A36-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 19,1985
Dairylea honors 10 dairymen
SYRACUSE - Ten dairy farms
received top milk quality
recognition awards at the Dairylea
annual meeting to be held here this
week. The cooperative’s quality
recognition program runs annually
from September through August.
The ten highest-scoring dairy
farms each received a plaque plus
a United States Savings Bond at
the marketing co-op’s 66th annual
meeting according to Willis Day,
vice-president for membership,
Dairylea.
First place is: Raymond Fix,
Corfu, N.Y.
Second: Edwin F.O. Masin,
Erin, N.Y.
Third: Richard Hill, Whitney
Point, N.Y.
Fourth: Harold C. Snyder,
Alfred Station, N.Y.
Fifth: Robert G. & Elsie D.
Harrison of Skaneateles, N.Y.
Sixth: Arthur E. Merle, Jr.,
Merle Farms, Attica, N.Y.
Seventh: Stephen & Herbert
Gregory, Hedges Farms, New
Berlin, N.Y.
Eighth: Robert J. & Shirley S.
Hawley, South Wales, N. Y.
Ninth: Walter & Betty Wiseman,
Mayville, N.Y.
Tenth: Marion J. and Darryl
Adamson, Geneseo, N.Y.
Seven additional farms qualified
for the year-long program
recognizing highest quality milk
production. Plaques for high
scores will be presented at local
meetings to the following:
• Dean A. & Ruth E
Cmcinnatus, N.Y.
• William & Bernard H. Schram,
Lyons, N.Y.
• Kenneth G. Bryan, Fabius,
N.Y.
• Viticent A. Canfield, Equinunk,
Pa.
• Charles Flock & Sons, Colts
Neck, N.J.
• Frank Hartwig, Clean, N.Y.
• William J. & Robert J. Red
mond, Port Byron, N.Y.
Brad Ryan, director of field
quality control for Dairylea
Cooperative, said that more than
200 other farms qualified for the
recognition program during one or
more quarters of the year.
Ryan explained that the unique
program’s quality criteria m-
Order 4 price
ALEXANDRIA, VA - Middle
Atlantic Order Market Ad
ministrator Joseph D. Shine today
announced a September 1985 base
milk price of $12.55 per hun
dredweight and an excess milk
price of $ll.lO. The weighted
average September price was
$12.49 and the butterfat differential
for the month was 16,2 cents. The
base milk price was up one cent
from August but was $1.30 below
last September. The weighted
average price was up three cents
from August and was $1.39 below
last September.
Mr. Shine said that the Sep
tember volume of producer milk
pooled under the order, 510.7
million pounds, was up over 44
million pounds or 9.5 percent from
last September. The average daily
delivery per producer of 2,540
pounds in September was up 251
pounds or 11 percent from a year
earlier. A total of 6,702 producers
supplied Order 4 pool handlers
during the month, 88 fewer than
elude: bulk tank capacity, tem
perature control, milk flavor, odor
and appearance, and
cleanliness. Three different
laboratory tests also must receive
high scores.
Dairylea had $358 million in net
sales during its recent fiscal year
ending March 31, 1985. The
cooperative has farmer members
in New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Western New England.
NEW YORK Dairy farmers
who supplied milk plants regulated
under the New York-New Jersey
marketing orders during Sep
tember 1985 will be paid on the
basis of a uniform price of $12.37
per hundredweight (26.6 cents per
quart). Market Administrator
Thomas A. Wilson also stated that
the price was $12.27 in August 1985
and $13.74 in September 1984. The
uniform price is a marketwide
weighted average of the value of
farm milk used for fluid and
manufactured dairy products.
Delavan,
set at $12.55
last September Class I producer
milk totaled 241 3 million pounds
and accounted for 47 25 percent of
total producer milk receipts in
September. The September 1984
Class I utilitization was 50.05
percent The volume of Class I
producer milk was up 3 4 percent
from a year ago. The volume of
Class II milk was up 36.5 million
pounds or almost 16 percent from a
year earlier. Base milk accounted
for 88.94 percent of total Sep
tember producer milk deliveries,
down significantly from 94.68
percent last September The
average butterfat test of producer
milk was 3.55 percent in Sep
tember, down slightly from a year
ago.
