C32—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 16,1981
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Middle
Atlantic Order Market Ad
ministrator Joseph D. Shine today
announced an April, 1981 base milk
price of $14.02 per hundredweight
and an excess milk price'of $12.44.
The weighted average April pnce
was $13.93 and the butterfat dif
Charolais cow wins Diamond
HOUSTON, TEX. The
American-International Charolais
Association’s seventh and newest
Diamond Dam of Distinction is the
Breeder group elects
COLUMBUS, Oh. The Eastern
Limousin Breeders Association
held their annual membership
meeting May 2 at the Ohio State
Fairground in Columbus. Three
new directors elected for three
years, were Bob Bell, Cooksville,
Md.; Ron Slagle, Bruston Mills,
W.Va.; and Keith Kissie,
Charlottesville, Va.
The membership approved the
following Limousin shows for the
coming year - Eastern National
Livestock Show, The Ohio State
Fair, and Highland County Fair,
Hillsboro, OH. Several sizeable
donations were given to help
support these shows.
Rendell Shira, Mt. Vernon, Oh.
director of the North American
Limousin Junior Association, met
with juniors interested in forming
a junior association. The' group
decided to have an organizational
meeting at the summer field day.
Any youth interested m becoming
a member should contact Rendell
or this association.
In the board meeting following
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April Order 4 base milk prize set at $14.02
ferential for the month was 16.9
cents.
The base milk price declined
four cents from March, while the
April weighted average prices was
down nine cents. The advertising
withholding rate, which is
deducted from the base and excess
registered purebred Charolais cow
Queen Punkin, F 67161, owned by
James and Carol Doughty, owners
of Big Creek Charolais of Holden,
the membership meeting, Larry
Sterling, of Reedsville, W.Va., was
re-elected president. The new vice
president is Bob Bell. Jim Fawley,
of Lynchburg, Oh., was re-elected
secretary-treasurer. Gordon
Briggs, Gambler, Oh., was ap
pointed again to direct the spring
' show and sale to be held May 1,
1982 at Columbus. Richard Mc-
Donald Jr., of Shippensburg, Pa.,
was appointed promotion chair
man. Other members of the board
are Harry Kesterson, Parker
sburg, W.Va., and Charles Mc-
Donald, Inwood, W.Va.
The association territory in
cludes Delaware, Maryland, New
Jersey, New York, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, Virginia, West Virginia,
and New England. All cattle
breeders or persons interested in
Limousin are encouraged to
contact any member of the board
or Jim Fawley, secretary
treasurer, 3540 Anderson Road,
Lynchburg, Oh. 45142.
YES
milk pnce ana not the weighted
average price, was 13 cents a
hundredweight and the amount
withheld totaled over $677,000.
The gross value of producer milk
during April was $72.4 million,
compared to $61.0 million a year
ago.
Mr. Shine said that producer
Missouri,
Queen Pimkin was bom on
March 15, 1969 and is by the
Charolais bull Prince Charmer, M
34701, out of the Charolais cow
Genice, F 34572.
Queen Punkin had her first calf
May 8, 1971 and her tenth and
qualifying calf March 25, 1980
resulting in a 361-day calving in
terval. She has since had her
eleventh calf, on March 14, 1981,
just one day before her twelfth
birthday.
Queen Punkin’s 10 calves had an
average adjusted 205-day weaning -
weight of 748 pounds and a ratio 15
percent above the average of their
111 contemporatires.
The Charolais bull Alphonse, M
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totaled 520.8 million pounds during
Apnl and were at a record high
level, exceeding the previous high
in March, 1981 by over 682
thousand pounds a day. Milk
production was up over 46.3 million
pounds or 9.8 percent from last
April. Production increased
award
7273, is both Queen Punkin’s
maternal and, paternal grandsire.
This combination of breeding
make her one-eight or 12.5 percent
inbred.
To qualify for the AICA’s
Diamond Dam of Distinction
Award, a registered purebred
Charolais dam must produce 10
calves by 12 years of age, with
each calf having an adjusted 205-
day weaning weight ratio of 101 or
greater., In addition, the cow must
have a regular calving interval of
365 days. Twin calves are counted
as one calving and no ovum
transplants are eligible.
Owners of the cows that qualify
for these awards receive an official
certificate suitable for framing.
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seasonally by 4.1 percent from
March, on a daily basis.
Class I producer milk totaled
242.8 million jwunds and accounted
for 46.62 percent of total producer
milk receipts during the month,
the lowest Class I percentage ever
recorded. I utilization
last April was 49.96 percent. Base
milk accounted for 86.79 percent of
total producer milk receipts in
April, compared to 88.98 in March
and 88.11 percent a year ago. There
were 7,470 producers supplying 64
Order 4 pool handlers during the
month. The number of Order 4
producers was up by 221 from last
April.
The average daily delivery per
producer of 2,324 pounds was 142
pounds or 6.5 percent above a year
ago. The average butterfat test of
producer milk was 3.70 percent for
the month, compared to 3.75
percent in March and 3.69 percent
one year earlier.
Middle,- Atlantic Order pool
handlers reported Gass 1 in-area
milk sales of 204.7 million pounds
during April, a drop of 1.2 percent
from last April, after adjustment
to eliminate variation due to
calendar composition.
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