lore government in as future
Ry DIETER KRIEG/'
CASTER-Onceagain it’s time todo aome crystal-ball
A relatively prosperous year is bowing out and a new
gins tomorrow. Economists, and even one astrologer
assed on their predictions to LaocasterFarmbig in one
ir another. Hie outlook for 1997 is taking on special
t due to a new President taking office, and a so-called
this issue
Calendar 10
er Report
teds 22
tead Notes 42
on the Range 44
)king Edition 46
lotebook 50
! >ng a farm wife 51
Nutrition 52
feature 53
oughts 54
success 55
sterDHIA 57
for dairymen 59
the farm 61
f>H!A 68
viewed 70
lutlook 79
ennialfarm 81
Sales Register 82
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New
Year!
fl ight cow of snow *Ws tht finfabmf touches to rtorm Mir LitHz, Pa.
Tobacco buyers out over county
By JOANNE SPAHR
LANCASTER, Pa. -
Although certain tobacco
buyers have been out for as
long as a month now buying
either sorted and tied
Livestock market drops again, vealers up
By DIETER KRIEG
LANCASTER - Vealers
were the only form of
livestock which were con
sistently strong as curtailed
livestock receipts showed
most everything else to be
steady at best and lower for
the most part.
Cattle delivered to the
Lancaster Stock Yards on
Lancaster Farming, Saturday.Januaryl, 1977 $4.00 Per Year
‘‘gnus-rpots” farmer having llfcen nominated for U.S.
Secretary pf latter |s Rep. Rob Bergland of
Minnesota, whp (Operates a whept and grass seed farm in
Minnesota apd once was an official of the Agricuttorai
StabOizationand Conservation Service. It is expected that
Bergland will press fofnigber price supports for grain and
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tobacco or picking up a few
acres of straight stripped in
certain spotty areas of
Lancaster County, last
Monday wasthe beginning of
the real bargaining process
■ Wednesday, for. example,
resulted in the following
report: “Steers weak to $1
lower, bulls and bullocks
mostly steady on small
supply.”
Cattle prices were holding
their own on Monday, but
when Midwestern prices
plummeted on Tuesday as a
result of dropping prices in
for most area growers as
buyers from major com
panies such as Lancaster
Leaf and Lorillard made
their way . to tobacco sheds
the dressed meat-trade, the
effects made themselves
known in ' southeastern
Pennsylvania. Higher prices
were consistently being paid
by the smaller retail but
chers, as packers continued
to hold back with their
(buying orders.
Trading at Joliet, 111., was
described as “slow” on
dairy products, a federal grain reserve, and more federal
food aid to the poor.
He is also said to favor some sort of program which “would
even out the effects on farmers of fluctuations in weather and
world economic:.
Bergland’s appointment was not surprising since he bad
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and stripping rooms to
haggle price.
As of Thursday morning,
the going pric* offered from
all the companies was 60
cents for straight stripped.
Tuesday, with steers $1 to
$1.50 lower and heifers $1.50
to $2 lower. Mostly choice
steers and heifers were
being offered, according to
market reports, with a price
of 39-41 cents per pound
being paid for those animals.
At Vintage on Tuesday,
slaughter steers were 50
cents to $1 lower, but
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Uncart*€»■*'/tartt bjr iOMMSpair;
and grower resistance was
high. At this point, most
farmers are holding out to
fed their way as to how
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slaughter cows were $2
higher, compared to a week
ago, and the number of cattle
offered was up significantly
from both a year ago and a
week earlier.
Due to Lancaster Fanning
going to press a day early
this week in order to have
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