—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 3,1979
14
livestock market end auction news
Lancaster
Weekly
(Continued from Rage 2)
118.00, few 122.00-131.00;
high Good and low Choice
120-270 lbs. 84.00-100.00, 90
120 lbs. 86.00-94.00, 70-90 lbs.
75.0088.50, few 6070 lbs.
68.0078.00.
RETURNED TO FARM:
Bulk 100-125 lbs. holstein
bulls 112.00129.00, about 125
head 130.00143.00; bulls 85-
105 lbs. 92.00115.00, 30 head
90 105 lbs. holstein heifers
140,00154.00, one lot 8085
lbs. 95.00.
Belknap
Auction
Dayton, Pa.
February 28,1979
CATTLE 121. Compared
with last Wednesday’s
market, slaughter cows
about steady. One Choice
'slaughter steers at 66.50,
Good 62.00*64.25, few
Standard 55.00-62.25. Choice
slaughter heifers 64.00-67.25,
Good 57.50-64.00, few
Standard 49.75-56.75. Utility
& Commercial slaughter
cows 52.00-56.75, Com
mercial No. 4-5 48.0052.00,
Cutters 49.0052.75, Canner &
Low Cutter 45.00-49.00, Shells
down to 40.75. Few Choice
slaughter bullocks 64.00-
66.00, One Yield Grade #1
1850 lbs. slaughter bull at
64.00; few yield grade *2 950-
1650 lbs. 55.0062.00. Few
Good & Choice 335-665 lbs.
feeder steers 70.0067.00;
Good & Choice 350-725 lbs.
feeder heifers 62.00-72.50.
CALVES 104. Vealers
grading Good & Choice
steady to strong; Standard
mostly $5 lower. Choice
vealers 110.00-126.00, Good
90-120 lbs. 80.00-94.50, 6555
lbs. 68.00-61.50, Utility 50-85
lbs. 52.00-70.00. Farm calves,
holstein bulls 90-130 lbs.
90.00-131.00.
HOGS 412. Barrows & gilts
$1 to ftSO lower. US No. 1-2
200-240 lbs. barrows & gilts
54.40-55.10, one lot 55.70, No.
1-3 195-250 lbs. 53.7034.60,
No. 2-3 195-260 lbs. 52.50-
54.00, one lot 265 lbs. at 52.00,
few No. 1-3180-190 lbs. 50.00-
51.50. Sows $3 to $5 lower. US
No. 1-3 300-695 lbs. sows
Phone 215-445-5457
46.75-51.50. Boars 30.0037,75,
few stock boars 44.5052.00.
FEEDER PIGS 110. US
No. 1-3 2585 lbs. feeder pigs
22.00-38.00 per head. No. 18
35-50 lbs. 38.0054.00 per
bead.
SHEEP 2. Not enough of
any one grade to establish a
market.
Indiana
Livestock Auction
Homer City, Pa.
March 1,1979
CATTLE 117. Compared
with last Thursday’s
market* SI. cows 2550 cents
lower; si. steers individual
Choice 66.25; few Good 62.25-
64.75; individual Standard
59.90; few si. heifers 66.00-
67.00. few Good 58.0059.90;
few Standard 54.0055.00, few
Utility 47.75-49J25. Utility &
Commercial si. cows 51.00-
55.90, Cutters 49.5052.50;
Canner & L. Cutter 46.00-
50.00. Choice si. bullocks 2
head,"'6s.so, 66.50; Good 2
head 57.50,60.00.
FEEDER CATTLE: few
Good & Choice 550-750 lbs.
steers 63.0061.00; few Good
& Choice 320-650 lbs. heifers
66.0067.00, few Good &
Choice 590-750 lbs. bulls
68.5061.00.
CALVES 143. Vealers
unevenly steady. Grading
Standard & Good; few
Choice 120.00-121.00; Good
95.00-110.00; Standard &
Good 90-120 lbs. 85.00-104.00;
75-95 lbs. 75.0060.00, few
Utility 55-110 lbs. 50.00-70.00.
FARM CALVES: Hoi.
