Sentences with word «hundredweight»

The program assesses the equivalent of 7.5 cents per hundredweight of milk on imported dairy products and adds two importer members to the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board.

The point is New York's economy is an ocean liner — a complex structure that includes dairy farms worried about the price per hundredweight of milk and the world headquarters of major financial institutions fretting over the impact of Dodd - Frank.

Milk prices have continued to increase in the US, hitting $ 19 per hundredweight in September.

Table 1: U.S. Milk Production Costs and Returns per Hundredweight Sold, by Size and Type of Operation, 2005 and 2010

Under financial projections provided by Stephenson, the blend milk price could rise less than 25 cents per hundredweight for California producers.

A maximum kerb weight of 34 long hundredweight (1,700 kg) was specified to keep the tyres within a safe load limit at a top speed of 120 mph (190 km / h).

In the conventional dairy system, farmers receive about $ 12 per hundredweight of milk, less than their operating costs.

Producer milk prices under the new California Federal Milk Marketing Order, if approved, estimated to rise about 15 cents per hundredweight.

With an average price premium of $ 6.69 per hundredweight (cwt., which is 100 pounds of milk) for organic milk, organic milk producers covered most of the additional operating costs of organic production in 2005.

In 1964, Stafford County Flour Mills undertook a massive expansion and remodeling project that automated its mill, electrified its plant and increased its milling capacity to 1,000 hundredweights per day.

In 1992, the mill was remodeled and expanded again to include the installation of new cleaning equipment, and its capacity was increased to 2,400 hundredweights per day.

In March, NDM hit a record all time high of $ 2.09 per pound (lb), which drove the Class IV milk price to a record $ 23.66 per hundredweight (cwt).

The current futures price for March Class III milk is $ 16.98 per hundredweight (cwt).

As a result of increased and unexpected US demand for cheese and butter in recent weeks, milk prices in the country have jumped by more than a dollar per hundredweight.

According to Gillibrand, the legislation would ensure farmers are paid 45 percent of the difference between the price floor, $ 23.34 per hundredweight, and the current all - milk price.

The close - by Class III milk price has dropped below $ 15 per hundredweight, which will put downward pressure on income over feed cost headed into 2018.

The proposed price increases in milk for different utilizations would raise the pool price — which is currently about $ 4.70 below the average cost of production — about 35 cents per hundredweight.

Since 2014 all milk prices have been below $ 18 per hundredweight 30 out of the last 36 months.

Milk prices now stand at about $ 17 per hundredweight, down from $ 25.49 per hundredweight in 2014, and — with what experts now say is a glut of milk on the market — are projected to fall to about $ 16 this year.

I've heard this statement before: «Milk prices now stand at about $ 17 per hundredweight, down from $ 25.49 per hundredweight in 2014, and — with what experts now say is a glut of milk on the market — are projected to fall to about $ 16 this year.»

So you have some sections of northern New York where the farmers are getting paid 50, 60, 75 cents a hundredweight less than a comparable farm in Vermont just because of its geographic location.

According to Gillibrand, the legislation would ensure farmers are paid 45 percent of the difference between the price floor, $ 23.34 per hundredweight, and the current all - milk price.

I look forward to the return of leeches and phrenology to our hospitals, hot metal typesetting to our publishing industry, horse - drawn ploughs in farming, pounds, shillings and pence (at least there would then be a legitimate reason for learning the 12 times table) bushels and pecks, rods.poles perches and chains, hundredweights (20 to the ton) and the Fahrenheit scale.

Even her Table of Contents constitutes a work of art unto itself, combining a near - hundredweight of gentle and laconic imperatives for going as gently as possible into that sometimes - not - so - good night of parenthood.

Hundredweight (2003), a five - channel installation on an 18 - minute loop, summarizes the artist's concerns of ephemerality and insularity (and according to the wall label, Beckettian staging techniques), skipping straight to the punchline.

Four hundred and eight years ago today the public in England learned that on the previous night the king's men had foiled a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament with eighteen hundredweight of gunpowder that had been stashed in the basement and enhanced with timbers and iron bars.