that
this included differentials
required to be paid to dairy
farmers but not voluntary
premiums or deductions
authorized by the farmer.
All prices quotes are for
milk at 3.5 percent butterfat
received within the 201-210
mile zone from New York
City.
We sell only the genuine
article... genuine White*
replacement parts.
There’s one good reason why we sell only White parts...we
want to protect your investment. That’s why we urge you not
to take unnecessary chances with “will-fit” parts when the
genuine article is readily available. See us for all of your re
placement part needs... whether it’s plow shares, disk blades,
bearings, or combine cylinder bars... we’re the people to see
for genuine White parts...the ones that are designed and
built like the originals.
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