- Lancaster Farming. Saturday. August 17, 1974
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Poultry Market Reports
WEEKLY NEW YORK
EGG MARKET
From Monday, August 12 to Friday, August 16
Mon. Tues. Wed, Thurs,
WHITK
i',x l,arg 58 58 58 60 60
I,a rut’ M 55 55 58 58
Mediums 44 45 45 49 49
Pullets 56 38 38 40 60
Pee wees 25 27 27 28 28
BKOWN
1 .urge 54
Mediums Unquoted
Pullets Unquoted
Peewces Unquoted
Off Grade
Large 47 48 48 48 48
Checks 34 35 35 36 37
Tone Steady to firm.
Correction The White Ex Large quotation on last
Friday’s Urner Barry Egg Market should have read 58 and
not 61.
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
New Weight
Classification Per Case Tuesday Thursday
Extra I>arge 51 lbs. 0 0
Class 1 - Large 48 lbs. 47 49
Class 3 - Medium 42 lbs. 36 39
Class 4 - Small 39 lbs. 30 31
Breaking Stock 48 lbs 41 43
Checks 48 lbs. 36 37
Omaha
Cattle
f CW*od&s> Anoncf 15
Compared to previous
week’s close: Slaughter
steers average-Choice to
Prime 50-1.00 lower Others
mostly steady except
Holsteins 50-1.00 higher.
Heifers steady to 50 cents
lower. Cows mostly 50 cents
lower, Bulls fully steady
Four day receipts 12,200 as
compared with 16,700
previous week and 15,300 a
year ago Slaughter steers
approximately 57 percent of
run, heifers 31 percent, cows
10 percent.
In spite of sharply reduced
supplies locally, prices on
Choice and Prime slaughter
cattle pushed lower early in
the week influenced by a
sluggish wholesale carcass
trade Part of the delive
erased later as beef prices
improved only moderately.
Best demand centered on
average-Choice to Prime
steers and standard and
good Holstein steers. An
increased showing of good
and low-Choice short feds in
an uneven trade and hard to
move
STEERS Load Choice and
Prune 1101 pounds 3 50 25,
near 15 loads Choice and
Prime 1275-1360 3-4 49 50-
50 00 A few loads Choice and
Prune 1275-1360 3-4 49 00.
Choice 975-1300 pounds late
47 00-49 00, largely 47 50-
49 00, occasionally 49 25
Mixed Good and Choice 950-
1250 45 50-47 47 50 Good
40 50-45 50 including several
loads 1109-1234 2-3 Holstems
40 50-42 35, one consignment
1250 2-3 43 00 Standard and
Low-Good 38 00-40.50.
Average cost slaughter
steers first three days 46.72
average weight 1093 pounds
as compared 47.73 and 1137
previous week and 55.98 and
55 55 38 59
Organic Plant Food, told us
there are a lot of new plants
coming on stream and that
thevill eventually help ease
the fertilizer situation, but
not for at least another year.
It takes a long tune to get a
new plant operational, and
shortages have lengthened
the already long lead time.
“Some phosphate plants are
all ready to go, but they don’t
have drag chains to bring the
rock out of the bottom of the
mine. So you’ve got a need
for the material, and you’ve
got a plant that can produce
it, but you can’t do anything
demand']* ~~ ""'° h a
Although suppliers don’t order for two years,
want to see it, there are What material is available
indications that some far- can be very expensive. A
mers may be tucking their ew years ago, farmers were
spring fertilizer needs away. a ble to buy urea for $9O a ton
Buck Rogers, manager of delivered to the farm,”
the Royster fertilizer plant Dobson said. I got a price the
near Landisville, said their other day of $355 a ton f.o.b.
shipments six weeks into the New Jersey. I’m not paying
current fertilizer year are that kind of price. I think
just about double what they there are some people along
were last year at this time the line trying to clean up at
“I know a lot of that material the expense of the farmers
is going into alfalfa seedmgs the fertilizer dealers.”
and some will be used in the As to how much fertilizer
fall, Rogers said “But I also 18 going to be available, the
know that at least one of,our Fertilizer Instituute’s Dr
customers is storing the" White said there will be a for
fertilizer in his barn for next percent increase in the
Fertilizer
I Continued from Page 1|
spring ”
Rogers feels the fertilizer
pinch will be with us for at
least another year, and
points out that rail transport
is one serious bottleneck.
“The railroads just don’t
have the rolling stock to take
care of a seasonal business
like ours, he said “If the
major suppliers didn’t have
their own leased cars, they’d
be sunk.
Donald Dobson, vice
president of Lancaster’s
1107 a year ago.
HEIFERS A part load
Choice and Prune 1030 34
48 50, three loads same
grade 897-1002 pounds 34
48 25 Bulk Choice 850-1055 3-
4 46 0048 00. Mixed Good and
Choice 43 00-46.00 Good
40.0043 00 37.0040.00
COWS- Utility and
Commercial 23.50-25.00, a
few utility 25.50-26.00.
Canner and Cutter 20.50-
23.50. Mured Cutter and Low-
Utility 23.75-24.25.
BULLS: 1-2 1400-1800
pounds 28.50-32.00. Individual
head 34.50
Baltimore
Eggs
Wednesday, August 14
Prices mostly 1 cent
higher. Demand slow to fair.
