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-
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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.
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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
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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)
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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
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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.
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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
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