—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Feb. 5. 1977
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Beef leader calls for unity to meet challenges
ATLANTA, Ga. - A more
unified approach to public
issues and more involvement
of individual cattlemen will
be necessary if the beef
cattle industry is to meet the
challenges which it now
faces, members of the
American National Cat
tlemen’s Assn, were told
here on Wednesday
Addressing the
association’s 80th annual
convention, ANCA President
Wray Finney reminded
cattlemen that they have two
choices as they deal with
problems affecting their
industry and their individual
operations.
“We can sit back and
blame everybody else for all
of our problems,” he said.
“Or, we can join together, as
an industry-wide
organization, in fighting for
the best possible political
and economic climate for a
free enterprise business like
ours. At the same time, we
as individual cattlemen can
improve the performance of
our own operations. Only by
doing these basic things can
we expect to earn a proper
return on our investment,
and a proper return for our
management and hard
work.”
Finney’s comments on the
industry and ANCA were
part of an over-all con
vention program which
Livestock market
Carlisle
Carlisle, Pa.
February 1,1977
CATTLE 226. Compared
with last Tuesday’s market,
slaughter steers uneven.
Slaughter cows mostly
steady to $1.50 lower. Few
Choice No. 24 1230-1490 lbs.
slaughter steers 36 85-39.10,
Good 34.25-36.85, Standard
32.25- few Utility & Low
.Standard 28.00-31.10. One
Choice slaughter heifer at
31 60, few Good 29.75-34 25,
Standard 25 00-29.25, two
Utility 24.35 and 24 85. Utility
& High Dressing Cutter
slaughter cows 24.75-26.25,
Cutters 23.60-24.60, Canners
21.25- few shells down
to 15.75. Two Standard
slaughter bullocks 25.25 and
26.85, one Utility at 25.25.
Few Yield Grade No. 1 1575-
1905 lbs slaughter bulls
34.35-36.25,- one yield grade
No. 2 1600 lbs. at 32.50.
CALVES 159. Vealers
unevenly steady Choice
vealers 59 00-67 00, Good to
Low Choice 50.00-54.50,
Standard & Good 110-130 lbs
36.50-44 50, 90-110 lbs 34.00-
36 50, Utility 70-90 lbs 28 00-
33 50, few Utility 60-85 lbs
18 00-26.00 Farm calves
active, holstem bulls 90-120
lbs 35 00-51 50
HOGS 263 Barrows & Gilts
$2 50 to $3 higher Few US
No 1-2 200-225 lbs barrows L
gilts 41 75-42 50, No 1-3 190-
235 lbs 40 75-42 35, No 2-3
200-260 lbs 38 0040 35, lot
37 35, few No 1-3 150-160 lbs
35 50-39 25 Few US No 1-3
325-500 lbs sows 25 00-33 00,
few No 2-3 400-535 lbs 23 00-
28 00 Boars 20 00-26.00
FELDER F'IGS 162 US
No 1-3 20-35 lbs feeder pigs
9 50-19 50 per head, No 1-3
35-50 lbs 23 50-26 00, lot No
1-3 100 lbs 32 00 per head
SHEEP 5. Two Good 60
and 110 lbs wooled slaughter
focused on the outlook -
providing guidelines for
individual cattlemen, their
trade association, and the
industry as a whole, as they
move through an era of
continuing change. He noted
that the industry as a whole,
as they move through an era
of continuing change. He
noted that the industry
should begin this year to
emerge from the prolonged
economic squeeze brought
on by cyclical over
production of beef and sharp
increases in production
costs.
After outlining several
challenges to cattlemen in
both the public affairs and
economic areas, Finney
emphasized several things
which he felt “we as in
dividuals and as an
organization must do if we
are to prosper - indeed just
survive - in a changing
world;”
1. The industry must seek
to maintain the incentive,
free enterprise system in the
cattle industry. “I am
confident that, in spite of our 4. The industry must have
cost-price squeeze in recent still more unity of purpose,
times, you did not elect me a and a stronger, more unified
year ago to preside over the voice at the national level -
abandonment of the free provided by a larger, more
enterprise approach to the broadly representative
cattle business,” he said. organization. Finney urged
2. The industry jointly members to support the
must continue to work for proposed consolidation of
improved marketing ANCA and the National
Baltimore USDA
CATTLE 550: Slaughter
steers and heifers firm to 25
cents higher, cows weak to 25
cents lower, bulls $l.OO
lower, few feeders steady.
Supply 30 per cent slaughter
steers and heifers, 45 per
cent cows, 20 per cent
feeders, balance bulls.
SLAUGHTER STEERS;
Choice 2-4 1000-1160 lbs.
39.0041.00; Good & Choice
1000-1350 lbs. 38.00-39.00;
Good 24 32.75-38.00; Stan
dard & Good Holstems 2-3
1000-1560 lbs. 28.00-33.85
SLAUGHTER HEIFERS:
Few Good 2-3 800-1100 lbs.
30.00-33.75
COWS- Utility 2-3 23.00-
27.10; Cutter 21.50-25.50;
Canner & low Cutter 17.75-
21.50
BULLS- Yield Grade 1
1000-1700 lbs. 30.10-34.10
FEEDER CATTLE- Lot
Good & Choice steers 700 lbs
34.00; few Good 770-935 lbs.