Supplies ample.
Cartoned eggs; Prices to
retailers, state graded (min.
one case sale) white Grade A
l,arge 62-67, mostly 62-64;
Grade A Medium 52-57,
mostly 52-54.
Fri.
Philadelphia
Eggs
Wednesday, August 14
Prices unchanged to 1 cent
higher on all sizes. Cartoning
demand light. Offerings fully
adequate. Undertone
cautious.
Prices to retailers: Sales
to volume buyers, consumer
grades white eggs in cartons,
delivered: store door A
Extra Large 59-61 Mr, A
Large 58-60'i; A Medium 46-
48 1 2.
amount of nitrogen
available, but he anticipates
a 10 to 12 percent increase in
demand. He said potash
mines are being expanded
both in the U.S and Canada,
but that Florida phosphate
mines are being held back by
groups protesting the tearing
up of the Sunshine State’s
landscape for fertilizer.
Lancaster Farming
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Fogelsville
Sale of August 8
(Prices paid dock weights,
cents per lb., except where
noted).
Hens, heavy type 5-22,
mostly 9-16; Pullets 17Mz-40,
mostly 35-38; Roasters 25-37;
Ducks 35-35**; Turkeys,
Toms 20-30; Rabbits 15-50,
mostly 20-40; Pigions (per
pair) 1.00-3.00, mostly 1.00.
Total Coops Sold 334.
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. 2
thruway. Exit at Fogelsville
exit. North on stoplight in
Fogelsville, turn left,
proceed 1 mile.
Eastern Pa.
&N.J.
Live Poultry Report
Wednesday, August 14
Prices of light type hens
slightly higher within un
changed ranges. Demand
fair for adequate offerings as
producers sell off flocks m
face of advancing production
costs. Offerings of heavy
type hens short of a fair
interest.
Prices paid at farm: light
type hens 4-7, mostly 6%-7 in
Pa.; mostly 6-7 in NJ.
Local Grain
Thursday, August 15
These prices are made up
of the average prices quoted
by five participating local
feed and gram concerns. It
should be noted, however,
that not every dealer handles
each commodity. All prices
corn which is per ton.
The average local gram
prices quoted Thursday,
August 15, 1974 are as
follows:
Bid+ Offered+
Ear Corn 99.00 112.00
Shelled 3.76 4.16
Oats, Local 1.80 2.06
Western 2.13 2.35
Barley 2.55 2.85
Wheat 3.85 4.15
Soybeans 7.70 7.95
+Bid is the price the
dealer will buy from the
fanner delivered to the mill.
Offered is the price the
dealer will sell for at his mill.
Fi urt Cocktail
C.mncci fuut cocktail is one
of a few mixtuios that is stan
dardized b\ the I edeial go\cm
merit Peaches ami peais make
up the pi cater part of the nn\
lute but it must also contain
pineapple pi apes and tnaia
sihino chemcs
Rosing Person
OnK one pei son in a thousand
is a boic and he is mtei esting
because he is one person in a
thousand
NEW ENGLAND WEEKLY
SHELL EGG REPORT
Tuesday, August 13,1974
Prices paid per dozen Grade “A” brown eggs In cartons
delivered to retail stores:
EX LARGE LARGE MEDIUM SMALL
MASS+ 61-69 59-64 46-57 34-41
Mostly 62-64 60-62 47-49 35-36
NEWHAMP 59-66 57-64 44-51 32-39
Mostly 61-62 59-60 46-47 34-35
r. i. 65-66 60-61 50-51 37-38
Mostly
VERMONT 63-71 61-69 - 48-59
Mostly 63-69 61-67 48-57
MAINE 63-65 61-63 48-50 36-38
Mostly „ „
+lncludes Central & Western Sections Only.
_ . Negotiated trucklot prices
Delmarva 2-3 pound ready to cook
broiler-fryers for delivery
Broiler-Fryer Market next week: us Grade A,
Wednesday, August 14 none . Plant Grade 35.
Ready to cook movement Current broiler-fryer
spotty ranging light and negotiated prices for im
disappointing to fair in some mediate delivery mostly
areas. Slaughter schedules mu shipments to
fairly heavy. Today’s less jsj ew York City from
than trucklot asking prices Delmarva: Range: US
mostly held unchanged on Grade A 35-37; Plant Grade
both Plant and US Grade A. Premium US
Limited early trading for Grade A 33.39. Premium
next week noted at 35 cents piant Grade 33.37, Weighted
on Plant Grade. Live sup- Ave rage: US Grade A 36.22;
plies ample. Undertone Plant Grpde 34.97; Premium
unsettled. US Grade A 38.57; Premium
Plant Grade 36.22.
HIGH PRESSURE
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BARRY L. HERR
1744 Pioneer Road Lancaster Pa
Phone 717 464 2044
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DO YOU KNOW
Black Plastic Silo Covers are in short supply 7
We-have in stock now a minimum supply We will not have enough for
all our customers so don t wait order now or pick up today
ZIMMERMAN’S Animal Health Supply
3 miles W of Ephrata along WOODCORNER ROAD
R D #4, Lititz, Pa 17543 Phone 717-733-4466
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