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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 27,1978
Ed Compton, left, owner of Compton's Log Cabin Restaurant in Audubon, NJ.
and Breezy Hill Acres Charolais Farm at Woodstown, N.J., shows off his herd
sire, JKM Polled Prince, to Dave Seamans, livestock consultant from Slate
College. Prince will be the featured sire in the first Investors’ Opportunity
Charolais Beef Cattle Sale, to be held at the Carlisle Livestock Market on June 3,
beginning at noon. Prince is a 100 per cent certified meat sire as tested by the
Rockview testing facility at Penn State University and PRI (Performance
Registry International).
Charolais breeding stock sale
scheduled next week at Carlisle
chosen because of its central
location for the group, which
represents Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, and Ohio.
Carlisle is also easily ac
cessible through major
roads such as the Penn
sylvania Turnpike and In
terstate 81. In addition, sales
organizers believe that
Carlisle is in a good beef
Deadline extended for
comments on milk
order changes
system and proposals to
lower the Class 1 differential
from its present $2.78.
The deadline to file ex
ceptions to the recom
mended decision to amend
the Eastern Ohio-Western
Pennsylvania federal milk
marketing order has also
been extended to May 31.
Frost noted that the
request for extending this
comment deadline came
from a group of handlers.
The USDA recommended
decision for this milk
marketing order includes
proposed changes in
payment procedures and
pooling requirements. It also
recommended adding
presently unregulated areas
in Ohio counties of Ashland,
Lorain, and Medina to the
orders’s marketing area.
CARLISLE - A group of
Eastern Charolais breeders
has chosen the Carlisle
Livestock Auction Market,
here, as the site for their
first breeding stock sale.
Dubbed the “Investors’
Opportunity Sale,” it will be
held next Saturday, June 3,
beginning at noon.
"The Carlisle site was
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Dairy
farmers and other interested
persons this week received
additional time, until June
11, to file exceptions to a U.S.
Department of Agriculture
(USDA) recommended
decision to amend the
Middle Atlantic federal milk
marketing order.
Herbert L. Forest, dairy
official with USDA’s
Agricultural Marketing
Service, said the request for
extending the comment
deadline to June 11 came
from a group of
cooperatives.
Under the USDA
recommended decision, the
current methods of pricing
Class 1 - or fluid use - milk
would be continued. The
decision denied a proposal
for a bracketed pricing
Cattle
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when hamburger prices
move to the same level as
the other beef cuts. Chucks
are already being converted
to hamburger because they
are next lowest pnced item
compared to hamburger. If
hamburger goes to $2.00 we
will have rump roast and
round steak converted to
h. nburger on the price of
th. ; items will go through
the. -of,too.
Cor> ’der also (3) con-
sumer substitution. As
hamburvT prices rise,
consumers will substitute
other meat- such as pork
and poultry At some price
level, perhaps si 00 to $1.19
per pound foi hamburger,
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the retailers will begin to
freely substitute soybean
protein for a portion of the
hamburger. At higher prices
there will be more soybean
product and less beef.
Substitution will occur so
freely that the price will not
even come close to $2 per
pound. Remember the scare
year of 1973? It looked like
meat would soon be rationed
but the highest price of
hamburger moved on a
monthly basis was $l.lO in
February 1974. Even at that
price, hamburger helper and
blend-o-beef soybean
products were heavily
promoted.
It’s nice to dream but $2.00
hamburger isn’t in the cards
in the next five years unless
we begin to see double digit
rates of inflation in the
general economy.
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cattle marketing area and
that the Carlisle Livestock
Auction Market is an ex
cellent sales facility.
The emphasis of the sale
will be on the performance
tested and proven bulls and
females. Two PRI (Per
formance Registry In
ternational) certified meat
sires will be offered; one
polled and one of French
bloodlines. Three proven
polled 2-year old bulls and
several yearling polled herd
sire prospects of show
quality mil be offered along
with cows with calves, brood
cows, and heifers. “Some
excellent quality 4-H and
FFA project heifers and
steers will also go through
the show ring,” says David
Seamans of State College,
one of the coordinators of the
sale.
The consignors include
Silverwing Farm, Get
tysburg; Gates Farms,
Warriors Mark; Greenfield
Farm, Landenburg; Veres
Champion Farms and
Marybrook Farm from Ohio,
and Bethel Mill Farm and
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These Polled Charolais bred heifers from Silver Wings Farm, Gettysburg, will
be offered for sale along with performance tested bulls, show bulls, and proven
cows and calves.
Breezy Hill Acres Farm
from New Jersey.
The sale is being organized
by technical livestock
consultants David Seamans
and Lowell Wilson of State
College. Both will be
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available at the time of the
sale to assist buyers with
their selections.
The cattle will be available
for viewing on Friday af
ternoon and Saturday
morning. Lunch will be
served at the sale bam both
Friday and Saturday.
‘ Anyone who is interested
in Charolais cattle and their
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genetics shouldn’t miss this
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