E2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 9,1982
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Federal Order No. 4
Mid-Atlantic Market Area
November base price drops
Middle Atlantic order prices for
producer milk deliveries for the
month of November were $13.93
per hundredweight for base milk
and $12.47 for excess milk. The
November weighted average price
was $13.93 and the butterfat dif
ferential for the month was 17 1
cents.
The base milk price was down
eight cents from October, and the
weighted average price also
dropped eight cents. The
November base milk price was 14
cents higher than last year.
The advertising withholding
rate, which is deducted from the
base and excess milk prices but not
the weighted average price, was 13
cents a hundredweight and the
amount withheld totaled
$615,528.60.
The gross value of producer milk
during November was $65.8 million
compared'to $63.2 million a year
ago.-Order No. 4 prices are an
nounced for 3.5 percent milk f.o.b.
plant location within 55 miles of
Philadelphia and also within 75
miles from the -nearer of
Washington, DC or Baltimore, Md.
There is a 6-cent direct-delivery
differential applicable to producer
milk received at plants located
within 55miles of Philadelphia.
Producer milk receipts totaled
473.5 million pounds during
November, an increase of 0.7
percent from October, on a daily
basis, and up 13.4 million pounds or
2.9 percent from a year ago.
Class I producer milk totaled'
234.1 million pounds and accounted
for 49.45 percent of total receipts. A
year ago Class I producer milk
totaled 234.0 million pounds and
represented 50.86 percent of total
milk receipts. Base milk ac
counted for 91.36 percent of total
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November production compared to
90.31 percent last year.
There were 7,112 producers
supplying pool handlers- in
November, a decline of 246 from a
year ago. The average daily
delivery per producer was 2,219
pounds for the month, an increase
of 11 pounds from October and 135
pounds or 6.5 percent higher than
the November 1980 average. The
average butterfat test of producer
milk increased from 3.72 percent in
October to 3.79 in November.
Middle Atlantic order pool
handlers reported Class I in-area
milk disposition of 198.0 million
pounds during November, a drop
of 3.0 percent from a year earlier,
after adjustment to eliminate
variation due to calendar com
position.
January Class I
price stays the same
The Order 4 Class I milk price
for January 1982 is $15.30 per
hundredweight for milk testing 3.5
- percent butterfat. This price is
unchanged from December and is
also the same as last January’s
Class I price. During the early part
of 1981 the Class I milk price was
running about nine percent above
the previous year.
Tho $15.30 price is based, on the
November 1981 Minheasota-
Wisconsin manufacturing milk
price of $12.52 per hundredweight,
adjusted to a 3.5 percent butterfat
content, plus a $2.78 Class 1 dif
ferential.
International dairy trade
U.S. imports down
Dairy product unports by the
U.S. during August were, on a milk
equivalent, fat-solids basis, 3
percent below a year earlier the
first time since January that they
have been down from year-earlier
levels.
Imports during September also
declined, by about 12 percent. The
sharp increase in duly ottsei Uiese
.declines leaving milk equivalent
imports for July-September at 576
million pounds, 14 percent more
than third-quarter 1980. For
January-September, milk
equivalent imports were up 18
percent.
This slowing in the rate of im
ports reflects a more even
distribution of imports over the
whole year, after two years of
extraordinarily heavy imports
during tfie last months of the year.
These extra heavy shipments m
the later quarters of both 1979 and
1980 can be attributed, respec
tively, to the fear of imposition of
countervailing duties in earlv 1980
and to the delay in imports from
New Zealand, due to its production
on problems. Finally, the weak
economic conditions in the United
States may be a factor in recent
lower imports. Nonetheless, im
ports for all of 1981 are expected to
exceed the 1980 level.
Quota cheese unports, which
were up about a third during
January-July, were up about a
sixth through September. Most of
the slowing was because
American-type, blue-moid, anrf
'other' cheese imports were
relatively small during August-
September. During the first nine
months of 1981, imports of cheese
subject to quota were only slightly
below year-earlier levels.
Casein and lactose imports were
both larger during September than
a year earlier, leaving January-
September imports of the two
down about a fifth and a third,
respectively.
U.S. production rises;
Russia suffers poor
• grain crop
For the 36 major milk-producing
countries of the world, cow’s milk
production in 1981 to expected to
be up slightly from the .1980 output
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of nearly 382 million metric tons
(842 billion pounds).
Milk production may be up six
percent for India and will likely
increase about three percent for
the Umted States.
Gains of more than two percent
are expected for Canada and
Brazil, However, several im
portant milk-producing areas are
experiencing difficulties. Output
continued to decline during 1981 in
the Soviet Union as the country
again suffered from feed grain and
forage supply problems.
Production in New Zealand arid
Australia , during the 1980-81
marketing year declined as
weather conditions hurt pastures.
Poland receives
million
WASHINGTON, D.C, was on the verge of announcing a
Although Polish citizens are now larg® credit guarantee for 'feed
receiving $3O million of USDA food € rain to Poland, but the program
shipments, Poland’s livestock was scrapped days before the
.industry is still without aid, martial law-take-over.^The feed
USDA spokesman David grain, which included corn, barley.
The food donation’ was an- sorghum and oats, would; have
nounced by President Reagan on henifitted Poland’s large poultry
Nov. 25, shortly before the Com- industry,' now suffering amid the
munist-bloc country .instituted turtpoil, said Dane. '
martial law. Lane said the U.S. “Pile program’s shortcoming was
donation included flour, food grain, 016 result of an uncertain financial
non-fat dry milk and vegetable oil. situation in Poland and possible
The shipments are being ad- misuse of the U.S. feed. Lane
ministered by the Catholic Relief noted -
Services and C.A.R.E. two “ We could not h® sure that-the
organizations the, Reagan ad- * e ®d would get to the people that
ministration ‘fully trusts,” said rea,ly needed I*.” he-explained,
Lane. “ citing possible intercejptions by the
The administration, said Lane, government or military.—6f "
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and output per cow management,
particularly in Australia.
For the 10 European Community
countries, which account for
nearly 30 percent of world milk
output, cow numbers have
declined, while output per cow
increased. Thus, total EC milk
output appears to have nearly
stabilized, with less than a one
percent gam expected for both 1981
and 1982.
Next year, world milk, output is
expected to, incrt&se -about one
percent from levels,,
with more normal weather con
ditions anticipated for Australia.
Output m the Soviet Onion is not
expected to show much; gain from
the 1981 level. -
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