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Estimated Daily Livestock Slaughter
Under Federal bupedlou
April 20, 1994
CATTLE CALVES HOGS SHEEP
WEDNESDAY (EST) 125,000 5,000 350,000 20,000
WEEK AGO (EST) 117,000 5,000 350,000 20,000
YEAR AGO (EST) 121,000 5,000 353,000 20,000
WEEK TO DATE (EST) 370,000 14,000 909,000 57,000
SAME PD LT WK (EST) 350,000 14,000 999,000 53,000
SAME PD LT YR (ACT) 360,000 15,000 1,027,000 56,000
PREVIOUS DAY ESTIMATED TUESDAY STEER AND HEIFER 96,000, COW
AND BULL 26,000.
♦•• REVISION TUES. HOG SLAUGHTER..J4I,OOO.
Valley Stockyards
Athens, Pa.
Monday, April IS, 1994
Report supplied by suction
HOLSTEIN HEIFER CALVES
120.00-202.50.
VEAL CALVES 80.00-92.00.
VEALER BULL CALVES TO 152J0.
SLAUGHTER CALVES 67.50 AND
DOWN.
GRASSERS & FEEDERS TO 79.00.
LAMBS, GOOD ONES TO 102.50,
TOP 135.00.
SHEEP 15.00-31.00.
HOGS 200-250, 28.00-38.50.
SOWS 34.50-39.00.
BOARS 28.00-35.00.
PIGS 23.00-29.00.
HEIFERS TO 61.00.
NO GOOD STEERS.
FEEDER STEERS TO 79.00.
BULLS 43.00-57.50.
GOOD COWS 44.25-48.50.
COWS MEDIUM 37.00-43.75.
COWS POOR OR SMALL 37.00 AND
DOWN.
CATTLE MARKET STEADY.
CALF MARKET STEADY.
HORSES TO 535.00.
PONIES NONE.
GOATS 17.50-62.50.
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GOOD SET OF HEIFERS AND DAIRY
COWS.
Indiana
Livestock
Homer City, PA
Thursday, April 21, 1994
Report supplied by Auction
BEEP HEIFERS GOOD 74.00,
MEDIUM 71.00-73.00; COMMON
68.00- STEERS: GOOD 76.00,
MEDIUM 74.00-75.50, COMMON
70.00- COWS; GOOD 51.00,
MEDIUM 44.00-49.75, COMMON 43.00
DOWN.
BULLS BUTCHER 62.00, BOLOGNA
SS.OO-60.00.
FEEDERS. GOOD 300 LBS.
80.00- MEDIUM HEIFER 500 LBS.
65.00- COMMON 65.00 DOWN.
CALVES: 85-115 LBS. (BULLS)
110.00- 85-115 LBS. (HFRS.)
190.00- 80 LBS. UNDER 70.00
DOWN. 120 LBS. OVER (VEAL) 250
LBS 117.00.
LAMBS: GOOD 75.00-90.00,
MEDIUM 65.00-75.00, COMMON
SHEEP 15.00-30.00.
HOGS. NO 1 240 LBS. 43.00, NO. 2
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39.00-42.00
SOWS; 38.00.
BOARS: 20.00.
GOATS; 20.00-55.00 PER HEAD.
Greencastle
Livestock
Green caitlc, Pa.
Friday, April 22, 1994
CATTLE: 232. HEIFERS: SELECT
FEW HOLSTEIN, STANDARD A
SELECT 51.50-56.25.
COWS: BREAKING UTILITY AND
COMMERCIAL 45.00-49.00, CUTTER
AND BONING UTILITY 46.00-50.00,
CANNER A LOW CUTTER 41.00-45.00,
SHELLS 38.00.
BULLS: YIELD GRADE 1 1230-2200
LBS. 57.25-67.00. FEW YIELD GRADE 2
940-1500 LBS. 48.00-55.00.
FEEDER CATTLE: HEIFERS FEW
M-l 370-680 LBS. 59.00-72.00, BULLS
FEW M-l 450-650 LBS. 62.00-72.00.
CALVES: 215. ONE CHOICE 100.00,
STANDARD A GOOD 75-110 LBS.
69.00- FEW UTILITY 60-80 LBS.
60.00-
FARM CALVES: NO. 1 HOLSTEIN
BULLS 90-130 LBS. 125.00-173.00. NO.
2 HOLSTEIN BULLS 80-120 LBS.
75.00- NO. 1 HOLSTEIN HEIF
ERS 85-120 LBS. 185.00-265.00, FEW
NO. 2 HOLSTEIN HEIFERS 70-115 LBS.
100.00- BEEF CROSS BULLS A
HEIFERS 75-120 LBS. 100.00-157.50.
HOGS: 10. ONE LOT US 1-3 230 LBS.
41.25.
SOWS: ONE 1-3 800 LBS. 37.50.
FEEDER PIGS 44.
SHEEP 5. SLAUGHTER SHEEP ONE
LOT YEARLING @ 39.00.
GOATS 2. LARGE @ 32.00.
Jersey Shore
Livestock Market, Inc.
Auction every Thursday
at 4:00 pjn.
Jersey Shore, Pa.
Report supplied by Auction
Thursday, April 21, 1994
RETURN TO FARM CALF
120.00-225.00.
GOOD VEAL: 70.00-119.00.
COMMON VEAL: 25.00-69.00.
SELECT STEERS: 65.00-70.00.
COMMON STEERS: 61.00-64.00.
COMMERCIAL COWS: 47.00-52.00.
