N.Y., N.J. September
Milk $12.59
ALBANY, N.Y. Dairy far
mers who supplied regulated milk
dealers (handlers) under the New
York-New Jersey marketing
orders during September 1997
will be paid by handlers on the
basis of a uniform price of $12.59
per hundredweight (27.1 cents per
quart); the price for the corres
ponding month last year was
$15.81 per hundredweight
Market Administrator Ronald
C. Pearce also stated that the price
was $12.22 in August 1997.
The uniform price is a market
wide weighted average of the val
ue of farm milk used for fluid and
manufactured dairy products.
A total of 10,478 dairy farmers
supplied handlers regulated under
the New York-New Jersey mark
eting orders with 966,777,079
pounds of milk during September
1997. This was an increase of 6.7
percent (about 60 million pounds)
from last year.
The gross value to dairy far
mers for milk deliveries was
$122,742,857.22. This included
differentials required to be paid to
dairy farmers but not premiums,
deductions authorized by the far
mer, or assessments.
Regulated handlers used
415,824,784 pounds of milk for
Class 1, 43 percent of the total.
This milk is used for fluid milk
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products such as homogenized,
flavored, low test, and skim milks.
For September 1997, handlers
paid $13.28 per hundredweight
(28.6 cents per quart) for Class 1
milk compared with $16.91 a year
ago.
Handlers used 152,206,891
pounds of milk for Class II pro
ducts, 15.8 percent of the total.
Class II products include fluid
cream, eggnog, ricotta and cottage
cheeses, ice cream, and yogurt.
Handlers paid $11.16 per hun
dredweight 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 376,292,689
pounds (38.9 percent of the total).
Handlers paid $12.85 per hun
dredweight for this milk.
Milk used to manufacture non
fat dry milk (Class 111-A) totaled
22,452,715 pounds (2.3 percent of
the total). Handlers paid $11.93
per hundredweight for this milk
The uniform price is based on
milk containing 3.5 percent but
terfat For September 1997, there
was a price differential of 10.6
cents for each one-tenth of one
percent that the milk tested above
or below the 3.5 percent standard.
All prices quoted arc for bulk
tank milk received from farms in
the 201-210 mile zone from New
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Prior to the fall feeder cattle sale at Leesport Farmers Market on Friday, October 24,
1997, the Weist family, owners of the market, were honored for 50 years of service to
the livestock industry. The award in the form of a plaque was presented by Ed Frost
from the National Livestock Marketing Association headquarted in Kansas City, Mo.
The market opened on July 9,1947. The livestock was sold by the head because
there was no scale. There were 25 consignors of cattle to the first sale. Wilmer Phillips
still consigns animals fifty years later.
Today the expanded facility has many community events, in addition to their regu
lar “Farmers’ Market” activities. The market has been home to the Pomona Grange
annual consignment sale for 27 years. Community fairs, a circus, car shows, family
picnics, wool pools, marathons, and many other activities are all part of the growing
center. “Where Friends Meet” is the motto of Leesport Farmers Market, Inc. Friends
have met here for the past 50, and the owners hope friends will continue to meet here
for the next fifty years.
in the photo are, from left, John Weist, Bill Weist, Ed Frost, Woddy Weist, and Leroy
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