—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 4,1978
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Prices down
prev J^rfc'°“!»ednesday’s
auction.
Prices quoted were U.S.
No. 1 and 2,200t0 240 pounds,
$52.25 to 53.10; with a few
lots of selected U.S. No. 1-2,
210 to 235 pounds, $53.85 to
55.00. U.S. No. 1 to 3
weighing 220 to 260 pounds
brought 51.50 to 52.25.
There were 896 hogs
reported at Monday’s
market.
Hog prices the previous
week at Lancaster’s Monday
market were No. 1,200 to 240
pounds 56.00 to 56.75; No. 1 to
2,200 to 246 pounds, $54.75 to
55.85; and No. 2 to 3, 200 to
255 pounds, 53.85 to 54.50.
The Wednesday auction at
Lancaster Stockyards found
barrows and gilts $l.OO to
1.50 higher. There were 981
hogs reported.
On November 1, the U.S.
No. 1 and 2 hogs, weighing
210 to 245 pounds brought
$54.25 to 54.60, with a few late
lots bringing $54.75 to 55.00.
A few selected U.S. No. 1
hogs weighing 205 to 235
Pa. milk
production up
HARRISBURG - Milk pro
duction in Pennsylvania
during the first nine months
of 1978 totaled 5.963 billion
pounds or 2.773 billion
quarts, according to a
special quarterly dairy
report released by the
Pennsylvania Crop Rotating
Service.
This is one per cent more
than the corresponding
period a year ago and five
per cent more than in 1976.
Average production per cow
in the third quarter of 1978
was 954 pounds or 444 quarts,
up slightly more than two
per cent from the same
period a year ago. The
number of cows averaged
700,000 head during the
quarter, down 3,000 head
from a year ago.
Wholesale milk prices
reported by dairymen
during the first eight months
of 1978 averaged five per
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pounds brought $55.00 to
55.50; and U.S. No. 1 to 3
hogs weighing 200 to 260
pounds sold for 53.00 to 54.10.
Across the nation, the
Thursday November 1 hog
markets reported hogs slow
to moderate.
In the Indianapolis hog
market, with 1300 head
reported, barrows and gilts
were slow, opening 75 cents
to $l.OO lower, and a full
decline seen on weights over
240 pounds.
St. Louis hogs reported
6000 head, with the barrows
and gilts moderate, 75 cents
to $l.OO lower.
Slow was the word
reported at the Peoria Hog
market also, with 3000 head
noted, barrows and gilts
slow, opening 50 to 75 cents
lower.
In the Pa. Auction Sum
mary, there were 6440 hogs
reported this week with the
barrow and gilts 50 cents to
$1.50 lower. Prices quoted
included U.S. No. 1 and 2
hogs, 200 to 240 pounds $52.00
to 54.60; No. 1 to 3 hogs, 190
to 260 pounds, $51.00 to 53.50;
cent higher than in 1977. The
August, 1978 average blend
price of $10.75 per
hungredweight or 23.1 cents
a quart as reported by
commercial dairymen is up
40 cents a cwt. or eight
tenths of a cent per quart
from the previous month and
72 cents a cwt. or 1.5 cents a
quart above August, 1977.
Production costs for Penn
sylvania dairymen for the
year ending September 30,
1978 averaged $10.42 per 100
pounds of milk 22.4 cents a
quart. This is 11 cents a cwt.
or three-tenths of a cent per
quart more than June 30,
1978 and 77 cents a cwt. or 1.7
cents a quart more than
September, 1977.
Production items con
tributing most to the in
crease are building and
fencing materials,
replacement milk cows and
machinery.
and a few No. 2 and 3 hogs,
weighing 240 to 280 pounds,
$49.00 to 52.00.
Taken to the market in
„ Pennsylvania last week
there were 6674 hogs com
pared to the 7133 reported a
year ago, according to the
aucion summary of 14
auction reports.
Marketing specialist
Richard McDonald, working
for the Pa. Dept, of
Agriculture, stated that the
market was uneven this
week, and varied from day
to-day, with the futures
market reflecting the up and
down trends also. The prices
of hogs he thought were
mainly depending on the
numbers of hogs available
from day to day, depending
on the supply and demand.
For a more complete
market picture, check the
market pages in this section
of Lancaster Farming.
Hog price fluctuated from day to day this week, but were generally down
throughout the state of Pennsylvania. The biggest drop is price seemed to come
at the beginning of the week.