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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1981
Page
2
Monday livestock summary shows 1,800 cattle and 5,000 hogs with vealers 200 and sheep 400. Slaughter steers up 50 cents to $1, with choice weights 6444-65.60 and good to choice 63%4-64%. Cows steady, calves steady, bulls steady, lambs $1 higher, feeders steady with various weight ranges and prices. Top cattle around 47.60 for utilities.
Steady listings for replacement calves with Holstein bulls 110-135 lbs and heifers 100-150 lbs, top prices noted. Monday feeder pig auction details show bulk 40-60 lb pigs and 50-60 lb pigs, with price ranges. Hog classes include 210-240 lb steers, heavy and lightweight packers, and bears in specified ranges. Feeder cattle reflect steady demand across Holstein steers and beef categories with varied weights and utility figures.
Slaughter cattle and sheep mixed. feeder cattle and hogs rose or fell. Slaughter steers and heifers showed strong demand with prices $3-5 higher. choice steers opened at 61.30-62.40 and closed 63.50-64.90. choice heifers opened 59.70-61.70 and closed 62.50-63.50. Holstein steers gained 1-2 dollars. slaughter cows weakened to 42-46 utility and commercial. bulls firm at 52-56. Feeder cattle and hogs moved varied. feeders up 1-3 with medium frame No. 1 steers 62-70. Holsteins 49-68. feeder heifers 57.70-70.75. Old crop feeder lambs steady to 50-55 for calves. slaughter lambs up 1, ewes down 2. Estimated beef carcass value 600-700 pounds at 104.16. steer hide value 63.90. Open Holstein calf prices listed 900-1,300 for springing heifers.
Wisconsin eggs and produce report shows butter and cheese mostly unchanged with grade AA butter at 1.47 and cheddar barrel cheese at 1.31. Egg prices hold steady with extra large 76 to 81, large 74 to 78, medium 65 to 70. potato shipments declined last week due to light demand.
Last week 96,200 hundredweight were shipped, 20,700 cwt less than the prior week’s 116,900 cwt. Season total to date including seed shipments is 9,524,400 cwt, 2.7 percent below last season’s 9,788,700 cwt at this time.
Cash grains were mostly higher with the week ending April 16. Minneapolis May wheat rose 2 cents to $4.50. Sunflower seed futures gained 11 cents to $12.78. Chicago May corn fell 14 cents to $3.66. Chicago May soybeans declined 30 cents to $7.80.
A dated market roundup lists prices for copper radiators and stainless steel, wheat, corn, oats, soybeans, eggs, and a wide range of livestock. It notes spot rail corn and oats values, oil sunflower stocks, butter quotes, and potato prices, with multiple date stamps and regional mentions.
Minneapolis price list shows wheat at 4.56 percent, corn 3.69, oats 2.29, soybeans 7.89, rye 3.85 to 3.90, corn No 2 3.39, oats No 1 2.24 to 2.25, barley Larker 3.75 to 3.90, Beacon 3.75 to 3.90, feed No 3 or better 2.42, soybeans No 1 yellow 7.69 percent, flax No 1 8.10, sunflower seeds 12.35 per cat. April 14 feedstuffs per ton include soybean meal 44% 208.90, soybean meal 48% 226.90, linseed meal 34% 160, meat meal 50% 245, brewers' dried grains 112, wheat bran 100, wheat middlings 98, alfalfa meal dehydrated 130.
Madison reports no spot shipments of Wisconsin fluid milk to other states for April 10–15, unchanged from 1980. Prices on cheese and butter exchanges remained flat. CCC purchases during the holiday week totaled 9.7 million lb butter, 3.2 mln cheddar blocks, 5.8 mln barrel cheese, 8.7 mln nonfortified NDM, 3.1 mln fortified NDM, and 7.9 mln lb American cheese loaves at 1.43 percent. Milk equivalent 337.6 mln lb. CCC sold 917,000 lb standard NDM powder. For week ending April 9, butter production rose 2 percent to 27 mln lb. cheese production rose 2 percent to 52.7 mln lb.
Trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange showed mixed activity with hog and pork belly quotes fluctuating through the day. Reports include feeder cattle and live hog data, with sales figures, open interest changes, and notes on wheat and corn positions and futures cycles.
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