IS— Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, December 16,1978
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -
Market Administrator
Joseph D. Shine recently
announced a November 1978
base milk price of $11.85 per
hundredweight for the
Middle Atlantic Marketing
Order and an excess milk
price of $10.45. The weighted
average November price is
$11.75 and the butterfat
differential for the month is
13,9 cents., The November
base milk price is up 29 cents
from October and is $1.26
above the November 1977
base price. The gross value
of all producer milk was
Slaughter
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pounds, which brought 57.10-
58.35. Choice, mainly yield
grade 2, weighing 1075 to
1425 pounds brought 58.00 to
58.75, with six bead reaching
59.25 to 59.50; Choice, yield
grade 2 to 4, at 1000 to 1425
pounds, went for 55.75 to
58.00; with high good and low
choice, yield grade 2 to 3,
54.25 to 56.00. Good, yield
grade 2 to 3, Sold for 52.00 to
54.50, and there were a few
standard, yield grade 1 and
2, at 50.75 t 052.75.
On Wednesday, December
13, at the Lancaster
Stockyards, slaughter steers
were quoted as firm to 50
cents higher, compared to
Monday’s market. High
choice and Prime, yield
grade 3 to 4, weighing 1150 to
1300 pounds, brought 57.25-
58.25; choice, mainly grade
2, weighing 1075 to 1325
pounds, brought 57.25 to
58.25, and choice, yield grade
2 to 4, at 1000 to 1400 pounds,
brought 55.50 t 057.50.
At New Holland Sales
Stable, at the Thursday
auction, compared to the
week before, slaughter
steers were quoted as firm to
30 cents higher. High choice
and prime, yield grade 3 to 4,
weighing 1075 to 1325 pounds
sold for 57.75 to 59.25;
Choice, mainly grade 2,
weighing 1050 pounds to 1375
pounds broughts7.7s to 59.75,
with ten head bringing 60.00
to 61.00. This is the third
Not. milk price $11.85
$49.7 million. Deductions for
the Advertising and
Promotion. Fund totaled
$295.0 thousand in
November. Order No. 4
prices are announced for 3.5
per cent milk f.o.b. plant
location within 55 miles of
Philadelphia, Pa. and also
within 75 miles from the
nearer of Washington, D.C.
or Baltimore, Md. There is a
6-cent direct-delivery dif
ferential applicable to
producer milk received at
plants located within 55
miles of Philadelphia.
Shine reported that
steers up
week in a row thatslaughter
steer prices at the New
Holland Sales Stables topped
the sixty dollar mark.
Summing up the Lan
caster County area, the
Lancaster Weekly Livestock
market reports that for
Friday December 15, for the
week slaughter steers were
firm to 50 cents higher,
reporting prices of 57.25 to
59.25 for high choice and
prime, yield grade 3 to 4
steers weighing 1075 to 1400
pounds.
Finally according to the
Pennsylvania Auction
Summary of 14 livestock
auctions throughout the
state, slaughter steers were
quoted as being steady to
$l.OO higher, compared to
last week’s martlet.
For a more complete
market picture, see the
market pages in Lancaster
Fanning, beginning on page
2.
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November producer- milk
receipts totaled 421.5 million
pounds, an increase of 0.5
per cent from the previous
month, on a daily average
basis. The total number of
producers reported was*
7,349, a decrease of 110 from
October. The average daily
delivery per producer was
1,912 pounds, up from 1,903
pounds in October and down
19 pounds from a year ago.
Class I producer milk ac
counted for 58.82 per cent of
total November producer
deliveries compared 56.48
per cent in October and 60.40
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per , cent last November.
Base milk accounted for
93.37 per cent of -total
November production
compared to 93.24 per cent
the previous month and 91.31
per cent a year earlier.
Middle Atlantic Order pool
handlers reported Class I in
area milk disposition of 7.0
million pounds per day
during November, a
decrease of 1.0 per cent from
October, after adjustment
for variation in calendar
composition.
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