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-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 21,1979
Dairy farmers to
get $11,12 for milk
NEW YORK,' N.Y. -
•Oairy farmers supplying
milk plants Regulated under
the New York-New Jersey
marketing orders during
March will be paid on the
basis of a uniform price of
$11.12 per hundred pounds or
23.9 cents per quart. Market
Administrator Thomas A.
Wilson, who announced
March’s price, also stated
that the uniform farm price
was $11.57 per hun
dredweight in February 1979
and $9.65 per hundredweight
in March 1978. The New
York City area milk strike,
in effect during the entire
month, reduced the March
1979 uniform price by 14
cents per hundredweight.
The uniform price is a
marketwide weighted
average of the value of farm
milk used for fluid and
manufactured dairy
products.
The seasonal incentive
fund removed a total of
$1,768,482.34 or $.20 per
hundredweight from the
dairy farmers' uniform
price for March. Deductions
for this fund will continue
through. June and will be
returned in the August
through November uniform
price calculations.
' The total amount of milk
received from the 17,658
dairy farmers supplying the
New York-New Jersey
Marketing Area was
884,241,172 pounds during
March 1979. This was more
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than 18.2 million pounds
above last year. The gross
Value to dairy farmers for
milk deliveries was
$100,594,551.66. Mr. Wilson
explained that this included
differentials required to be
paid to dairy farmers but not
voluntary premiums or
deductions authorized by the
farmer.
Regulated milk dealers
(handlers) utilized
370,826,734 pounds or 41.9 per
cent of the total amount of
milk for Class I. The Class I
milk is used for fluid milk
products such as
homogenized, flavored, low
test and skim milks. For
March 1979, handlers paid
$12.80 per hundredweight, or
27.5 cents per quart, for this
, milk compared with $11.16 a
year ago.
The balance of the milk,
58.1 per cent, was used to
manufacture Class II
products' including butter,
cheese, ice cream and
yogurt. For this milk the
handlers paid $10.54 per
hundredweight.
The uniform price is based
on milk containing 3.5 per
cent butterfat. For March
1979, a differential of 13.1
cents was applied to the
price for each one-tenth of
n one per cent that the milk
' tested above or below the 3.5
per cent standard.
All prices quoted are for
bulk tank milk ' received
within the 201-210 mile zone
from New York City.
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