AZMancastor Famine, Saturday, Dacambar 22,1984
MIFFLINTOWN - James C.
Graham of Port Royal, owns the
high DHIA herd in Juniata County
for the 61st year of official testing.
His 34 registered Holsteins
produced 19,036 pounds of milk, 735
pounds of fat and 608 pounds of
protein.
Four cows in Graham's herd also
completed their lactations with
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Middle
Atlantic Order Market Ad
ministrator Joseph D. Shine today
announced a November base milk
price of $14.23 per hundredweight
and an excess milk price of $12.70.
The weighted average November
price was $14.24 and the butterfat
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Graham dominates Juniata DHIA
more than 850 pounds of butterfat
or 23,000 pounds of milk.
Four other dairymen had herds
with year-end averages over 700
lbs. butterfat: Barry E. Lucas,
Millerstown; Marvin E. Pontius,
Millerstown; Mark L. Zook,
Mifflin; and James L. Swartz, Port
Royal.
Gerald Hart of Mifflintown had
Order 4 milk $14.23 for November
differential for the month was 18.2
cents. The weighted average milk
price was up 20 cents from October
and was 28 - cents above last
November’s average price. Both
the November base milk price and
the weighted average price were at
record-high levels. The advertising
withholding rate, .which is
deducted from the base and excess
milk prices but not the weighted
average price is 10 cents a hun
dredweight in November, com
pared with 14 cents a year earlier.
Mr. Shine said that pooled milk
the greavesi increase in butterfat
production in Juniata County. He
received a plaque for an increase
of 75 pounds fat.
Also honored was Ronald Fauth
for achieving the greatest increase
in milk production of 1812 pounds.
Herdsman for the Fauth herd, Earl
Ocker, accepted the award plaque.
Seven herds exceeded 600 pounds
, y f ponntv 4 Marvin
receipts totaled 468.9 million
pounds during November, a
decrease of over 22 million pounds
from a year earlier. The average
daily delivery per producer of 2,337
pounds was down 17 pounds or 0.7
percent from November 1983.
Class I producer milk totaled 249.1
million pounds and accounted for
53.14 percent of total producer milk
receipts during the month. Last
November Class I producer milk
totaled 243.4 million pounds and
the Class I utilization averaged
49.55 percent. Base milk accounted
Pontius, James Swartz, Mark
Zook, James Graham, Daryl and
Delbert Brubaker, Barry Lucus,
and Rick and Ralph Saner.
The highest individual cow for
tat was owned by James H. Speer
Jr. of Blairs Mills. Babs, a grade
Holstein, completed her lactation
with 1227 pounds fat and 26,035
pounds milk.
for 94.15 percent of total producer
milk receipts in November com
pared with 92.34 percent a year
ago. The market average butterfat
test of producer was 3.74 percent in
November 1984, down sharply
from the 3.87 percent market test
last November.
Middle Atlantic Order handlers
reported Class I in-area milk sales
of 207.1 million pounds during
November, an increase of 0.3
percent from a year earlier, after
adjustment to eliminate variation
due to calendar composition.
Herd owners with cows com
pleting lactations with 1000 plus
pounds of fat were: James Speer
Jr., Norman Love, Marvin Pon
tius, Barry Lucas, Mark Zook,
Larry and David Noss, William
Peoples, Grand Hope Farm,
Harold Shearer, and Glen
Simonton.
The lowest somatic cell count
herd was that of Keith Coddington,
Port Royal, with a count of 125,000.
Other herds under 200,000 count
were Russell Dressier, Barry
Lucas, Iskcon Farm, Glenn and
Shirley Graham, S.F. Metz, and
l,eonard Queitzsch.
In the Juniata County DHIA,
supervisor Harvey Fettig has
completed 21 years of service,
while qualifying for the award of
merit during 17 of those years.
Fettig was also one of the three
Pa. DHIA supervisors to earn the
1984 Distinguished Service Award.
To further honor Fettig for
receiving the award, the Juniata
County directors presented him
with a new spin-cast fishing reel, to
complement his favorite hobby.