AlB-Lanc«ster Firming, Saturday, December 19, 1992 $12.94 November Milk ALBANY, N.Y. Dairy far mers who supplied regulated milk dealers (handlers) under the New York-New Jersey marketing orders during November 1992 will be paid on the basis of a uniform price of $12.94 per hundredweight (27.8 cents per quart). The price for the corresponding month last year was $13.32 per hundredweight. Market Administrator Ronald C. Pearce also said the price was $13.24 in October 1992. The uniform price is a market wide weighted average of the val ue of farm milk used for fluid and manufactured dairy products. The seasonal incentive plan has been suspended for April- November 1992. If the plan had been in effect fdr all of the spring months, the remainder of the monies deducted plus interest earned would have been returned in the November uniform price calculation. A total of 12,150 dairy farmers supplied handlers regulated under the New York-New Jersey mark eting orders with 863,083,900 pounds of milk during November 1992. This was a decrease of 1.1 percent (about 10 million pounds) from last year. The gross value to dairy farmers for milk deliveries was $113,736,909.40. This fggßuilderslU We Build With STYLE... PRIDE... PERFORMANCE. Did you know that we can span 200 feet without Interior Columns? Do you know why more People are using ‘Bnckpock.'BuiMtrs for their Imaginative Projects? Because the Building Systems We Design can cost less to build than con ventional building methods. Learn about how ««cfcw£can help make your imaginative building a reality. FOR TREE CONSULTATION CALL THE PROFESSIONAL’S (215) 445-7897 APPRECIATIONa SALE 9 ; PAUL B. ZIMMERMAN, INC. 295 Wood Corner Rd. Lititz, PA 17543 Phone:7l7-738-1121 V - included differentials required to be paid to dairy farmers but not premiums, deductions authorized by the farmer, or assessments. Regulated handlers used 362,572,232 pounds of milk for Class I, 42 percent of the total. This milk is used for fluid milk products such as homogenized, flavored, low test, and skim milks. For November 1992, handlers paid $14.70 per hundredweight (31.6 cents per quart) for Class I milk compared with $14,44 a year ago. Handlers used 143,779,855 pounds of milk for Class II pro ducts, 16.7 percent of the total. Class II products include fluid cream, eggnog, cottage cheese, ice cream, and yogurt. Handlers paid $11.82 per hundredweight for this milk. The balance (356,731,813 pounds or 41.3 percent) was used to manufacture Class 111 products including butter, cheese other than cottage cheese, and dried milk. Handlers paid $11.90 per hun dredweight for this milk. The uniform price is based on milk containing 3.5 percent but terfat. For November 1992, there was a price differential of 7.6 cents for each one-tenth of one percent that the milk tested above or below the 3.5 percent standard. COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS SPECIALTY BUILDINGS AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS HORSE BARNS | Year End ANNUAL Dec. 26 thru Dec. 31 Check Next Week’s Issue For Full Details Closed Christmas Da; And New Year’s Day Call (215) 445-7897 Your only limitation Is your Imagination!! A Somerset Co. GAY N. BROWNLEE Somerset Co. Correspondent BERLIN (Somerset Co.) The annual Somerset County Dairy Herd Improvement Associ ation (DHIA) award presentations followed a ham dinner at the com munity center here. North View Farms, Inc., located here and represented by John Will, took four of the major awards. They were for high herd for milk and protein production per cow; high individual cow record for milk; high individual cow record for protein and for having the most improved herd. Average number of cows was 96.6; percent of days in milk was 89.1; milk pounds was 26,568; fat, 926 pounds; protein, 882 pounds. John and brothers, Jim and Dan Somerset Co. DHIA award winners and dairy princess following the annual dinner meeting. From left, Don Glessner, John Will, Melissa Spory, Dennis Reiman and Jim Brant. Absent were George Stahl and Jim Paxton. GRAND PRIZE - His Selection Was: Deutz Diesel Engine JOHN FISHER - Paradise, SECOND PRIZE - $3OO Milkhouse Supplies THIRD PRIZE - Homelite Weed Eater FOURTH PRIZE - Wooden Landscape Wheelbarrow GLENN WENGER - Ephrata, PA From All Of USAt Fisher & Thompson - A Sincere Thank You To All Customers (Old And New), Friends And Spouses Who Fartlcipsted In Making Our * (nl@|il^llA^yge..Suecessl Fisher & Thompson Inc . ms® 127 Newport Road, Leola, PA 17540 717-656-3307 /u/k|mi|a\ AMOS FISHER - Res: 717-354-2537 Puke; Inc. \V C3irM rsy RICK THOMPSON - Res: 717-627-1162 DHIA Awards Presented operate the seven farm family business. George Stahl’s Holstein herd, located on Somerset, RD, was awarded for high herd fat produc tion per cow. The average number of cows was 65.2; days in milk, 89.6 percent; milkpounds was 24,073; fat, 952 pounds; protein, 773 pounds. Individual cow record for fat went to Donald Glessner, Berlin, for Valorie, a Holstein whose age is four-nine. Her pounds of fat were 1,532 (2X). Pax-Terra Farm, near Meyers dale, had the herd with the lowest somatic cell count, at 88,000. Its nearest competitor was Dry Acres Farm, Glencoe, with 102,000. In all, 16 herds were under the 200,000 mark. D.J.S.P. SCHULER - Fleetwood, PA HARVEY REIFF - New Holland, PA DAIRY & MILKING EQUIPMENT SALES & SERVICE Tieing for the second most improved herd in the county were Reimandale Farm and Stoney Acres Farm, Berlin. Whistler Farms, Somerset, was recognized for having the co\m with the highest lifetime produc tion. Filed under the bam name 83W, her record for lifetime milk is 250,835; lifetime fat, 10,213; Lifetime protein, 6,429 and nine lactations. The county dairy herds aver aged out to a greater number this year, at 130, compared to 1990-91, when the average was 122. Number of cows was also up, to 8,328 over the previous year’s 7,687. 1991-92 records showed increases in cows per head, milk per cow, fat per cow and protein (Turn to Pago A 25) PA
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