Sentences with phrase «per hundredweight»

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

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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.