Volunteer Daughter Nets Top Bid At Willaman Dispersal
BY GINGER SECRIST MYERS
Adams County Correspondent
TRANSFER - The Willaman
Jersey Dispersal, held at the
Robert Willaman Farm, March 5,
had all the ingredients for a suc
cessful sale. It offered 75 head of
deep-pedigreed registered Jerseys
with a rolling herd average over
12,000 pounds of milk. It attracted
Order 4 Milk Priced
At $13,24 For February
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Middle
Atlantic Order Market Ad
ministrator Joseph D. Shine an
nounced a February 1987 base milk
price of $13.24 per hundredweight
and an excess milk price of $11.21.
The weighted average February
price was $13.09 and the butterfat
differential for the month was 15.7
cents.
The base milk price was down 30
cents from January but was 64
cents higher than last February.
The weighted average price was
down 33 cents from January but
was 64 cents higher than a year
earlier. The gross value of
February producer milk was $64.5
million, compared to $62.0 million
a year ago.
Shine said that producer receipts
totaled 494.5 million pounds during
February, a decrease of 4.7 million
pounds from last February, and
the average daily delivery of 2,740
pounds per producer increased 77
pounds or 2.9 percent from a year
earlier.
Class I producer milk totaled
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buyers looking to add Jersey milk
to their tanks for the local cheese
market which pays $17.75 per
hundred weight for high solids
milk. And, it was managed by the
Jersey Marketing Service who
attracted buyers to the sale from
as far away as Texas.
All these combined for a sale
238.7 million pounds and was up 6.0
million pounds or 2.6 percent from
last February. Class I milk ac
counted for 48.26 percent of total
producer milk receipts during the
month, compared with 46.60
percent in February 1986.
Base milk accounted for 87.78
percent of total producer milk
receipts in February compared
with 84.72 percent last year.
The average butterfat test of
producer milk was 3.81 percent,
unchanged from last February.
Middle Atlantic Order pool
handlers reported Class I in-area
milk sales of 196.7 million pounds
during February, a decrease of 1.6
percent from a year earlier.
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average of $942 on 75 head. The
median selling price was $875. The
sale grossed $70,625.
Topping the sale on a final bid of
$1,900 was a fancy 2-year-old
daughter of Mayfield Volunteer,
Fredrika Elite of WJF Volunteer.
Auctioneer Steve Andrews,
Wooster, Ohio, handled the rapid
fire bidding which started at the
$l,OOO mark and quickly climbed
by $lOO increments.
Fredrika is currently working on
her 1-11 record with a 305 day
actual projection of 11,858 pounds
of milk, 519 pounds of fat, and 430
pounds of protein. She sold safe in
calf to a service of Highland Magic
Duncan. She was purchased by
Laurie Reeder, Punxsatawney.
Contending bidder was Phil Miller,
Sugar Creek, Ohio.
Miller was the final bidder on the
second-high selling cow, Willaman
Lance Eidel Posey. He paid $1750
for the 2-year-old grand-daughter
of Reglis Deni Hi-Power. She sold
springing with her second calf to a
service of Rocky Hill Silverling
Beau. Posey’s current MCD is
+4105M + 181 F +s4ls +BIP
+447CYS.
The third high selling cow stayed
closer to home. Gerald Moose,
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the Willaman Jersey Sale held at the Willaman Farm on
March 5. She commanded a purchase price of $l9OO. Shown
here with Fredrika are (left) Robert Willaman, Phil Miller,
Sugar Grove, Ohio, contender, and Laurie Reeder, Punx
satawney, buyer.
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projected record at 4-10 305 days is
14,656 pounds of milk, 547 pounds of
fat, and 500 pounds of protein.
High volume buyer at the sale
was A 1 Janak, Weimar, Texas. He
took home 16 head for $12,550.