Order 4 December price pegged at $14.07
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -
Middle Atlantic Order
Market Administrator
Joseph D. Shine Monday
announced a December 1980
base milk price of $14.07 per
hundred-weight and an
excess milk price of $12.57
The weighted average
December price is $14.00 and
the butterfat differential for
the month is 17.0 cents.
The base milk price in
creased 28 cents from the
previous month and is $ll6
higher than last December’s
base price.
The advertising
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• Daily Receiving 7:30
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ing evenings & Saturdays
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• Trucks available for pick
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withholding rate, which is
deducted from the base and
excess milk prices only and
not the weighted average
price, was 12 cents hun
dredweight this year
compared to seven cents a
year ago
The gross value of
producer milk during
December was $68.5 million,
compared to $57.6 million
a year ago. A total of $588.1
thousand was deducted for
advertising and promotion in
December 1980 contrasted to
$315.0 thousand in December
1979.
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Shine said producer
receipts totaled 490.1 million
pounds during December, an
increase of 3.1 percent from
the previous month, on a
daily basis, and almost nine
percent above last
December.
Class I producer milk
totaled 251.8 million pounds
and accounted for 51.37
percent of total producer
milk receipts during the
month, up from 50.86 percent
in November but below the
53.46 Class I utilization
percentage last December.
Base milk accounted for
87.90 percent o? total
producer milk receipts m
December, down from 90.48
percent a year earlier
Governor inseminated with ag ideas
During the Farm Show Preview held Sunday afternoon, Governor Dick
Thornburgh and Agriculture Secretary Penrose Hallowell included a stop at the
Atlantic Breeders exhibit in the dairy barn.
Shown here from left are Secretary Hallowell: Ginny Thornburgh: Ed Sauder,
Atlantic’s Service Manager; N. Alan Bair, Director of Member-Public Relations
for the Co-op: and Governor Thornburgh. Hallowell, a long-time Atlantic
member, briefly explained the vital role play by artificial insemination in the
cattle breeding industry as he served as host for the Governor’s tour.
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Manheim, Pa.
There were 7406 producers
supplying Order 4 handlers
during the month, an in
crease of 288 from a year
ago.
The average daily delivery
per producer of 2,135 pounds
was up 51 pounds from
November and was 96
pounds of 4.7 percent above
last December. The average
butterfat test of producer
milk was 3.85 percent for the
month compared to 3.84
percent m November and
3.75 percent one year ago.
Middle Atlantic Order pool
handlers reported Class I in
area milk sales of 212.3
million pounds during
December, a decline of 1.6
percent from a year earlier.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 17,1981—C1l
after adjustment to
eliminate variation due to
calendar compositon
During the 12 months of
1980 a total of 5.6 billion
pounds of producer milk was
pooled under Order No. 4, a
4.2 percent increase from the
previous year. The gross
value of this milk was $744
million in 1980 compared to
$665 million in 1979.
A total of $5.4 million was
deducted for advertising and
promotion during the year
compared to $3.8 million in
1979.
Class I producer milk
totaled 2.9 billion pounds and
accounted for 51.46 percent
of total pooled milk during
1980. The average daily
WEDNESDAY IS
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WT DAY
AT NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC.
New Holland, PA
If you need 1 cow or a truck load, we have
from 100 to 200 cows to sell every week at your
price Mostly fresh and close springing hols
tems
Cows from local farmers and our regular ship
pers include Marvin Eshleman, Glenn Fite,
Kelly Bowser, Bill Lang, Blaine Hotter, Dale
Hostetter, H.D. Matz, and Jerry Miller.
SALE STARTS - 12:00 SHARP
Also Every Wednesday,
Hay, Straw & Ear Corn Sale -12:00 Noon
All Dairy & Heifers must be
eligible for Pennsylvania Health Charts.
For arrangements for special sales or herd
dispersals at our barn or on your farm, contact
Abram Diffenbach, Mgr.
717-354-4341
OR
. Norman Kolb c
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delivery per producer was
2112 pounds in 1980, 66
pounds or 3.2 percent above
the average daily rate the
prior year.
The Order No. 4 base milk
price averaged $13.30 per
hundredweight during 1980,
an increase of 85 cents over
the previous year, while the
average excess milk price of
$ll.Bl was 95 cents higher
than in 1979.
The weighted average 1960
price was $13.20 compared to
$12.29 a year earlier.
The Class I milk price
averaged $14.45 m 1980, up 90
cents from the 1979 average,
while Class II milk prices
averaged $11.90 during 1980
and $10.93 m 1979.
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Saturday, January 17
Lancaster Society 3 meets
with Esther Stuber for a
safety meeting on
woodbummg stoves.
Lancaster Society 18 meets
with Frank McCorkel
who will speak on “Mind
and Health”
Cumberland 10 meets with
Edith Suders
Monday, January 19
Berks Society 12 meets at the
Boscov North Beauty
Center for a talk by a
beautician
Tuesday, January 20
Lancaster Society 22 meets
with Naomi Wenger for a
popcorn party -
Wednesday, January 21
Lancaster Society 33 meets
with Romame Engle,
Pennsylvania State
Police Department, for a
talk entitled “Lady
Beware.”
Thursday, January 22
Lancaster 26 meets with
Polly Kreider for a Farm
Show discussion.