Virginia Weekly Livestock Thursday, July 9, 1987 WEEKLY REVIEW IN VIRGINIA MARKETS IN REVIEW; JULY 2-8, 1987. FEEDER STEERS AND HEIFER IN VIRGINIA AUCTIONS SHOWED SOME STRENGTH AT STEADY TO $2 00 HIGHER WHILE MIDWEST PRICES RANGED STEADY TO $l.OO HIGHER SLAUGHTER STEERS AND HEIFERS WERE DOWN SHARPLY. CARCASS BEEF PRICES $l.OO-1.50 LOWER AS THE BOX BEEF CUT-OUT VALUE REACHED $107.64 CWT. MONDAY. THIS WAS $3.14 LOWER THAN LAST WEEK. COWS AND BULLS IN VIRGINIA AUCTIONS WERE ENVEN - $2.00 LOWER TO $2.00 HIGHER. WHILE MIDWEST PRICES WERE STEADY TO FIRM. BEEF PRO DUCTION LAST WEEK WAS 6 PER CENT BELOW THE PREVIOUS WEEK ATTENTION FARMERS The New Way To Market Your Livestock HATFIELD 0 MOYER PACKING CO. PACKING CO. Will Receive Hogs Will Receive Cattle At The BLAIR-BEDFORD BUYING STATION RD 1 Martinsburg. Pa MONDAYS- HogsB AM to 11:30 AM Cattle & Calves 8 AM to 3 PM THURSDAYS- Cattle & Calves 8 AM to 3 PM • No commission or yardage fees deducted from check • Livestock weighed and paid for immediately • You may call our office sale day for prices DALE R. HOOVER - Owner Business 814-793-3077 Residence 814-793-2657 MUSCLES!! You don’t want a whimpy solution to your manure management problems - you want something with “muscles” that can eliminate the problem. If that’s true, you want US Agri-Systems. US Agri-Systems carries state of the art manure management equipment with muscles. They don’t believe in whimpy solutions that end up costing you more money. Contact US AGRI-SYSTEMS and put some muscles in your manure management 1-800-222-2948. SWINE PRODUCTION SALES AND SERVICE Feeding Programs And Services To Meet Your Individual Needs Computerized Record Keeping System Grain Purchasing And Exchange r livestock market and auction news .VIRGINIA MARKETS i 1 H JIT)‘ BUT 4 PERCENT ABOVE JfVEAfe AGO AND AVERAGE WEIGHTS WERE ONLY 1 LB. LIGHTER. VEAL AND CALF PRICES IN VIRGINIA AUC TIONS MOVED STEADY TO $3.00 LOWER WITH EAST COAST CAR CASS PRICES. SLAUGHTER WAS 10 PERCENT BELOW THE PREVIOUS WEEK AND 12 PERCENT BELOW A YEAR AGO AS AVERAGE WEIGHTS WERE THE SAME. LAMB PRICES AT VIRGINIA AUCTIONS AND THE MID WEST RANGED STEADY TO $3 00 LOWER AS EAST COAST CARCASS PRICES DROPPED AS MUCH AS $7 00 LOWER. SLAUGHTER LAST WEEK WAS 8 PERCENT BELOW THE PREVI OUS WEEK BUT 11 PERCENT ABOVE A YEAR AGO AVERAGE WEIGHTS WERE THE SAME. HOG PRICES IN VIRGINIA AUCTIONS AND THE MID WEST WERE UNEVEN RANGING FROM $2.00 LOWER TO $ 1.00 HIGHER PORK PRODUCT PRICES WERE MOSTLY STEADY. PORK PRODUC- Gaft Developing Individual Financial Programs TION LAST \VEEK WAS DOWN 13 PERCENT FROM THE PREVIOUS WEEK AND 7 PERCENT ABOVE A YEAR AGO. AVERAGE WEIGHTS WERE ABOUT THE SAME. THE RICH MOND HOG MARKET CLOSED $l.OO-1.50 HIGHER THAN LAST WED NESDAY WITH BARROWS AND GILTS 1-4 200-240 LBS AT $58.00-59.00/CWT. TOTAL RECEIPTS 245 HEAD. THE SOUTHEAST