Expert Defends
Cattle
Processing Meat Imports
OMIAITA, Mar. 5 The un
ion's ioracious appetite for
li,im burgers and hot dogs cim
ie „tiy leqtures substantial im
jfuj is of manufacturing-type
prcl, Herrell DeGraff, president
of the Aemncan Meat Insti
tute told the 16th Annual Na
tional Livestock Conference at
Ak-fiardlen Coliseum heie to
da\
Di DeGraff, a widely known
agneultuial economislt and
food industry analyst, said that
domestic production of cow and
bull meat dropped from 27
pounds per person in 1955 to
14 pounds in 196'3 an al
most 50 per cent decline In
cluding current annual im
ports of approximately 1.5 bil
lion pounds of manufacturing
type beef,-the per capita sup
ply of this hamburger and
frankfurter beef is still down
about 15 per cent from 1955,
he said.
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c /l Livability
Average Weight Per Bird
Average Tom Weight
Average Hen Weight
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He cautioned that sharp cut
backs in unrolls would haie
adieise impact on supplies ot
hamburgeis and wieners n'luch
account loi ncailv one-thud of
beet consumption
“If the hot dogs, Inmlnu
gei and othei pi ocessed meats
aie to be in our maikets in
anything appioatlung stable
quantities, it can be accom
plished dm mg yeais of low
cow slaughter only with im
ported piocessmg beef This
situation, in degree, will con
tinue to be tme until om do
mestic production of manu
facturing-type beef again turns
upward.”
“Since 1955, we have had an
increase of 10 million teen-ag.
ers alone. And these young
sters, of course, are the big
hamburger and hot dog con-
sumers
“I believe that it is better
to keep people eating these
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Says ALLEN KLEINFELTER
LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA
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products made from beef than
it is to surrender this market
to alternative toocls to which
the consumers could and would
have to tin u,” Di DeGuiff
said
Cm lent beef imports, he
sa'd, aie a i datively minor
factoi alfectmg cattle puces
compaied with domestic; over
pi oduc lion ot fed cattle and
the competition of othet foods
He quoted U S Department
of Am icultm-e figmes that av
eiage cattle puces aie down
adjout VI TO pei hunclied'w eight
compaied to a veai ago The
USD A estimated that about 20
cents of the diop was due to
incieased supplies of poultry
and pork about 50 cents due
to inci eased imports and ab
out 300 due to increased do
mestic beef pioduction.
“While I hold no hi icf for
the precision of these figures,
I do think that thej are rough
ly in line with the facts,” Dr.
DeGraft said “And if this is
true, it indicates that there are
matters of concern to the cat
tle industry that run deeper
than the single question of
imports ”
1961
2500
2441
97 6' o
2128 lbs
21 82 lbs
26 41 lbs
25.00 lbs
17.32 lbs,
17 26 lbs
3.38
13 52c
Bronze
Hornco is the experienced turkey feed
company.
he probably feeds Hornco.
1962
2500
2382
95 2'c
21 76 lbs
26 16 lbs
17 45 lbs
3 43
14 67c
Bronze
Bronze
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Emphasizing that his purpose
was to tij to bring unpoits
into “propoi poispective” lh
DeGralt listed tom steps toi
cattlemen which he said would
help sohe the cm lent puce
squeeze
1. Tighten up uinch opeia
tions b\ culling old an bauen
cows,
2 Quit o> pi -1 atening ot tat
tle in feed lots
3 Avoid bunched maihet-
mgs
1 Suppoit expanded beef
promotion piogiamis duected
towaid consumeis.
Dr DeGialt predicted a
Continued use in con
sumer demand for beef
“Prospective population growth
and the continued rising level
of consumer income indicate
that by 1970 we will need m
this country some 25 per cent
more beef production poten
tial than'we have at thepiesent
time The tougher part of the
outlook is some intermediate
jears of adjustment a time
when we have temporarily ov-
1963
3 Year
Average
2500
2430
96 72',
21 62 lbs. B
25 86 lbs I
17 34 lbs. 9
14 26° B
Bronze S
31
972',
3 26
14 58c
2500
2418
eipioduced,” he said.
He pointed out that meat
parkeis traditionally hare
been neutial in questions of
tauft and trade
"'lbis is certainly not for
lai k of mleiest in such ques
tions as thej may aitect our
domestic livestock industry.
Rathei, the policv is recogni
tion that ti ade is a two-way
stteet We have an enormous
amount of tallow and grease
MTO million worth last
vCai that must be sdld
ahioad Other exports last year
included $5O million worth of
hides and V2ts million worth
of vauetv meats There are
still other slaughter by-iplro
ducts for winch we need ex
port mailcets
“It 13 certainly true that in
recent years, meat imports
ha\e considerably exceeded the
value of slaughter-product ex
ports. But this has never y*et
been true over the -whole- of
a cattle cycle. Trad© is, and
still must be a two-way street
and even the present im
ports problem oennot be re-
-garded as all white or all
black, as all good or as all
bad,” Di DeGraff said
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disease from that County.
The scabies-free designation,
announced today in the Feder
al Register, means that pre
cautionary dipping of breeder
and teeder sheep being moved
trom Cumberland County to
other areas no longer is com
pulsory. However, inspection
of sheep for symptoms of the
disease will continue.
• Breeding Co-op
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. cutive secretary, Holstein Frie
sian Association. His topic will
be “The Cow That Meets the
Demands of Tomorrow.’’
Fied A, Hughes, extension
farm management specialist at
The Pennsylvania State Uni
■versit.v, will discuss “Can Penn
sjlvama Dairymen Compete?”
The business session of the
meeting will be Pituiday,
A M , April 11 ot new
offiteis will take place imme
diateU bcto e adjoin nment.
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