Stock Yards Will Add Monday Slaughter Cattle Auction
The Lancaster Livestock Ex
change has decided to add a
Monday auction foi slaughter
cattle.
Most other featuies of the
Lancaster Stock Yards opeia
tion will remain unchanged
Private treaty selling will con
tinue Monday and the Wednes
day auction will continue for
cattle, hogs, sheep and lambs.
The new Monday auction will
he effective February 22
The new Monday auction also
includes a change in the order
of sales. The new order will be
bulls followed by heifers, steei s
and cows. The order previously
was cows, heifers, bulls and
steers-.
William McCoy, who was re
elected president of the Stock
Exchange at Monday’s meeting,
indicated there are several rea
sons for opening the new Monday
auction.
Past experience with the Wed
nesday auction showed that
Wednesday was too late in the
week for some buyers and ship
pers to get their steers.
Some farmers also have indi
cated a preference for a
Monday auction, he said.
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McCoy also feels that Monday
is one of the bettei maiketing
days of the week
McCoy views the move towaid
the Monday auction as part of
an effort to make Lancastei
“the puce setting center of the
east” tor slaughter cattle
McCoy indicated he feels Lan
caster can become the Eastern
price centei if large enough
volume of cattle can be_received
and sold at the market
Farmers in the past have been
looking heavily to Lancastei
and Chicago, but primarily
Chicago as the price pace set
ters, he said
But the large and dominant
Chicago market is in the process
of being phased out and this
makes a whole new ball game
so far as cattle marketing is con
cerned, according to McCoy He
noted that other markets includ
ing Omaha, St. Paul, St. Joseph,
Joliet, Peoria, Milwaukee *and
Sioux City are among markets
in the river markets group and
the Chicago area which will be
called on to take up the slack
from the Chicago market and to
determine the cattle price
trends.
But all of these markets are
“off the beaten path and too far
west” to really take the place of
Chicago, McCoy said
He also said that Chicago is
the “last Western outlet at
which packers can get animals
and still meet their kill dead
lines in the East.”
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aiea or else ship in caicasses leceipts We have to have cattle
Tleie aie diawbacks to both to keep buyeis mteiesled”
alteinatives, he indicated, and McCoy desenbed the Stock
he suspects that theie will be a y d ids as one of the few maikets
more aggressive buying at in the countiy offering both aue
markets such as Lancastei to tion and puvate tieaty selling,
help make up for the problems Sales at the Stock Yards are
caused by the closing of the iairly evenly divided between
Chicago maiket. the two types, with some fann
ers piefernng one and some the
McCoy said the Stock Yards other> he stated
has contacted buyers which
might have lelied on Chicago However, lecent Lends have
and “we have had a lot of good been towaid increased auction
replies ” He stated, “Everything sales In 1970, for instance, the
looks good if we can ljuild up Livestock Exchange lepoited
Hereford Registrations Up
A hefty increase in registra- expansion based on better qual
tions has marked the first four ity animals and rapidly increas
rnonths of the American Here- mg reliance on performance
ford Association’s 1970-71 fiscal records Our bleeders are pro
year. ducing more of these top-quality
animals to meet the demands of
AHA announced that a 20 9 per a growing market reflected by
cent increase in registrations has the best prices fOl Herefoids in
been chalked up for September years »
through December of 1970 when
compared to the same period a Berry also cited the continuing
year ago dominance of white-faced cattle
The Association’s computeis 111 feedlots and the success of
added 102,571 calves for the four crossbreeding programs baaed
months, as AHA’s total registra- on Hereford blood as factors
tions since 1881 are nearing the creating additional demand for
16 million mark top-quality Herefoid bulls and
.„. „ . commercial straight-bred fe-
AHA Executive Secretary, *
W T Berry, Ji , in commenting
on the big increase, said “there “Also, commercial producers
are a number of factors in- aie realizing that the ideal size
fluencing the increased registra- and skeletal structure of beef
tions. First, Hereford breeders cattle as described m two recent
have been reducing numbeis conferences at the University of
during a severe culling program Wisconsin, are produced con
over the past few years and we sistently within the Hereford
are now seeing a new kind of breed,” he added
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REFRESHMENTS
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receipts of 138,836 head of live
stock, with auction sales show
ing a major increase of 5,392
head to a total of 58,113 head,
virile total receipts were down
12,819 head iiom the pievious
year to a total of 138,836 head.
The overall diop was attubut
ed by one souice to dnect sales
of county stock to packeis
Breakdown of sales for 1970
by category shows that 23,032
calves weie sold, 83,458 head of
hogs, 15,110 of sheep
In other acuion at the Ex
change meeting four dates for
spring feeder sales were an
nounced April 16, April 30,
May 14 and May 28
Testimonial was given to Wil
liam S Bixler, an incorporator
and stockholdei of J M Hoober
Inc and past secretary and
treasuier of the Livestock Ex
change.
Re-elected to office with Mc-
Coy was Donald Ober, secretaiy
tieasurer Richard Hoober was
named vice president to succeed
Horace Plank
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