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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1980
Page
2
Ettrick cattle market shows steady to weak tone for cows and bulls with varied ranges. Utility cows 42-47, canners 41-46, light canners 38-41, heavy dairy bulls 52-55, good beef 52-55, light 45-52. Calves steady with repl. beef 70-85, Holstein bull 80-100, Holstein heifers 140-200, veal 60-85. Feeders steady to weak with steers 60-75, heifers 55-65, Holstein steers 55-62, open Holstein heifers 70-90, springing Holsteins 900-1,400 dollars.
Cattle prices show weak to steady demand across classes. Utility cows 40 to 44, dairy heifers 42 to 46, calves 65 to 75, and good to choice cattle 50 to 65. Replacement calves steady with Holstein bulls 70 to 95, heifers 100 to 175. Fed cattle steady at 54 to 60. Hogs strong for good quality 210 to 240 pounds at 45 to 46, other weights 42 to 45, bears 30 to 33. Feeder cattle soft with Holstein steers 45 to 55, beef steers 52 to 68, beef heifers 45 to 58, utilities 35 to 45.
South St. Paul stockyards posted mixed prices with steers and heifers uneven all week, Holstein cattle steadier. Slaughter cows slipped $3-4, bulls mostly 35.75-36.75, 40-50 lb pigs 36-46, feeders steady to up a dollar, Holstein heifers 100-210, calves 75-95, lambs down 2-3, ewes up 1, gross cut-out value for 600-700 lb beef at 106.67, hide value 71.40.
Readable sections show livestock, grain and commodity quotes with cattle, hog, sheep, dairy item prices. Includes weights ranges, price ranges for slaughter and live cattle, hogs, butter, cheese, potatoes, eggs, and grain futures with dated notes from 1970 and 1979. Also lists automobile prices and non ferrous scrap values.
Madison area potato shipments increased last week as expected after the Thanksgiving holiday and hunting season. A total of 193,000 hundredweight were shipped, 32,300 cwt more than the prior week. The season total to date reached 5,469,400 cwt, about 5.4 percent above last season at this point.
Pressured by rising rates and a quiet European market, the Minneapolis Grain Exchange saw futures fall last week. Wheat dropped 11 cents, sunflower seeds 6 cents, corn nearly 16 cents, and soybeans 62 cents for the week ending December 5.
Dec 5 exchange Wisconsin markets show Butter steady Chicago Grade AA 1.48 Grade A 1.47 Grade B 1.46 Cheese unchanged Cheddar barrel 1.31 40 lb blocks 1.36 Eggs steady extra large 86-90 large 84-88 medium 80-85 Rye down to 3.50 in Minneapolis soybeans light selling prices fell 59 cents to 8.15 flaxseed up 15 cents to 8.65 sunflowers oil down a nickel to 12 dollars per hundred July bids down 20 cents to 14.30 demand steady on farm selling and growing Mexican market.
The Minneapolis cash grain market lists Spring Wheat No 1 US dark northern at 4.68 for 14 percent, Corn No 2 at 3.15, Oats No 1 at 2.30, Soybeans No 1 yellow at 7.78, plus Rye No 2 3.45 and various feedstuffs including soybean meal 246.30 per ton and linseed meal 190.00 per ton with prices in effect for Minneapolis per ton.
No Wisconsin milk loads shipped out of state for Nov 26 to Dec 4, versus three loads last week and 98 loads in 1979. Prices unchanged on CME and NCE. November average manufacturing milk price in Minnesota and Wisconsin at 12.52 per 100 pounds butterfat 3.5, up 10c from October and 1.25 above last week. CCC purchased 2.3 million pounds butter, 1 million cheddar blocks, 1.7 million barrels, and 9.2 million pounds nonfat dry milk powder. Bid buys include 3.6 million pounds American process cheese loaves at 1.43 1 1/4 and 4.4 million pounds mozzarella loaves at 1.36 1/39. Butter output week ending Nov 27 fell 5 percent from prior week and 10 percent year over year. Cheese production at 39.6 million pounds down 2 percent from prior week and last year.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange futures report lists live cattle and feeder cattle prices by month, hog futures across several months, and grain and soy notes. Est. sales and total open interest are shown for each sector with day-to-day changes.
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