Order 4 pool handlers reported
Class I m-area milk sales of 199 8
million pounds during September,
an increase of 0.6 percent from a
jear earlier, after adjustment to
eliminate variation due to
calendar composition
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HARRISBURG - Seven new
members of the Pennsylvania
Dairy Promotion Program ad
visory board will attend the first
meeting of the 1985-86 funding year
Oct. 31 to Nov. 1 tn State College,
according to State Agriculture
Secretary Richard E. Grubb.
"The new members were
nominated by dairy farmers to
represent their 15,000 fellow
dairymen as the board considers
the use of promotional funds to
increase sales of milk and dairy
products. Local groups and
Order 2 price set at $12.37
The seasonal incentive fund
returned a total of $4,043,013.29, or
$.434 per hundredweight, to the
dairy farmers’ uniform price for
September. This fund was
generated by reducing the uniform
price paid to producers during the
high-production spring months.
A total of 16,486 dairy fanners
supplied the New York-New Jersey
Milk Marketing Area with
930,795,739 pounds of milk during
September 1985. This was an in
crease of 5.9 percent (about 52
million pounds) from last year.
The gross vslue to dairy farmers
for milk deliveries was
$116,790,186.39. This included
differentials required to be paid to
dairy farmers but not voluntary
premiums or deductions
authorized by the farmer.
Regulated milk dealers (han
dlers) used 386,518,213 pounds of
milk for Class 1,41.5 percent of the
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will also receive funding from the
program in the coming year,” said
Grubb.
The 20-member board oversees
the collection and distribution of
funds from the $2 million PDPP
initiated in 1983 and funded en
tirely by Pennsylvania dairy
producers.
The National Dairy Promotion
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national dairy referendum. The
total. This milk is used for fluid
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and skim milks. For September
1985, handlers paid $13.35 per
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quart) for Class I milk compared
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The balance (544,277,526 pounds
or 58.5 percent) was used to
manufacture Class II products
including butter, cheese, ice
cream, and yogurt. Handlers paid
$ll.lB per hundredweight for this
milk.
The uniform price is based on
milk containing 3.5 percent but
terfat. For September 1985, there
was a price differential of 16.2
cents for each one-tenth of one
percent that the milk tested above
or below the 3.5 percent standard.
All prices quoted are for bulk
tank milk received within the 201-
210 mile zone from New York City.
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continuation of the PDPP was
contingent upon approval of the
national program.
New members and their terms
include; Janice Burkholder of
Chambersburg, Franklin County,
three-year term; Wilmer B
Campbell of Halifax, Dauphin
County, one-year term; Paul
Corbin of Reynoldsville, Jefferson
County, one-year term; Albert L.
Hack of Berwick, Columbia
County, one-year term; Dr. John
Plummer of Chalfont, Bucks
County, three-year term; David E
Roth of Loysville, Perry County,
two-year term; and Christian E.
Wolff Jr. of Millville, Columbia
County, three-year term.
Other representatives on the
board include Carl Brown of Pine
Grove, Donald Cook of Drums,
Donald Duncan of Robesoma,
James Harteis of Ebensburg, R
LaVeme McCarty of Forksville,
Ernest O. Miller of Hamburg,
Beverly Minor of Washington,
Marylyn Shaffer of Lake Ariel,
Richard Shellenberger of
Manheim, Bryon Sollenberger of
Curryville, David Stetler of Mif
flintown, Elder Vogel of
Rochester, and Thad Woodward of
Canton.
According to program
guidelines, board members serve
varying terms of office to ensure
diversified representation among
the state’s dairy organizations,
cooperatives and individual
dairymen. Nominations will be
accepted again in September 1986.
Term lengths were determined by
random selection. Board members
are limited to serving two con
secutive three-year terms.
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