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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1983
Page
2
The listing covers cattle, hogs, sheep and calves with prices for slaughter steers, Holstein steers, heifers, feeder cattle, cows, bulls, sows, and feeder pigs. Includes grain and egg quotes and older equity liv estock figures, noting April 7, 1982 data and April 6, 1973 butter prices.
Market steady with price quotes from Max Phillips and Sons for complete automobiles scrap. Listings include aluminum cans 25¢ per lb, steel aluminum cans 5¢, scrap aluminum 15¢, batteries 3¢, sheet copper 25¢, radiators 30¢, brass 25¢, glass 1¢, catalytic converters 1.50 each. Newspaper donate to Sundowners Drum Corps noted.
Wisconsin auction markets last week posted steady to slightly higher cow prices with cows 37 to 49 cents. Holstein slaughter steers 51 to 61 cents, steers 60 to 65 cents, heifers 59 to 64 cents, bulls 47 to 55 cents. Veal steady, replacement Holstein bull calves weak. 70 percent of calves sold to replacements. Feeder pigs 46 to 58 dollars. barrows up to 0.50, sows up to 1.00 higher. Receipts 6,200 cattle, 9,600 calves, 1,650 hogs, 1,950 feeder pigs.
American Feeder Pig Co-op reports last week's price for select 45 lb pigs at 44.50 to 45.50 dollars. Midwest Livestock Producers lists this week's price for 40-50 lb premium grade pigs at 43 to 46 dollars picked up on farm, with 40-50 lb animals at 43 to 50 dollars.
Wisconsin traders report strong demand for large size potatoes last week while non Size A russet burbanks sell slowly. Prices for 10 pound sacks of non Size A russet burbanks run about 4 dollars per hundredweight. Sales of round whites and round reds are too sparse to establish a market. State growers year to date have sold 8.9 million cwt of table stock, up 0.5 million cwt from a year ago, and 678,000 cwt of potato chip stock, down 100,000 cwt.
Fluid milk production edged higher across most regions while school vacations divert more fluid milk from bottlers, raising manufacturing stock. Whey powder prices firm, sweet cream buttermilk powder weak, ice cream demand muted by wet weather, whey protein concentrate prices fall. Government bought 40.5 million pounds of dairy powders and fats, milk equivalent just over 300 million pounds. Wisconsin spot fluid milk shipments slowed as Easter closures reduced demand. no loads left the state last week.
Grain futures rose last week as buyers boosted demand with Minneapolis wheat up 2 percent to 4.00, Chicago May corn up 7 percent to 3.13, and soybeans at 6.37. Cash markets in Minneapolis saw buy orders firming with spring wheat up to 4-8 cents and winter wheat at 4.26, while oats dipped and rye held firm at 2.45. Oilseed and meal prices largely held, with soybeans finishing 0.40 higher at 6.22 and meal prices rising on tight feed supplies and stronger export interest.
May Wheat at Minneapolis 4.03 percent change and May Corn, Oats, Soybeans, and flax prices shown. Cash prices list No 1 dark northern wheat at 4.27 and 4.28 for different protein levels, rye, corn No 2 at 3.11, oats No 1 at 1.67 to 1.70, soybeans No 1 yellow at 6.29, flax at 5.25 and sunflowers at 9.45 per cwt. Feedstuffs for March 29 include soybean meal 192.40 and 205.40, linseed meal 138, meat meal 250, brewers’ dried grains 103, wheat bran 78, and middlings 76, alfalfa meal 110.
Slaughter livestock prices advanced last week at South St Paul as marketings fell. Cattle and hog volumes declined versus a year ago, while slaughter steers and Holstein entries led gains. An April 12 Jerusalem artichoke meeting sponsored by AEFS of Marshall invites farmers, with contact numbers provided.
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