BOSTON, Mass. Erik F. Rasumssen, market Administra- ** tor for the Northeast Marketing Area, has announced that the statistical uniform price for March 2000 is $12.39 per hun dredweight or $1.07 per gallon for milk delivered to plants lo cated in Suffolk County, Massa chusetts (Boston). The statistical uniform price is the benchmark minimum producer blend price paid to dairy farmers, prior to allowable deductions, for milk contain 3.5 percent butterfat, 2.99 percent protein, and 5.69 percent other solids. The price received by an individual dairy farmer will vary as the compo nent composition of a farm’s milk differs from the established benchmarks. Rasmussen also stated that the producer price differential (PPD) for March is $2.85 per hundredweight for milk deliv ered to plants located in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The Northeast Order Uniform Price For March 2000 Announced PPD represents each producer’s share of the value generated by the marketwide pool on a hun dredweight basis. The PPD, which is added to the payment producers receive for their milk’s components, is adjusted for the location of the receiving plant. The statistical uniform price and PPD decrease by scheduled amounts the more distant the plant is from Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The March PPD is $2.75 in New York, New York, and $2.65 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Class prices for milk pooled in March are as follows: Class I, $14.09 (Suffolk County, Massachusetts); Class 11, $11.71; Class 111, $9.54; and Class IV, $ll.OO. Had the Northeast Order been in effect in 1999, comparable class prices for March 1999 would have been; Class I, $15.99; Class 11, $13.47; Class 111, $11.51; and Class IV, $12.56. The component values for March are protein, $1.9166 per pound; butterfat, $1.0191 per pound; other solids, $0.0424 per pound; and nonfat solids, $0.8553 per pound. Milk receipts from producers totaled 2.182 billion pounds. Class I utilization, milk pro cessed as beverage milk, was 42.0 percent of producer milk receipts. The average Class I utilization, for the three prede cessor orders that were com bined to form the Northeast Order, was 42.2 percent in March 1999. The manufacture of Class II products such as cream, ice cream, yogurt, and cottage cheese utilized 17.6 percent of producer milk. Milk used to manufacture Class 111 products such as cheese (American and Italian) and evaporated and condensed products utilized 27.9 percent of total milk re ceipts. Class IV usage (butter, nonfat, and whole milk powder) equaled 12.5 percent of the total. Highest Protein Pennsylvania DHIA Herds For March NO COWS MILK IN MILK LBS ADAMS SPUNGOLD HOLSTEINS 74.5 C& T DURBORAW 68.8 NAME KE-HOLTZ DAIRY KE-HOLTZ DAIRY 2 LAGGING STREAM FARM STONER DAIRY BROWN VALLEY FARM BEAVER RUN FARMS R+K CUNNINGHAM KENNETH H WENGER KEN/KEHR BER CRK BUTTONWOOD FARMS HILCREST DAIRY LEROY DEPUTY ROY E BOWSER CLAYHOLM FARM TE & MARYJEAN GROOMS MAYPORT HILLS HOLST SCOTT BOWSER RON + BETH RUFFANER DAN PATTON BONZO ONE-O-ONE DIANE BURRY EDWARD GINGER PFLUGH ROCKLANE FARM MARLIN D HEISEY # ANDY T MOHR PAUL St DAVID HELSEL# OBIE SNIDER HAROLD S ZIMMERMAN J AND S FARM MEADOW CREEK FARM STEVE + JERI RITCHEY DAVID Sc STACI MORRAL MICHAEL STOLTZFUS GREG Sc KIM WHITFIELD SILVERDALE FARM MARK St LOIS YODER HERITAGE HILL FARM JUNGE FARMS INC %RAY ROLLING ACRES FARM RING-KUL FARM MELVIN M OBERHOLTZER HIDDENVIEW HOLSTEINS CARL Z GOOD EARL R HAFER & SONS 211.9 26827 DON & AMY RICE 94.7 25903 FANTASYLANDHOLSTEINS 152.0 26103 KIRBYVILLE HOLSTEINS 68.4 25350 HEAVY DUTY HOOF TRIMMING TABLES Endorsed by the International Hoof Trimming School of Wisconsin FOUR MODELS TO CHOOSE 1. PORTABLE 2. STATIONARY 3. 3-POINT HITCH 4. SKID STEER MOUNT Berkelmans Welding RR 7, AYLMER, ONTARIO, CANADA NSH 2R6 (519) 765-4230 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 22, 2000-A23 27837 26055 26403 26762 23772 294.6 10 4 153 3 24335 63 9 22916 23462 23365 22050 73.0 139.1 52.7 154.9 22695 129 1 21480 84.0 21411 22080 148 6 251 8 144 2 21546 ARMSTRONG 90.4 24237 166.7 23163 66.7 21754 53.6 21822 60.4 21933 52.2 22167 40.2 21126 BEAVER 39.9 28202 21.0 22696 93.0 22118 BEDFORD 65.6 30246 77.6 30459 75 5 25460 128 1 24765 192 7 23077 57 8 24807 66.6 23010 183.1 24304 72 5 23645 64.1 23239 66 4 23381 75.8 22383 30 7 22755 59.4 21886 96 2 20808 BERKS 84.7 31734 42.3 30584 47.5 28928 70.7 29297 69.9 27704 60.7 28379 Turn to C FAT LBS PRO LBS FAT PCT 1011 830 780 3.6 3.7 3 5 905 737 705 1219 1034 1043 923 967 1022 899 982 895 898
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