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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1981
Page
2
Equity livestock reports mixed cattle prices with weak trend in fed cattle and hogs. cattle categories span utility cows to beef bulls with calves steady or weak. replacement calves show steady Holstein calf prices. feeder cattle and Monday pig auction noted with range pricing for various weight classes. Bears 31-32 referenced.
Range of bids listed for cows and bulls at Ettrick with lower utility, lighter canners, steady to weak calves, and Holstein offerings. Fed cattle show steady to good to choice steers and heifers with price bands from mid 50s to high 50s for steer classes and 52 to 57 for standard to good heifers. Replacement Holstein bulls reach 80 to 105, Holstein heifers 85 to 125, veal 40 to 70 depending on quality.
Market report from South St. Paul Minnesota covering cattle numbers for slaughter steers Holstein steers slaughter heifers and cows hog prices and feeder cattle. Includes price ranges for weight classes and classifications such as good and choice top butchers sows boars and utility grades with late notes on springing Holstein heifers priced between 900 and 1200 dollars.
Thanksgiving and an ice storm reduced last week’s activity at South St. Paul stockyards. Slaughter steers and cows eased to steady ranges, heifers steady, bulls mixed with yield grades 1-2 at 44-48. Wealers and Holstein stock held firm, hogs down 50 cents to a dollar, sheep and lambs up 1-2. Feeder cattle generally weaker with Holstein steers hardest hit.
Barrows and gilts down 50 cents with U S 1 2 200 250 pounders 41 50 to 42. Sows under 500 pounds 34 50 35, over 500 pounds 35 down 3 50 4. Boars over 300 pounds 32 33. Slaughter lambs up 1 with shorn 46 48 few 49, wooled 44 46 few 47. Slaughter ewes steady 10 14. Feeder lambs steady 40 48. Estimated gross cut out value of a 600 700 pound beef carcass 101 12 last week 108 16 a year ago.
The market shows unchanged Chicago Grade AA eggs at 1.52 percent and Grade A and B at 1.48 percent. Cheese blocks fall 1 cent. cheddar barrel price steady at 1.31 and 40 lb blocks at 1.35. Wisconsin egg prices vary by weight class with unsettled pricing for extra large to small sizes and weight class values listed. Egg market evaluation committee assigns weights from 50 to 60 for four weight classes and 45 for checks.
Last week prices for feeder pigs show select 45 lb pigs at 30.25 to 31.25 dollars per head from American Feeder Pig Co op. Midwest Livestock Producers report 40 to 50 lb pigs at 29 to 31.50 dollars for premium grade detailed pigs picked up on farm, with 40 to 50 lb pigs at 30 to 37 dollars.
Scanner notes show scrap prices from Max Phillips and Sons, various metals and nonferrous items with price ranges per hundred weight, plus grain and livestock quotes, eggs, butter, potatoes, and feedstuffs. Markets quiet with price declines on grain futures and mixed livestock bids, dated December 2, 1980.
Minneapolis cash grain prices show futures for Wheat 4.16 percent, Corn 2.80, Oats 2.26, Soybeans 6.46, Rye No 2 3.75, Corn No 2 2.34, Oats No 1 2.26 to 2.30, Barley Larker 2.90 to 3.15, Beacon 2.70 to 2.90, Feed No 3 or better 2.13, Soybeans No 1 yellow 6.14 percent, Flax No 1 7.65, Sunflower Seeds 0.11.15 per cwt. Prices for Nov 24 feedstuffs per ton: Soybean meal 44% 182.90, Linseed meal 34% 150, Meat meal 50% 210, Brewers' dried grains 122, Wheat bran 79, Wheat middlings 77, Alfalfa meal dehydrated 102.
Three spot shipments of Wisconsin fluid milk moved to Indiana during Thanksgiving week, down from 16 tankers the prior week and unchanged from three truckloads a year ago. Cheddar blocks fell 1% to $1.35% while barrels held at $1.31. Butter and cheese production data show regional declines, with U S butter output at 21.2 million pounds, down 5 percent week over week but up 11 percent from a year ago.
Chicago Board of Trade futures closed with wheat and corn lower and soybeans and oats higher. December wheat at about 4.16 a bushel, December corn around 2.61, December oats near 2.26, January soybeans about 6.46 a bushel.
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