Order 4 base decreases
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Middle
Atlantic Order Market Ad
ministrator Joseph D. Shine last
Friday announced a March 1981
base milk price of $14.06 per
hundredweight and excess milk
price of $12.51.
The weighted average March
price was $14.02 and the butterfat
differential for the month was 16.9
cents
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because of record production
The weighted average price
declined five cents from February,
marking the first monthly
decrease in almost one year. The
March base milk pnee dropped 12
cents from the February level.
The advertising withholding
rate, which is deducted from the
base and excess milk price and not
the weighted average price, was 13
cents a hundredweight and the
amount withheld totaled over $672
thousand.
The gross value of producer milk
during March was $72.4 million,
compared to $61.2 million a year
ago.
Shine said producer receipts
totaled 517.0 million pounds during
March hnd were at a record high
level, exceeding the previous high
by over 11 million pounds.
Milk production was up over 42
million pounds or nine percent
from last March. Production in
creased seasonally by almost two
percent from February, on a daily
basis.
Class I producer milk totaled
253.1 million pounds and accounted
for 48.96 percent of total producer
milk receipts during the month,
down from 49.93 percent in
February and 51.64 percent last
March.
Base milk accounted for 88.98
percent of total producer milk
receipts in March compared to
85.35 in February and 90.14 percent
a year ago.
There were 7371 producers
supplying 65 Order 4 pool handlers
during the month. The number of
Order 4 producers was up by 211
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incaster Fannins, Saturday, April 18,1981—-C27
from last March.
The average daily debvery per
producer of 2263 pounds was 124
pounds or 5.8 percent above a year
ago. The average butterfat test of
producer milk was 3.75 percent for
the month, compared to 3.80
percent m February and 3.74
percent one year earlier.
Middle Atlantic Order pool
handlers reported Class I m-area
milk sales of 214.7 million pounds
during March, a drop of 0.9 percent
from last March, after adjustment
to eliminate variation due to
calendar composition
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