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FARM TRENDS
A summary of market
and commodity news for
the week ending July 21
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Pork prices were off and running Thursday morning after
the announcement that the price ceiling on all agricultural
products but beef had been lifted. In Peoria, hogs were
fetching $5O to $50.50. Saturday’s hog auction at Vintage
was too late for this issue of LANCASTER FARMING, but
prices were expected to approach or even top Midwest
levels Some pressure on the hog supply eased off in recent
weeks when the giant Penn Packing Company in
Philadelphia closed its doors and sent its 500 employees
home. The company hopes to reopen Monday morning, but
labor difficulties may keep it closed awhile longer.
Beef was the only agricultural product not exempted from
price controls by President Nixon’s announcement on
Wednesday. Retail prices will remain at the March 29 level
until September 12, when the beef freeze will be lifted.
Prices on local auctions had hit record highs this week in
anticipation of a lifting of the freeze. Surprisingly enough,
Nixon’s statement didn’t seem to affect auction prices here
or nationally On Thursday, cattle prices again boomed to a
new high at the New Holland Sales Stables.
That’s what some eggmen are predicting by September 1.
As the freeze lifted, prices jumped up on egg markets all over
the country. Thursday's Urner Barry quote was at 74-cents
and headed higher
The Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board Wednesday af
ternoon posted a $l.OO- increase for Class One milk
throughout most of the Commonwealth. Exempted from the
boost are dairymen in the Western counties and around the
Philadelphia area. In PMMB Market Area 4, ten counties in
the South central part of the state, the price will go from
$7.27 to $827 for Class One milk. The order is expected to
have little impact locally, since most independent dairymen
have been getting $8.19 from their dairies since the middle
of March. It was then that most local dairies initiated a
voluntary price hike to farmers, and a consequent increase
to consumers. Milk producers who ship to federal order
markets will not be affected by the PMMB order. One dairy
industry spokesman said the $1 00 increase wasn’t enough
anyway, because it didn’t take into account all the increased
costs farmers have incurred recently Besides feed, these
costs include taxds, equipment, labor, fuel, paper products
and a multitude of other farm inputs
Pa. Ayrshire Club
Holds Annual Meet
The Pennsylvania Ayrshire
Cluj) held their 52nd Annual Field
Day last Saturday at Milton
Brubaker’s Spruce Villa Dairy
farm just outside Lititz. A crowd
of Ayshire dairymen traveled
from around the state to the farm
for chicken dinners, fellowship,
contests and speeches.
One of the speakers was Roy
Breneman, a Willow Street
native who’s now a dairy
specialist with Agway’s
Harrisburg office. Breneman
talked about meeting the
challenge of high feed costs.
“We’ll probably never go back
to the old feed prices,” Breneman
by Dick Wanner
PORK-SKY’S THE LIMIT
BEEF-OUT IN THE COLD
EGGS-DOLLAR A DOZEN
MILK-STATE UPS PRICE
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told his audience. “But on the
other hand, we’ll probably never
go back to the old milk prices,
either. So while your costs may
be higher, your returns will keep
going up too.”
Careful feed management,
though, will always be an im
portant part of the dairyman’s
profit picture, Breneman noted.
“You lose money when you feed
either too much or too little
protein and energy,” he said. “A
ration that’s high in corn silage,
for example, can supply too much
energy. For maximum herd
health, and for maximum in
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 21, 1973
Other Fopds Exempt . .
Phase 4- Freeze
Stays on Cattle
Cheers and chuckles greeted
the sight of a man riding a bull
into the auction show ring at
Lancaster Stockyards on Wed
nesday. When that bull sold for
56.25-cents a pound, the con
versation got so loud that the
auctioneer had to gavel the
jocular crowd to a quieter level.
But after the auction, there
were no jokes when cattlemen
learned thay’d been left out in the
freezing cold by the Ad
ministration’s Phase IV
economic game plan. Beef was
the only agricultural commodity
to have a government-imposed
retail price ceiling after Wed
nesday. That ceiling remains at
the March 29 level and will
continue in effect until Sep
tember 12.
In the few days prior to the
Washington announcement, beef
cattle prices at local auctions had
been hitting record highs. On
Thursday, the day after the
announcement, there was some
expectation prices would weaken
at Thursday’s New Holland
Farm Calendar
Monday, July 23
7:00 p.m. - Fulton Grange annual
picnic, Grange Hall.
PVATA Conference - Penn State
University.
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York FLBA,
RCA Conduct
Annual Meet
The York Federal Land Bank
Association and the Carlisle
Production Credit Association
held their joint annual meeting on
Thursday at the South Mountain
Fairgrounds at Arendtsville,
York County. Some 1100 people
attended.
Kenneth F. Miller, FLBA
manager, reported that the loan
volume for his organization had
increased by some $3 million over
last year. Reelected for three
year terms on the FLBA board of
directors were Richard K.
Smyser, York County, and
Harold M. Herr, Adams County.
Robert Stover reported that
PCA volume had increased by
some $700,000 over the previous
year Samuel W. Musser, Sr.,
Shippensburg, was reelected to
the PCA board.
The two organizations have a
total membership of some 2000
farm families in York, Adams,
Franklin, Fulton, Cumberland
and Perry Counties. Their main
office is in York, with branches in
Gettysburg, Carlisle and
Chambersburg
auction, but again, new highs
were set Slaughter steers ranged
from $5O to $51.60 with one going
for $52.10. The high for
the week was the bull mentioned
earlier, a Tees Water, that went
for $56.25.
Highest Priced Bull is
As Gentle as a Lamb
Probably the last thing you’d
expect to see on a Wednesday
afternoon at the Lancaster
Stockyards is a man riding a bull
There are usually a lot of bulls at
the Yard for Wednesday’s cattle
auction, but most of them aren’t
in any mood to be ridden
It was no ordinary bull,
however, that was, in fact, ridden
into the show ring It was a Tees
Water bull, and it brought what
could be the highest price ever
paid hereabouts for a slaughter
animal. Youndt Brothers of Terre
Hill paid 56.5-cents a pound for
the 1290 pound brute. It was a
price sure to bring a smile to the
face of Abraham Kilheffer, Lititz
RD2, the farmer who’s been
Lancaster Panning Photo
It's not every day you'll see a hull ridden into the auction
show ring at the Lancaster Stockyards. It happened Wed
nesday afternoon, though, with Nelson Green showing how
it’s done.
$2 00 Per Year
While the news may have been
bad for beef processors, it was
bombs away for practically
every other foodstuff in the
market Hogs jumped a
phenomenal $5 in Peoria on
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feeding the bull since last fall In
his 50 years of farming, Kilheffer
has never done quite that well
with a bull.
Richard Hoober, of J M
Hoober, Inc , got the bull last fall
on a buying foray mio West
Virginia Hoober recognized the
double-muscled hindquarters
which characterize Tees Water
animals, and he brought it along
home for Kilheffer, one of his
oldest feeder customers.
The Tees Water trait is a
genetic anomaly which shows up
in perhaps one out of every 15,000
cattle, usually a black beef breed.
It was first noticed on a cattle
farm in England, near the river
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