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Closing Bids: Thursday, July 5,2001
Soybean Meal
USD A Launches New Website On
Food Safety Research Programs
WASHINGTON, D.C. The
USD A recently launched a new
Website (http://www.nal.usda.
gov/fsrio ) aimed at providing a
database of food safety research
projects to the research commu
nity and the general public. The
Website provides detailed infor
mation on food safety research
projects, spending, and accom
plishments by U.S. Federal
agencies, along with links to
other important food safety re
search information.
“This Website is a tool that
researchers and policy makers
can use to examine research
needs and priorities in food
safety,” said Agriculture Secre
tary Ann M. Veneman. “The
goal is to measure the progress
of our food safety research and
continue efforts'to educate the
public about these important
issues.”
The searchable database pro
vides information on nearly 500
food safety research projects
dating from 1998 to the present
including research done or
funded by: USDA Agricultural
Research Service; USDA Coop
erative State Research, Educa
tion, and Extension Service; the
Food Safety Consortium (re
searchers from the University of
Arkansas, lowa State Univer
sity, and Kansas State Univer
sity); and the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services’
Food and Drug Administration.
Also on the Website are:
• Program and planning in
formation, as well as various
food safety reports;
• Food safety news and infor-
Oats
mation; and
• More than 100 links to
Web-based food safety research
information provided by U.S.
and foreign governments, and
educational and professional or
ganizations.
The new Website was created
by the Food Safety Research In
formation Office at USDA’s Na
tional Agricultural Library with
information from related gov
ernment food safety agencies.
The National Agricultural Li
brary, part of the Agricultural
Research Service, is the world’s
largest and most accessible agri
cultural research library, and
the principal resource in the
U.S. for information about food,
agriculture, and natural re
sources.
Lean Hogs
Daily Prices As ofThursday, 5 July
Date
07/05/01
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Jul 01 7345 7380 7325 7377
Aug 01 7005 7005 6937 6985
Oct 01 6050 6060 5987 6032
Dec 01 5700 5700 5650 5687
Feb 02 5730 5745 5670 5727
Apr 02 5665 5675 5625 5667
May 02 6175 6195 6175 6180
Jun 02 6420 6435 6415 6435
Jul 02 0 6282 6270 6270
Composite Volume Open_lnt
07/04/01 8697 53482
Live Cattle
Daily Prices As ofThursday, 5 July
Date
Aug 01 7340 7350 7285 7305
Oct 01 7505 7505 7450 7472
Dec 01 7545 7547 7500 7520
Feb 02 7602 7630 7585 7605
Apr 02 7690 7705 7675 7677
Juno 2 7335 7345 7317 7335
07/05/01
07/05/01
07/05/01
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Composite Volume Open_lnt
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Pork Bellies
Daily Prices As ofThursday, 5 July
Open High Low Last Chge „ ? rev<
Volume
Jul 01 9500 9680 9500 9615 +7O 139
Aug 01 9350 9570 9350 9445 +8 419
Feb 02 8030 8180 8000 8125 +65 30
Mar 02 8065 8120 8045 8045 +55 4
May 02 0 8245 8245 8245 +95 10
Jul 02 0 8250 8250 8250 +5O 0
Date
07/05/01
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Composite Volume Openjnt
07/04/01 602 2602
Average Farm Feed
Costs for Handy
Reference
To help fanners across the state to
have handy reference of commodity
input costs in their feeding operations
for DHIA record sheets or to develop
livestock feed cost data, here’s last
week’s average costs of various ingred
ients as compiled from regional reports
across the state of Pennsylvania.
Remember, these are averages, so you
will need to adjust your figures up or
down according to your location and the
quality of your crop.
Corn, No.2y 2.18 bu., 3.91 cwt.
Wheat, N 0.2 2.28 bu., 3.81 cwt.
Barley, N 0.3 —1.31 bu., 2.80 cwt.
Oats, N 0.2 —1.43 bu., 4.45 cwt.
Soybeans, No.l 4.21bu.,7.03cwt.
Ear Corn 58.78 ton, 2.94 cwt.
Alfalfa Hay 113.75 ton, 5.69 cwt.
Mixed Hay 113.75 ton, 5.69 cwt.
Timothy Hay 94.25 ton, 4.71 cwt.
Open High Low Last Chge
1387
3934
2321
891
69
73
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6126
2473
1070
628
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