AlB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 11,1982
Federal Order 4 r
January milk tat $15.34
Middle Atlant irder Market
Administrator iph D. Shine
recently annoim a Class I milk
price of $l5. J 4 p hundredweight
for January 191 This price is
unchanged from the December
pnce and is 4 cents higher than last
January’s Class I pnce.
Order No. 4 pnces are an
nounced for milk testing 3.5 per
cent butterfat f.o.b. plants located
within 55 miles of Philadelphia,
and also within 75 miles from the
nearer of Washington, D.C. or
Baltimore, Md. There is also a 6-
cent direct-delivery differential
applicable to producer milk
received at plants located within 55
miles of Philadelphia.
Shine announced a Class II milk
price of $12.64 per hundredweight
for November 1982 and a butterfat
differential of 17.0 cents for the
month. The Class II milk price and
the butterfat differential are un
changed from October.
These class prices are based on
the November 1982 Mmnesota-
Wisconsin manufacturing milk
price of $12.56 per hundredweight
at a 3.3 percent butterfat content.
The USDA reported that the
wholesale price of Grade A butter
at Chicago for November was
$1,4818 per pound and the nonfat
dry milk price was $.9374 per
pound, f.o.b. plants in the Chicago
area.
Federal Order 2
50° Milk Check"
Deduction Is Mandatory
Numerous questions from dairy
farmers and handlers concerning
the authority for the 50 cent Dairy
Collection Plan recently drew
comment from Market Ad
ministrator Thomas A. Wilson.
The Order No. 2 Administrator
«mmm anas
stated handlers do not need an
individual producer authorization
to deduct the 50 cents per hun
dredweight. The necessary
authority is contained in Section
101 of the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1982 and the
regulations published in the
November 30, 1982 Federal
Register.
Wilson explained that the 50
cents, a deduction required by
Armacosts eompet
ATLANTA, Ga. Wayne and
Pepper Armacost, Hickory Hill
Farm, Upperco, Md. were recent
contestants in the Young
Dairymen Contest held at the
Hilton Hotel here in conjunction
with the 13th Annual Meeting of
Dairymen, Inc. *
Winners of the Middle-Atlantic
Division Outstanding Young
Dairymen Contest held in Hershey
in late June, the Armacosts were
among the 11 couples competiting
for the title of Outstanding Young
Dairymen in the cooperative
composed of more than 8,000 dairy
members in the mid-Atlantic and
Adams County beef
producers to meet
GETTYSBURG - Stewart
"Turk” Laidlow, Consumer Public
Relations Representative for
Moyer Packing, Sounderton, will
tell area beef producers what type
of animals Moyer likes to purchase
and what works well for them as
far as consumer beef demands in
this area at the next meeting of the
Adams County Beef Producers.
statute, has first priority on money
due producers. Therefore, it
supercedes all other producer
requests or assignments and must
be made whether or not there are
sufficient funds to meet the
producers’ other obligations.
It was further explained that any
handler failing to properly make *
and remit this mandatory
deduction will incur a late
payment charge, currently 17
southern area of the United States.
The parents of two pre-school
children, the Armacosts are in
volved in their church, DHIA and
Farm Bureau Young Farmers.
Along with two brothers and their
wives, his mother and father, the
couple is part of a family cor
poration milking 600 Registered
Holsteins at their modern dairy
operation in northwest Baltimore
County.
The Armacosts also attended the
National Milk Producers
Federation Annual Meeting in
Detroit, Mich.
The meeting is set for Tuesday,
at 7:30 p.m. at the Adams County
Extension Office. There will be a
question and answer period
following Laidlow’s presentation
and interested persons are invited
to attend.
Newly-elected officers and
directors of the association are:
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percent per year, and also will be , producers who market their own
subject to civil penalties of $l,OOO milk to consumers, either directly
per violation. The program began or through retail or wholesale
December l, 1982 as scheduled, outlets. Such persons are required
The initial payments are due in to remit 50 cents per hun-
January 1983 and should be mailed dredweight on all such
tO' Commodity Credit Cor- marketings, whether in the form of
porations, P.O. Box 2818, Glen milk or various milk products.
Ellyn, Illinois 60137. Market Administrator offices and
The dairy collection plan covers some state departments of
all producers marketing milk agriculture will be responsible for
commercially. This includes the verification of the deductions.
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are, left, Fred G. Butler, President, Middle-Atlantic Division,
Dairymen, Inc.; and Ralph L Strock, Manager, Middle-
Atlantic Division.
President, Craig Peterson; Vice Publicity, Becky
President, Ray Grimes; Program, Paul Heffner and
Treasurer, Frank Darcey, III; Director-at-Large, Frank Darcey
Secretary, Faith Peterson; Jr.
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