29.75-32.25; several Standard
600-885 lbs 24 60-26 50; few
systems, and individuals
must do a better job of
marketing, in addition to
improving their own
production efficiency. As a
whole, the beef industry still
operates at no more than 75-
85 per cent of possible ef
ficiency, according to a
recent college analysis.
3. More cattlemen and
women, at the grass roots,
must become actively in
volved in public affairs and
the work of ANCA. Less than
two per cent of the nation’s
population now depends on
agriculture for most of its
income, and less than half of
all farmers and ranchers
now produce livestock. The
only way to offset this
minority position is to have
more involvement. Citing
the accomplishments of
ANCA and its afuliated
organizations in 1976, Finney
said, “We have proven that,
when all of us work hard, and
together, we can deal very
effectively with public issues
that affect our industry and
our own operations.”
Good heifers 525-670 lbs.
24.00-25.35; few Good &
Choice 420-475 lbs. 24.00-
26.60; package Good 450 lbs
22.00
HOGS 800: Compared with
last Monday Barrows & Gilts
$1.50-$1.75 higher.
U S 1-3 200-230 lbs. 43.00-
43.50; US 2-3 230-260 lbs.
41.7543.00; US 24 260-280 lbs.
41.0041.75 SOWS: Compared
with last Monday steady to
$1.50 lower US 1-3 300-600 lbs.
30.00-31.00.
VEAL & CALF AUCTION
100: Choice 150-260 lb.
Vealers 57.00-66.50; Good
110-260 lbs. 44.00-56.00;
Standard & low Good 100-200
lbs. 32.0040.00; Standard 75-
100 lbs. 27.00-32.50; Good
calves 250-350 lbs. 28.00-
37.00; couple Choice 300-325
lbs. 49,00-52.00; several
Standard 185-330 lbs. 25.00-
27.00
SHEEP AUCTION 10: few
Choice wooled slaughter
lambs 107-112 lbs. 49 0049.50
Livestock Feeders ANCA must seek to make the
Association. national association and its
He also noted the im
portance of approval of the
Beef Research and In-
formation Program - which -
can provide the research,
information and promotion
needed to keep beef as the
favorite meat in the nation of
changing population
characteristics and
changing lifestyles.
In this connection, he
cautioned that the latest
available figures show
consumer expenditures on
beef have declined recently
as a percentage of
disposable income.
Finney outlined several
public issues that the in
dustry will face in the year
ahead, and he said that the He mentioned such issues
educational job in Congress as grain-for-livestock-vs.-
will become still more dif- humans, energy use m in
ficult, in view of the trend to tensive agriculture, en
fewer lawmakers familiar vironmental concerns, and
with agriculture and the fat-and-health. He also
cattle business. More than cautioned that the boycott
half of the House of syndrome had developed
Representatives is new since again because of the coffee
1970. shortage - although there
Citing the structure of the now is much broader un
cattle industry - with more derstanding of the fact that
than 87 per cent of all herds boycotts and price controls
havmg less than 100 head, are really counter
and with most producers productive,
getting most of their income Finney went on to voice his
from non-farm sources - concern about the growth of
Finney commented: (1) anti-business attitudes -
Professional cattlemen will including attitudes among at
have to become even more least some environmental
efficient if they are to sur- and consumer activists,
vive. (2) Professional cat- “Some of the people who
tlemen will have to become claim this nation’s greatest
involved in national industry problem is unemployment
programs if those programs are the same people who
are to be successful. (3) actually are doing the most
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work in Washington seem
less remote from the con
cerns of most cattlemen.
The ANCA president also
reminded cattlemen of the
work still to be done in off
setting unfavorable com
ments about beef and the
industry. “Like all farmers
and ranchers, cattlemen
enjoy a favorable general
unage among the public -
although no one is going to
rush out and offer to pay
more per pound for larger
supplies of beef just because
we have been losing money,”
he said. “Our real public
opinion problems usually
revolve around specific
issues.”
Eric Hemsohn
Damn Yoder
Lynn Gardner
Paul Herr
James Charles
Lamar Witmer
Robert Kayhart
Robert Greider
Paul Martin
Marvin Jones
Ira Boyer
Eugene Hornberger
Gerald Hall
Maurice Stump
to slow employment through
their advocacy of excessive
environmentalism, a no
growth economy and still
bigger government,” he
commented.
He said the cattle industry
should work with private and
government groups really
concerned about the en
vironment and the con
suming public. But, he ad
ded, the industry must
challenge the activists when
their positions are not really
in the long term interest of
the public as well as caN
tlemen.
“We must challenge-those
consumer activists whose
positions are more anti
business than truly pro
consumer; who seem more
interested in social change
than m the economic per
formance of our private
enterprise system; who talk
frequently about business
profits but never about union
featherbedding and its far
greater effects on food
prices; who call for more
government controls but
seldom weigh the costs
against the benefits, if any;
who advocate a vague new
“food policy” but say
nothing about the controls
and subsidies which their
policies would require,”
Finney said.
“We alone cannot stem the
anti-business,
enterprise tide, but JP
should do better on par
ticular issues with which we
are involved.
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