4—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, April 6, 1974
Poultry Market Reports
WEEKLY NEW YORK
EGG MARKET
Mon.
WHITE
Fey. Ex,
Lge.
Large
Mediums
Pullets
Peewees
BROWN
Fey. Lge 60
Mediums Unquoted
Pullets Unquoted
Peewees Unquoted
Off Grade
Lge. 54 54 54 54 54
Checks 35 35 34 33 33
Long Tone Large Sizes Generally Steady.
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
Class 1 - Large
Class 3 - Medium
Class 4 - Small
Breaking Stock
Checks
Higher Farm Costs
Dip Into Profits
sustain top
production
with the
BABCOCK
B-300
Keeping production up
.. costs down... is the
profit key in poultry
operations. And more
and more records on
commercial flocks of
Babcock B-300’s . . .
“The Businessman’s
Bird” . . . show
sustained production of
top quality eggs
often with an additional
20 to 30 eggs per bird
housed over other
strains. Come in ...
look at the records and
the B-300 .. . “The
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BABCOCK
FARMS, UK.
Telephone (717)626-8257
Telephone (717) 626-8561
From Monday, April 1
to Friday, April 5
Tues. Wed.
60 60 60
New Weight
Per Case
51 lbs.
48 lbs.
42 lbs.
39 lbs.
48 lbs.
48 lbs.
Tuesday Thursday
0 0
53 53
44 46
31 31
41 42
35 38
Farmers report they are
having to pay increasingly
higher prices for farm fuel,
fertilizer, baling twine and
baling wire, according to
Nicholas Smith, director of
the Energy Office, U. S.
Department of Agriculture.
He reports that since Nov.
1,1973, the price of gasoline
used on farms has increased
29 percent, diesel fuel is 38
percent higher, and LP gas
costs 21 percent more.
Prices for all categories of
fertilizers show increases
since Feb. 18, with the
largest percentage increases
for nitrogen fertilizers.
Anhydrous ammonia and
urea prices have nearly
doubled since decontrol in
October.
Current prices for twine
have increased 250 percent
or more from a year ago.
The price of domestically
produced baling wire ob
tained through normal
channels, is expected to
range from $22 to $25 retail
per 100-pound box--up
substantially over a year
ago--with prices for im
ported wire reported varying
from $3O to $5O per 100-pound
box.
Availability of farm fuel as
reported for the biweekly
period ending March 22 is
said to be little changed from
two weeks earlier with
shortages of gasoline in 30
states and diesel fuel supply
problems in 16 states. The
fertilizer supply situation is
also about the same as two
weeks ago; 44 states report a
nitrogen shortage, 41 a
phosphate shortage, and 39 a
potash shortage. ”
Prices unchanged to 2
cents lower on mediums,
steady on balance. Cartoning
demand fair at best and
seasonally unaggressive in
spite of holiday period.
Offerings fully adequate to
ample. Undertone steady
though cautious.
Fri.
Thurs.
Prices to retailers: sales to
volume buyers, consumer
grades white eggs in cartons.
Delivered: Store, door, A
Extra Large 65 - 66%; A
Large 64 - 65%; A Medium 52
-57%.
Placements of broiler
chicks in the Commonwealth
the week ending
March 30, 1974 were
1,217,000. The placements
were 3 percent below the
corresponding week a year
earlier, and 12 percent below
the previous week. Average
placements during the past
10 weeks were 4 percent
above a year earlier.
Settings for broiler chicks
were 2,122,000 - 20 percent
above the previous week and
1 percent below the com
parable period a year
earlier. The current 3-week
total of eggs set is 3 percent
below the same period a year
ago.
Inshipments of broiler
type chicks during the past
10 weeks averaged 3,000
compared with zero a year
ago. Outshipments averaged
208,000 during the past 10
weeks, 16 percent below a
year earlier.
Placements in the 21
Effective March 22, the change in animal health
regulations makes it possible to pay up to $4OO for purebred
and breeding swine, and up to $2OO for top quality market
hogs. The previous maximums were $2OO and $lOO, respec
tively.
