Omaha Cattle
Wednesday, November 24
Compared with last weeks
close, slaughter steers 50 • 75
higher with Choice and Prime at
full advance. Heifers fully 50
higher, bulls weak to 50 lower.
Small feeder supply steady with
moderate volume stock cows
included.
Three day receipts 14,500 for
holiday period as compared
16,900 previous week and 17,900 a
year ago. Slaughter steers ap
proximately 42 per cent heifers,
36 per cent liberal percentage
Choice and moderate volume
Choice and Prime. Cows 10 per
cent, feeders 10 per cent. Pre-
Thanksgiving cattle trade active,
buying interests aggressive for
numbers despite an unscheduled
labor holiday in some plants on
Monday.
Average cost slaughter steers
first two days 33.80, average
weight 1,117 pounds as compared
33.41 and 1,118 pounds previous
week and 26.82 and 1,127 pounds a
year ago.
Market Steers
Steers Two loads High
Choice and Prime U.S, 3-4,1200 -
1225 pounds, 35.85; 1100 - 1250,
35.00 - 35.50; Choice 2-4,975 -1250,
33.75 - 35.00; Mixed Good and
Choice, 950 - 1225, 33.00 - 33.75;
Standard and Low-Good, 28.50 -
3Q.00.
Heifers Load High Choice
and Prime U.S. 3, 932 pounds,
34.75; 3-4 925 - 1025, 34.00 - 34.50;
Choice 2-4 850 -1050, 33.00 - 34.00;
Mixed Good and Choice, 775 -
1000, 32.00 - 33.00; Good, 27.50 -
32.00; Standard and Low-Good,
26.00 - 27.50.
Cows Utility and Com
mercial, 20.50 - 22.00; Canner and
Cutter, 18.00-20.50; Mixed Cutter
and Low-Utility, 20.75 - 21.00.
Bulls Utility, Commercial
and Good, 25.00 • 27.00; Com
mercial, 27.50; Cutter and Low-
Utility, 23.00 - 25.00.
Feeder Steers
Outshipments approximately
1,500, little changed from
previous week. Prices steady
with supplies largely Choice steer
calves and yearlings, moderate
volume fleshy two-way heifers
and several loads stock cows.
Steers Choice, 344 - 415
pounds, 40.00 - 44.50; 636 - 752,
Lebanon Valley
Livestock
Market, Inc.
1 mile east of
Fredericksburg
along Route 222
Phone Jonestown
865-2881
Sale every Tuesday at 1:30
P.M. starting with feeder
cattle and pigs
FINAL REGULAR FALL FEEDER SALE
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3,
All Grades
Lancaster Union Stock Yards
THE LANCASTER LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE AND UNION STOCK YARD CO
2 Dairy Meetings Slated
Richard Adams, Penn State
University dairy specialist, will
lead two dairy feeding
educational meetings in Chester
County Tuesday, December 7,
At 1 p.m., a meeting will be
held at Honey Brook Grange Hall
on Route 10 about one mile south
of Honey Brook.
At 7:30 p.m,, a meeting will be
held at Russellville Grange Hall
on old Route 10 and 896 in
Russellville.
Topics at both meetings will
include how to balance high corn
dairy rations, precautions on
Peoria Cattle
Wednesday, November 24
As compared to last weeks
close, slaughter steers ended 50
to 1.00, instances 1.25 higher,
most advance on Choice and
above grade steers. Slaughter
heifers closed 50 - 75 higher. Cows
were steady while bulls ended
mostly 50 lower. Supply consisted
mainly of High-Good and Choice
slaughter steers and heifers, with
several loads of mixed Choice
and Prime grade steers available
during the week. Receipts this 4-
day week 4,000; last week 4,500;
last year 4-day week, 1,300.
SLAUGHTER STEERS: Load
Prime 1260 pounds yield grade 3-
4,36.25 on Tuesday. Mixed Choice
and Prime 1150 -1275 pounds 35.00
- 36.25, early in the week; several
loads 36.00 - 36.75 on Wednesday.
Choice 900 - 1300 pounds yield
grade 2-4, 33.75 - 35.75, mostly
34.50 - 35.50. Mixed Good and
Choice 800 - 1125 pounds 33.00 -
34.50. Good 30.50 - 33.25. Standard
28.50 - 30.50. Pew Holsteins 29.00.
SLAUGHTER HEIFERS:
Prime 975 - 1025 pounds yield
grade 3-4, 35.00 - 35.25; mixed
Choice and Prime, 900 -975
pounds, 34.25 - 34.75; Choice 800 -
1030 pounds yield grade 2-4,33.00 -
34.50; Mixed Good and Choice 750
- 975 pounds, 31.50 - 33.25; Good
28.50 - 31.50; few Standard
Holsteins 28.50.
