Al4—Uncaster Farming, Saturday, September 5,1981
Livestock market and news
Lancaster Weekly
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VEAL CALVES: Vealers steady
to 3.00 lower, although Prune not
fully tested. Demand good calves
returned to farm. Supply included
25 head Prime special fed 312 lbs.
bought to arrive at 140.00.
VEALERS: Few head Prime
280-400 lbs. 115.00-120.00; Choice
150-300 lbs. 85.00-102.00; high Good
and low Choice 180-350 lbs. 65.00
85.00. 120-160 lbs. 65.00-75.00, 80-120
lbs. 48.004i0.00, few 60.00-65.00, 60
80 lbs. 40.0048.00, few Standard 70
115 lbs. 35.0045.00.
RETURNED TO FARM: Bulk
80-120 lb. holstem heifers 85.00
120.00, around 80 head 125.00
154.00; bulk 100-125 lb. holstem
bulls 85.00-04.00, bulk 85-100 lbs.
60.00-75.00.
Carlisle Auction
Carlisle, Pa.
Tuesday, September 1
Report supplied by auction
Cattle cycle up in Pa.
HARRISBURG Pennsylvania
farmers had 2,100,000 cattle and
calves on hand July 1, according to
the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting
Service. This is a nine percent
increase from the July, 1980 level
of 1,920,000 head, and sets a new
record for cattle and calves on
hand in the state.
The keystone state’s calf crop for
1981 is estimated at 890,000 up nine
percent from 1980. The 960,000
cows that have calved total seven
percent more than a year ago. Milk
cow numbers at 706,000 were
virtually unchanged from July,
1980.
Milk cow replacement heifers
500 pounds and over at 306,000 were
up six percent. Beef cows, at
254.000, were 32 percent above a
year earlier. Beef cow
replacement heifers at 47,000 head,
were up 12 percent.
Other heifers, 500 pounds and
over at 45,000, were up two per
cent. Steers and bulls in this same
weight category numbered 240,000
and 45,000, up 33 and seven percent
-espectively, from last year. All
calves under 500 pounds numbered
157.000, eight percent above July 1,
1980.
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FETTERVILLE SALES
CATTLE; STEERS: Ind. 64.00;
Good 54.25-54.75; Standard 46.25-
52.00. HEIFERS: Standard 49.00
52.75; Utility 38.5046.00. COWS:
Utility & Commercial 46.2549.00;
Cutter 41.8546.00; Canner & Low
Cutter 36.5042.00; Shells down to
31.00. BULLOCKS; Utility 48.00
52.85.
FEEDER STEERS: 49.5065.00;
Ind. 83.00.
CATTLE HEIFERS: 55.5067.00.
BULLS; 48.0056.00.
CALVES; VEALERS: Choice
83.00-95.00; Good 70.00-85.00;
Standard & Good 60.0070.00;
Standard & Good 55.0067.50.
FARM CALVES: Hoi. Bulls
80.00100.00; Hoi. Heifers 136.00
140.00.
HOGS: Barrows & Gilts US No.
1- 50.35-51.50; US No. 1-3 48.00
50.50; US No. 2-3 44.5048.00.
SOWS: US No. 1-3 44.0048.75; No.
2- Boars 39.2542.50.
FEEDER PIGS: US No. 1-3
16.0026.00; No. 1-3 25.0034.00.
SHEEP: LAMBS: Utility 37.00
45.50.
U.S. cattle and calves on July 1
otaled 125 million head, two
jercent above last year and six
percent above July, 1979.
All cows and heifers that have
calved, at 51.1 million head, are up
wo percent from a year ago and
seven percent above July 1,1979.
Beef cows, at 40.2 million head,
are up two percent from last year,
and milk cows at 10.9 million head
are up one percent from 1980.
Other class inventories on July 1
and their changes from last year
are as follows: all heifers 500
pounds and over, 18.4 million, up
three percent; milk replacement
heifers, 4.64 million, up six per
cent; beef replacement heifers,
6.24 million, up seven percent;
other heifers, 7.51 million, down
one percent; steers 500 pounds and
over, 16.3 million, down two per
cent; bulls 500 pounds and over,
2.64 million, up one percent; and
heifer, steer and bull calves under
500 pounds. 36.6 million, up two
percent.
The 1981 calf crop, at 45.6 million
head, is one percent above the 45.4
million bom in 1980.
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Presents Their
14th Annual harvest Fair and Horse Plowing Contest
September 12 and 13
Horse Plowing Contest - September 12
Horse Pulling Contest - September 13
Horse Pulling Contest at 2 O’clock
Horse Plowing Contest at 10:00 O'clock
Stage Program
Saturday 1-5 Shorty Long and the Santa Fe Rangers
Sunday 1-5 Circle Eight Square Dancers
See the displays and demonstrations.
Apple butter making, cooking, cider pressing, corn meal grinding, threshing in the
old manner, crafts and agricultural fair exhibits.
Pa. Dutch Foods - Admission - Adults Donation - $1.50
Free Parking - Everyone is invited to try plowing.
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