Hogs Lamb Prices Steady as Cedar Rapids Market Reports
Wilson Foods Cedar Rapids quotes hogs 54 to 55 dollars with discounts for lighter and heavier weights, lambs 45 to 57 dollars on the wool, 47 to 49 on the shorn. Waterloo Bath Packing co lists 54 to 55 dollars, prices down a dollar to dollar and a half. Corn and beans futures move with cash market while hog receipts 95,000 expected.
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Wilson Foods
Cedar Rapids
Wilsons
Wilson
Waterloo Bath Packing Co
Livestock Futures: Mixed Prices on Hogs Cattle and Sheep
Livestock futures show weak to lower hogs with most 56.00 to 58.50 per 100 pounds and 200 250 Ib. Cattle and calves trade active with steers near 61.50 for 1225 Ib and heifers 57.50 to 59.00. Sheep offerings light with one lot woolled slaughter lambs at 47.00.
Livestock Tuesday Market Report Hogs and Cattle Prices
Hogs 5 000 head steady to 50 higher with sows steady. No 1-2 230 lb hogs 57.50 58.00. No 1-3 350-500 lb sows 51.50 51.75. 500 650 lb sows 57.50. Cattle 1 700 head steady for slaughter steers and heifers. No 2-4 choice steers 1 100 1 300 lb 59.00 60.00. No 2-4 choice heifers 900 1 100 lb 56.50 58.50. In a later report cattle 35 head too few. Hogs 500 head 56.00 57.00 barrows and gilts. No 1-3 60 lb 53.75 55.50.
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Midwest
Ande
USDA Bulk Poultry and Egg Prices Report
Prices paid to delivery unchanged for bulk poultry products on Tuesday. Egg prices to retailers in cartons delivered vary by grade and size with extra large 68 to 71 cents, large 66 to 67, and medium 58 to 59 cents per dozen, while poultry scores 92 AA and 93 AA show adjustments near 1.46 to 1.49 and 47 respectively.
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Federal State Market News Service
United Press International
Ewica Board OF
Jay
CBOT
USDA
Farmers Union chief warns milk tax could bankrupt farmers
NFU President George Stone says the 50-cent per hundredweight milk check deduction planned to start December 1 will push some dairy farmers out of business. He supports delaying the tax and urges Congress to use supply management and price supports instead while exporting dairy products and humanitarian aid are praised. The NFU backs gathering signatures for the November 8 public comment deadline.
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NFA
U.S. Agriculture
John Black
Stone
Reagan
Congress
All-American Corn Huskers shucking champion named
A 64 year old Albert Pabst of Sandborn Minnesota won the All-American Corn Huskers Association corn shucking title at Vergil Brown farm near New Castle Indiana defeating 21 contestants from 10 states. Irene Quick of Manilla Iowa won the women's division and Orvile Radke of Alta Iowa won the senior huskers class. Minnesota to host next year.
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Ind
Minnesota
Indiana
Albert Pabst
Sandborn
Minn
John Jackson
Osage
Kan
Fred Jackson
Irene Quick
Manilla
Iowa
Katherine Immeker
Colton, S.C
Orvile Radke
Alta
Red meat industry urged to chase diet oriented products
At the American Meat Institute convention in Chicago Raymond Daniel warned the red meat sector faces a flat demand outlook through the decade. He urged new diet friendly products for home and away from home markets and suggested pork could gain in microwaves. Alan McDonald of Stouffer Foods urged packers to innovate, standardize lean products, and push diet offerings like Lean Cuisine.
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Chicago
Chase Econometrics
Raymond Daniel
McDonald’s
Daniel
McCormick Place
Alan McDonald
McDonald
Stouffer Foods
Cedar Rapids
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Cattle on Feed Up 7 Percent Across 13 States
The Agriculture Department reports 8.8 million cattle and calves on feed for slaughter in 13 quarterly states as of Oct. 1, up 7 percent from last year but 2 percent below 1980. Steers total 5.6 million, slightly higher year over year and 9 percent below 1980.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
The
Crop Reporting Board
Officials mum on talks on Hecla Manitoba island
Canadian and U S agriculture leaders met on Hecla Island in Lake Winnipeg for a two day private session ending Tuesday. About 35 participants from the Canadian Wheat Board Palliser Wheat Growers Association prairie wheat pools grain companies and U S Wheat Associates and National Association of Wheat Growers attended the talks.
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Hecla
Manitoba
Lake Winnipeg
George Fletcher
Palliser Wheat Growers Association
Canadian Wheat Board
Prairie Wheat Pools
Grain Companies
U.S. Wheat Associates
National Association of Wheat Growers
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