12—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 8, 1964
Pennsylvania Now Has 364
Livestock Slaughter Plants
Pa.t II of a senes of ar- Pennsylvania Value of
holes regarding Pennsylvan as > piodu c t .on in the
livestock and meat industries. state * gie J f) om $93 nHlllon
' T V StatC 16 v m 1954 to $124 million m 1938
Loins Moore marketing spe- fom ye;u gain of 33 pei
ciahst and Jubus F. Bauer Pennsylvania the
inann, food technologist.) gamei among the lead
nation’s mg sausdge Producing state;.
plants are located" w.lh.n Penn- S l a,,! rtSSe’Vcduc
i c of national sausage pieduc
sylvama Each of these 346 . cent m 1054 t 0
plants slaughter ovei 300,000 cent m 1958 and to
pounds of livestock annually
The total volume of all species a'-out 9 6 pei cent in x 963
slaughteied appi caches 175 The numbei of meal process
billion pounds annually and ing firms in Pennsylvania de
lanks Pennsylvania among the
top 12 slaughtei states
Eastern meat packers are
highly dependent on ship
ments of animals fiom the Mid
west to keep their slaughter
cpeiations lunning Futuie ad
justments in height rates may
favor the shipment of carcas
ses rather than live animals
from the Midwest If this hap
pens, excess slaughter capacity
could become a seuous prob
lem in the State
Cattle slaughter in Pennsyl
vania reached 900,500 head m
1963 the largest since 1957
However, the State’s share of
national slaughtei at 3 3 per
cent is smaller than in the
eaily 1950’s The State ranks
12th in cattle slaughter and
3id in calf slaughter
Pennsylvania hog slaughter
in 1963 reached 3 2 million
head This was the largest
numbei slaughtei ed m the
State in any yeai since
The State lahks 9th in hog
slaughtei by slaughteung 3 9
pei cent of the nation’s hogs
Pennsylvania pioducers sup
plied about 17 pei cent of the
hogs slaughtei ed in the State’s
plants in 1963, a diop from 21
per cent in 1950.
In the eaily 1950’s sheep
and lamb slaughter in the
State increased It has declined
jn the past two years The
1963 sheep and lamb slaughter
totaled only 248,000 head and
diopped the State to 15th pos
ition About 157 per cent of
the nation’s sheep and lambs
weie slaughtered in Pennsyl
vania last yeai.
The livestock supply, coup
led with tianspoitation 'cost
differentials that exist between
livestock and meat, indicate a
continued trend to establish
slaughter plants in livestock
production aieas Many of
these plants will be strictly
slaughter opeiations New
plants in the Noith Central,
Southeastern and 'Mountain
states will tend to increase
slaughter in these areas at the
expense of competing areas.
Meat processing plants will
tend to be established in or
neai consumption centers
Meat Processing
Impiovements m transporta
tion and refrigeration have en
abled pioduceis and meat
packers to oui west to effect
ively compete with the Penn
sylvania industry It is no
longer necessary foi produc
tion and slaughtei to take
place in or neai laige popu
lation centers
There are advantages, how
ever, in processing meats in
or near market aieas Special
ization in meat processing and
fabiication is moving ahead
lapidly It is not uncommon
to find a plant which processes
only one kind of meat or a
plant which fabricates steaks
fiom certain wholesale cuts
and builds a national reputa
tion and distribution for only
one type of item.
Meat processing has become
the growth phase of the mdus-
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LOW COST PRODUCTION...
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dined from 102 in 1958 to 90
in 1960 ’blit the number of
employees increased from 3,117
to 3,686. In 1954 only 29 pro
cessing firms had 20 or more
employees but 44 firms had 20
oi more employees by 1960.
Over half of the nation’s
sausage products are still pro
duced in slaughter plants but
this share is declining. The
amount of sausage products
produced in the nation’s spe
cialized meat processing plants
increased from-45 per cent in
1958 to 46 4 per cent in 1962
Between 1958-62 shipments of
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