Red 6.25 —RHUBARB: OFFERINGS NONE -RUTABAGAS: 50 lb etnl CD CDOne waxed med 8.00 —SPINACH: MARKET ABOUT STEADY ctni bchd CA Flat 24« 8.00-9.00 1 2/5 burnt bchd CA Flat 24* 11.001 2/5 bu ctni.oo motlly 5.00 Yellow Straightneck sml-med 6.00- motlly 7.00 med 5.00 1 1/9 bucmt FL Acorn med 8.00 —SWEET POTATOES: MARKET ABOUT STEADY 40 lb emt NC U.S. One Jewell cured med 13.00-14.00 motlly 13.50 TOMATOES: MARKET ABOUT STEADY 25 lb ctni FL 85% U.S. One or Better pink to light red xlge 24.00-25.00 Ige 22.00-24.00 mottly 23.00-24.00 med 18.00- Local Repack 85% U.S. One or Better xlge 26.001ge 25.00 med 24.00- -TOMATOES, CHERRY: fill 121-ptbkti MX light red to red 12.00 —TOMATOES, PLUM TYPE: 25 lb ctn» FL light red to red 13.00 MX light red to red 13.00-14.00 TURNIPS: 25 lb flmbgt PA Purple Top med 6.00 —VEGETABLES OTHER: ctni MX Cactut Leaf 15.00 8 lb ctni CA Radio chio 12t 9.00. Frederick Co. Hay Bucfcayitown, Md. Thuraday, December 23, 1993 Report Supplied by Auction 25 LOADS. MARKET SLOW. ALFALFA: FAIR TO GOOD 90.00-100.00 ALFALFA MIX; GOOD 92.00-100.00. TIMOTHY: FANCY 127.00, FAIR TO GOOD 92.00-111.00; LARGE ROUND BALES 15.00-21.00 EACH. MIXED HAY: FAIR TO GOOD 71.00-Sl.OO. LOVER: FAIR TO GOOD 99.00. ORCHARD GRASS; GOOD 76.00-97.00. FIREWOOD: GOOD 81.00-89.00 CORO. NOTE: NEW YEARS PARTY JAN. 6. Shows; Stetson II %Zr m Ml Stetson II Phis Mmol Mji hss yield advantage! Today's alfalfa producer needs optimum yield to stay in business! The Ohio Seed Company iv West Jefferson, Ohio 43182 <gr 800-876-3558 Peter Johnson - PA Rep. MNlNnbura. PA 717-968-2580 Pennsylvania Ag Prognosis Good For 1994 (Condnuad from Pago All) bushels. This is 275 million bushels less than a year ago and the second lowest level of exports in 20 years. Government payments to agri culture in the 1993-94 program year, especially to grain produc ers, will rise to their highest levels since 1988; the main reason will be weather disasters this past summer. Despite sharply reduced pro duction in 1993, excess capacity is still the major long-run problem in the crop sector of U.S. agriculture. We can no longer expect increas ing exports to take away our surp lus crop production. In Pennsylvania, too little mois ture during the critical growth per iod sharply reduced crop growth. The 1993 harvest of com will total about 91.2 million bushels, down 23 percent from the previ ous year and off 40 percent from the record crop of 152 million bushels harvested in 1985. Pennsylvania soybean produc tion at 10.9 million bushels will be just 2 percent lower than in 1992. Hay supplies in the Northeast and Southeast will be tight during the 1994 feeding year because siz able quantities were fed to offset the loss of pasture during the 1993 drought Meat Supply Expansion Meat supplies have increased Penn State University Michigan State University 13 Data Years lowa State University 53 Cuttings University of Wisconsin each year in the 19905, These supply increases have added com petitive pressure to the various sectors of the industry. Most of the recent increases in production have come from poul try and pork (Figure 2). Beef The midyear cattle inventory indicates that producers are expanding numbers in a very slow, conservative way. Total cattle numbers on July 1 were up just 1 percent from 1992 and 1991. Numbers have grown only 3 percent since the cyclical low was reached on July 1,1990 (Table 1). The pace of expansion may be increasing in 1993 as the calf crop is up about 3 percent Favorable returns to cow-calf producers in recent years and through the next couple of years will probably encourage further expansion in beef herds. Beef cow numbers at 34 million head on July 1 were the largest for any midyear inventory since 1974. After falling in the first half of; 1993, beef supplies have been Pork increasing and putting downward A fast pace of technological pressure on prices. development in the hog industry (Turn te Pag# Al 4) I | | SUSPENDED | 9 COMFORT STALLS I | For Modern Tie Barns | a Coated With Baked On Top Grade TGIC Polyester Urethane g 3 Powder After Fabrication B 9 • All welded construction to give many n 9 m # years of trouble free service B H f I | • Stall constructed with 1.9 0.C., .133 K £3 I? I wall, high strength tube and 2” g square tube post with V* ” wall P gj fcg I L “ CHECK THESE I I -N ADVANTAGES OF g W —I SUSPENDED P | -j COMFORT STALLS H mm • More comfort for cows g I • Easy cleaning, bedding & milking g with no rear stall post g g| • No rust problem 9 • Adjustable tie tail Br ■ * Trough dividers 9 9 I • Less trampled teat problems than 9 §SJ with conventional stalls g ) PAUL B. ZIMMERMAN, INC. I Moure MS WooHoomor Rd. 9 CoS or Writ* For Mon. Thru PH. UtKz, PA 17M* nS 9 AMMonM hHwiMMon 7to • 1 MNo Wool of Ephrate I 9 And Your Mamet Dealer tat 7to 11 717-738-7365 g * "iwnm Tm ‘"w-i "inmii j % & Experience LiHCMUr ftrmhg, gateday. January 1,1NM13 Table 1. Percentage change In red meat and poultry production from a year earlier. PROJECTED ITEM 1190 199| 1992 ,993 (994 Beef -I 1 1 ' Pork -34800 Lamb and mutton S 0-4-1 -2 Veal -8 -6 1 -8 -2 Poultry 7 5 6 5 4 Total 1 3 5 2 4 source. UvMlock and Poukiy Situation and Outlook ERS. USUA Carcass weights have been increasing, so we are getting more beef per animal. Beef supplies in 1994 will be about 3 percent above year earlier levels. The short-term tightness in the supply of Stocker cattle has supported feeder cattle prices despite recent declines in fed cattlc prices and increases in feed grain prices. SS-45 SS-45G R 3 fm SS-25 hat resulted in fewer farms pro ducing record levels of pork. In the 1981-91 period the nation lost nearly 60 percent of its hog pro ducers. The number of farms with hogs in Pennsylvania fell from 20,000 at the beginning of 1981 to 7,600 at the end of 1992. Despite the sharp drop in opera tions with hogs, new records have been set in pork production in the 1991-93 period. The September-November pig Table 2. Changes In 1993 wholesale cheese prices and the Minnesota- Wisconsin milk price. CHEESE CHEESE PRICE M-W PRICE PRICE CHANGE CHANGE MONTH S/POUND SMO POUNDS S/CWI January 118 February 116 -0 20 -0 15 March 1 21 +0 50 +0 28 April 1 37 +1 69 +1 13 May 1 39 +0 20 +0 37 June 1 32 -0 70 -0 49 July 1 24 -0 60 -0 61 August 1 22 -0 20 -0 25 September 1 35 +1 30 +0 73 source AMS USDA
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