A32-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Saptember 5, 1987
(Continued from Pago At)
MILK PRICES
Minnesota-Wisconsin
Milk Price
With CCC purchases at very
low levels during the spring flush
months and continuing on through
July, M-W prices began to
increase in June 1987. The M-W
price has been above 1986 levels
throughout the first half of 1987
despite a 25-cent cut in the support
price in January. The M-W price
should continue to increase
throughout the rest of 1987 even
though another 2S-cent reduction
in the support price is scheduled in
October. The currently strong
commercial market has pushed
butter prices on the Chicago mark
et above CCC purchase levels and
increases in cheese prices on the
Chicago market have pushed block
and barrel prices to with 'A and
1-cent of the CCC purchase price,
respectively, as of July 1987. As
supplies began to tighten further in
the last half of 1987 (as traditional
ly occurs), the M-W should
increase but may not reach the
levels during the last months in
1987 as it did during the same per
iod in 1986. The M-W should
average between $11.15 and
$11.35 for 1987 depending on the
degree of increase in the fall and
winter months of 1987.
Federal Order
Prices
The Class I price in Order #2
should average about 1% to 3%
higher, around $13.80 to $13.90,
for 1987. The average Class II
price is expected to be from 0.5%
to 1% higher, or from $11.20 to
$11.35, in 1987. The average
blend price in 1987 should be from
1% to 2% higher and range from
$12.15 to $12.30. Some factors
contributing to this slightly higher
blend price are decreased total
milk marketings, from 5% to 6.5%
lower, and slightly higher Class I
sales, about 0.1% higher in 1987.
The Order #4 average Class I
price is expected to be from 1.5%
to 3% higher, from $14.35 to
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$14.50, in 1987. Class II prices
should average between $11.30 to
$11.40, 0.3% to 0.9% higher than
in 1986. As a result of these slight
ly higher prices and higher Class I
sales, from 1.5% to 2.5%, whose
effects are offset somewhat by
slightly higher, from 0.5% to
1.5%, total marketings, blend
prices should be from 1.5% to 2.%
higher in 1987 and should range
from $12.80 to $12.90.
The average Class I price in
Order #36 is expected to range
between $13.30 and $13.40 in
1987, from 0.5% to 1.5% higher
than in 1986. Class II prices in
1987 should average between
$11.30 and $11.40, from 0.1% to
0.5% higher than in 1986. Slightly
lower, from 1% to 2%, total mark
etings and slightly higher, from
0.2% to 0.7%, Class I sales should
result in blend prices for Order #36
that range from $12.30 to $12.45,
from 0.5% to 1% higher than in
1986.
Average Pennsylvania
Wholesale Milk Price
With the Regional Cooperative
Marketing Agency (RCMA) now
bargaining for higher Class I prices
in the Northeast, dairy farmers
who are members of RCMA could
see a bonus in their monthly milk
check in the fall and winter of
1987. No one can predict how suc
cessful RCMA will be in achieving
higher prices for dairy farmers.
However, with supplies already
tightening up in July, over-order
prices are more likely to be effec
tively achieved for Northeastern
farmers than in any time in the
past A meeting to discuss the pos
sibility of activating a “call order”
is scheduled in September by the
Market Administrator of Federal
Order #2. This is an indication that
milk supplies for some plants in
Order #2 may be tightening up
enough to call in milk from Order
pool plants.
As the M-W, and Federal Order
blend prices are expected to
increase during the last half of
1987, the average Pennsylvania
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wholesale milk price will increase
as well. The 1987 average whole
sale milk price should range
between $12.75 and $12.90,0.5%
to 1.7% higher than in 1986. Any
over-order price received by
RCMA members will push these
levels higher.
CCC Purchases
CCC purchases for the first half
of 1987 were 4.3 billion pounds
and were around 50% lower than
in 1986. For the first three weeks in
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National Dairy Board Institute for
Nutrition and Cardiovascular
Research officially opened at Ore
gon Health Sciences University
(OHSU) today. The event is the
culmination of a relationship
which began in 1980 with dairy
farmer support of several calcium/
hypertension projects.
Coupled with the opening was
the announcement of two separate
studies directed by David McCar
ron, M.D., co-head of OHSU’s
division of Nephrology and
Hypertension and now director of
the Research Institute. Both stu
dies, one still underway and one
completed, show a favorable con
nection between calcium intake
and reduced hypertension.
In the clinical trial underway,
the effects of dietary calcium sup
plementation were compared with
that of calcium tablets. In the study
of normal and hypertensive men
and women (average age 45), both
dietary and supplemental calcium
were shown to lower blood pres
sure in a portion of the study popu
lation. In addition, dietary calcium
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July, CCC purchases were running
around 70% lower than in July
1986. CCC purchases could
decline even further as the milk
supply is expected to really tighten
up in the fall and winter if produc
tion continues to decline and com
mercial consumption continues to
increase at the same rate. USDA
projections for 1987 CCC pur
chases have been revised to 5.3 bil
lion pounds M.E. If CCC pur
chases hold the current percentage
tended to reduce blood pressure
more than supplemental calcium in
the females.
‘These findings suggest that the
tendency of women to consume
less dietary calcium may be a fac
tor in increases in blood pressure
observed in women as they age,”
explained Dr. McCarron.
In the other trial, older individu
als (average age 60 years) were
treated for up to one year with
1000 mg of additional calcium dai
ly. The added calcium intake was
able to maintain a reduction in
blood pressure for 48 weeks in a
percentage of the participants.
Compared to a placebo, the reduc
tion achieved was BmmHg in their
systolic pressures and a smmHg in
their diastolic blood pressures. At
the end of the 12-month trial, their
average blood pressure was 135/81
mmHg, a value within the normal
range (140/90 mmHg).
‘The support of this type of
research has tremendous impact on
the health of the American public
and on the future of the dairy
industry,” according to Joseph
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decline from last years levels
throughout the remainder of 1987,
CCC purchases may be even lower
than 5.3 billion pounds. In fact,
CCC purchases would be about 4.8
billion pounds if the same percen
tage decrease now occurring in
July occurs in the rest of the year.
Look for CCC purchases to be
around 5.0, maybe a little less and
maybe a little more, but should not
reach the currently projected level
of 5.3 billion pounds.
Dairy Board.
Westwater went on to say that
the investment of dairy farmers
across America in the Board has
made it possible to establish the
Research Institute at OHSU,
“marking a major milestone for the
industry.”
The new Institute, also sup
ported by the National Institutes
for Health and the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, furthers the
National Dairy Board’s reputation
as an innovator in nutrition and
biomedical research. The Dairy
Board commitment over the next
three years will total $4 million.
“The funding of the Institute
will enable dairy nutrition research
to be more targeted and more cost
effective,” said Ardath DeWall,
chairperson of the nutrition
research and education committee
of the National Dairy Board. “And,
that translates to more timely
access to scientific data that can
favorably affect the marketing and
promotion of dairy products.”
The national Dairy Board was
established by Act of Congress in
1983.
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