Sentences with phrase «hundredweight in»

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.