Livestock market and auction news
Belleville
Auction
Belleville, Pa.
Wednesday, January 28
Report supplied by PDA
CATTLE 125. Compared
with last week’s market,
slaughter cows |l-$2.50
higher. Few Good to low
Choice slaughter steers
57.25-63.00. Individual Choice
slaughter heifer at <56.75.
Utility and Commercial
slaughter cows 41.5045.10,
few 48.10, Cutters 41.0044.10,
Canner & Low Cutters 36 00-
40.10, Shells down to 33 00.
Yield Grade #1,1085-1390 lbs
slaughter bulls 51 10-56.85.
CALVES 151 Bulk of
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American Farmer
A farmer is a man who wears out two pairs of
overalls growing enough cotton for one.
A farmer can shape an ax handle from a
persimmon sprout and shoe a horse with
a hunk of car tire.
A farmer starts every year with nothing, loses
everything he grows, and at the end of the year
comes out even.
Nobody knows how he does it.
He doesn’t even know himself,
What are farmers made of?
Farmers are made of bent nails, rusty horse
shoes. barbed wire, and held together with
calluses.
Planting time and harvest season, he finishes
his 40-hour week by Tuesday noon then
begins to put in another 72 hours.
He can make a harness out of hay wire, feed
sacks, and shoe scraps.
He grows corn and melons mostly to make fat
cows. He loads his planter with thousands of
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supply returned to farm.
Few Choice vealers 87.50
105, Standard and Good 70-95
lbs. 55.00-63, Utility 50-80 lbs.
40.00- Farm Calves;
Hoi. Bulls 85-125 lbs. 64.00-94,
few 102; Hoi. Heifers 85-140
lbs. 72.50-127.50.
HOGS 307. Barrows and
gilts 50 cents-$1.50 lower. US
No. 1-2 2-240 lbs. barrows and
gilts 41.3542.35, few 42.85,
No. 1-3 2-250 lbs. 39.7541.35,
lot No. 2-3 265 lbs. at 38.75,
No. 1-3 185-195 lbs. 36.50
39.00. US No. 1-3 3-550 lbs.
sows 35 0041.50, few No. 2-3
3-600 lbs. 30.00-35.00. Boars
28.00-
FEEDER PIGS 302. US
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SHEEP 5. Few Good 85-100
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Lancaster
Weekly
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cows, 9 percent slaughter
heifers, 6 percent bulls.
SLAUGHTER STEERS;
High Choice and Prime 3-4
1175-1400 lbs. 62.50-65 00, few
65.00-66.50, few lots mostly 4
61.60-63.00; Good and Choice
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dollars worth of seed, fertilizer, herbicide, and
insecticide. That’s one hour’s worth.
In a normal farm afternoon, 1 to 10 p.m., he'll
bury thousands more in the ground in half a day.
Odds are it'll get too wet or too dry or
there’ll be hail, wind, early frost, early snow,
bugs, brackbats, and bureaucrats.
And IF he gets a good crop, he won’t meet
expenses.
Yet the only lines on a farmer's face are from
gnnnin’.
He buries last year's disappointments with
springtime plowin’ because his faith is not
in himself alone.
He'll finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile
drive to church.
And so he plants in hope, cultivates in faith,
and ends in debt then starts over with
greater hope and stronger faith.
He thrives on hard work„and has a profound
love a reverence for the land he tills.
Choice 3-3 1000-1250 lbs.
62.25- few 65.0 D-65.75;
Choice 34 1225-1450 lbs.
59.25- high Good and
low Choice 2-3 1000-1225 lbs.
60.75-63.75, few 64.00-64.85,
Good 2-3 56.0061.00; Good
and Choice 1150-1450 lbs.
holstems 56 50-59.50, Stan
dard 1-2 54.00-57.00.
SLAUGHTER HEIFERS:
Choice 2-3 900-1250 lbs. 59.00
63.00, few Yield Grade 2
63.00-64.50; Choice 34 850
1250 lbs. 56.7560.50; Good 2-3
850-HOOIbs 56.00-60.00.
COWS: Utility and
Commercial 1-3 44.00-48.00,
few 48.50-51.00, Commercial
3-4 41.00-44 50, Cutter 1-2
42.50-47.00, few 47.00-48.50,
Canner and low Cutter 39.75-
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BULLOCKS: Choice 950
1300 lbs. 61-0065.50, few
35.5067.25; Good 10001250
lbs. 53.2569.50.
BULLS. Yield Grade 1
14001950 lbs 56.5061.50 few
61.5065.50, individual 1940
lbs. 66.75; Yield Grade 2
10001450 lbs. 51.75-56.50.
VEAL CALVES: Prune
special fed vealers 300360
lbs. 5.006.00 lower, Choice
120250 lbs. fully steady; high
Good and low Choice 80115
lbs. 3.006.00 lower. Demand
good tor calves returned to
farm.
VEALERS. Prune special
fed 290-380 lbs. 88.00-100.00,
few 100.00-105.00; Choice 120-
300 lbs. 90.00-110.00, few 140-
190 lbs. 112 00-119.00; high
Good and low Choice 130-230
lbs. 75.00-90.00, 80-115 lbs.
56.00- few 100-115 lbs
66.00- 6060 lbs 50.00-
60 00
Apple holdings slip 4%
HARRISBURG - Penn
sylvania apples in cold
storage on December 31,
1980 totaled 217,713,000
pounds, down 9,319,000
pounds or four percent from
a year ago, according to the
Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service.
Of that total, which con
verts to 5,184,000 bushels at
42 pounds each, York Im
perial applies comprise the
largest variety in cold
storage for processing at
Broiler placements
jump 9%
HARRISBLRG -
Placements of broiler chicks
in the Commonwealth during
the week enduig January 17
were 2,381,000, accormg to
the Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service
The placements wre nine
percent above the
corresponding week a year
earlier and four percent
above the previous week
Average placements during
the past nme weeks were six
percent above a year earlier
Placements in the 21 key
poultry producing states
were 79,347,000, slightly
below the previous week but
two percent above the same
week a year ago Average
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RETURNED TO FARM:
Bulk 85-115 lbs. hoistem bulls
75.00- few 98.00-100.00;
bulk 95-120 lb. hoistem
heifers 100.00-136.00, few
136.00- several 70-90
lbs. 65.00-100.00.
Eastern Pa. &
N. J. Poultry
Wednesday, January 28
Report supplied by USDA
Prices on light type hens
unchanged. Processor
demand fairly good for
adequate farm offerings.
Offerings of heavy type
adequate for a fair but
unaggressive call.
Prices paid at Farm.
Lightweight at farm; 9-10,
mostly 9%
FOB plant. 12-13, mostly
12%
Heavyweight Too Few To
Report.
1,526,000 bushels,
York Imperial applies are
followed by Red Delicious
apples at 990,000 bushels,
Rome apples at 880,000
bushels and Golden
Delicious apples at 724,000
bushels.
Apples in cold storage in
the continental United States
on December 31,1980 totaled
76.713.000 bushels, up
10.281.000 bushels or 15
percent from a year ago.
placements during the past
nine weeks were four per
cent above a year earlier
Broiler-fryers slaughtered
in Pennsylvania under
federal inspection during the
week ending January 7
totaled 1,524,000, with an
average liveweight of 422
pounds