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Price Formulas - 2001  
Note: Milk prices are per 100 pounds or cwt., rounded to the nearest cent.
Component prices are per pound, rounded to nearest one-hundredth cent.
Cheese, dry whey, butter, and nonfat dry milk prices are weighted monthly averages of weekly NASS survey prices, rounded to the nearest one-hundredth cent.

Class I: (January and February)
Class I Base Price (3.5%) = Higher of advanced Class III or IV pricing factors.
Base Skim Milk Price for Class I = Advanced skim milk pricing factor used to compute the Class I base price.
Base Butterfat Price for Class I = Advanced butterfat pricing factor used to compute the Class I base price.
Class I Price = Class I base price + applicable Class I differential.
Class I Butterfat Price = Base butterfat price for Class I + (applicable Class I differential divided by 100).
Class I: (March to date)
Class I Price = (Class I skim milk price x 0.965) + (Class I butterfat price x 3.5).
Class I Skim Milk Price = Higher of advanced Class III or IV skim milk pricing factors + applicable Class I differential.
Class I Butterfat Price = Advanced butterfat pricing factor+ (applicable Class I differential divided by 100).
Note: Advanced pricing factors are computed using applicable price formulas listed below, except that product price averages are for two weeks.

 
Class II:
Class II Price = (Class II skim milk price x 0.965) + (Class II butterfat price x 3.5).
Class II Skim Milk Price = Advanced Class IV skim milk pricing factor + $0.70.
Class II Butterfat Price = Butterfat price + $0.007.
Class II Nonfat Solids Price = Class II skim milk price divided by 9.

 
Class III:
Class III Price = (Class III skim milk price x 0.965) + (Butterfat price x 3.5).
Class III Skim Milk Price = (Protein price x 3.1) + (Other solids price x 5.9).
Protein Price (Jan./Feb. Advance Prices only.) = (Cheese price – 0.165) x 1.405.
Protein Price = ((Cheese price – 0.165) x 1.405 + ((((Cheese price – 0.165) x 1.582) - Butterfat price) x 1.28).
Other Solids Price = (Dry whey price – 0.14) divided by 0.968, snubbed at zero.
Class III Butterfat Price (Jan./Feb. Advance Prices only.) = (Cheese price – 0.165) x 1.582.
Butterfat Price = (Butter price – 0.115) divided by 0.82.

 
Class IV:
Class IV Price = (Class IV skim milk price x 0.965) + (Butterfat price x 3.5).
Class IV Skim Milk Price = Nonfat solids price x 9.
Nonfat Solids Price = Nonfat dry milk price - 0.14
Class IV Butterfat Price (Jan./Feb. Advance Prices only.) = (Butter price - 0.115) divided by 0.82.
Butterfat Price = See Class III.

 
Somatic Cell Adjustment Rate = Cheese price x 0.0005, rounded to fifth decimal place. Rate is per 1,000 somatic cell count difference from 350,000.

 
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