4 —Lancaster Farming, Saturda
Poultry Market Reports
WEEKLY NEW YORK
EGG MARKET
From Monday, March 11
to Friday, March 15
Tues. Wed.
Mon.
WHITE
Fey. Ex.
Lge.
Large
Mediums
Pullets
Peewees
BROWN
Fey. Lge 64
Mediums Unquoted
Pullets Unquoted
Peewees Unquoted
Off Grade
Lge. 58 56 56 56
Checks 44 44 42 42
Long Tone Unsettled to Weak.
Copyright 1974 Urner Barry Publications
NEST RUN EGGS
Prices are from Egg Clearinghouse, Inc., (ECI) Durham,
N.H. and reflect trading prices for gradeable nest run eggs
(GNR) on ECI, a nationwide trading center for producers,
packers and marketers. GNR eggs are classified by weight in
30-dozen cases, and traded in lots of either 300 or 750 cases.
Prices are FOB buyers dock, and are computed Tuesday and,
Thursday of each week. This week’s prices for each
classification were:
Classification
Extra Large
□ass 1 - Large
Class 3 - Medium
Class 4 - Small
Breaking Stock
Checks
Broiler Placements
Down 1 pet.
Pa.
Placements
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production
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New Weight
Per Case
51 lbs.
48 lbs.
42 lbs.
39 lbs.
48 lbs.
48 lbs.
Tuesday Thursday
0 0
57 55
53 52
38 37
50 49
47 46
chicks in the Commonwealth
broiler
during the week ending
March 9,1974 were 1,325,000.
The placements were 1
percent below the
corresponding week a year
earlier, and 8 percent above
the previous week. Average
placements during the past
10 weeks were 8 percent
above a year earlier.
Settings for broiler chicks
were 1,784,000 - 18 percent
below the previous week and
11 percent below the com
parable period a year
earlier. The current 3-week
total of eggs set is 7 percent
below the same period a year
ago.
Inshipments of broiler
type chicks during the past
10 weeks averaged 3,000
compared with 5,000 a year
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Office: 22 E. Main St, Lititz, Pa. 17543
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Phone: Lancaster 717-394-3047
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Fri.
Thurs.
Placements in the 21
States were 63,346,000 - 2
percent above the previous
week and 4 percent above the
same week a year earlier.
Average placements during
the past 10 weeks were 5
percent above a year ago.
Settings were 76,552,000 -1
percent below the previous
week and approximately the
same as a year earlier. The
current 3-week total of eggs
set is 1 percent above the
comparable period a year
ago.
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Lancaster Farming
Philadelphia
Eggs
Wednesday, March 13
Prices unchanged to 2
cents lower on all sizes.
Cartoning demand light and
unaggressive. Offerings of
all sizes fully adequate to
ample. Undertone steady
though often, cautious.
Prices to retailers: Sales
to volume buyers, consumer
grades white eggs in cartons,
Delivered: Store Door - A
Extra Large 67-71; A Large
66 - 70; A Medium 60 - 64%.
Baltimore
Eggs
Wednesday, March 13
Baltimore eggs: market
weak. Prices unchanged to 2
cents lower. Supplies of
large and mediums adequate
to ample for the
unaggressive demand.
Cartoned eggs: Prices to
retailers, state graded (min.
one case sale) white.
Grade A Large 69-77,
mostly 69-71; Grade A
Medium 66-74, mostly 66-69.
Eastern Pa.
&NJ.
Wednesday, March 13
Prices unchanged to lower
on light type hens. Offerings
adequate to barely adequate
for a fair but unaggressive
demand. Offerings for April
pick-up heavy. Offerings of
heavy type hens adequate
for current limited interest.
Prices paid at farm: light
type hens 6 -8%; mostly 7% -
8 in Pa., mostly 6 - 8 in N.J.
Heavy type hens TFEWR.
ago. Outshipments averaged
222,000 during the past 10
weeks, 8 percent below a
year earlier.
C
center of
Fogelsville
March 12,1974
(Prices paid dock weights
cents per lb.)
Hens, light type 10-12;
Hens, heavy type 10-28,
mostly 16-22; Pullets 30-41,
mostly 39-40; Roasters 10-37,
mostly 36-37; Capons 38%-
50; Ducks 20%-71, mostly 55-
71; Drakes 21-71; Geese 51;
Turkeys - Toms 19-24;
Rabbits 51-91, mostly 80-83;
Guineas 92-93V 2 ; Pigeons
(per pr.) 1.30V 2 -4.90.
Total coops sold 392.
Poultry received Monday 7
p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Tuesday 7
a.m. to 12 Noon. Sale at 11:30
a.m.
Directions Take Rt. 22
thruway. Exit at Fogelsville
exit. North on stoplight in
Fogelsville, turn left,
proceed 1 mile.
Delmarva
Broiler-Fryer Market
Wednesday, March 13
Ready to cook movement
continues light and disap-
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SHELL EGG REPORT
Tuesday, March 12,1974
Prices paid per dozen Grade “A ’ brown eggs in cartons
delivered to retail stores:
EX LARGE LARGE MEDIUM SMALL
MASS+ 66-75 65-74 62-72 41-49
Mostly 67-69 66-68 63-65 42-44
NEWHAMP 65-72 64-71 61-68 40-46
Mostly 67-68 6*67 63-64 42-43
R j 71-72 70-71 67-68 46-47
Mostly
VERMONT
Mostly
MAINE
Mostly
+lncludes Central & Western Sections Only.
pointing with offerings freely
made and often forced for
quick sale. Slaughter
schedules generally cur
tailed below a normal
Thursday level. Less than
trucklot prices ranged un
changed plant and
US Grade A. Early advance
trading noted at 36 cents.
Live supplies adequate
though weights continue to
decline in most quarters.
Undertone very unsettled.
Negotiated trucklot prices 2-
3 pound ready to cook
broiler-fryers for delivery
next week:
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67-80
65-68 62-65
66-69
Plant Grade 36; Pool
trucklot prices for Thursday
arrival: US Grade A 38-42
mostly 38; Plant Grade 37-40
mostly 37.
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