CANNERS-CUTTERS: 43.00-50.00.
SHELLS: 32.00-42.00.
SELECT HEIFERS: 65.00-69.00.
COMMON HEIFERS: SXOO-64.00.
GOOD FEEDERS: 70.00-85.00.
COMMON FEEDERS: 48.00-69.00.
BULLS: 54.00-58.00.
HEAVY HOGS: 36.00-37.00.
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think. No longer would you have
to pay the tester or put up with the
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hounded by all those questions:
When did you breed which cow to
what sire? What are numbers of
the sire, the cow, the cow’s dam?
When did you dry off that cow?
How much silage, hay and grain
do you feed to each? And so on.
Maybe your bank doesn’t re
quire you to keep official DHIA
records for your mortgage and you
don’t sell young sires, heifers or
embryos from high-record cows
with fancy pedigrees.
Perhaps you don’t care to use
proven A 1 young sires, which you
can get cheaper, but only if you
are on DHIA. And maybe you are
called on by effective sales reps
from milking-machine companies
who convince you that their new
electronic systems give you every
thing DHIA offers in records ex
cept the official label.
If these “maybe” circumstances
describe your situation, then you
are a good candidate for thinking:
“let’s quit DHIA; it’ll be easier
and cheaper.”
You aren’t alone. You have
company. DHIA has been part of
U.S. dairying for 8S years, and
though it includes a few more
cows every year, it never has cov
ered more than half of all dairy
cows in all states. In fact, every
year a good number of dairy farm
ers quit, and the number is barely
made up by new participants.
Why?
A new study (Journal of Dairy
Science, 77:1994; 1141-1145)
from a Midwestern state examined
reasons for 148 herd owners quit-
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GEORGE F.W. HAENLEIN
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University of Delaware
NEWARK, Del Maybe you
get tired of the inconvenience, the
added expense, the new and strict
er national regulations, even the
push for conversion to electronics
that are part of DHIA, particularly
the new DHIA.
You wish you could just enjoy
milking your cows or goats in
peace, keeping a simple wall chart
record for each, thus removing
yourself from the competitive
ness.
ting DHIA during the last two
years.
On profile, the discontinued
herds were slightly smaller in herd
size and slightly lower in average
herd production than the herds
continuing on DHIA.
Among four major manage
ment areas for using DHIA
culling, mastitis, feeding, estnis
only culling seemed a strong
reason for being on DHIA, ac
cording to those who discontinued
DHIA.
Maybe these herds used bulls
instead of AI, even though other
studies in that region on the use of
AI have demonstrated a signifi
cant superiority of between 800 to
1,100 pounds milk per cow per
year for herds on AI.
Or maybe they had little masti
tis and mainly fed pasture and free
choice roughage.
Farmers gave several reasons
for quitting DHIA. One-quarter
sold the herd; one-eighth replaced
DHIA with a new electronic pri
vate system and one-eighth went
back to hand-written records; one
quarter didn’t like the tester or the
lab (half didn’t like the computer
center): and one-quarter quit be
cause of cost, despite the fact that
another Midwest study had shown
that DHIA herds gave 1,800
pounds more milk on average than
non-DHIA herds.
What do Delaware records
show? Last year we had more
cows on record than in any pre
vious year. There were also fewer
herds than ever, down from 94
herds 30 years ago to half that.
The herd size, however, is the
largest ever 135 cows now,
compared to an average 45 cows
then.
And while we have made great
strides every year for higher and
higher milk production averages
per cow per herd, we still have tre
mendous variation in production
levels and management parame
ters. This indicates that some dairy
farmers make better use of their
records than others, assuming that
higher milk production means
higher profits.
DHIA management data reveal
where and why differences occur
in milk production level.
We have repeatedly demon
strated that higher milk levels per
cow under prevailing feed prices
mean more profit per cow on aver
age, regardless of breed (especial
ly when other DHIA data are con
sidered), and these are warning
lights. I will name only six.
No. I: If a Holstein cow or
Swiss goat is testing less than 3.S
percent milk fat (other breeds are
correspondingly higher), this is a
signal from her DHIA records that
you are feeding her too much
grain in proportion to roughage
and insufficient levels and length
of fiber.
Grain should not exceed 60 per
cent of dry matter of the total daily
radon, and fiber should not be less
than 17 percent in the total daily
radon with a greater amount long
er than 1 inch.
You will not only lose money
from low testing milk, you will
soon have veterinary problems
from excess grain feeding, such as
acidosis, enterotoxemia, parakera
tosis. displaced abomasum, lam
initis, etc.
No. 2: If a Holstein or Swiss
goat is testing less than 3.2 percent
protein during the first four
months after lactation begins, you
aren’t feeding her enough energy
to make up for ha high milk pro
duction demands, thus she is cut
ting back on her reproduction,
coming into only silent estnis or
not at all. She is underfed in ener
gy. and you will be losing money
because your animals won’t con
ceive again in time. DHIA records
could have helped you prevent
this; besides, you are getting less
money for your milk because of
lower proteins-solids contents.
No. 3: If your herd average days
in milk is much above ISO days
that’s a warning that your animals
aren't conceiving back in time.
You have a major number of your
milkers beyond the peak of lacta
tion in the lata stages of lactation.
When they milk less than they
should, they cost more to main
tain. Also somatic cell levels tend
to go up with later stages of lacta
tion, even when there is no masti
tis infection, not even subclinical.
And you’ll have less than one calf
per year from each cow, the mini
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