Officials of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS) said the change will bring maximum
permitted indemnity limits into line with current market
prices-especially for the higher quality animals. Since ap
praisals are made at actual value, in most cases the in
demnity paid does not reach the maximum level.
Under the cooperative state-federal hog cholera
eradication program, hogs that must be destroyed because of
hog cholera are appraised at their actual value for meat,
breeding or feeding purposes. Indemnities are based on this
appraisal, up to the limits allowable.
Federal and state governments share the cost of in
demnity. If isolated cases occur in states classified as “hog
cholera free,” the federal share is 90 percent and the state’s
share is 10 percent. In other states, the federal share is 75
percent.
APHIS officials point out, however, that in order for the
federal government to pay either the 90 or 75 percent of in
demnities to producers, the states must require that all
feeder or breeder swine shipped through markets be in
dividually identified. This requirement enables animal
health officials to trace animals back to.their herds of origin
should hog cholera be detected.
In states that do not require identification-by ear tag,
tattoo or other effective means-the federal share of in
demnity would be only 50 percent of the appraised value.
Philadelphia
Eggs
Wednesday, April 3
Pa. Broiler
Placements
Down 3 pet.
Indemnity limits
For Hog Cholera
To Increase
An increase in the maximum indemnity payable to swine
producers whose hogs must be destroyed because of hog
cholera-a virus disease that affects swine only-has been
announced by USDA.
Fogelsville
April 2,1974
(Prices paid dock weights
cents per lb.)
No market report
available at press time.
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, April 3
Ready to cook movement
light with very attractive
offerings reported in an
effort to stimulate interest.
Slaughter schedules
generally reduced in line
with expected needs. Less
than trucklot prices un
changed to 1 cent lower on
both plant and US grade A.
Advance interest slow in
settling as both buyers and
sellers await further market
developments. Live supplies
fully adequate with weights
tending heavier. Undertone
weak and unsettled.
Negotiated trucklot prices
2-3 lb ready to cook broiler
fryers for delivery.
Pool trucklot prices for
Thursday arrival: US Grade
A'37 -42 mostly 37; 36 -40
mostly 36.
States were 63,970,000 - 1
percent below the previous
week and 1 percent above the
same week a year earlier.
Average placements during
the past 10 weeks were 4
percent above a year ago.
Settings were 78,102,000 -1
percent below the previous
week and 1 percent below a
year earlier. The current 3-
week total of eggs set is 1
percent below the com
parable period a year ago.
NEW ENGLAND WEEKLY
SHELL EGG REPORT
Tuesday, April 2,1974
Prices paid per dozen Grade “A" brown eggs in cartons
delivered to retail stores;
EX LARGE LARGE MEDIUM SMALL
61-73 60-68 51-65 31-42
MASS+
Mostly 62-64
NEWHAMP 60-67
62-63
65-66
Mostly
R.I.
Mostly
63-73
VERMONT
Mostly
MAINE
Mostly
+lncludes Central & Western Sections Only.
Eastern Pa.
&NJ.
April 3
Eastern Pennsylvania and
New Jersey live poultry
report: Prices generally
held unchanged on light type
hens. Demand light and
unaggressive. Offerings
ample with plants reporting
heavy bookings for the
month of April. Heavy hens
fully adequate for slightly
improved call.
Prices paid at farm: Light
type hens 5-7 mostly 6-7 in
Pa. mostly 5-7 in NJ.
Heavy type hens TFEWR.
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61-63
59-66
52-53
57-58
61-62
64-65
53-70
62-72
62-64
Baltimore
Eggs
Wednesday, April 3
Baltimore eggs:"Prices
ranged unchanged to 2 cents
lower on mediums. Demand
is improving for the end of
the week, however feature
activity limited. Supplies are
ample.
Cartoned eggs: Prices to
retailers, state graded (min
one case sale) shite.
Grade A Large 67-73,
mostly 67-69
Grade A Medium 57-68,
mostly 59-60.
32-34
30-37
32-33
35-36
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