The estimated average milk prices received by dairy farmers with and without the Acts were $13.07 and $12.59 per
hundredweight, respectively, The difference between the two prices--48 cents per hundredweight--is the gross return to dairy farmers of increased advertising under the Acts.
Irizarry estimates it costs growers $58.50 to pick a
hundredweight (referred to in Spanish as a quintal) of coffee, excluding non-picking expenses such as sacks, equipment, processing machinery and electricity.
"I think it must have weighed a few
hundredweights," he replied casually.
The per-shipment minimum charge for
Hundredweight service that was in effect last year, which was based on an average weight of 15 pounds per package or $59.50 per shipment, whichever was greater, went up this year to an average weight of 15 pounds per package or $62.50 per shipment, whichever is greater.
Agri-Mark s year-end profit allocation to its 1,250 dairy farmers from New England and New York is 45 cents per
hundredweight, or roughly 3 cents per gallon for all of the milk each farm family marketed through the cooperative during the 2009 calendar year.
When I was a schoolboy, Jack Matthews was more than 7ft tall and weighed a couple of
hundredweight.
Coffee growers and pickers received government incentives for their work, consisting of US$24 per
hundredweight of husked beans (cafe pilado) and US$1 per basket (almud) picked.
average rice price was just over $6 per
hundredweight (cwt) last season.
For the quarter-to-date period, LTL revenue per
hundredweight increased 12.0% as compared to the same period last year.
The Agri-Mark dairy cooperative, Methuen, Mass., in mid-November made a second round of early cash payments of $1 per
hundredweight, or about 9 cents per gallon, to help dairy farmers struggling during a period of depressed milk prices.