A24-Uncaster Farming, Saturday, May 23, 1998
Workers Nail Trusses In Place At Lebanon Produce Auction
REISTVILLE (Lebanon Co.)
Trusses were delivered Wed
nesday afternoon and nailed into
place by a half-dozen men at the
new site of the Lebanon Produce
Auction Inc. on land from Amos
Stoltzfus here on Reistville Road
west of town.
When completed within the next
week, the site, totalling 7,200
square feet, is scheduled to begin
auctioning produce beginning
Tuesday, May 26, at 10 a.m.,
according to Wilmer Hoover,
chairman of the auction. Auctions
will be Tuesdays and Fridays and
more often as the season
progresses.
the construction began before
the rains of the past several weeks
and started up again early this
week. Hoover noted. The site
occupies almost five acres on
Reistville Road about a half mile
west of town. Total cost for land
and building is about $225,000,
Hoover noted.
N.Y., N.J. April Milk $13.50
ALBANY, N.Y.—Daily farm
ers who supplied regulated milk
dealers (handlers) under the New
York-New Jersey marketing or
ders during April 1998 will be
paid by handlers on the basis of a
uniform price of $13.50 per
hundredweight (29 cents per
quart).
The price for the corresponding
month last year was $12.82 per
hundredweight.
Market Administrator Ronald
C. Pearce stated that the price was
$13.89 in March 1998,
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 10,093 dairy farmers
supplied handlers regulated under
the New York-New Jersey mar
keting orders with 1,033,948,727
pounds of milk during April 1998.
This was an increase of 5.5 per
cent (about 54 million pounds)
from last year.
The gross value to dairy farm
ers for milk deliveries was
$141,947,631.26.
Regulated handlers used
388,207,407 pounds of milk for
Class I, 37.5 percent of the total.
This milk is used for fluid milk
products such as homogenized,
flavored, low test, and skim milks.
MARTIN’S TIRE & ALIGNMENT
The auction warehouse includes
30-foot by 30-foot office space and
will have 17 bays. About 20 indivi
duals are involved in the corpora
tion. The sale site will accommo
date about 250 growers in the
region.
Officers of the corporation
include Wilmer Hoover, Eli
zabethtown, chairman; Elvin Nolt,
Richland, treasurer, and Mervin
Weiler, Womelsdorf, secretary.
Board members include Joe Hom
ing, Myerstown and Russell Wolf,
Lebanon.
Hoover noted that the upedming
auction season looks promising.
The auction will be the site chosen
by people who are used to selling
locally and in other areas.
Hoover himself grows about 50
acres of vegetables, including
sweet com, cantaloupe, waterme
lon, and other crops. For more
information, growers can contact
Hoover at Elizabethtown, (717)
367-8379.
For April 1998, handlers paid
$15.74 per hundredweight (33.8
cents per quart) for Class I milk
compared with $14.88 a year ago.
Handlers used 151,016,272
pounds of milk for Class II pro
ducts, 14.6 percent of the total.
Class II products include fluid
cream, eggnog, ricotta and cottage
cheese, ice cream, and yogurt.
Handlers paid $13.62 per hund
redweight 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 452,574,866
pounds (43.8 percent of the total).
Handlers paid $11.92 per hund
redweight for this milk.
Milk used to manufacture non
fat dry milk (Class 111-A) totaled
42,150,182 (4.1 percent of the to
tal). Handlers paid $12.79 per
hundredweight for this milk.
The uniform price is based on
milk containing 3.5 percent but
tcrfat. For April 1998, there was a
price differential of 14.2 cents for
each one-tenth of one percent that
the milk tested above or below the
3.5 percent standard.
All prices quoted are for bulk
tank milk received from farms in
the 201- to 210-mile zone from
New York City.
When completed within the next week, Lebanon Produce Auction site, totalling
7,200 square feet, Is scheduled to begin auctioning produce beginning Tuesday, way
26, at 10 a.m., according to Wllmer Hoover, chairman of the auction. Auctions will be
Tuesdays and Fridays and more often as the season progresses.
At.
Construction on the new produce site began before the rains of the past several
weeks and started up again early this week, Hoover noted. The site occupies almost
five acres on Reistville Road about a half mile west of town. Total cost for land and
building is about $225,000, Hoover noted.
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