Elo—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 21,1984
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Middle
Atlantic Order Market Ad
ministrator Joseph D. Shine an
nounced April 5, a Class I milk
price of $14.86 per hundredweight
for May 1984. This price is up two
cents from April but is 45 cents
below last May’s Class I price.
Order No. 4 prices 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, DC 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.
Anouncement Of Minimum Class Prices
Hundredweight Price for 3.5% Milk, f.o.b. Plant
Location within 55 miles of Philadelphia, PA and also
within 75 miles from the nearer of Washington, DC or Baltimore, MD
CLASS I MILK
Basic Formula Price
(Sec. 1004.51)
Plus
Class I Price
CLASS II MILK
Basic Formula Price
(Sec. 1004.51)
Adjustment for March
(Sec. 1004.50(b))
Class II Price
Butterfat Differential
to Producers
Price Quotations For March 1984
Basic Formula Price for March (Sec. 1004.51
Average price per hundredweight for manufacturing grade
milk f.o.b. plants in Minnesota and Wisconsin for March
Butterfat Content 3.73% $12.47
Butterfat Content 3.5 % $12.06
Average price per pound for Grade A (92 Score) bulk creamery
butter wholesale at Chicago for March
* Price does not include 6-cent direct-delivery
differential pursuant to Sec. 1004.79
NEW YORK
Alfred Station RoyL Doane
607/587-8876
Raymond E
Johnson;
518/692-7050^
PENNSYLVANIA
Fleetwood Red Wing Farms
Schaghitocke
215/944-0402
Kittanning . William E Ramer
412/548-2317
Triple HI
Farms,
717/548-3775
Wyalusing William Beebel
717/746-3435J
Peach Bottom
Shine announced a Class II milk
price of $12.05 per hundredweight
for March 1984 and a butterfat
differential of 16.3 cents for the
month. The Class II price dropped
five cents from February while the
butterfat differential increased
one-tenth of a cent.
The May Class I price and the
March Class n price are based on
the March 1984 Minnesota-
Wisconsin manufacturing milk
price of $12.08 per hundredweight
at 9 3.5 percent butterfat content.
The USDA reported that the
wholesale price of Grade A butter
at Chicago for March was $1.4211
per pound and the nonfat dry milk
price was $.9104 per pound, f.o.b.
plants in the Chicago area.
MARCH 1984 APRIL 1984 MAY 1984
$12.05 $12.06
2.78
$14.83*
2.78
$14.84*
$12.08
-.03
$12.05*
$ .163
EAR CORN
Paying Top Prices For
Good Quality Ear Corn
• Wet or Dry
• No Quantity too large
or too small
• Fast Unloading -
Dump on Pile & Go
• Easy access - 2.2
miles off 283 bypass-
Manheim, Mt. Joy
exit
• Daily Receiving 7:30
A.M. to 5 P.M. - un
loading evenings &
Saturdays by appt.
• Trucks available for
pick up at your farm.
Call Anytime For Price
717-665-4785
JAMES E. NOU HUM
NEWARK, Del. - Now is the
time to check cornfields for slugs.
By doing this before planting, says
University of Delaware extension
pest management specialist
Joanne Whalen, farmers can select
the production practices most
likely to reduce potential damage
in vulnerable plantings.
Start by checking fields that
experienced slug damage last
spring, as well as those with heavy
cornstalk or ' weed residues.
Whalen also recommends
checking PIK acres having a
heavy cover. Slugs generally
overwinter as eggs; however,
immature and mature forms can
also survive. Slug eggs are tran
slucent to opaque and slightly
smaller than a fertilizer pellet.
Look for them on the soil surface
under heavy plant residues. Check
for young slugs on the soil surface,
attached to crop residues or in the
top few inches of soil.
“The potential for slug damage
this season will depend largely on
spring planting conditions,’’ the
specialist says. “Last year’s mild
winter and cool wet spring were
extremely favorable to slug
development. As a result, in 1983
many mature and immature slugs
as well as eggs could be found in
cornfields throughout the winter.
This year’s overwintering
population appears to be lower. ’ ’
Fields surveyed in February and
early March contained fewer eggs
and only a few immature slugs.
These low populations may be a
result of the deep freezes ex
perienced this past winter. If
spring conditions are “more
normal,” Whalen says the
potential for slug damage may be
reduced this season.
$12.08
2.78
$14.86*
$12.08
Actively growing com as well as
com more than 6 inches tall is less
$ 1.4211
Check cornfields (or slugs
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susceptible to yield reduction from
slug damage. However, it is still
important to check fields now to
determine the potential for
economic damage and decide on
the best control strategy where
infestations are found.
In cornfields with large slug
populations, the best option is
rotation to soybeans. This wil help
break the slug cycle. Also, soil
surfaces are usually drier by the
time soybeans go in.
Where continuous corn is
planted, Whalen advises mold
board plowing, chisel plowing or
disking to bury plant debris which
otherwise can shelter slugs during
the day. “Be sure to consider the
effect of these tillage practices on
Penn State Dairy Science
Club to fall Holstein sale
UNIVERSITY PARK - The
Nittany Lion Fall Classic, the
newest activity of the Penn State
Dairy Science Club, will debut
Nov. 2. This Classic will be a
consignment sale featuring
registered Holstein cows, heifers
and calves.
The Fall Classic will be the first
major sale in the new Ag Arena on
the Penn State Campus. The sale
will be co-managed with the
Pennsylvania Holstein Association
(PHA). It will provide club
members with valuable e*-,
perience and knowledge in mer
chaiyfoiqg arid running a con
signment sale and will involve
students with purebred dairy
cattle breeders.
Committees have been
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soil erosion problems,’’ she
cautions. “If tillage isn’t an option,
it’s important to spread out piles of
heavy residues by chopping or
mowing.” Since slugs require a
humid environment to survive,
these practices will help dry out
the soil surface, making conditions
less hospitable for them.
Insecticide treatments for slugs
will only be cost-effective for
spotty infestations, the specialist
says. Currently, Sevin 5% bait is
the only material labeled for slug
control on field com. Other
materials may be available as 24C
registrations this spring. For in
formation on these, farmers should
contact a county extension agfcnt in
Newark, Dover or Georgetown.
selections, advertising and
promotion, pedigrees and
catalogs, food, finance, and arena
and animal preparation. The
committees are overseen by sale
chairman Mark Wolfskill, a 6th
semester dairy production major
from Robesonia.
Selections are currently being
made for the event. According to
Wolfskill, animals are being
selected by club members who are
following guidelines set up jointly
by the club and PHA.
Dairymen who have a top quality
cow, heifer, or calf that tbevms|\
to consign. areakkid tb cohtact the
Pfenn State Dairy Science Club at
814-663-4205, 212 Borland Lab,
University Park, PA or the PHA at
814-234r0364,839 Benner Pike, State
College, PA.
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DAVID NEWMAN
(717)299-9905