~Umc«ster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 31. 1976 56 Egg marketing news LANCASTER - The Pennsylvania Egg Marketing Association met here at the Sheraton Motor Lodge a week ago with Bob White, of USDA’s Egg Marketing News Service as the guest speaker. While White’s speech was the highlight of the evening, there were some other in teresting presentations. It was revealed, for example, that Howard Helmet’s omelet making record ac tually stands at 248 in one hour not 247 as had previously been reported. The original count was reportedly erroneous. Helmet set the new record at the Farm Show earlier this month in what the egg in dustry calls “one of the most extensive egg promotional efforts ever to make the news.” The performance was carried by wire services across the country and it is rumored that NBC news carried a short tape of it. A total of 96 pounds of liquid eggs were used in making' the 248 omelets, which were fed to livestock afterwards. Farm Show precautions and regulations prohibited serving the omelets to the public, even though they were definitely fit for human consumption. White, who has been with USDA for 14 years, and has headed the Philadelphia office for nine, gave an extensive report on how the market news service ONCE ACROSS THE FIELD DOES IT Smoketown, PA TH - OWIHO c Ptai&N -HtG U Z >•* ** t explained operates. Excerpts of his talk follow: Poultry Market News is a government service providing unbiased and accurate information on trading of poultry knd eggs. The service distributes price and market information on supply and demand which is gathered by skilled reporters employed by the United States Department of Agriculture and by cooperating state agencies. The information is provided to farmers, producers, processors, merchandisers, and others in the poultry industry as an aid in marketing and future planning. Market News is under the supervision of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service. Information on poultry and eggs is gathered anywhere business is done: on the farm, at country assembling plants, shipping points, terminal markets and also from distributors, wholesalers and buyers. The professionally trained market news reporter talks with buyers and sellers, checks negotiations and supply-demand conditions. Then he analyzes and evaluates the facts and releases this information through his market news office. Market news offices are located in major producing areas and terminal markets and comprise a nationwide Ph. 299-2571 network. Connected by leased teletypewriter lines, these offices exchange in formation within minutes and comparisons are quickly made between markets on prices and trading con ditions. The information assem bled covers selling prices of poultry, eggs and dairy products" and includes statistics on movement and supply of these items in all markets. In addition, the market news reporters analyze data and trends on trading ac tivities, demand, price averages, and quality ranges in order to comment on general marketing con ditions for poultry products. Poultry Market reports cover the following com modities: Eggs: Shell, Frozen and Dried Eggs. Poultry: Broilers, Turkeys, Ducks, Fowl, Roasters, Squabs, and Rabbits in the California area. Market News is distributed by: Telephone, Mailed Reports, Daily and Weekly Newspapers, Radio and Television, Trade Papers, Press Associations. Detailed market news reports are mailed free on request from market news offices throughout the country. Poultry Market News has 23 federal and state offices staffed by 47 reporters (27 federal and 20 state). A staff of 23 clerks (20 federal and three state) also work for Market News. There are 47 different egg reports released each week. Some of them may be daily while others only once a week. They go out over 23,000 miles of leased wire service. One of the oldest statistical reports is the Commercial Egg Movement Report which, at present, has about 300 cooperators nationally. Most of the cooperators handle over 1,000 cases of eggs a week with 500 the minimum. This report represents over 1,500,000 cases each week. A newer report and more current report is the Weekly Egg Inventory Report. In formation for this report is collected by phone on Monday morning in 22 states from 248 contacts. These contacts are generally the larger handlers of eggs hi the different areas of the country. Inventories generally range from 400 to 500 thousand cases of eggs a week, occasionally higher or lower. The report is divided into five sections; Mid- Atlantic, New England, North Central, South Atlantic and Pacific. New England is reported by itself due to the brown egg in fluence in the area. The report gives a breakdown of sizes as compared to the previous week by either more or less. A percentage change, plus or minus, with the previous week is given for each of the five areas as well as the total country. Market news receives at its offices approximately 1,600 phone calls a month for egg information. The egg report is mailed Tuesday and Friday. The poultry reports are put out on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. A separate turkey report is printed and mailed from the National Statistical Office in Kansas City on Friday. A National Weekly Egg and Poultry Review is released weekly on Thur sday from Newark. Monthly, a Cold Storage Report is released around the middle of the month covering storage stocks of Poultry, Eggs and Dairy products on hand as of the previous months ending. Also on this report can be found the previous month’s average wholesale prices for commodities reported in New York and Philadelphia. 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