A36-Lancast«r Farming, Saturday, July 19,1986
DHIA Conference Set
UNIVERSITY PARK - On direct number cooperatives, and a
September sth and 6th, Penn- demonstration of the A.R.I.S.
sylvania DHIA will be conducting service currently being developed,
the third annual statewide A spouses program will be
director’s conference at the available which includes the
Sheraton Penn State. Although A.R.I.S. demonstration, and
each county is assigned a presentations dealing with
designated number of voting nutrition and milk marketing,
delegates, all county DHIA 1 For more information about the
directors are welcome to attend. conference, call Debbie Wagner at
The agenda includes sessions 1-800-DHI-TEST, or to make
dealing with the 1987 national reservations call your county
DHIA convention in Philadelphia, contact person.
AD ADC Hires Dairy
Marketing Specialist
WILLIAMSPORT - Brian
Ward, executive vice president of
the American Dairy Association
and Dairy Council, has announced
the appointment of Tom Vought to
the position of dairy marketing
specialist on the ADADC staff.
In this new position, Vought will
be a member of the AD ADC's
consumer promotion department.
He will be responsible for working
closely with convenient store and
supermarket dairy managers to
assist them with dairy product
Order 4 Milk Set at $12.30
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Middle
Atlantic Order Market Ad
ministrator Joseph D. Shine
recently announced a June 1986
base milk price of $12.30 per
hundredweight and an excess milk
price of $lO.Bl.
The weighted average June
price was $12.26 and the butterfat
differential for the month was 16.0
cents. The base milk price was
down 6 cents from May and was
$.27 lower than last June. The
weighted average price was down
one cent from May and was $.21
lower than a year earlier. The
gross value of June producer milk
was $64.6 million, compared to
$63.4 million a year ago.
Shine said that producer receipts
totaled 529.1 million pounds during
June, an increase of 19.8 million
pounds from last June, and the
average daily delivery of 2,705
pounds per producer increased 162
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advertising and promotion. He will
also represent the ADADC at trade
shows, conventions, and training
seminars throughout the Keystone
State.
A graduate of Mansfield State
College in speech communication,
Vought comes to the ADADC from
Hidlay Oil Company where he
managed the company’s con
venience store.
Vought resides in Bloomsburg
with his wife and child and will be
based out of the ADADC’s
Williamsport office.
pounds or 6.4 percent from a year
earlier.
Class I producer milk totaled
224.3 million pounds and was up
16.3 million pounds or 7.8 percent
from last June. Class I milk ac
counted for 42.40 of total
producer milk receipts during the
month, compared with 40.85
percent in June 1985. Base milk
accounted for 90.93 percent of total
producer milk receipts in June
compared with 87.45 percent last
year.
The average butterfat test of
producer milk was 3.49 percent,
down from 3.53 percent last June.
Middle Atlantic Order pool
handlers reported Class I in-area
milk sales of 190.5 million pounds
during June, an increase of seven
tenths of one percent from a year
earlier after adjustment to
eliminate variation due to
calendar composition.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Dairy
farmers who supplied milk plants
regulated under the New York-
New Jersey marketing orders
during June 1986 will be paid on the
basis of a uniform price of $11.27
per hundredweight (24.2 cents per
quart). Market Administrator
Thomas A. Wilson also stated that
the price was $11.25 in May 1986
and $11.47 in June 1985. 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 June, a total of
$4,153,405.82. Deductions for this
fund for March through June 1986
aggregated $13,912,936.61. The
fund, plus intere^
Inter-State Advances Date
of Capital Retain Payment
SOUTHAMPTON - Inter-State
Milk Producers’ Cooperative
members will receive their first
payment from the cooperative’s
capital retain program a year
earlier than expected, President
Robert B. McSparran announced
recently.
McSparran’s announcement fol
lowed the July board meeting, at
which the directors voted to move
the date of the first payment from
February 1988 to February 1987.
The payment will cover the period
of Nov. 1, 1981, through July 31,
1982.
The board’s decision, Mc-
Sparran said, is a reflection of the
cooperative’s improved financial
position.
“Increased sales and production
and proficient operations have
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Milk Set At $11.27
June
distributed in the August through
November uniform price
calculations.
A total of 16,009 dairy farmers
supplied the New York-New Jersey
Milk Marketing Area with
1,038,351,456 pounds of milk during
June 1986. This was an increase of
1.0 percent (about 10 million
pounds) from last year. The gross
value to dairy farmers for milk
deliveries was $117,904,362.53. This
included differentials required to
be paid to dairy farmers but not
voluntary premiums or deductions
authorized by the farmer.
Regulated milk dealers (hand
lers) used 365,905,420 pounds of
milk for Class 1,35.2 percent of the
total. This milk is used for fluid
milk products such as
homogenized, flavored, low test,
and skim milks. For June 1986,
contributed to a better financial
picture,” he said, adding that
current projections for the fiscal
year, which ends July 31,1986, are
the best in three years.
According to General Manager
Paul E. Hand, Inter-State’s ear
nings for 1985-1986 will exceed the
capital retain and the normal
revolving fund payment for the
fiscal year.
Hand reported that Inter-State’s
income for the fiscal year is ex
pected to exceed $2 million, the
highest amount on record. He
More pints of ice cream
are sold in very large
cities, while quarts are
more popular in medium
size cities.
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handlers paid $13.53 per hun
dredweight (29.1 cents per quart)
for Class I milk compared with
$13.87 a year ago.
The balance (672,446,036 pounds
or 64.8 percent) was used to
manufacture Class II products
including butter, cheese, ice
cream, and yogurt. Handlers paid
$10.89 per hundredweight for this
milk.
The uniform price is based on
milk containing 3.5 percent but
terfat. For June 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 for bulk
tank milk received from farms in
the 201-210 mile zone from New
York City.
added, however, that the final
audit will not be available until
September.
The strong financial picture is
good news for Inter-State mem
bers, Hand said. The first payment
from the capital retain program,
which will average over $6OO per
member, attests to this, he said.
Inter-State began its capital
retain program Nov. 1, 1981, to
increase the net worth and im
prove the equity position of the
cooperative. Members pay into the
program at a rate of $.lO per
hundredweight.
80 FEET A MINUTE! - sliding Flex-Auger,
driven, like a chain, with a sprocket.
Handles all feed without skips or
separation.
Hens or pullets can’t pick feed while
feeder is running
Flex-Auger in trough bottom restricts
hens or pullets from piling feed and
billing feed into pit and isles.
5 Year Warranty
Ice cream consumption
is highest in July (National
Ice Cream Month) and
August.