I Weekly Summary Friday, August 12,1983 Report Supplied By PDA Markets: 15. CATTLE: 8187. Compared with 7587 bead last week, and 6938 head a year ago. Compared with last week’s market: Slaughter steers & heifers uneven, mostly steady to 1.00 lower; SI. cows grading Utility & Commercial stady to 1.00 higher, Canner & Cutter steady to .75 lower; SI. bullocks not tested; SI. bulls unevenly steady. SI. steers: High Choice & Prime No. 3-4,63.00- 66.00; Choice NO. 2-4, 59.5fr64.00; Good 55.0fr59.50; Standard 48.00- PENNSYLVANIA MARKETS Livestock market 55.00. SL heifers: Choice 56.75- 59.00; Good 53.00-57.00; Standard 48.00-52.00. SI. cows: Utility & Commercial 41.00-45.00, few to 46.25; Cutters 38.0fr41.25; Canner & L. Cutter 34.0fr38.00; Shells down to 25.00. SI. bullocks: Choice 53.00- 56.75; Standard & Good 48.00-53.00. SI. bulls: Yield Grade No. 1,1000- 2290 lbs. 49.0fr55.00; Yield Grade No. 2,900-1450 lbs. 45.0fr49.00. FEEDER CATTLE: Steers, Medium Frame No. 1, 350-750 lbs. 47.0fr62.00; Large Frame No. 2, 475-900 lbs. 40.50-49.00. Heifers. Medium Frame No. 1, 400-750 lbs. 41.25-52.00. Feeder Bulls, Medium Frame No. 1, 350650 lbs. 46.00- 52.50. CALVES: 4398. Compared with 4228 head last week and 4156 head a year ago. Vealers unevenly steady. (f?wl Prime 90.00-110.00; Choice 72.0066.00; Good 55.00-75.00. lbs. 44.0065.00; 60-90 lbs. 40.0fr50.00; Utility 50-110 lbs. 20.00-40.00. FARM CALVES: Hoi. Bulls 85- 125 lbs. 50.00-100.00, mostly 60.00- 82.00; Hoi. Heifers 90-140 lbs. 44.00- 80.00, mostly 55.00-75.00. HOGS: 6871. Compared with 7573 head last week and 6193 head a year ago. Steady to 1.50 higher. US Mo. 1-2 200-245 lbs. 49.00-51.25 No. 1- 3 200-250 lbs> 47.00-50.00; No. 2-3 200-285 lbs. 45.00-47.50;; (few) No. 1-3 140-190 lbs. 43.00-47.00; Sows steady to 1.00 higher, US No. 1-3 300600 lbs. 30.0037.50; No. 2-3 300- 650 lbs. 27.0034.00. Boars 26.75- 35.00. FEEDER PIGS: 1544. Com pared with 1211 head last week and 1038 a year ago. Steady to 4.00 lower, US No. 1-3 2035 lbs. 12.00 21.00; No. 1-3 35-50 lbs. 20.0030.00, few t 035.00 per head. SHEEP: 885. Compared with 838 head last week and 932 head a year ago. Steady to 2.00 lower. High Choice & Prune 70110 lbs. 50.00 60.00, few to 70.00; Choice 65-125 lbs. 43.0054.00; Good 5095 lbs. 40.0048.00; Utility 4080 lbs. 30.00 40.00. SI. ewes: 11.0022.00, few down to 5.00. 3 GRADED FEEDER PIG SALES: 2614. Compared with 2247 bead last week and 2692 head a year ago. Alt sales by CWT. Feeder Pigs highly uneven, extremes 6.00 higher to 9.00 lower. US No. 1-2 20 40 lbs. 57.0065.00; few to 75.00, 40 50 lbs. 45.0067.00, 5060 lbs. 48.00 61.00. 6075 lbs. 42.5050.00; US No. 2p3 25-40 lbs. 50.0060.00, 4050 lbs. 46.0054.00. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 13,1983—A17 Tobacco supports unchanged WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 - The U.S. Department erf Agriculture has issued 1983 price support levels for eight kinds of tobacco that are unchanged from 1982 levels. According to Everett Rank, administrator of USDA’s Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, support levels for all tobacco will be un changed from 1982 levels, as Kind Hurley Dark air-cured (Types 35-36) Fire-cured (type2l) Fire-cured (type 22-23 Puerto Rican (type 46) Sun-cured (type 37) Cigar binder (51-62) Cigar binder & filler (types 42-44,53-55) USDA recently announced the support level for 1983-crop flue cured tobacco at|1.899 per pound. “This legislation will help insure the successful operation of the tobacco nrogram at no net cost to Md. reports first EEE ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The first 1983 case of Eastern En cephalomyelitis has been reported in Maryland by the State Depart ment of Agriculture as the result of tests performed on a Worcbester County horse which died last week. Dr. Hugh E. Sinks, Deputy Secretary of the Maryland Department of Agriculture, says the Department’s Salisbury Animal Health Laboratory was contacted by a Delaware veterinarian about the horse on July 26th. Preliminary tests performed at MDA’s Salisbury lab indicate the animal died from “Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis” (BEE). More extensive tests on samples from the animal are being conducted by the Maryland Department of Health at its labs in Baltimore and at the College Park Animal Health labofMOA. “Due to the nature of the required by tbe Tobacco Price Support Stabilization Act of 1963, signed July 2S by President Reagan. That law also provides that price supports be made available for those kinds of tobacco for which producers have approved marketing quotas, be said. The levels for eight 1963-crop tobaccos are as follows: 1983 Average Support Level 11.751 11.067 11.188 11.23 90.909 11.004 91.212 the taxpayer,’’said Rank. As in the past, USDA will set individual grade loan rates and grower contributions to the no-net-coet funds or accounts, before the marketing season begins. case disease”, Dr. Binks said, “the Maryland Department of Agriculture’s Mosquito Control Section was immediately notified and has stepped up its spraying efforts in the area involved which is the Whaleysville vicinity along the Pocomoke River. “Ground spraying for adult mosquitoes has been carried out, and will be continued and ex panded if need be, based on mosquito activity,” Dr. Binks said. 1 In 1982, there were two con firmed cases of EEE in Wor chester County as well as cases in other nearby states. Encephalomyelitis is highly fatal to horses and poses a danger to humans. The disease is spread ‘principally by mosquitoes. It is not spread by horses to humans. The reservoir for the disease is the wild bird and rodent population. It can be prevented in horses by proper vaccination. 90.907
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