Al6—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, September 11,1982
Livestock market and auction news
Weekly Summary
Friday, Sept. 10
Report supplied by PDA
CATTLE: 5330 Compared with
6254 head last week, and 4154 head
a year ago. Compared with last
week’s market; slaughter steers
highly uneven, extremes 1.00
higher to 1.75 lower; SI. heifers
steady to 1.00 lower; SI. cows
mostly steady to 1.50 higher; SI.
bullocks steady to strong; SI. bulls
uneven; SI steers: High Choice &
Prime No. 3-4 67.00-70.50; Choice
No. 24 63.00-68.00 Good 57.00-63.00:
Standard 50.00-56.50. SI. heifers:
Choice 58.00-63.00; Good 52.00-
58.00; few Standard 48.00-52.00. SI.
cows: Utility & Commercial 40.50-
Oops!
In this issue on page 821, we
introduced the upcoming Gratz
Fair in Dauphin County. The entire
schedule of events, which follows
the story, is incorrect. The correct
schedule should read:
Sunday
Religious services 2:30 p.m. and
7 p.m.
Monday
Livestock judging, 10 a.m.;
Championship demo derby, 7:30
p.m.
Tuesday
Dairy cattle judging, 9 a.m.;
Dairy goat judging, following
cattle show; Twilight harness
racing, 4 p.m.
Wednesday
Twilight Harness racing, 4 p.m.;
Almost Anything Goes contest,
7:30 p.m.
Thursday
Senior Citizens Day until 5 p.m.;
Pennsylvania Sire Stakes harness
racing 1 p.m.; Women’s Mud
Wrestling, 7:30 p.m.
Friday
School Day; Various high school
bands, 2 p.m.; Big Wheel
contest, 6 p.m.; Auto thrill show,
7:30 p.m.
Saturday
Four-wheel drive vehicle pull, 2
p.m.; Donkey basketball, 7:30p.m.
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45.50, few 47.00; Cutters 38.5042.00,
few 43.50 Conner & L. Cutter 35.00-
39.00; Shells down to 25.00. SI.
bullocks: few Choice 55.00-61.00;
Good 52.00-56.00. SI. bulls: Yield
Grade No. 1, 1000-2400 lbs. 50.00-
55.75; Yield Grade No. 2, 900-1500
lbs. 46.00-51.00.
FEEDER CATTLE:, Steers,
Medium Frame No. 1, 300-700 lbs.
52.00-67.75. Heifers, Medium
Frame No. 1, 300-700 lbs. 42.00-
58.00.
(Continued from Page Al)
the largest crop of cherries
produced since 1965, this year the
Board determined the set aside for
grower to be 20 percent of the crop.
Weiser stressed that it is the
grower’s option to either have 20
percent sugared and frozen for
later marketing or dispose of them
by other means.
Following their meeting, the
Board submitted its recom
mendation to USDA and Weiser
and the other Board members
returned to their home orchards to
await approval from USDA and
then to inform their growers of the
exact regulations. However, that
approval never came.
Cherries, among the most
perishable of fruits, hung on the
trees well into the ten-day period
that is considered prime for their
harvest, it was at that time in
early July that Weiser and other
representatives of the industry
traveled to Washington and met
with Chris Demuth of the Office of
Management and Budget.
Related Weiser, “When we
asked why no decision had been
made yet as the cherries got ripe,
Demuth answered that he didn’t
realize that he had to make a
decision so quickly. He didn’t
check with anyone for more in
formation on what was good or bad
for the cherry industry. He made
his decision in less than an hour.
He reasoned that he couldn’t see
those cherries going to waste and
that the set aside didn’t meet with
regulations he had received from
the White House.” USDA’s own
guidelines provide that supplies of
fruits and vegetables may not be
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Cherry set aside
CALVES: 3331 Compared with
4390 head last week and 3500 bead a
year ago. Vealers strong to 5.00
higher. Few Prime 98.00-118.00;
Choice 85.00-105.00; Good 70.00-
90.00 few Standard & Good 110-130
lbs. 60.00-80.00; 90-120 lbs. 55.00-
65.00; 65-90 lbs. 45.00-56.00; Utility
50-110 lbs. 40.00-52.00.
FARM CALVES: Hoi. Bulls 80-
125 lbs. 62.00-95.00; Hoi. Heifers 80-
150 lbs. 65.75-66.75 No. 1-3 200-250
lbs. 65.00-66.50; No. 2-3 200-275 IbS.
restricted by regulation.
Weiser nctc-d that in the last
three cherry pools, none of the
cherries have gone to waste, but
instead were all marketed. He
added the set aside is necessary
since cherry yields are cyclic with
good years being followed by poor
ones. Weiser emphasized the
cherry set aside program* is
financed entirely by the cherry
industry and does not cost the
taxpayer anything.
The result of the OMB decision
meant all the cherries harvested
this year went on the market.
Weiser estimated that prior to the
decision the price of frozen
cherries was 37-40 cents per pound.
That price fell to 32 cents after the
federal decision. Based on a
USDA-estimated 322-million pound
crop, the total industry loss adds
up to $l5-20 million.
Weiser also stressed that OMB’s
decision will not necessarily help
consumers. While processors may
be able to get cherries cheaper, in
some areas for as low as 8-10 cents
a pound, processed fruit may not
be cheaper since there are no
regulations on processors’ profits.
Though they have 'since
requested marketing guidelines
from OMB, the Cherry Ad
ministrative Board has-received
nothing from that office, according
to Weiser and will not hear until
June 1983. This does not mean the
federal order for cherries is lost.
Having been voted in during 1980,
the order does not expire until 1985.
However, if the OMB continues to
intervene, Weiser said the order’s
effectiveness will be greatly
hampered.
Wool referendum
; (Continued from Page AX)
unshorn lambs marketed during
1982-85.. The new agreement
authorizes deductions of up to 4
cents a pound on shorn wool and 20
cents a hundredweight on unshorn
lambs, up from 2% cents and 12%
cents respectively. The previous
rates had been in effect for four
years.
64.5065.25; Sows mostly steady.
US No. 1-3 300650 lbs. 55.00-59.75;
No. .2-3 300-700 lbs. 47.0065,75.
Bores 44.00-49.75.
FEEDER PIGS: 938 Compared
with 1336 head last week and 901 a'
year ago. Mostly S.OOhigher US No.
1-3 20-35 lbs. 27.00-46.00 per head;
No. 16 3560 lbs. 40.0065.00; few
No. 1-36060 lbs. 50.0063.50.
Last year the Council’s ex
penditures for wool and lamb
promotion were about four million
dollars. The' same amount
budgeted for the current year.
Sheep producers have approved
the wool and lamb promotion
program by the necessary two
thirds majority in seven
referendums held since 1954.
The Council’s national wool
promotion program is run in
cooperation with other segments of
the industry, which provide ad
ditional or rhatctrtng funds.
Promotion activities include ad
vertising, merchandising and
education. Lamb promotion is
concentrated in high lamb con
suming areas.
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