C3o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 23,1981
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iM Y-JMJ shippers receive
$l3 for April milk
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Dairy
farmers who supplied milk plants
regulated under the New York-
New Jersey marketing orders
during April will be paid on the
basis of a uniform price of $l3 per
hundredweight.
Market Administrator Thomas
A. Wilson stated the uniform farm
price per hundredweight was
$13.20 in March, 1981 and $11.96 in
April 1980. The uniform price is a
marketwide weighted average of
the vSlue of farm milk used for
fluid and manufactured dairy
products.
The seasonal incentive fund
removed $.30 per hundredweight
from the dairy farmers’ uniform
price for April, a total of
$2,922,184.81. Deductions will
continue through June and will be
returned in the August through
November uniform price
calculations.
A total of 17,622 dairy farmers
supplied the New York-New Jersey
Milk marketing Area with
974,061,604 pounds of milk during
April, 1981. This was an increase of
4.7 percent (about 44 million
pounds) from last year.
The gross value to dairy farmers
for milk deliveries was
$129,063,697.26. Wilson explained
this mcluded differentials required
to be paid to dairy farmers, but not
voluntary premiums or deductions
U.S. continues
to lose valuable
farmland
CHAMBERSBURG - Farmland
becomes more expensive and
scarce each year, reports John R
Akers, District Conservationist,
with the Chambersburg office of
the USDA Soil Conservation
Service.
The average acre of United
States farm real estate was valued
at $790 per acre. State averages
per acre ran from a high of $2977 in
New Jersey to a low of $l6O in
Wyoming. Pennsylvania’s per acre
average was $1440. Both inflation
and urban pressures caused far
mland values to raise 9.3 percent
last year.
In the United States about 3
million acres of rural land is lost
each year. Of this, about 1 million
acres is prime farmland. There is
about 30 million acres of land in
Pennsylvania, so in 10 years with
farmland losses of 3 million acres
per year in the United States, the
nation loses an area the size of
Pennsylvania for crop production.
“Everyone needs to become
involved in the preservation of
agricultural land,” states Akers.
HEAVY DUTY
MINI FARM WAGON
FOR THE GARDENER
Pull behind any small engine riding
mower, or tractor.
The Barn and Yard Handyman
GIDEON STOLTZFUS
43 S. Harvest Road
Bird-in-Hand, PA
717-768-3641
authorized by the farmer.
Regulated milk dealers utilized
375,317,603 pounds of milk for Class
I, 38,5 percent of the total. This
milk is used for fluid milk products
such as homogenized, flavored,
low test and skim milks. For April
1981, handlers paid $14.91 per
hundredweight for Class I milk
compared with $13.60 a year ago.
The balance, 61.5 percent, was
used to manufacture Class II
products including butter, cheese,
ice cream and yogurt. For this
milk, handlers paid $12.55 per
hundredweight.
The uniform price is based on
milk containing 3.5 percent but
terfat. For April, 1981, a dif
ferential of 16.9 cents was applied
to the price for each one-tenth of
one percent that the milk tested
above or below the 3.5 percent
standard.
All prices quoted are for bulk
tank milk received within the 201-
210 mile zone from New York City.
Dr. Robert L. Gluckstern (right foreground),
chancellor at the University of Maryland in
College Park, welcomed two agricultural
scholars from the People's Republic of China
last week in his office, this week, the chan
cellor left for a tour of colleges on the Chinese
mainland. Shown at last week’s welcoming
session are (left to right): Chuanbing Fang, a
Chinese tobacco breeder; Dr. John R. Moore,
COMPARE OUR PRICES?
of Maryland
professor of agricultural and resource
economics at the College Park campus: Dr. M.
Kenneth Aycock, Jr, professor of agronomy:
Dr. Hongnian Chin, a Chinese veterinarian; \
Dr.. Warren W. Marquardt, professor of
veterinary science. Chancellor Gluckstern, and v
Dr. Earl H. Brown, dean of the university's
College of Agriculture.
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