A32— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 18,1981
HARRISBURG - According to a
recent Crop Reporting Service
bulletin, Pennsylvania
manufacturers produced 79.9
million gallons of ice cream during
1900, up 6 percent from 1979, and
ranked second in the nation in total
ice cream production. California
was the largest ice cream
producing State with a total
production of 90.7 million gallons.
Ice milk production in Penn
sylvania during 1980 totaled 15.2
million gallons, down 2 percent
from 1979. Pennsylvania ranked
fifth in the nation in 1980 ice milk
production following California,
Ohio, Illinois, and Florida.
Milk sherbet production at 3.6
million gallons was up 28 percent
from the previous year and ranked
second m the Nation following
California. Other frozen products
manufactured totaled 1.2 million
gallons, an increase of 15 percent
over 1979.
Dairy product plants in the
Commonwealth produced 59.2
million pounds of butter during
1980, up 21 percent from 1979.
Creamed cottage cheese
production at 45.4 million pounds
was down 2 percent from the
previous year while lowfat cottage
cheese production at, 16.9 million
pounds was down less than 1
percent.
Pennsylvania’s total production
of cheese during 1980, excluding
cottage cheese, totaled 101.3
million pounds, up 8 percent from
the previous year. Mozzarella
production at 24.9 million pounds
was down 2 percent, while other
types of Italian cheeses totaled 16.6
million pounds, up 16 percent from
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1979. Swiss cheese production was
7.0 million pounds, down 21 percent
from the previous year.
Production ot dry and condensed
milk during 1980 and the changes
from 1979 were: whole un
sweetened condensed 43.2
million pounds, up 2 percent; skim
unsweetened condensed 57.7
million pounds, up 2 percent;
nonfat dry milk for human food
48.3 million pounds, up 131 percent.
During 1980 a total of 3.71 billion
pounds of whole milk was used in
manufactured dairy products in
Pennsylvania with 34 percent of
this total used for the production of
butter, 20 percent for cheese, 32
percent for frozen products, and 14
percent for other milk products.
U.S. CHEESE
OUTPUT UP 7 PERCENT
Total cheese production, ex
cluding cottage cheese, continued
its upward trend m 1980, reaching
a record high 3.98 billion pounds, 7
percent above 1979.
The largest percentage increase
was registered in American
cheese. Wisconsin was the leading
producing State with 37 percent,
followed by Minnesota with 13
percent, and New York with 8
percent.
Ice cream production totaled 830
million gallons, up 2 percent from
the 811 million gallons produced in
1979. Ice milk declined 1 percent to
293 million gallons.
Milk sherbet showed a slight
increase while other frozen dairy
products declined 15 percent.
Mellorme production was down 16
percent from 1979.
Manufactured dairy products
used 58.8 percent of all milk
marketed in the United States
during 1980 compared with 56.6
percent in 1979. Whole milk used
for manufacturing products based
on milk-fat content totaled 74.1
billion pounds, 10 percent more
than the previous year.
ORDER NO. 4 BASE
MILK PRICE FOR JUNE
ALEXANDRIA, VA. - Middle
Atlantic Order Market Ad
ministrator Joseph D. Shine, last
Thursday, announced a June 1981
base milk pnce of 113.89 per
hundredweight and an excess milk
price of $12.37.
The weighted average June
pnce was $13.86 and the butterfat
differential for the month was 17.0
cents. The base milk price declined
two cents from May, while the
weighted average price was up
three cents.
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 nearly
$640 thousand.
The gross value of producer milk
during June was $68.0 million,
compared to $59.9 million a year
ago.
Mr. Shine said that producer
receipts totaled 491.8 million
pounds during June, a sharp drop
ot 5.6 percent from May, on a daily
basis. Milk production this June
was up over 29 million pounds or
6.3 percent from a year ago.
Class 1 producer milk totaled
223.6 million pounds and accounted
tor 45.47 percent of total receipts. A
year ago Class 1 producer milk
totaled 219.2 million pounds and
47.39 percent of total receipts.
Base milk accounted for 89.36
percent of total monthly produc
tion. There were 7,497 producers
supplying pool handlers during the
month, an increase of 171 from last
June.
The average daily delivery per
producer was 2,187 pounds in June,
a drop of 136 pounds from May, but
82 pounds or 3.9 percent above last
year. The average butterfat test ot
producer milk was 3.55 percent
compared to 3.62 in May and 3.86
last June.
Middle Atlantic order pool
handlers reported Class I m-area
milk disposition of 190.0 million
pounds during June, a drop of 1.9
percent from a year earlier, after
adjustment to eliminate variation
due to calendar composition.
Utilization
Butter output during January-
Apnl was up about 11 percent from
a year earlier, and the highest
since 1965, reports a recent USDA
bulletin
The January-Apnl increases
reflected the larger milk supply
available for manufacturing
during 1980 and 1981.
For May, preliminary weekly
data show output unchanged to up
slightly from a year ago.
With large amounts ot skim milk
available from butter production,
nonfat dry milk output during
January-Apnl increased almost 18
percent from last year.
American cheese production
during January-Apnl was up about
14 percent, compared with a gam
last year ot about 7 percent.
However, there is some indication
that additonal resources have been
added to the industry to overcome
last year’s capacity problem
during flush.
American cheese production
during April was the largest on
record and preliminary weekly
data show May output up about 3
percent from last year.
Meanwhile, manufacture of
other varieties of cheese was up 3.5
percent in April, but tor the year is
down slightly. Production of
evaporated and condensed milk tor
the January-Apnl period was off
about 5 percent, while ice cream
was nearly unchanged, and dry
whole milk was up about 4 percent.
During the first four months of
the year, almost 8 percent (1.9
billion pounds) more milk was
used m making manufactured
dairy products than a year ago.
This reflects, the fact that
manufacturing use is the residual
claimant ot milk supplies.
Furthermore, a sharp decline in
Wisconsin spot out-ot-state ship
ments of milk was indicative of the
excessively large supply of milk
available, as little additional fluid
supplies were needed in other
markets.
With continued heavy supplies of
milk expected through this sum
mer, butter-powder output should
continue to be large, but may abate
relative to a year ago.
The additional American cheese
capacity may contribute to this
slowing as more milk relative to a
year ago goes into cheese
production.