—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 3, 1976 80 World food [Continued from Page 79] trade, all designed to “im prove the lot of each and every cattleman, and the industry as a whole.” The marketing techniques used by the industry’s leadership will be varied, because as Brunk pointed out, “Almost any marketing system you choose to name can be found in the livestock business.” He added, “At any one time there is not likely to be any one marketing system that serves the needs of all buyers and sellers.” Brunk, professor of marketing at Cornell, saw the industry turning “to those marketing systems which encourage production under a wide variety of conditions leaving it to the assembly and processing end of the business to standardize the final product for the consumer.” Vertically integrated marketing, which seeks to control and eliminate the costs as livestock moves from producer to consumer, was seen as the method gaining the most prominence Price up, poundage down ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The 1976 Maryland tobacco auction season has drawn to a close with a mixed per formance. Some 20,356,114 pounds were sold returning a season average of a $109.11 per hundredweight. The good news was that a new season high average was set, up some $13.56 from the year before. The bad news was that the poundage of tobacco which reached the auction floors was down by some 9.8 million pounds from the year before. Manipulation discounted BRUSSELS, Belgium - The Commission of the European Communities last month discounted reports of grain levy manipulation by large US grain exporters. The allegation that large US grain companies were manipulating the Com munity import levy system to influence prices of grain was made recently at hearings by the Sub committee mi Multinational Corporations of the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee. At a news conference here, a Commission spokesman CHRIS RICHL All Types of ROOFING SIDING & SPOUTING Free Estimates “We Do It Right or We Do It Again". New Providence, PA 717-786-7871 by marketman Wdhma G. McCoy. McCoy, president of the Pennsylvania Livestock Auction Association, Inc., said future producers should decide what marketing method to use based on “the service by which each method may be expected to give him highest net returns, assure him of a fair and equitable deal from start to finish,” as well as “what effect that method is likely to have on the longrange trend of prices.” From a marketing stand point, today we are “in a big fat mess,” according to Richard A. McDougal, first vice president of the American National Cat tlemen’s Association. Mc- Dougal blamed in part the influx of outside capital which led to an over expansion of feedlot capacity and speculation in the cattle futures market by “non cattle people, or speculators.” For the future, McDougal saw “new avenues of marketing” in fat cattle sales with the advent of the USDA's new grading Maryland tobacco buyers, both foreign and domestic, bid actively for the two top grades - BIF and GIF - paying a steady $ll5 per hundredweight throughout the season. From the standpoint of quantity of tobacco sold there are two chief reasons for the drastic reduction in 1976 compared to 1975. The first reason was that weather conditions last summer severely cut into the yield with many acres being lost due to heavy rains and secondly that the weight of the tobacco which was said that price reports by grain exporters are only one source of information used to determine grain levies. Other sources - commdotiy exchanges, price reports by European importers, and official organizations - offer many opportunities to cross-check information received from exporters. The levy system, the spokesman added, is in tended to stabilize prices within the Community. Because it has done so, the Commission thinks that Community levies on grain imports have reflected market realities. changes. He also foresaw “contractual integration,” in which a retailer would contract with one or more packing houses to supply him with meat. The packing house would contract with feedlots to supply a certain number of cattle, and the feeder would have contracts with various producers to supply him with feeder cattle. The June 16-19 conference was sponsored by. Livestock Merchandising Institute, Kansas City, Mo., and in dependent organization made up of trustees who are leaders in the various businesses relating to the 'livestock economy. 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