C4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 16,1983 ORDER NO. 4 BASE MILK PRICE $13.70 FOR JUNE ALEXANDRIA, VA. - Middle Atlantic Order Market Ad ministrator Joseph D. Shine on July 9 announced a June 1983 base milk price of $13.70 per hundred weight and an excess milk price of $12.27. The weighted average June price is also $13.70 and the hut terfat differential for the month is 16.9 cents. The base milk price is LOOK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU CORN - We have rental equipment to sidedress corn with liquid nitrogen or anhydrous ammonia. alfalfa - Topdress after first cutting. If you missed, be sure to topdress after 2nd cutting. Remember, established alfalfa is a legume and does not need nitrogen. Insecticide spraying after first or second cutting. soybeans - Asgro soybeans avail able. TOBACCO - Call Us. We can handle your tobacco spraying needs. Available N0w..., SUCKER-STUFF H.C. I Gal. Per Acre Order Now & SAVE! ORGANIC plant [ ANHYDROUS AMMONIA J FOOD CO. 2313 NORMAN ROAD, LANCASTER, PA PHONF . SUMMER HOURS; 717.?Q7.ci m Weekdays 7:30-4:00 Closed Saturdays July and August CM G3353S up 2 cents from the previous month and is 8 cents higher than last June. The advertising withholding rate, which is deducted from the base and excess milk prices but not the weighted average price, was 14 cents a hundred-weight. A total of $711.9 thousand was deducted for advertising in June, up from $696.4 thousand last year. The gross value of June producer milk was NOW $69.6 million, compared to $67.6 million last year. The tran sportation credit on Class 11 milk, which was effective for the entire month of June, totaled $93,983.55. Mr. Shine said that producer receipts totaled 508.5 million pounds during June, an increase of over II million pounds or 2.2 percent from last June. The average daily delivery per producer was 2,411 pounds, up 122 PA STATE GRANGE ENDORSES MUNCY CHIEF SEEDS Hybrid Seed Corn - Seed Oats - Seed Wheat Early Prepaid Delivered Prices Eastern US VARIETY Certified Hart Certified Tyler Registered Tyler Certified Titan Registered Titan Cover Crop Wheat Certified Pennrad *6.50 Certified Barsoy *6.50 Certified Maury *6.50 Small Seeded Tetra Petkus Cover Crop Rye Muncy Chief can make and save you more money either as Muncy Chief Dealer or Muncy Chief Grange Sales Agent - Write us at Muncy or ask for particulars. Also ask about Grange Rebates on Muncy Chief Seeds • saves youmoresssss See us at Pennsylvania Forage & Dairy Day, July 19, 1983 at the Milton Hershey School Farms at Hershey, PA MUNCY-CHIEF HYBRIDS Muncy, Pennsylvania 17756 {£y|So||l| Phone Collect 717-546-5981 pounds or 5.8 percent from the a g o average butterfat test of June 1982 average. Class 1 producer milk was 3.49 percent in producer milk totaled 226.0 million June> down from 3>53 m pounds and was up almost 11 year earlier * million pounds over a year ago. ' Middle Atlantic Order pooh Class 1 producer milk accounted handlers reported Class I m-area for 44.45 percent of total producer of 187 (j milk receipts during the month. during June> m increase of 4.8 The Class 1 utilization percentage million pounds or 2.6 percent over was 43 29 last June. Base milk a earlier, after adjustme(lt to accounted for 90.61 percent of total eliminate variation due to producer milk receipts in June calendar composttoa. compared to 90 02 percent a year Washington, d.c. - Dairy fanners, cooperative associations, milk handlers and consumers may comment until Monday on a U.S. Department of Agriculture recommended decision to amend the Middle Atlantic federal milk marketing order. Edward T. Coughlin, dairy of ficial with USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service in Washington, D.C., said the proposed amend ment would reduce from 40 to 30 percent the minimum percentage of a cooperative’s total milk that must .be delivered to pool distributing plants to pool its reserve processing plant. The amendment was proposed by Pennmarva Dairymen's Federation, a federation of six cooperative associations. The proposed action is necessary to accommodate the pooling of milk and Other Farm Seeds SEED WHEAT SEED BARLEY SEED RYE Milk order comments asked SUGGESTED RETAIL *7.75 •8.00 •9.00 •8.00 •9.00 *7.00 *7.75 * 7 - 75 HART TYLER •7.50 regularly associated with the market while minimizing hauling costs, Coughlin said. Principal cities in the Middle Atlantic market area are Philadelphia, Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D.C. The recom mended decision is based on the record of a public hearing held in May. The recommended decision will be published in the July 11 Federal Register. Copies also are available from: Joseph D. Shine, market administrator, P.O. Box 710, Alexandria, Va. 22313 telephone < (703) 549-7000; or, Dairy Division, AMS, USD A, Washington, D.C. 20250. ‘ Comments should be sent to: Hearing Clerk, Rm. 1077-S, USDA, Washington, D.C. 20250, where anyone may see them.
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