COWS; Commercial 18.50 -
20.00; Utility 20.00 - 21.25; few
high yielding Utility 21.50; Cutter
17.50 - 20.00; Canner 16.50 -17.50;
shelly Canner 15.00 - 16.50.
BULLS: Few Good 29.00;
Utility and Commercial, 25.50 -
27.50.
35.00 - 38.50; High Good and
Choice, 872 - 1109, 32.00 - 33.25
Heifers Choice, 325 - 340
pounds, 38.50 - 39.00; High Good
and Choice, 750 - 925, 31.50 - 33.25.
Stock Cows Choice, 1000
pounds, 24.50; Good and Choice,
21.50 - 22.50.
U* S. Inspected Livestock Slaughter
For the week ending Thursday, November 25
Week to date
Same period last week
Same period last year
Estimated daily livestock slaughter under Federal Inspection
1 sOO P.M.
All Breeds
AUCTION PAVILION
feeding blighted corn, correcting
a production slump and the pros
and cons of a total-mix or com
plete ration. The informal
programs will give plenty of
opportunity for questions and
answers, according to Robert A.
Powers Jr, Chester County ag
agent, and Glenn A. Shirk,
associate ag agent.
Green Dragon
Hay Market
Friday, November 19
Twenty-seven loads hay, in
cluding: few loads Alfalfa, 40.00 -
49.50, one load at 67.00; Timothy.
33.00 - 47,00; Mixed hay, 32.50 -
47.00, one load 55.00; one load
Clover, 28.00.
Twelve loads straw, 32.50 -
41.00.
Experts predict that 138
million metric tons of meat will
be consumed by man world-wide
in 1980. That’s a 58 per cent in
crease over the 1965 figure.
Or. Honan Calls for New Mi
“The chain of events within
only the last 12 months, that is,
the closing of two plants and the
change of a large Class I account
from one buyer to another, has
been the cause of Inter-State
having to handle about seven
million pounds more of Class II
surplus than before. It caused us
to look for new solutions to the
problem,” asserted Dr. James E.
Honan, general manager of Inter-
State Milk Producers’
Cooperative.
“We cannot sit and wait for all
future business decisions to
come,” continued Dr. Honan to
the more than 400 delegates and
guests attending the 54th annual,
meeting Tuesday of Inter-State
Milk Producers’ Cooperative,
Philadelphia, Pa.
The general manager pointed
to the fact that, “As we look
ahead, we also see these
problems are intensifying as
unions may push towards fewer
work days per week and,
perhaps, cutting off one or two
days in our delivering milk to city
plants.
Honan explained this in
tensification of surplus problems
in the dairy industry by using the
February 1971 closing of the
Koontz Creamery at West
minster, Md Maryland
Cooperative Milk Producers
CATTLE HOGS SHEEP
319.000 861,000 92,000
347.000 1,068,000 98,000
344.000 1,056,000 111,000
All Weights
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 27,1971
FUTURES TRADING
(Closing bids as of Thursday, November 25)
Chicago Chicago New York
Cattle Hogs Maine
Potatoes
35.25 22.30
December
January ’72
February 33.70 23.50
March
32.70 22.40 3.25
April
May
32.30 24.07
June
July
32.00 23.02
August
October
31.65
Trend Cattle are steady, Hogs are stronger, Potatoes are
stronger, and eggs are stronger.
a-asked b-bid n-normal
Markets provided by Commodity Dept., Reynolds & Company
immediately increased their
deliveries to the manufacturing
plant at Laurel, Md.
Honan added that we are
getting too dependent on only one
manufacturing plant. He stated
the problem was not only one in
Philadelphia, but is directly
related to the Baltimore and
Washington markets and our
sister cooperatives, Maryland
Cooperative Milk Producers and
Maryland & Virginia Milk
Producers Association.
Dr. Honan announced that “the
Pennmarva board of directors,
supported by the respective
boards of each of the Pennmarva
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3.05
3.71
24.20
Ik Plant
members, directed Pennmarva’s
management team to study and
analyze the problem and to
propose a solution to the
manufacturing surplus handling
situation.”
General manager Honan
concluded by stating, “I believe a
plant is needed and we should
have it as early as we can get it.”
The delegates attending this
annual meeting represent 3000
dairy farmers who are members
of Inter-State Milk Producers’
Cooperative, Philadelphia, in a
four-state area. New Jersey,
Delaware, Maryland and Penn
sylvania.
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Chicago
Fresh Eggs
35.85
34.35
34.65