Why 31 Cent Steers Cost $1.39
(Continued fiom l’.i«c 17) niuliU. In cause they jjeimalK
... . ... .. , bus ii fi< sh .md take it homr and
Neigh believes, will .1 im/« j[ amuae.
“branded" product which the
consumer c.m rely on This is ic- Huy Specials
quired, he said, because the con- \s k . d , lbollt b( ., lf sl , u . li)!s
?L W ° nl J ‘‘ 10 , r? Pl ’ Cl loc '" MO.es. \‘.«h said.
the frozen product as ie.ul.ly as ••!»,,sonalK I think the smt.aK
the present unfrozen beef. .11 e a bu> , iou should «ii
Neigh said he doesn't undei- 111 ,lu ’ h,lbll of ,)llvm « '"rat on
stand wh, c0n5,,,,,.,, would u- 1 1 , J'
sist the move lo frozen beef, as special and live out of the free/
long as they could icly on its ei M
most
IASSOW the Job done...
Vrlth or without incorporation, without crop dam
age and without carryover; in all soil types from
sands to clays
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Ilf i.nd (10m UO to .*() nns ,i
pound (mm nl <n lu* s.i\(d on ilit
hclU'l (Ills o( I11(M( l)J
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c out i line S|u 11 «i I s .11, |,K,
si.mips Cmisiumis h.n, kimu lo
I'Npcfl )1 "
He noli cl lh.it some Los \ngel
cs stoics .u»• “c\|km mu ntmg with
wcik long low pi iced beef"
When beef pi lets foi the f.iuu
ei (J 1 op. why don t me.il puces
chop in the loe.il stoic’’ he was
asked.
Theu’s a consideiable lime
lag between a change in puce to
the faimei and passing of that
puce change along to the con
sumei What generally happens,
according to .\eigh. is that when
faim puces go up, the letailcr's
meat costs go up fastci than his
puces to customcis and he takes
a loss
But when fai m puces go down,
the icUnlci’s puces stay up foi
a time o\ei the long mn, it av
eiages out, he said
i
But Max SmUh, county agent,
lemindcd that from June to Sep
tembei 1969, cattle puces went
fiom 35 to 28 cents, “but I didn’t
notice any deciease in the ictail
puce.”
Besides the noimal letailer’s
lag in diopping puces, Neigh
said, consumei demand foi beef
remained veiy stiong in 1969 and
retaileis appaiently didn’t feel it
was necessaiy to diop puces
In slides, Neigh illustiated
some of the key changes m beef
production in lecent yeais
He said 30,000 head lots on the
eastern slopes of the Rockies aie
now common
These large feeder lots, which
conti ast with the much smaller
opeiations in the east, have
brought changes in maiketmg.
One slide showed a big term
inal market at Denvei vacant
Theie used to be small feedei
lots and big teiminals with near
by packing houses as collection
centeis, he said, but now the
teiminals have been dispeised to
the big feed lots
High leal estate values, high
taxes and labor pioblems have
hastened the demise of the laige
teiminals.
397-3539
Time Lag
Big Feed Lots
Lancaster Farming, Suturday. March 2fl. 1070-
111 lllllsli .1), || ,| Coloi ,1(1(1 I illl
it son bid pi (Kissing opi. ,on
lll.l! Si. lltlll Oil! |IIOU 'MIU Hu
i,'till llu\ i.null .mil now li.is
miisluoonii il niln.i n.m pniu n
nu pi.ml h.iiulliiu 2(10 OHO In ,ul
of i.itllc ,1 (l,l\
Now Toclinlquos
He s.nd manv of the packing
opeialions have inlioduced mam
iuw tcchimiues to keep costs
down One plant, he said, has
been gelling a 27 pci cent lelinn
on its investment as a lesul of
eflicicnt methods
But he noted the Turn has inn
into labor pioblems and is in the
midst of a six month sli ike aftei
attempting to install assembly
line techniques one cut pci
pc 1 son and pay meat cutlet
tales instead of the highei butch
ci’s wages
Pennsylvania, whcic smaller
feed lots exist, pioduces onlv 50
pei cent of the veal and 27 pei
cent of the beef consumed in
the state.
Beef Consumption Up
While thcie’s a tiend towaid
fcwei, but moie efficient, milk
cows, the beef cattle numbeis
have been met easing lapidly
'Birds of Pennsylvania 7
Available from Penn 7 U 7
Eaily spung is the best time to
keep track of bird species leturn
ing to Pennsylvania fiom the
south, says Men ill Wood, author
of “Birds of Pennsylvania ” The
“bud traffic pattern” is not con
gested at this time of the year
like it is in May, he claims
Mr Wood wrote “Buds of Pen
nsylvania” for the agncultuial
experiment station at Pennsyl
vania State University. The guide
book contains pen-and-ink draw
ings of the 156 most common
species found in the State
A paperback volume, it de
scubes briefly the 423 bird spec
ies reported in Pennsylvania In
cluded is a calendai of bndlife,
listing species migiating into, or
through the state, duung each
month Included on 120 pages aie
the migration habits of each
species “Buds of Pennsylvania”
is available foi $1 00 a copy plus
6 cents sales tax from Buds, Box
6000, Univeisity Paik, Pa , 16802.
While fid huf .((counted for
«n!v ,’U pi 1 (in* o( Hie nation's
(.title in 1947 hu f had an ovu
v.lu lining (if) pei cent of the
uumliv’s cattle maikd in 1969.
The 'nne mvolvid in fmlmg
out lu i f eat tie has been spudul
up "11 iimil to lake foui to (he
,u .11 s to fuel cat He hut now only
about two .\e.lls." Neigh said
In the H)4o\ consumption of
poik and beef wcic about (Veil,
hut since Hun poik has staved
ulativcl.v stable while beef and
veal consumption is up shaipl.v.
In 1955, beef consumption per
pci son was 82 pounds, but by
1969, it was 110 pounds.
Beef as a pciccntagc of the na
tion’s total meal consumption
has climbed fiom 44 pei cent in
1950 to 60 pel cent in 1968.
In the face of (his growing de
mand, beef puces have been up
shaiply, paiticulaily in lecent
years In 1960, beef cost an aver
age of 81 cents a pound, it had
moved up to only 81 6 cents by
1965, but it was 87 2 in 1968 and
jumped sharply to 95 6 in 1969.
But while some of the Increas
ed beef puce was due to using
demand, cost of living has been
a factoi Cost of living went up
27 pei cent fiom 1957-59 and
■wages weie up 60 per cent.
“We (as consumers) would like
to see food prices take a smaller
share of oui income and it will,”
Neigh said Food accounts for an
average of only 16 cents out of
dollar of U S. spending.
Mrs Dons Thomas, home ex
tension economist, who introduc
ed the speaker, noted, “Many
shoppers are not being honest.
If they take everything out of
the food budget not consumed
at the table, they would be
shocked” at how small the food
budget really is.
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