A Description of the Ice Cream Manufacturing Industry in ...

August 1968

A. E. Res. 258

A Description of the Ice Cream Manufacturing Industry in New York

by D. E. Hahn and R. D. Aplin

Department of Agricultural Economics New York State College of Agriculture

A Statutory College of the State University

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Contents

Objective. ......................................................... 3

Scope and sources of data .......?.......???....???..?.?... 3

Procedure. . . .. . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . .. . .. . .. . . . .. .. . . . . . .. . . . . . .. .. . . . . . .. 4

Number and size of plants producing i ce cream -

New York state ............................................................ ..

5

Twenty largest plants - Nevi York State.................... 7

Twenty largest plants - Upstate New York. ................................ 10

Overview of the 20 largest plants ?.....?.? . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. 11

Geographic locations of plants producing ice cream ?..???.? 12

. . Summary ???? . . . . . . .. .. . . .. . . . .. . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . 13

Appendix.. .. .. .. .. ? .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ? .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .... l5

A DESCRIPTION OF THE ICE CREAM MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN NB~ YORK

By

* D. E. Hahn & R. D. Aplin**

Dairying, the most important agricultural enterprise in New York

State, accounted for approximately 50 percent of the farm cash receipts

Y in 1964. During that year, Nevi York dairy plants received nearly 10

billion pounds of milk of which 4.4 billion pounds were used in the

manufacturing of various dairy products. The prnduction of frozen

desserts accounted for 1.1 billion pounds, or 11 percent of the total

receipts ,?J

New York State consistently has ranked among the top three states

in the production of all frozen dairy products. In 1964, it ranked third,

with a total production of 85 million gallons, or 8 percent of the national

l I output of all frozen dairy products. New York ranked first in hard

ice cream production, second in soft ice cream production, twenty-fourth

* Former graduate ass istant, Department of Agricultural Economics, Ne"l York

State College of Agriculture, at Cornell University; presently assistant professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The **Ohio State University. Associate professor of marketing, Department of Agricultural Economics, New York State College of Agriculture, at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

The authors ,,'ish to express their appreciation to Lyle A. Newcomb of the New York state Department of Agriculture and Markets for providing the data for the study and Alec Bradfield, W. T. Butz, O. D. Forker, R. E. Jacobson, Stewart Johnson, and F. A. Lasley for their revie"l and helpful comments on a draft of the manuscript.

United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service,

Farm Income, State Estimates, 1964 and 1965, Washington, D.C.

July 1966, p. ge.

New York Crop Reporting Service, New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, Statistics Relative to the Dairy Industry in

New York State, 1964, Albany, New York, November 1965, pp. 13-17.

United States Department of Agriculture, Statistical Reporting Service,

Crop Reporting Board, Production of Manufactured Dairy Products, 1965, Washington, D. C., July 1965, pp. 10-11.

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