VIRGINI- A HOG MARKET CLOSED $1 00-1.50 HIGHER THAN LAST WEDNESDAY WITH BARROWS AND GILTS 1-4 200-240 LBS AT $59.50-60 50/CWT. TOTAL RECEIPTS 2697 HEAD SOLD. AT HARRISONBURG, LYNCHBURG AND TAPPAHANNOCK HOG PRICES WERE $l.OO-2 00 HIGHER THAN LAST WEDNESDAY AT $57.00-60 50/CWT. SOWS RANGED $36.00-42.00/CWT AND BOARS WERE $34.00/CWT. SLAUGHTER STEERS & HEIFERS 5%; COWS 29%; BULLS 3%; CALVES AND VEALERS 5%; FEEDER CATTLE UNDER 600 LBS 35% AND OVER 600 LBS 23%. PRICE RANGES FOR VIRGINIA AUCTIONS SLAUGHTER STEERS CHOICE STEERS 2-3 10001300 LBS 67.60-69.60 CHOICE STEERS 2-3 1300 Supplying Farm Fresh Feeder Pigs Marketing and Hedging Services Marketing of Genesis Breeding Stock OVER eS.TSwMtfHOKS HEIFERS 2-3 950 LBS & UNDER 62.50-63.50 CHOICE HEIFERS 2-3 950-1100 LBS 60,00-66.90 UTILITY & COMMERCIAL COWS 38.50-47.50 BULLS 1-2 900-1300 LBS 48.25-59.00; 1-2 1300-1600 LB 50.00-59.50 1-2 1600 LBS & OVER 50.50-60.00 SLAUGHTER CALVES AND VEALERS VEALERS - HIGH CHOICE AND PRIME 100-250 LBS 79.50-100 00 GOOD AND CHOICE 100-250 LBS 60 00-78 00 FEW 80 00-87.00 CALVES - GOOD AND CHOICE 250-500 LBS 60 00-74 00 FEW 79 00 SLAUGHTER LAMBS HIGH CHOICE AND PRIME 95-125 LBS SPRING 72 00-76.95 SLAUGHTER HOGS - US 2-4 200-250 LBS 55 00 61 50 SOWS US 1-3 300-500 LBS 39 00 48.50. 500 LBS & OVER 42 50-48.00 FEEDER CATTLE STEERS, MEDIUM 1 300-500 LBS 75.00-86 00 500-700 LBS 66 00-79.50 HEIFERS. MEDIUM 1 300-500 LBS 66 00-79 50 500-700 LBS 65 00-73 00. Four States Livestock Hagerstown, Md. Wednesday, July 8 Report supplied by Auction SLAUGHTER; FED STEERS: ACTIVE, HIGHER PRICES. CHOICE TO PRIME 73.00-78.00; CHOICE 66.00- GOOD 62.00-65.00; MEDIUM 58.00-61.00. HEIFERS- LOW CHOICE 59.00-62.75; GOOD 53.00- MEDIUM 48.00-52.00. COWS- $1 HIGHER. HIGH YIELD 47.00- FEW TO 5150; AVERAGE 42.00- BIG MIDDLE 38.00-42.00; FATTY HERF. 39.00-44.00; SHELLY 41.00- FAT BULLS- 1.50 HIGH ER. GOOD 55.00-56.75; MEDIUM 52.00- VEAL CALVES- CHOICE 85.00- GOOD 78.00-84.00; MEDIUM 70.00-77.00; FARM HFRS, 85.00- 19.00; FARM BULLS 105.00- LIGHT CALVES 71.00- WEAK CALVES 70.00- DOWN; LAMBS FEW OFFERED GOOD 67.0068.00. STOCKER; STEERS- 300550 LBS. NO LIGHTWEIGHTS OFFERED. STEERS- 600-850 LBS. GOOD 62.00- MEDIUM 58.00-61.00. HEIFERS (ALL WEIGHTS) GOOD 60.0065.00; MEDIUM 54.0059.00. 1 DAIRY BULL 760.00 (BY THE HEAD). PIGS, HD. STEADY PRICES. 2040 LBS. 31.0036.00; 7080 LBS. 42.0050.00. SHOATS BY LB. 130-195 LBS. 46.0056.50. SLAUGHTER HOGS- $2 HIGHER. 215-240 LBS. 61.5062.10. SOWS- $1 HIGHER. 400-600 LBS. 43.00- HEAVY BOARS -42.0043.00. BULLS- G00D60.0063.50; MEDIUM 55.0059.00. NEXT WEEK, JULY 15, 1 SIMMEN TAL BULL 1 YR. OLD. J SPECIAL NOTICE "I il Vintage Sales Stables, Inc. I | 10 miles East of Lancaster, Rt. 30. i I Send your hogs to us. We have a good f , ? demand for hogs. Every Saturday at 9 I I a.m. ! ; L. Robert Frame, Manager | | 717-442-4181 | I ■„ w mm Green Dragon Livestock Sales ftp 1 \ Location: Ephrata RD 4. 