—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 8, 1977
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Milk prices announced
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Middle Atlantic Order Market Ad
ministrator Joseph D. Shine has announced a February 1977
Class I milk price of $11.03 per hundredweight. Shme said this
price is down one cent from January and is 83 cents below the
February 1976 Class I price. Order No. 4 prices are an
nounced for milk testing 3.5 percent butterfat, f.o.b. plants
located within 55 miles of Philadelphia, Pa. and also within 75
miles from the nearer of Washington, D.C. or Baltimore, Md.
There is also a six-cent direct-delivery differential applicable
to producer milk received at plants located within 55 miles of
Philadelphia.
The Market Administrator also announced a Class II milk
price for December 1976 of $8.33 per hundredweight and a
butterfat differential of 10.04 cents for each tenth of a pound
of fat.
These class prices are based on the December 1976 Min
nesota-Wisconsin manufacturing milk price of $8.25 per
hundredweight for 3.5 percent milk.
The USDA reported the wholesale Grade A blitter price at
Chicago during December was 90.82 cents per pound and the
nonfat dry milk price was 62.58 cents per pound, f.o.b. plants
in the Chicago area.
Meat production up
HARRISBURG - Red meat
production in Pennsylvania
during November totaled 94
million pounds, 17 per cent
more than November 1975,
according to the Crop
Reporting Service.
Cattle slaughter at 92,000
head was up 15 per cent;
calves slaughtered was
39,500 head, 36 per cent
above last year; hog
slaughter at 259,000 head was
up 49 per cent; and sheep
and lambs at 14,400 head
were 48 per cent above a
year earlier.
Nationally, commercial
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red meat production during
November was up 16 per cent
from a year ago. Cattle
slaughter increased one per
cent from a year ago; calf
slaughter was down two per
cent; hog slaughter in
creased 40 per cent; sheep
and lamb slaughter was less
than one per cent greater
than a year ago.
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it’s called a hobby
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