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:
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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.