—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, April 6.1968
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Meat Consumption Totals 174 Pounds
Pennsylvanians today are eat
ing an average of 174 pounds of
beef. veal, pork, and lamb per
year, about 35 pounds more
than they did 20 years ago and
for a smaller percentage of
their disposable income, declar
ed Thomas B. King, head of the
Dcpailment of Animal Science
at The Pennsylvania State Uni
versity.
“We spend about 5 percent of
our income after taxes for meat
today.’’ Dr. King said. “In 1948,
this figure was 6 percent. Since
the nation’s population inci eas
ed by 53 million in the past 20
years, the livestock and meat in
dusliy produces 12 billion inoic
pounds of meat or a total of 33
billion pounds”
Pioducing a baiter but less I
expensive pioduct with tughei |
costs of pi oduction has been ac- j
comphshed by increasing out-1
pul pci man, per acie and per|
animal. But, the Penn State offi-1
ctal said, the fanners piofit per j
umt of output has not inci eased j
but rather has gone down
“Today’s modern beef animal
i c on only the fust leg of the"
journey to maiket when it
comes off the range,” Dr. King [
pointed out “For most cattle, i
there’s still three months to a I
year for ‘finishing’ in a feedlot!
with grain and feed concen- j
t-.ate ”
And the costs of ranchers and
finishers have inci eased tre
mendously while the prices they
receive foi their meat amrnais
have shown little increase in
fact, have actually decreased
when compared with some past
penods, the Penn State piofess
o> said
He cites examples of what has
caused pi eduction costs to in
crease
Farmers are paying nearly
$lB billion annually in leal
estate taxes twice the amount
paid in 1954 As inflation
mounts, this figure will get lai g
-6i and moie buidensome
Many fai in eiupment items
increased 5 percent last year
attubulable to increasing wage
rates to factory workers
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tions, has increased from a price
range of $51.25 - $54 20 per ton
in 1980 to recent quotations of
$74 - $BO.
All along the line there have
been increases in the prices of
labor, goods, and services farm
ers buy and in the costs of mar
keting the products they sell,
Dr. King emphasized. What the
agricultural family could buy
for $lOO in 1957-59 costs about
$ll7 in 1968 17 percent more!
In 1967, the top cattle in Chi-
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cago generally stayed below $2B
per hundredweight,- the live
stock specialist pointed out.
Five years ago, the top was $33,'
and in the early 19S0’s peak
prices ranged from $33.50 to
542 50. The top price on hogs
in Chicago has been around $2l
recently. As far back as 20 years
ago, hogs brought $27.50 per
hundred pounds.
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five or six generations ago, Dr. from cattle herded in by "The
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