ALEXANDRIA, VA - Middle
Atlantic Order Market Ad
ministrator Joseph D. Shine todaj
announced an April 1985 base milk
price of $13.26 per hundredweight
and an excess milk price of $11.45.
The weighted average April price
was $13.11 and the butterfat dif
ferential for the month was 16.3
cents.
The base milk price was down 27
cents from March and was the
same as last April. The weighted
average price dropped 33 cents
from March and was 17 cents
below a year earlier.
The Order 4 Class I milk price
was down 19 cents from March to
April 1985, while the Class II price
dropped 37 cents, accounting for
the sharp monthly decline in
producer prices.
The advertising withholding
rate, which is deducted from the
base and excess milk prices but not
the weighted average price, was 10
cents a hundredweight in April
1985 and 14 cents last April.
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Order 4 milk base price drops 27 cents in April
Mr. Shine said that producer
receipts totaled- 527.8 million
pounds during April, and that the
average daily delivery per
producer was a record high 2,588
pounds, exceeding last April’s
average producer delivery per day
by 223 pounds or 9.4 percent. The
number of producers declined 249
from last April.
Class I producer milk totaled
237.6 million pounds and was up
almost 3 million pounds or 1.2
percent from April 1984. Class I
milk accounted for 45.03 percent of
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the month, compared with 46.96
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Base milk accounted for onlj
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, (Nay 18,1985-Al7
percentage was almost 92 percent
The average butterfat test of
producer milk of 3.66 percent was
down slightly from 3.71 percent a
year ago.
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Atlantic
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Rural growth
state,” reports
University of Delaware
extension specialist in
community resource
development, Daniel S.
Kuennen. This runs
counter to national
trends for the 1980 s.
Nearly a third of the
rural counties in the
U.S. that experienced a
resurgence of growth in
the 1970 s are losing
population again, the
specialist says,
probably in response to
h mionged recession
handlers reported Class I in-area
milk sales of 202.0 million pounds
during April, a decline of 0.4
percent from a year earlier, after
adjustment to eliminate variation
due to calendar composition.
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of the early 1980 s.
By contrast, from 1970
to 1980 the growth rate
for Sussex County, Del.,
was 22 percent, followed
by Kent County at 19
percent and New Castle
County at 3.4 percent.
From 1980 to 1983
metropolitan Delaware
grew by 1.5 percent
while, at 2.9 percent, the
state’s rural population
nearly doubled.
What are the reasons
for this trend, and what
are its implications for
Delaware’s rural
residents and the
communities in which
they live?
One explanation for
Sussex County’s
phenomenal growth is
the increased number of
people who are retiring
to second homes in
coastal communities-a
process which will no
doubt be accelerated by
the duPont company’s
current offer of early
retirement to many
employees.
A relatively low cost
of living and ac
cessibility to East Coast
cities are other at
tractions in rural Kent
and Sussex counties.
Both counties have
also enjoyed modest
growth in service • in
dustries and small
businesses in recent
years--another con
tributing factor.
However, service in
dustries in rural
southern Delaware have
expanded at a slower
rate than in the rest of
the state-a fact
Kuennen views with
some concern.
“Already there is a
need for more services
mcluding central sewer
systems, police and fire
protection, roads,
schools and medical
care-as a result of
population growth,’’ the
specialist says.
A second cause for
concern is the fact that
some dedvelopment in
both Kent and Sussex
counties is occurring on
prune agricultural land
and in environmentally
sensitive areas.
Recognizing the
potential impact of this
development, Sussex
County is presently
revising its land use
plans for the entire
county as well as its
southern coastal area-a
procedure involving
considerable dif
ferences of opinion.
“We’re talking about
competing values,”
Kuennen says, “When
people move to the
country, they bring
their urban values with
them. Some have a hard
time adjusting to rural
lifestyles, so this is very
much a period of
transition for rural
Delaware. Because af
the fast-paced growth ii)
resort areas, coastal
Sussex is experiencing
the greatest change.”