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Order 4 Milk Set at $12.36
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Middle
Atlantic Order Market Ad
ministrator Joseph D. Shine today
announced a May 1986 base milk
price of $12.36 per hundredweight
and an excess milk price of $10.78.
The weighted average May price
was $12.27 and the butterfat dif
ferential for the month is 16.0
cents. The base milk price was up 7
cents from April but was $.63 lower
than last May. The weighted
average price was up 4 cents from
April but was $.55 lower than a
year earlier.
The gross value of May producer
milk was $70.5 million, compared
to $70.1 million a year ago.
Mr. Shine said that producer
receipts totaled 576.8 million
Milk Poster Winners Named
BY JOYCE BUPP
NEW OXFORD - Colorful
posters brighten the roadsides of
rural Adams County, as dairy
farm families promote milk during
June.
The posters are part of a contest
sponsored earlier this month by
the Adams County Dairy Princess
and Promotion Committee.
Taking first place, and a $25
award, were Barbara and David
Kerr, Littlestown. Their “June
Dairy Month - Celebrate’’ poster
featured blue calico lettering with
colorful life-sized pictures of
“Fill Up With Milk” earned Sandy and Bob Flickinger the
second-place poster award.
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pounds during May, an increase of
28.8 million pounds from last May,
and the average daily delivery of
2,830 pounds per producer in
creased 199 pounds or 7.6 percent
from a year earlier.
Class I producer milk totaled
245.4 million pounds and was up
nearly 12.8 million pounds or 5.5
percent from last May. Class I
milk accounted for 42.55 percent of
total producer milk receipts during
the month, compared with 42.46
percent in May 1985.
Base milk accounted for 88.50
percent of total producer milk
receipts in May compared with
85.29 percent last year. The
average butterfat test of producer
milk was 3.57 percent, up slightly
from 3.56 percent last May.
assorted dairy products.
Sandy and Bob Flickinger won
the $l5 second-place prize with the
poster on their New Oxford farm
stead. It urged passersby to “Fill
Up With Milk,” depicting a milk
carton with a hose filling up a glass
with milk.
A compound poster display
earned $lO for third-place winners,
the John Hess family. Flanking a
cow sporting an Uncle Sam-type
patriotic top hat were the
messages: June is Dairy Month;
Our Cows Want You To Enjoy Real
Dairy Products.
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Dairy
farmers who supplied milk plants
regulated under the New York-
New Jersey marketing orders
during May 1986 will be paid on the
basis of a uniform price of $11.25
per hundredweight (24.2 cents per
quart). Market Administrator
Thomas A. Wilson also stated that
the price was $11.31 in April 1986
and $11.78 in May 1965. The
uniform price is a marketwide
weighted average of the value of
farm milk used for fluid and
manufactured dairy products.
The seasonal incentive plan
removed $.40 per hundredweight
from the dairy farmers’ uniform
price for May, a total of
$4,494,845.78. Deductions will
continue through June and will be
returned in the August through
November uniform price
calculations.
A total of 16,148 dairy farmers
supplied the New York-New Jersey
The poster contest was one of
several events scheduled by the
dairy promotion group to celebrate
June Dairy Month.
A Dairy Month Baby award went
to the first infant born at Get
tysburg Hospital after 12:01 on
June 1. Gift certificates for dairy
products, free ice cream sundaes,
and a toy cow were among the
items presented to Mrs. Tracy
Whetsel.
In a Dairy Month celebration
with the Gettysburg Little League,
milk was served by the dairy
princess to the eight teams in the
program. Junior ball players also
took home Cal Ripken milk posters
and schedules for both the
Baltimore Orioles and
Philadelphia Phillies teams.
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May Milk Set at $11.25
Milk Marketing Area with
1,123,711,445 pounds of milk during
May 1986. This was an increase of
3.2 percent (about 35 million
pounds) from last year. The gross
value to dairy farmers for milk
deliveries was $128,614,105.11. 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 391,492,838 pounds of
milk for Class 1,34.8 percent of the
total. This milk is used for fluid
milk products such as
homogenized, flavored, low test,
and skim milks. For May 1986,
handlers paid $13.57 per hun
dredweight (29.2 cents per quart)
for Class I milk compared with
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Barbara and David Kerr won the Adams County roadside
milk promotion poster contest by urging motorists to
celebrate June Dairy Month.
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$14.20 a year ago. The increase of
$.30 in the Class I differential
became effective May 1,1986.
The balance (732,218,067) pounds
or 65.2 percent) was used to
manufacture Class II products
including butter, cheese, ice
cream, and yogurt. Handlers paid
$10.86 per hundredweight for this
milk.
The uniform price is based on
milk containing 3.5 percent but
terfat. For May 1986, there was a
,price differential of 16.0 cents for
each one-tenth of one percent that
the milk tested above or below the
3.5 percent standard.
All prices quoted are the bulk
tank milk received from farms in
the 201-210 mile zone from New
York City.
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