Al4—Lucwfr fanning, Saturday, May 3,1980
Livestock market and auction news
Pa. Auction
Summary
Friday, May 2
Report supplied by PDA
CATTLE; 7583. Compared
to 6587 head last week, and
6124 head a year ago.
Compared with last Friday’s
market: Slaughter steers
steady $1 higher; SI. heifers
steady II lower; SI. cows $l
- lower; SI. bullocks
uneven; SI. bulls $l-2 lower.
SI steers: High Choice &
Prime No. 3-4 62.75-66.00;
Choice No. 2-4 61.00-66.75;
Good 57.0fr61.00; Standard
53.00- SI. heifers:
Choice 58.0fr62.00; Good
55.00- Standard 51.00-
55.00. SL cows: Utility &
Commercial 46.00-50.50; few
Commercial 52.50; few
Cutters 44.00-48.50; Conner &
L. Cutter 40.5fr62.00; few
Standard 51.00-56.00. SI.
bulls: Yield Grade No. 1
1000-2300 lbs. 55.0fr62.00;
Grade No. 2 1000-1650 lbs.
52.0fr58.00.
FEEDER CATTLE:
Steers, Large Frame No. 2
650-950 lbs. 48.00-57.25.
Medium No. 1 300-600 lbs.
60.00-75.00 few 81.00. Heifers,
Medium Frame No. 300-600
lbs. 51.00-67.25; Medium
Frame No. 2 500-850 lbs.
51.50-64.00.
NFU calls for hearings
on embargo relief
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
The Board of Directors of the
National Fanners Union
Friday called for immediate
congressional oversight
hearings on the effectiveness
of the Carter Ad
ministration’s embargo
relief measures.
The board said they would
like to see the U.S. Senate
and House Agriculture
committees focus on two
statements made by U.S.
Agriculture Secretary Bob
Bergland on January 5,1980.
In a statement made at the
time of the embargo,
Bergland said: “The
President has directed that
actions be taken to assure
that the burden of the
suspension of agriculture
export deliveries to the
Soviet Union will not fall
unfairly on farmers.”
White Rose Dairy 4-H
sees demonstrations
YORK - The April
meeting of the White Rose
Dairy Chib was held at the
extension office.
Guest speaker was Tom
Boyer. Boyer talked on
showing and fitting.
Two demonstrations were
given. Todd Rutter gave his
demonstration on fitting,
and Jim Rexrotb one on
dehorning.
The next meeting will be
held May 13 at the Blessing
Farm. Reported by Lorie
Kessler.
CALVES: 2883. Compared
with 2676 head last week and
2551 head a year ago.
Vealers steady 5.00 higher.
Few Prime 110.00-130.00;
Choice 95.00-118.00; Good
85.00-100.00; Standard &
Good 90-120 lbs. 75.0065.00;
65-90 lbs. 60.00-70.00; Utility
50-100 lbs. 50.0065.00.
FARM CALVES: Hoi.
Bulls 90-130 lbs. 80.0fr127.00
mostly 90.00-120.00; Hoi.
Heifers 80-150 lbs. 90.00-
220.00 mostly 100.00-151.00.
Beef bulls & heifers 80-130
70.00-113.00.
HOGS: 8990. Compared
with 8217 head last week and
7274 head a year ago.
Barrows and gilts mostly
steady .25 cents higher. US.
1-2 200-240 lbs. 30.0032.00;
No. 1-3 200-250 lbs. 29.00-
31.00; No. 2r3 190-280 lbs.
27.00- 1-3130-190; 24.00-
27.00. Sows uneven mostly 1
lower. US No. 1-3 300-585 lbs.
23.00- No. 23 300625
lbs. 21.00-25.00. Boars 18.00-
25.00 few 27.50.
FEEDER PIGS 1947.
Compared with 1497 head
last week and 1191 a year
ago. Mostly steady. No. 1-3
Bergland also said: “The
Secretary of Agriculture will
use existing authorities to
remove feed grams and
wheat from the market and
to offset the expected decline
in market prices.”
In telegrams to chairman
Talmadge of the U.S.
Agriculture Committee and
chairman Tom Foley of the
U.S. House Agriculture
Committee, the National
Fanners Union board said,
“We are in the middle of a
tragic crisis in American
Agriculture. We have a
disastrously low farm price
situation that has not been
resolved by price support
measures promised by the
administration. The ad
ministration’s purchases,
for example, have fallen
short of its commitment to
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20-35 lbs. 10.00-18.00; 35-50
lbs. 15.00-25.00; No. 1-3 50-85
lbs. 20.00-27.50.