1 mile N. on North State St., Ephrata. c o* s c °ws SALE EVERY FRIDAY Lots of good Northern Feeder & Stockers. Slaughter Cows - Bull Steer, Veal-lamb. 11:00 A.M.-Beef Sale 200-300 each week. 1:00P.M.-Dairy Sale. 7:00 P.M.-Small Animal Sale. For Special Sales and Herd Dispersals on farm or at our barn or other market information call: Office 717-733-2444, Home 717-838-4318. WALTER H. RISSER, Proprietor All out of state and new buyers must have cash or certified check or current letter of bank. * Westminster Livestock Auction Hagerstown, Md. Tuesday, July 7, 1987 Report supplied by auction SLAUGHTER COWS; GOOD RUN STEADY TO 50 CENTS LOWER. HIGH YIELD 45.00-47.75; UTILITY 42.00- CANNERS 40.00-42.00; SHELLY 39.00-DOWN. BULLS MEDIUM WEIGHTS 50 00-53.75. FED STEERS- NO CHOICE OR GOOD STANDARD 49.00-54.50. FED HEIFERS- 1 GOOD 865 LB AT 55.00; HOLSTEINS 44.00-52.00. VEAL CALVES-140 HD. CHOICE. 185-270 LB. 85.00- GOOD 250-375 LB. 60.00- STANDARD 60.00-70.00; KILLERS 80-100 LB. 73.00-80.00; 50-80 LB. 65.00-75.00. FARM CALVES: BEEF X 70-110 LB 85 00-10000. fiOLSWtf BULLS 100-125 LB. 105-126.00; 90-100 LB. 85 00-110.00; HOLSTEIN HEIFERS 90-110 LB. 78.00-97.00. BUTCHER HOGS- 7 HD $1.50 HIGHER. US #1 & 2 TO $61.25; 215-240 LB. US #1 & 3 59.00- 240-260 LB. 57.00-58.00; 1 LOT 191 LB. $57.00; SEVERAL 275-360 LB. 50.00-56.00. SOWS- 30 HD. 300-475 LB. 44.00-46.50; 500-700 LB. 42.00- BOARS- 300-500 LB. 40.50 STOCK CATTLE: LIGHT RUN. STEERS- FEW 500-800 LB. 54.00-68 00. HOLSTEINS 850-975 LB. 45.00-52.50. HEIFERS- 300-500 LB. 65.00-67.00. BULLS- 300-500 LB. 65.00-69.00; 500-700 LB. 53.00-63.00. LAMBS- 25 HD. PRICES HIGHER FEW LOW CHOICE- 95-120 LB. 70.00; GOOD 60.00- CHOICE 60-80 LB. 75.00- YEARLINGS 43.00-48.00. SHEEP-12 HD. 23.00-33.00. GOATS- 75 HD. LARGE TO $65.00- MEDIUM 35.00- SMALL 20.00-35.00; ROUGH 5.00-15.00. PIGS & SHOATS -150 HD. 20-30 LB. 26.00-34.00; 30-50 LB. 30.00- 1 LOT 80 LB. AT 50.00. BY THE LB.; 1 LOT 77 LB. 68.00; 2 LOTS 95-100 LB. 60.00-63.00,2 LOTS 160-170 LB. 58.00-59.00. HAY SALE *•* TIMOTHY $2.50 PER BALE, TIMOTHY CLOVER $1.60, ORCHARD GRASS $96 PER TON, MULCH $4O PER TON. WE NEED HELP, HELP, HELP, TUBS. EVENINGS TO MOVE CATTLE DUR ING THE SALE MUST BE DEPEND ABLE. CALL JIM DURING WEEK AT 1-824-3187. SELL IT m A LANCASTER FARMING CLASSIFIED KING’S AUCTION KIRKWOOD i Hay, Straw and 1 Grain Auction EVENT TUESDAY 12:00 i Locotod Rt. 472 5 niSoi aouth lot QuorryvWo or < milM north at Oitord it Shaub'o Auction I Houm Lloyd H KroWor. Auction—f AOOOQSI3L No out of state checks ALL TRUCKHS AND FARMIRSWKLCOMI NOTICE MOVING Will be movinf V 4 mi. north of present location at Corner of 472 A Noble Rd. at Rouse Tobacco Station. First sale on new location July 14, 1987. Lunch Available
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