(Continued frpm Pago A 10)
Center, 8 a.m.
Cedar Crest Young Farmers
Awards Banquet, Schacffcr
stown Fite Hall, 7 p.m.
Lancasf - M(
ty 4-H Center, 9:30 ajn.-3 p.m.
Pa. Horse Fanners’ Open House,
Days, Harrisburg.
thr April 8.
Berks County Conservation Dis
trict Banquet, Kutztown
Cedar Cresi Equipment
EQUIPMENT SPECIAL
PATZ Model 8810 Silo Unloader (New)
PATZ Model 205 Trailer Mixer (Demo).,
PATZ Rebuilt Drive Units
PATZ 12” Belt Feeders (New)
PATZ Bale Choppers (New)
UEBLER 820 TMR Mixing Cart w/electronic
Scale (Used)
UEBLER 812 Cart-3 years old-Excellent
Condition (Used)
BODCO Bale Chopper-2 years old-Excellent
Condition (Used) 1,850
RISSLER Model 300 Mixer-Beam Scaie-(U5ed)..6,000
J&D Stainless Steel Dump Waterers-4’ (New) 595
-8’ (New) 749
SALE
12’ Headlock for Cows (New)
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Those Difficult Transitions,
Lebanon County Extension
Office, 7 pjn.-9 pjn.
Chester County Quality Assurance
Meeting, Chester County
Cooperative Extension, Room
370,7 p.m. and SAt, April 12,
Herr Farms Feedlot, 9 a.m.
Precision Agricultural Meeting,
York County Extension, 10
ajn.
New Bottom Center Public Lcc
tufc: A Practical Approach to
Pre-purchase Examination and
Lameness Clinic, 7 p.m.
Farm Show Buyer Appreciation
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BanqOtt,TMni StofrCbHpex
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off, Berks County Agricultml
Center, 6:15-9:30 pjn.
Mercer County Spring Spectacu-
lar. Fairsrounds. 7:30 o.m
ALBANY, N.Y.—Dairy farm
ers who supplied regulated milk
dealers (handlers) under the New
York-New Jersey marketing or
ders during February 1997 will be
paid by handlers on the basis of a
uniform price of $12.70 per
hundredweight (27.3 cents per
quart); the price for the corre
sponding month hist year was
$13.59 per hundredweight.
Market Administrator Ronald
C. Pearce also stated that the price
was $12.65 in January 1997. The
uniform price is a marketwide
weighted average of the value of
farm milk used for fluid and
manufactured dairy products.
February’s uniform price was
lowered 3 cents per hundred
weight by a refund payment of
$267,924.20 to Sani-Dairy. in
trust, for redistribution to the pro
ducer plaintiffs. The payment
$4,500
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.1,000
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...SALE
...4,000
3,500
Carroll County Extension Ser
vice Office, Westminster,
Maryland, 1 pjn.-5 pan.
N.Y.,
N.J.
from the Producer Settlement
Fund was ordered by the U.S. Dis
trict Court for the Western District
ofpeimsylvania in Sam-Dairy et
al. v. Yeutter.
A total of 10,220 dairy farmers
supplied handlers regulated under
the New York-New Jersey mar
keting orders with 882,337,687
pounds of milk during February
1997. This was a decrease of 8.5
percent (about 82 million pounds)
from last year. When adjusted for
the extra day in February 1996,
the actual decrease is 5.2 percent
The gross value to dairy farm
ers for milk deliveries was
$113,823,068.64. This included
differentials required to be paid to
dairy farmers but not premiums,
deductions authorized by the
fanner, or assessments.
Regulated handlers used
351,515,816 pounds of milk for
Class I, 39.8 percent of the total.
This milk is used for fluid milk
Lancaster Fi
Garden Wise, Coofeseooe Cotter,
Pam Stale Yorit Campus, 7:45
ajn.-3:30 pjn.
Forest Stewardship Landowners*
Banquet, Allen Hall, Mansfield
University. 9 a.m.
Milk $12.70
products such as homogenized,
flavored, low test, and skim milks.
For February 1997 handlers paid
$13.76 per hundredweight (29.6
cents per quart) for Class I milk
compared with $15.33 a year ago.
Handlers used 139,869,789
pounds of milk for Class n prod
ucts. IS.B percent of the total.
Class II products include fluid
cream, eggnog, ricotta and cottage
cheeses, ice cream, and yogurt
Handlers paid $11.64 per
hundredweight for this milk.
Milk used to manufacture Class
111 products including butter,
cheese (other than ricotta and cot
tage cheeses), and whole milk
powder totaled 369,289,315
pounds (41.9 percent of the total).
Handlers paid $12.48 per
hundredweight for this milk.
Milk used to manufacture non
fat dry milk (Class IH-A) totaled
21,672,767 pounds (2.5 percent of
the total). Handlers paid $12.38
hundredweight for this milk.
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