Bulls 90-120 lbs. 90.00-125.00;
Hoi. Heifers 80-120 lbs.
130.00-145.00.
HOGS 14. Barrows and
gilts mostly $5.00 lower.
Barrows & gilts No. 1-3 200-
230 lbs. 50.0051.00; No. 25
200-260 lbs. 49.50-50.00, No. 2-
3 250320 lbs. 45.75-48.75; US
No. 1-3 350550 lbs. 45.75-
49.75. 80AR535.00.
FEEDER PIGS 61. US No.
13 35-45 lbs. feeder pigs
30.0038.00 per head. No. 13
85-95 lbs. 39.5050.00, few
Utility 4050 lbs. 21.60-28.00
per bead.
SHEEP 0.
-s.,
Hunter’s
Auction
Ruing Sun, Md.
February26,l979
BUbLS: 900 lb. 61.00. •
COWS; High Choice to
Prime* 54.50-55.25; Good to
Standard 52.7054.00; Utility
52.00-53:75; Cutters 50.50-
52.50; Ganners 47.50-50.00.
CALVES: Prime 240-300
' lbs. 110.00-116.00; High to
Choice “160-240 lbs. 97.00-
112.00; Good to Choice 120-
180 lbs. 98.00-107.00; Stan
dard to Good 90-110 lbs. 97.00-
124.00; Utility 70-85 lbs. 85.00-
96.00; Low Utility 65-75 lbs.
72.0081.00.
, FEEDER PIGS: 24-30 lbs,
$36 £b $3B by hd.
HOGS: 180-210 lbs. 52.00-
57.00.
SOWS: 42.00.
BOARS: 42.50.
Lazy Booster
A lazy rooster is one who
worts until the other roosters
crow at sunrise and then
just nods his head! .
SARASOTA, Fla. -
Millions of people who don’t
even realize it are involved
in America’s “agriculture
problem,” livestock industry
observer C. O. Emrich,
Norfolk, Neb., said- here
recently.
The “problem,” he said, is
under-distribution, not over
production, of America’s
food products. The
unknowing participants in
this problem are “the
average urban businessmen"
who make their living
(from) the products grown
on our lands.”
The agriculture industry,
Emrich said, could be more
accurately called “the food
production and distribution
industry.” And, he noted,
“We have millions of people
involved in die distribution
sector who don’t even
recognize that they are a
part of it.
“For instance, we have
Chambers of Commerce in
the food production areas
across our nation that all fly
a banner on behalf of the
fanner, but how do they do
it? They have a term they
Distribution seen _
as farm problem
call -. ‘agribusiness-’...
however, the very term
‘agribusiness’ indicates that
the urban business people do
not think of agriculture as a
business. If they did, they
wouldn’t need the term.”
The “urban business
community” in agricultural
areas must see their role in
agriculture, Emrich
stressed, because they-can
help agriculture get the
political influence it needs on
the national scene.'
In a speech to the 1979
1 annual meeting of Livestock
Marketing' Association,
Emrich, a former president
of the National Live Stock
and Meat Board/ and
founder and former chair
man of livestock Mer
chandising Institute said,
“We’ve gone too long under
the - assumption that
American agriculture has
over-produced - overpro
duced com; overproduced
wheat;- over-produced hogs,
and over-produced cattle.
“We’ve never over
produced anything. We’ve
under-promoted, under-me
rchandised and under-
distributed. How could we
over-produce with all the
hungry people that we have
on this planet?"
This presents “a terrific
challenge” to the
distribution sector of the
livestock industry, Emrich
noted, adding, “This job
must be headed- up by
merchandisers of red meat
animals, because it’s those'
people who still believe in
free'enterprise, and in a free
market”, > -
i Emrich, a former partner
in one of the nation’s largest
livestock markets, also said
that ‘‘Unless leadership is
more by
the merchandisers of red
meat animals and red meat
prodncte s >the producera of
tbose-vpiroudg'are finally
going ;to ! give to to govern
ment just as
have many crop farmers
across thisnbttonnithin the
last few years.
“That’s why it’s the
livestockman’s .business,
and that’s why it’s currently
urgent”