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Tobacco
(ContlniiMl from Pag* A 1)
Todd waived the auction’s com
mission fee for Monday sellers.
During the next few days prices
held steady as tobacco buyers pur
chased almost 300,000 pounds of
tobacco.
At Garden Spot Tobacco Auc
tion in Hinkletown on Tuesday,
the average price for Maryland
type tobacco was $.97 with the
high being $l.lO for several skids.
At least 90 percent of the tobacco
tfent to nine companies.
“I’m fairly satisfied with what
we’ve seen so far,” said manager
Bill Mowbry. “I hope that we can
hold onto these prices, and I hope,
just like the farmers, that they’ll go
up a bit They certainly could go
higher, however, don’t look for
them to skyrocket.”
At Paradise Tobacco Sales, top
quality Maryland-type leaf sold for
$1.05 while good bottom leaves
went for 65 to 950. Later, at the
Pennsylvania Tobacco Auction in
Quarryville, prices averaged just
over $l.
These prices are good news to
fanners, who watched prices drop
dramatically last year after the fed-
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Prices Up
eral government dumped hundreds
of millions of pounds of surplus
hurley and flue-cured tobacco
from the South onto the market at
rock-bottom prices.
According to Mowbry, this
price recovery is a surprise to most
industry watchers, who predicted a
two to three year recovery period.
“In response to last year’s
prices, farmers cut back their
tobacco acreage, but they cut back
harder than was expected. Offi
cials predicted a five percent
decrease and farmers actually
dropped production by about 15
percent,” he explained.
Mowbry also attributed the
price gain to a better crop than last
year, something not aU farmers
will benefit by due to the less-than
adequate rainfall in some areas.
This is the third year for the auc
tions. Tobacco is typically sold on
the farm by private-treaty offers.
Class I Milk
Price 14.37
For January
ALEXANDRIA, VA —Middle
Atlantic Order Market Admini
strator Joseph D. Shine today
announced a Class I milk price of
$14.37 per hundredweight for
January 1988. This price is down
one cent from December and is S 7
cents below last January’s Class I
price.
Mr. Shine announced a Class II
milk price of $11.42 per hundred
weight for November 1987 and a
butterfat differential of 15.6 cents
for the month. The Class II price
was down one cent from the previ
ous month, while the butterfat dif
ferential decreased one-tenth of a
cent
The January 1988 Class I price
and the November 1987 Class II
price are based on the November
1987 Minnesota-Wisconsin manu
facturing milk price of $11.34 per
hundredweight at a 3.S percent
butterfat content
■ The USDA reported that the
wholesale price of Grade A butter
at Chicago for November was
$1.3562 per pound and the nonfat
dry milk price was $.7849 per
pound, f.o.b. plants in the Chicago
area.