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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1981
Page
2
Cattle 2,500 with 200 vealers. hogs 5,000. sheep 300. Slaughter steers up $22.50 to $68.10 for 1,050–1,300 lb range, and 64.20–67 for 1,400–2,100 lb. Slaughter cows steady 53–57, some 58–59. Hogs up $11.50. 200–240 lb at 39–40. Sows 35–37. boars 36–38. Lambs and feeders mixed, 95–110 lb woolen 58–60, shorn 61–63. feeders 50–55 for 60–100 lb.
Steady tone across categories with top 55 commercial bulls and 50-54 common utility bulls. Calves show selective demand with 60-75 good to choice, 50-60 standard to good, 30-50 and down culls. Includes Ettrick reference.
Herd items list steady ranges for cows bulls replacement calves and fed cattle. Details include Holstein weights and prices for steers heifers and bulls along with pig auction timing and hog price bands.
Slaughter cattle prices rose with steers at 64 to 66 and heifers 62.50 to 64.60 on choice. Holstein steers surged to 58 to 61, with late sales up to 63 to 70.75. Barrows and gilts slipped while early delivery buys rose. Slaughter lambs up 1 to 2, ewes down, feeder lambs steady. Hog prices mixed with sows up to 37 and boars 32 to 33. Cattle carcass value around 105.66 for 600 to 700 pounds. hides and offal about 65.60.
The document lists regional order prices for March 1981 across New York New Jersey Florida Ohio Valley Chicago Indiana Minneapolis Des Moines Kansas City Nashville Oklahoma City Metro New Orleans Texas Colorado Central Arizona Oregon Washington and other areas. It also reports last week's prices for feeder pigs from American Feeder Pig Co op Midwest producers and notes ferrous scrap and non ferrous scrap market values including sheet iron appliances and corrugated boxes with varying NT prices and weights.
Mixed trends closed last week with Minneapolis May wheat up 7 cents at 4.58, Chicago May corn steady at 3.66, soybeans up 8 cents to 7.86, and grain prices listing wheat oats soybeans. Eggs butter and dairy prices varied with Wisconsin eggs unsettled and butter steady. pork and cattle values shown for various weight classes. sunflower seed and flaxseed also noted with price moves.
Grain quotes show wheat at 4.53 percent gain and corn up 3.61 percent with oats rising 2.19 percent and soybeans up 7.88 percent in Chicago. Rye and corn No 2, oats No 1, barley and flax prices listed with feedstuffs for April 21 per ton in Minneapolis, including soybean meal at 220.40 to 238.40 dollars and other meals, brewers dried grains, bran, middlings, and alfalfa meal prices.
Est sales 7,377 and 75 on Friday with 10,509 sales. Open interest Friday 29,373, up 482 from Thursday. Pork Bellies price in cents per pound, with 57.00 to 59.00 and 1,087 total open interest, up 28. Indicates market activity and price levels.
Summary of daily market stats for Country Today showing monthly values for Jul Aug Feb Mar and related figures. It lists sales totals, open interest changes from Thursday to Friday, and percentage metrics across multiple entries with emphasis on dollar per bit pricing and trading activity.
No spot loads of Wisconsin fluid milk for April 16 23. Butter on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange rose 2 cents to 1.39. AA and A unchanged. Green Bay cheese prices steady. CCC week ending April 23 bulk butter 12 million pounds black cheese 3.2 million pounds and more. Butter production week ending April 16 estimated 27.5 million pounds up 2 percent, cheese 53.5 million pounds up 2 percent.
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