A24-Uncaster Farming, Saturday, January 22, 2000
Tobacco Prices
Still Poor
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster
Co.) Tobacco sales continued
Monday and Thursday this
week at the Pennsylvania To
bacco Marketing Association
Auction.
Sale prices were “poor,” said
Dennis Hess, auction manager.
Hess noted that Thursday was
the better of the two days in
numbers of pounds sold and av-
Glickman Fills Vacancy
On National Dairy Board
WASHINGTON,
D.C. Agriculture
Secretary Dan Glick
man recently announced
the appointment of Kent
Herman, Taylorsville,
N.C., to fill a vacancy in
region 10 on the Nation
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Virginia.
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Research Board, com
posed of 36 dairy far
mers representing 13
regions of the conti
guous United States,
administers a coordi
nated program of prom
otion, research and
nutrition education.
The board was estab
lished by the Dairy Pro
duction Stabilization
Act of 1983. It is author
ized to design programs
to strengthen the dairy
industry’s position in
domestic and foreign
markets. The national
program is financed by a
mandatory 15-ccnt per
hundredweight assess
ment on milk produced
in the contiguous 48
states and marketed
commercially by dairy
fanners. USDA’s Agri
cultural Marketing Ser
vice monitors the opera
tion of the Board.
AMS encourages all
eligible individuals to
participate in its com
mittee and board activi
ties. It is USDA’s policy
that membership on
industry-governed
boards and committees
accurately reflect the
diversity of individuals
served by the programs.
erage prices. Good tobacco
ranged from an average of 50-60
cents a pound.
“Monday was a very poor day
in here,” said Hess. On Monday
only two buyers were at the sale
at the Orion Industrial Park.
Thursday’s auction had four
buyers.
On Monday, at the start of the
auction, there were 237,299
pounds of old and new tobacco
on the floor. The auction sold
72,375 pounds.
On Monday, the old Pa. 41 to
bacco averaged 27 cents a pound
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Each
and new was 25 cents a pound.
The old Maryland 609 tobacco
averaged 23 cents a pound and
the new averaged 38 cents a
pound. On Monday, only about
10 skids brought a bid of 60
cents a pound and more. Most
tobacco sold in the 25-35 cent
per pound range.
On Thursday this week, there
were 189,391 pounds of tobacco
on the floor at the start of the
auction. The auction sold
142,931 pounds. The old Pa. 41
tobacco averaged 36 cents a
pound. No new Pa. 41 tobacco
was sold.
The old Maryland 609 to
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pound, but most prices were in
the 40-50 cents per pound range.
Hess said prices remain “very^
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