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 Northeast Area.--All producers supplying the Northeast milk
marketing area were located within the fourteen-county area (Figure 6).
Total receipts at area plants were 29,586,000 pounds for the two months.
This was 93.4 percent of the total sales of milk by area producers. The
major portion of farm shipments was sold to dairy plants in Duval County.

 Dairy farmers in Duval County, the most heavily populated within
the area, supplied 18,112,000 pounds of milk to area plants. This was
61.2 percent of market receipts from Florida producers. Clay County
dairies were second with 6,267,000 pounds, which was 21.2 percent of
supplies. A portion of total supply was received from each county in
the area. Levy County was the lowest with 44,000 pounds, or 0.1 percent
of total producer milk deliveries.


 Central Area.--Milk receipts at dairy plants in Central Florida
originated in all of the eleven counties in the area, four counties in
Northeast Florida and one county each in the Southeast and Tampa Bay
areas. Total market receipts for the months of April and October 1959
were 23,838,000 pounds. Dairy farmers within Central Florida counties
accounted for 21,625,000 pounds, or 90.7 percent of receipts from
Florida producers. Northeast area milk producers shipped 1,734,000 pounds,
which was 7.3 percent of the total supply. Tampa Bay and Southeast dairy
farms delivered 1.5 and 0.5 percent of producer milk supply, respectively.

 During the two-month period, 21.4 percent of the total area output
was delivered to plants in other areas. Plants in the Tampa Bay area
received 3,630,000 pounds of milk from Central Florida producers. Ship-
ments to Southeast Florida were 2,253,000 pounds. Thus, while the market
received a considerable portion of its total milk supply from adjacent
areas (9.3 percent), an even greater amount was shipped on a regular
basis by local producers to other milk marketing areas (21.4 percent).
Data on supply area locations, movement patterns and volumes are presented
in Table 31 and Figure 7.


 Tampa Bay Area.--Milk processors in Tampa Bay received fluid milk
supplies from producers located in two other areas of Florida in addition
to local dairy farms. The total milk supply originating within the
eleven-county Tampa Bay area was 46,787,000 pounds in April and October.
This was 0.3 percent less than total plant receipts from all regular
supply sources. Of the total local production, 363,000 pounds were
shipped to Central Florida processors and 3,320,000 pounds were delivered
to plants in the Southeastern market. The county with the largest volume
of sales to area plants was Hillsborough. Fifty-seven percent of all
locally produced fluid milk originated on farms within that one county.

 Producers in the Central Florida counties of Orange, Polk and
Sumter delivered 7.7 percent of total market receipts in the period
(Figure 8). Hendry County producers accounted for 213,000 pounds or
0.5 percent of milk supply. Thus, approximately 8.2 percent of market