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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 23,1971
Future Rules Relaxed
Livestock and poultry
producers’ purchases of futures
contracts and net long positions
in wheat, oats, barley, flaxseed
or com in connection with feed
requirements are exempt from
speculative trading and position
limits.
This was announced recently
by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, based on amend
ment of the orders, effective
September 29, of the Commodity
Exchange Commission.
The Commodity Exchange
Commission, consisting of the
Secretary of Agriculture, the
Secretary of Commerce, and the
Attorney General, or officials
designated to act for them, is
authorized to establish limits on
speculation in commodity
futures.
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Limits on position and daily
trading in wheat, oats, barley,
and flaxseed are 2,000,000
bushels in one future or in all
futures combined. Limits on com
have been set at 3,000,000 bushels.
Since the establishment of
speculative limits in these grains,
the rapid growth of livestock and
poultry feeding operations has
created the need to offset price
risks on feed required for such
operations through the purchase
of feed grain futures contracts.
The purchase of feed grain
futures against feed
requirements is sound com
mercial practice by livestock and
poultry producers, and the
Commission has ruled that
exemption should be made to
permit such purchases without
regard to existing limits.
Hog Carcass
A 235-pound Hampshire gilt
belonging to John Strawbridge,
Stewartstown, had the best
carcass of nine hogs at the
Manheim Fair.
In the competition by the
Lancaster County Swine
Producers Association, the
animals were placed on the basis
of the butchered carcass.
Strawbridge’s winning animal
had a chilled carcass weight of
157 pounds, backfat of one inch,
length of 30.6 inches, loin eye of
6.5 square inches, quality score of
2-plus, loin weight of 31.14
pounds, ham weight of 36 pounds
and ham-loin percentage of 43.24
per cent.
Other placings in the top five
were:
Dutch Valley Farms, Manheim
RD3, second, 217-pound
crossbred gilt, 164 pound carcass,
backfat 1.1 inches, 30.1 inches
length, 6.9 square inches loin eye,
30.3 pounds loin weight, 40.9
pounds ham weight and ham-loin
percentage of 43.14.
Stauffer Homestead Farms,
East Earl RDI, third, 227-pound
crossbred gilt, 162 pound carcass,
11 inch backfat, 32.8 inches long,
5.5 square inches loin eye, 33.1
pounds loin, 35 3 pounds ham,
42.13 per cent ham-loin.
Willow Glen Farms, Strasburg
RDI, fourth, 204-pounds
Yorkshire gilt, 163 pound car
cass, 1.3 inches backfat, 31.4
inches loin, 4.9 square inches loin
eye, 29.2 pounds ham, 41.42 per
cent ham-loin.
Clair Hartman, Gratz, 211-
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Hartman and James Horton,
Elizabethtown RDI, tied for first
place in placing the animals
nearest to the actual carcass
placing. William Fisher was third
and John Strawbridge fourth.
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