A32-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, December 10,1988
Buyers Jimmy Schwartz, right, of Farm Co. and Joe Irvin
of Ideal Leaf Tobacco Co.look over tobacco before the auc
tion began.
Maryland-Leaf Prices
(Continued from Pago A 1)
quality leaf bringing $1.27. A few
select pounds went to $1.30 per
pound.
Probst estimated that about
5,000,000 pounds of Maryland
type tobacco will move through his
warehouse between now and the
close of the season, some time in
February. Most of this will be sold
next year because farmers haven’t
had the damper weather needed for
processing the tobacco and
because the nice weather this fall
has kept them out of the stripping
room and in the fields.
Both farmers and buyers are
pleased with the quality of this
year’s crop. “We had a pretty good
crop,” said Earl Eimier who, with
his brother Paul, grows about 6
acres of Pennsylvania- and
Maryland-type tobacco on their
Lititz-arca farm. The Eitners were
hoping to get about $1.25 per
pound for their crop.
Buyer Jay Mumma with Farm
Co. of La Plata, Md., felt the tobac
co looked good. “It’s one of the
nicest ones (crops) I’ve seen for a
long lime,” said the 40-ycar
veteran.
Jimmy Schultz, also a buyer
with Farm Co., was less enthused
with Monday’s tobacco. “There’s
some good, some bad. There’s a
little more green than I want to see,
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but as long as the farmers keep it
separated out, they’ll do all right,”
he commented. “At the first offer
ing you don’t get the overall con
sensus of quality for the year.”
Fewer auctions
The fourth year for the Lancas
ter County tobacco auctions, 1988
year returns with fewer auctions
than last year with the Pennsylva
nia Tobacco Auction’s Intercourse
and Quarryville warehouses keep
ing their doors closed. Bob Todd,
manager of the auctions, explained
his decision as a result of buyer and
farmer apathy.
The Garden Spot Tobacco
Auction..
The Paradise Tobacco Auction
will be conducted every Monday
and Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. with
breaks for the holidays.
Slightly more than 10,000 acres
of tobacco was planted last year
and brought approximately $14.6
million dollars. About 65 percent
of the total tobacco crop planted
was Pennsylvania-type 41 with the
remainder being Maryland-type
609.
•The Pennsylvania-type tobacco
was nearly all sold by private trea
ty, bringing an average of $1.02
per pound, up from $.95 per pound
last year. Earlier this year burlcy
averaged about $1.63 per pound at
southern warehouses.
Year End
INVENTORY
SALE
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Check Dec. 24th
Issue
Order 4 Class I Milk Price $15.26 For January
milk price of $12.31 per hundred- are based on the November
weight for November 1988 and a Minnesota-Wisconsin man
butterfat differential of 15.1 cents ufacturing milk price of $12.23
for the month. The Class n price P® r hundredweight at a 3.5 percent
was up 35 cents from the previous hutterfat content
month, while the butterfat diffe- , e , DA reported that the
rential decreased one-tenth of a wholesale price of Grade A butter
cent at Chicago for November was
The January 1989 Class I price $l-3125 per pound and the nonfat
and the November 1988 Class II P” ce was 5.8901 per
pound.
ALEXANDRIA. Va Middle
Atlantic Order Market Admini
strator Joseph D. Shine today
announced a Class I milk price of
$15.26 per hundredweight for
January 1989. This price is up 35
cents from December and is 89
cents above last January’s Class I
price.
Mr. Shine announced a Class II
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Tobacco Company
Formerly
We would to have you as our
customer. We are paying top prices. We will be
receiving tobacco Tues., Dec. 13 at our new
Quarryville location - 3/10 mile north of Main St.
on North Lime St. (Old trailer mfg. building ) and
also Wed., Dec. 14 & Thurs., Dec. 15 at Garden
Spot Tobacco Warehouse. You farmers are
doing a great job with your tobacco. If you
would like to sell your tobacco or have any
questions call our buyers!
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home 717-397-4612
Clarence Shirk 717-656-8793
Milt Hurst 717-354-6934
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