ible Future Trends 'oss: Livestock Industry lie last In a series of 3 In the first two articles we Its regarding Pennsylvan- considered the trends which livestock and meat indus- have been developing in hve- A Penn State report stock production, meat pack ared by H, Louis Moore, mg and meat processing These ■ keting Specialist, and trends indicate that the in is Bauermann, Ext. Food dustry in the futuie may move Aologist.) as follows: BARTLETT PEARS PEARS FOR EVERYONE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BRING YOUR OWN CONTAINERS OPEN: 8 o.m. to 8 p.m. Sot. 8 o.m. to 5 p.m. CLOSED SUNDAY and choice new pear varieties CALL AT THE . . . SHANK FRUIT FARMS New Danville Pike (Pa. Route 324) R. D. #6, Lancaster, Pa. Ph. 392-6022 SUMMER RAMBO APPLES AND PEACHES ALSO AVAILABLE See Us At Central and Southern Markets and Root's Auction Enroll Your Herd Now In Agway’s Profit-Making PROFIT FEEDING PLAN Agway SEVEN OUT OF TEN MAKE MORE PROFIT WHEN PROFIT-FED BY AGWAY Give Your Milk Profits A Lift. - Ask Your Agway Serviceman For Details AGWAY, INC. SYRACUSE, N.Y. CREATED FROM EASTERN STATES AND GLF 1. Because of economics in transportation, slaughtering plants are likely to move still closer to the livestock supply. This means closer to the feed producing areas. A recently announced piggyback rate of 51.85 per hundred-weight on refrigerated meat hauled from Omaha to New Yoik City im proves the competitive advan tage of packeis snipping car casses East, when compared to shipment of live animals. PEAR TIME AT SHANK'S Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 5, 1964—13 2. Federally-inspected plants will probably become more important (relative to the to tal number of plants) because of the increasing need to move meat across state lines. In addition, there is government pressuie for better inspection of the nation’s food supply. 3 There will piobably be an increase in informal integia tion between the packer and feeder. Slaughterers will de Agway pend more and more on the same suppliers for their live stock, and these supplieis will know the specification lequue ments ot the packei and will pioduce for his needs Speci fication lequaements will piob ably cause some mciease in the number of packei feedlots and m conti act feeding 4 Larger specialized feed lots and better maiket news information will piobably lead producers to consider moie duect selling of livestock Di rect buying by packeis will be aided because the plants will be located in aieas near livestock supplies. o Carcass buying of cattle can be expected to mciease in impoitance Yields are hard to determine in live animals but yields and grades can be accurately determined in cai casses. 6. Decentralization of plant owneiship is likely to continue because packers have not been able to cany brand identity of their fiesh meat pioducts thiough to the consumer This tiend could be slowed 01 stop ped if packeis could be suc cessful m developing packer identification on meat which would carry through to the consumer. 7 The spread between what the producer receives and what the retailer pays will mciease. The packei will be perform ing mote functions to supply consumers with additional serv ices along with then meat puichases. 8 Older packing plants with problems of obsolescence will find it mcieasmgly difficult to maintain a competitive buying price for livestock, adequate supplies and a profitable oper ation at the same time 9 While meat packing plants will be located nearer to live stock production, meat pioces sing plants wall be established neai consumption centeis. Wirthmore Acquires Stickell Granville M Bond, Presl dent of Wuthmore Feeds Inc, today announced the pm chase of the feed business of D A. Stickell & Sons, Inc , of Hagers town, Maryland Wirthmoie plans to letam the present Sales Personnel and will make available to the newlv acquired sales area the complete line of Wirthmoie Lnestock Feeds and Concen ' D A Stickell & Sons, Inc is an old established feed manufacturer Their feed dis tnbution covers portions of Maiyland. Virginia, Pennsyl vania and New Jersey. Wirthmoie s histoiy dates liom 1886 The Company has operated feed manufactuung and bulk delivery plants m New York, North Carolina and New England It also sells building materials, and prod ucts for Home, Farm and Gar den. PA. PIG CROP SMALLEST SINCE 1935 The 1964 spring pig ciop of 338.000 was Pennsylvania’s smallest since 1935 This crop was 20 per cent smaller than the 1963 crop and 19 per cent below the 1958-62 average spring pig ci op of 417,000 head. Nationally, the spung pig crop was 8 per cent below last year The 10 corn belt states which account for 75 per cent of the nations hog pioduction were only down 5 per cent.
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