BY JACK HUBLEY LANCASTER West Virginia’s tlemen participated in the tour, cattlemen hopped a bus and sponsored by the West Virginia headed north and east this week University Extension Service, for a tour of Pennsylvania beef West Virginia Extension livestock specialist Phil Osborne talks with Lancaster Stockyards president Bill McCoy during Wednesday’s tour of the stockyards. Pairv Metro j- gviow Flo-Star* Claw Studies S Cell Count Reduces Somatic Ceil milking wlth th , her d’s somatic cell Star* daw reduced * 200t00 0. ac count from 300.00 D VM, a not ed cording to An y hmes and mastitis, expert on milking n** . 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Although visits to cattle feeding operations dominated the three day tour, the cattlemen also had a firsthand look at Penn State University’s purebred cow operation and feeding trials, TRI-STATE FARM AUTOMATION Hagerstown, MD 301-790-3698 Moyer Packing Company of Souderton and the Lancaster Stockyards. During the latter tour, stockyards president Bill McCoy noted that the cattle business has been “showing red ink” for two years in a row. “The demand for the product has just slipped,” he said, adding that imports and sales of overfat cattle have hurt the industry as well. McCoy pointed out that prices have rallied somewhat in the past several weeks. Three weeks ago, more than half the cattle marketed at Lancaster were bringing less than 50 cents a pound, McCoy estimated, emphasizing that the break-even point for most cattle feeders on last fall’s cattle is about 56 to 57 cents. Since July 4, prices USDA Buyout Report WASHINGTON, D.C. - The eighth weekly report on the buyout was released by the USDA on Wednesday. USDA figures show an estimated 24,100 head of cattle in the program SECTION I Po9«' LAW AO AUTOMATION Milton, PA Paul-717-437-2375 Dave - 717-435-0057 PRINOLE FEED STORE, INC. Greenville, PA 412-588-7950 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 12,1986-A37 have risen to the 56-to-5»-cent range, with a few retail sales topping 60 cents, he said. The stockyards president sees th sl-per-head checkoff program to be instituted nationally this fall as one of the brighter spots on the horizon. “I think this is going to help immeasurably,” he said, adding that the industry needs this major source of capital to finance badly needed promotional programs. Following the stockyards visit, tour members traveled to the Dale Nolt farm near Manhekn, then on to the Milton Hershey School for a steak roast sponsored by the Pennsylvania Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Association (PACMA) and the Beef Industry Council. were slaughtered during the week ending June 21. This figure in cludes all cows, heifers and calves in the DTP, according to the USDA spokesman. An estimated cumulative total of 495,800 head have been slaughtered since the beginning of the DTP on April 1. Meat purchases by the govern ment reached 10.6 million pounds for the week ending July 5. This meat was purchased in the form of 3.8 million pounds of canned beef, 3.3 million pounds of bulk-frozen ground beef, and 4.2 million pounds of frozen beef carcasses. The cumulative total meat purchases is 169,577,480 pounds. Cumulative total of dairy cows that were reported for export since April 1 is 14,280 head. 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