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Milk production highest in 14 years
SOUTHAMPTON - “The
U.S. dairy industry produced
more milk last year than in
any year since 1965. Milk
production in 1979 totaled
approximately 123 5 billion
pounds, up 1.3 percent or 1.6
million pounds from 1978,”
James E Honan, General
Manager of Inter-State Milk
Producers’ Cooperative,
announced to the mem
bership.
“In the Phildelphia-
Baltimore-Washmgton Fe
deral Milk Marketing Order
4 area, the total Class I sales
fell 20,000,000 pounds from
March 1979 to March 1980,”
continued General Manager
Honan. “For the same
areas, total milk production
went up 10,000,000 pounds.
Consequently, Honan
added, “your market’s Class
I utilization fell from 57.2
percent to 51 6 percent from
March, 1979 to March, 1980.”
Other items included the
following-
Increased production per
cow made up the slack.
Production per cow was up 2
percent or about 234 pounds
in 1979.
Each cow in the U S
produced an average of
11,474 pounds of milk That’s
incorporation. There is no carryover.
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1,334 gallons, or a year’s
supply of fluid milk and
cream for 40 Americans
from just one cow
States with the largest
milk production last year
were Wisconsin, 1,722
million pounds; California,
1,041 million pounds; New
York, 888 million pounds;
Minnesota, 718 million
pounds; and Pennsylvania,
664 million pounds
Production of many
manufactured dairy
products also increased last
year There were 2 19 billion
pounds of American type
cheese produced in the U S.
in 1979, 5 5 percent more
than m the previous year and
a record high for the second
straight year Production of
all types of cheese, except
cottage cheese, totaled 3 71
billion pounds, also up 5 5
percent Americans con
sumed approximately 17 9
pounds of cheese each in
1979, 3 4 percent more than
the year before.
Butter production dropped
only slightly; it was down .9
percent to 985 million
pounds. Per capita con
sumption of butter remained
about the same as in 1978.
There were 30 million fewer
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 17,1980—C19
pounds of creamed cottage percent from 1978.
cheese produced last year, Manufacture of frozen
for a 2.8 percent drop to 847 products also declined
million pounds. However, overall last year. While ice
production of lowfat cottage cream production was up
cheese was up 2.6 percent slightly, totaling 818 million
over 1978, totaling 155 gallons, production of ice
million pounds. milk, at 294 million gallons,
Less nonfat dry milk for was down 4.6 percent,
human food also was Sherbet production dropped
produced The year’s 907 8 percent to 45.8 million
million pounds was down 1.4 gallons.
Mary Jo Depp named
regional 4-H
UNIVERSITY PARK -
Mary Jo Depp, Jefferson
County extension agent on
Penn State’s Cooperative
Extension Service staff, has
been named regional winner
in the Search for
Professional Excellence
Contest sponsored by the
National Association of
County Agricultural Agents.
Depp will represent Ex
tension agents in the Nor
theastern United States at
the annual meeting of the
county agents association m
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in
August. She will present a
paper on her 4-H and youth
agent winner
programming in Jefferson
County.
‘ Mary Jo is one of 20
Extension agents in the
United States who will share
their professional expertise
with fellow agents,” points
out Joseph Macialek, ex
tension community resource
development agent and state
program chairman.
The 4-H and youth
category includes extension
programs that have resulted
m the enhancement of skills,
leadership potential, social
development, or economic
well-being of youth.