Alexandria, Va.-Middle
Atlantic Order Market Ad
ministrator Joseph D. Shine today
announced an Oct. base milk price
at $14.01 per hundredweight and an
excess milk price of $12.62. The
weighted average Oct. price was
$14.04 and the butterfat differential
for the month was 18.2 cents. The
weighted average milk price was
up 12 cents from Oct. 1983 and was
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Order 4 milk $14.01 for October
at the highest level since February
1981. The advertising withholding
rate, which is deducted from the
base and excess milk prices but not
the weighted average price is 10
cents a hundredweight in October,
compared with 14 cents a year
earlier.
Mr. Shine said that pooled milk
receipts totaled 478.0 million
pounds during October, a decrease
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of nearly 28 million pounds from a
year earlier. The average daily
delivery per producer of 2,300
pounds was down 56 pounds or 2.4
percent from the October 1983
average. Class I producer milk
totaled 257.1 million pounds and
accounted for 53.78 percent of total
producer milk receipts during the
month. This is the highest Class I
utilization in four years. Base milk
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accounted for 94.98 percent of total
producer milk receipts in October
compared with 92.70 percent a
year ago. The market average
butterfat test of producer milk was
3.69 percent in October 1984 and
3.77 percent last October.
Middle Atlantic Order pool
handlers reported Class I in-area
milk sales of 214.2 million pounds
during October, a decrease of 0.6
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