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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1980
Page
2
Eau Claire market reports show cattle prices across categories from weak beef cattle and steady calves to steady feeders and weak dairy and utility cows. The document lists futures and live bids for cattle hogs and sheep, plus Open market items, car and ferrous scrap, and miscellaneous prices, with regional notes and totals for Monday volume in South St. Paul Minnesota.
Wisconsin eggs held steady with extra large 86-90 and large 84-88. Cheese cheddar barrels unchanged at 1.31, 40 lb blocks at 1.36. Sunflower seed futures rose, corn and soy futures mixed, oats up, rye steady, and crude sunflower oil edged down.
Readable prices list for wheat corn oats soybeans rye corn oats barley larker beacon and other grains with No 2 and No 1 classifications. Included are November 25 prices for Minneapolis per ton soymeal linseed meal meat meal brewers dried grains wheat bran and middlings.
South St. Paul stock yards reported higher prices across most classes last week. Slaughter steers 63.90 to 65.90, heifers 61 to 62.80, cows 42 to 47 with late 44 to 47, bulls 51 to 56, and weaners down to 80 to 95 for choice and prime. Feeder steers 60 to 78, Holsteins 52 to 61.75, sows 40 to 41, barrows and gilts 47 to 47.5, slaughter lambs up about four dollars, ewes up to two. Estimated carcass value 108.10, hide value 73.90.
The Country Today issue header lists staff positions from general manager to office manager and notes market quotes for GRAIN WHEAT CORN OATS SOYBEANS LIVESTOCK and butter. It provides price points for dairy and crop commodities and Wisconsin round white potatoes.
Dec 3, 1970 report shows Wisconsin potato shipments fell as demand was light before Thanksgiving and hunting season limited supplies. Livestock prices mostly rose for cows, heifers, and hogs, with butter at 71 cents. Cheese and potato price ranges listed. Russet and round red varieties dominate movement with minor shifts in non sized russet prices. Season total 5,276,400 cwt, up 5.8 percent from last year.
On the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Tuesday live beef cattle futures posted varied closes with December at 66.6 and January at 69.0 cents per four, while feeder cattle hovered near 76.9 to 79.8 cents per pound and live hogs ended around 50.5 to 63.6 cents per pound amid steady to higher activity and notable total open interest.
Daily futures figures show total open interest varying by market with Mon readings ranging from 275 to 315,471. Estimates for Monday sales are spread across commodities with Potatoes and other items showing Mon sales totals from 94,718 to 87,311. Note the close is the average of the last two trades and Fri changes are noted where provided.
Madison Spot shipments of Wisconsin fluid milk during the holiday period Nov 21 25 totaled three loads, vs four loads prior week and 22 loads year ago. Butter prices on CME dairy butter steady at 1.48 for AA, 1.47 for A, 1.46 for B. CCC purchases last week include butter cheddar blocks barrel cheese and milks. Week ending Nov 20 butter output fell 5 percent to 19 million pounds while cheese output dipped 1 percent to 40.5 million pounds.
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