Northeast Order Uniform Milk Price For October
BOSTON, Mass. Erik F.
Rasmussen, market administra
tor for the Northeast Federal
Milk Marketing Order, has an
nounced that the statistical un
iform price (SUP) paid by milk
dealers (handlers) regulated
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FISHER&
THOMPSON
under the Northeast Order dur
ing October 2002 is $12.40 per
hundredweight ($1.07 per gallon)
for milk delivered to plants locat
ed in Suffolk County, Mass. (Bos
ton). The producer price differen
tial (PPD) portion of the SUP for
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October is $1.68 per hundred
weight for milk delivered to
plants located in Suffolk County,
Mass. The PPD ($1.68) combined
with the corresponding month’s
Class 111 price ($10.72) equals the
SUP ($12.40).
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The SUP represents a bench
mark minimum price paid to
dairy farmers, prior to allowable
deductions, for farm milk con
taining 3.5 percent butterfat, 2.99
percent protein, and 5.69 percent
other solids. The actual price re-
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ceived by an individual dairy
fanner will vary as the composi
tion of a farm’s milk differs from
the component benchmarks. The
PPD represents each producer’s
share of the value generated by
the marketwide pool. The PPD is
added to the payment
producers receive for
their milk’s components
and is adjusted for the
location of the receiving
plant(s). The SUP and
PPD decrease by sched
uled amounts the fur
ther away the plant(s)
receiving the producers’
milk are from Suffolk
County, Mass. (Boston).
The Class prices for
milk pooled in October
are as follows: Class I,
$13.40 (Suffolk County,
Mass.); Class 11, $11.12;
Class 111, $10.72; and
Class IV, $10.50. Com
parable prices for Octo
ber 2001 were: Class I
$19.18, Class II $13.53,
Class 111 $14.60, and
Class IV price $12.77.
The component values
for October 2002 are
protein, $2.1839 per
pound; butterfat,
$1.0726 per pound;
other solids, $0.0755 per
pound; and nonfat so
lids, $0.7765 per pound.
Milk receipts from
producers totaled 1.974
billion pounds. Class I
utilization, milk pro
cessed as beverage milk,
was 48.5 percent of pro
ducer milk receipts. The
average Class I utiliza
tion was 47.8 percent in
October 2001.
The manufacture of
Class II products such
as cream, ice cream, yo
gurt, and cottage cheese
utilized 20.0 percent of
producer milk. Milk
used to manufacture
Class 111 products such
as cheese (American and
Italian) and evaporated
and condensed products
utilized 26.9 percent of
total milk receipts. Class
IV usage (butter, nonfat
and whole milk powder)
equaled 4.6 percent of
the total.
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