GRADED FEEDER
PIGS: 2075. Compared with
2039 head last week, and 2549
head a year ago. All sales by
Cwt. Feeder Pigs highly
uneven extremes $8 higher -
$4 lower; No. 1-2 30-50 lbs.
39.00-50.00, 5000 lbs. 36.00-
47.00, 6085 lbs. 36.00-44.00,
No. 2-3 30-40 lbs. 38.0048.00,
4085 lbs. 37.0043.00.
SHEEP: 597. Compared
with 461 head last week and
354 head a year ago. Spring
si. lambs steady $2 higher.
Choice 20-55 lbs. 80.00100.00
few 132.50. 50105 lbs. 73.00
86.00; Good 5085 lbs. 48.00
65.00. SI. ewes: 17.0035.00.
Beil’s
Horse Auction
York Springs, Pa.
Friday, April 25
Report supplied by auction
Local nding 300.00-525.00;
Better riding 750.00-800.00;
Lightweight killers 345.00-
500.00; Heavyweight killers
500.00-550.00; Ponies 82.50-
110.00; Large ponies 190.00-
300.00.
the nation’s grain
producers.”
Pennsylvania board'
representative, Forney
Longenecker, Lititz, pointed
out that farmers are “taking
their worst beating since the
dust bowl years” because of
a combination of low farm
prices, inflation, soaring
farm costs and high interest
rates.
“We want to see the Carter
Administration held ac
countable for its promises to
farmers when it slapped on
the January 4 embargo,”
Longenecker said.
The National Farmers
Union board concluded,
“The only way fanners are
going to survive this crisis is
to focus national attention on
the situation and to get
emergency action from file
White House and the
Congress.
“There is no way we can
live with record-high in
terest rates, soaring farm
costs and extremely low
prices for farm com
modities.”
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1979 wool payments
estimated at $34
WASHINGTON - Sheep
producers will receive about
$34 million in federal in
centive payments on-their
1979 marketings of shorn
wool compared with $34.8
million last year, according
to Ray Fitzgerald, ad
ministrator of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s
Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service.
Fitzgerald said payments
will be made soon through
ASCS county offices.
C'.rrent legislation
pro..des for a shorn wool
support price of $1.15 per
pound. The 1979 national
average market price for
shorn wool was 86.3 cents a
pound, 28.7 cents under the
support price. Therefore, the
payment rate for 1979
marketings of shorn wool—
the amount required to bring
the average price up to the
incentive price—will be 33.3
percent, compared to 45.0
percent in 1978.
Fitzgerald said the wool
program is intended to
encourage a producer to
improve the quality of wool.
A grower’s incentive
payment is determined by
multiplying the payment
rate times the net dollar
return received from the
sale of wool.
Fitzgerald also said the
payment rate will be $1.15
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per hundredweight on un
shorn lambs sold or
slaughtered in 1979. This
payment is to compensate
growers for wool in live
lambs they market. The
payment is based on the
shorn wool payment rate,
the average weight of wool
per hundredweight of lambs
and the price of lamb’s wool
relative to the national
average price for shorn
wool.
Deductions of 2r¥t cents a
pound from 1979 shorn wool
payments and 12-% cents per
hundred pounds of
Sheepmen sought
for new directory
ALLENTOWN - Sheep
producers from several
southeastern Pennsylvania
counties are cooperating to
develop a regional sheep
directory.
Through listings and
advertisements, the
publication will promote
sheep sales and help
breeders locate foundation
and replacement animals.
Listings will include each
breeder’s name, address,
phone number, sheep bread
(s) and categories of sale
items, including rams, ewes.
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million
liveweight from 1979 lamb
payments will be made to
finance advertising, sales
promotion and
market development ac
tivities. These deductions
were approved by a 75.3
percent favorable vote by
sheep producers voting in an
August 1978 referendum.
No payments will be
required on 1979 marketings
of mohair as the average of
$5.10 a pound received by
growers was above the
announced support level of
$1.94 a pound.
club or feeder lambs,
market lambs and wool.
Breeders and sheep-related
businesses may buy ad
ditional space in the
directory for ad
vertisements.
If you are a Southeastern
Pennsylvania sheep
producer who has not
already received directory
information from your wool
pool of County Extension
Office, please call your
County Agent for more
details.
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