Agriculture Department Observes World Food Day
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Agriculture Secretary Samuel
E. Hayes Jr. recently joined rep
resentatives of state and
community-based emergency
feeding organizations to observe
World Food Day at the state
capitol.
“Hunger is not acceptable in
Pennsylvania and this country,"
Hayes said. "We are gathered here
today to pledge our continued
efforts and urge all Pennsylvanians
to help eliminate hunger and
malnutrition."
This year’s theme is “A World
Without Hunger.”
Secretary Hayes noted that Pen
nsylvania, through the Agriculture
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banks, soup kitchens, and other
programs to help those in need.
Hayes also presented awards to
student winners of a statewide
poster contest who submitted post
ers under the theme “A World
Without Hunger.” The first-place
winner in the elementary school
category was Julie Dlugos, an
eighth-grade student at Christ the
Divine Teacher School in Latrobe,
Westmoreland County. Sam
Michlovitz, eighth-grade student
at Susquehanna Middle School,
Harrisburg, Dauphin County, was
named the winner in the junior
high school division, and Meredith
Yanchak, Chartiers Houston High
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it off.
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County, was the winner of the high ners each receive a $ 100 U.S. Sav
school division. Fiist-placc win- ings Bond for their efforts.
No. 4 Weighted Average Price $15.44
ALEXANDRIA, Va. Middle
Atlantic Order Acting Market
Administrator David Z. Walker
announced a September 1999
weighted average milk price of
$15.44 per hundredweight.
The weighted average differ
ential price was - $.90 per hun
dredweight and the producer
nonfat milk solids (NFMS) price
was $1.32 per pound. The
weighted average price was up
$1.76 from August but was $1.33
lower than a year earlier.
The producer NFMS price
was up 90 cents from last
September. The nonfat milk
solids price, applicable to han
dler payments, was $1.3290 per
pound for the month, up 90.31
cents from last year. The gross
value of September producer
milk, adjusted to 3.5 percent
butterfat was $72.9 million,
compared to $78.2 million a year
ago.
Walker said that producer
receipts totaled 474.1 million
pounds during September, an
increase of 3.3 million pounds
from last September and the
average daily delivery of 3,262
pounds per producer decreased
85 pounds or 2.5 percent from - a
year earlier. An estimated 35
million pounds of milk was vol
untarily withheld from the pool
during the month of September.
Had this milk been pooled, total
producer receipts would have
increased 38.3 million pounds,
or 8.1 percent, from September
1998.
A total of 4,884 producers
supplied Order 4 handlers dur
ing the month, an increase of
155 from a year ago. Class I pro
ducer milk totaled 257.8 million
pounds and was up 21.4 million
pounds, or 9.1 percent, from last
September. Class I milk account
ed for 54 39 percent of total pro
ducer receipts during the
month compared with 50.22
percent in September 1998.
The average NFMS test of
producer milk was 8.66 percent,
up from 8.62 percent the previ
ous year. The average butterfat
test of producer milk was 3 66
percent, up from 3 59 percent
last September
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