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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1982
Page
2
South St. Paul Minnesota livestock Monday pricing lists cattle hogs and calves with steady to weak trends. Prices cover slaughter steers Holstein steers slaughter heifers slaughter balls weaners hogs sows and bears. Eau Claire data show cattle dairy and beef bulls calves and utilities with steady to higher ranges.
Steady Holstein bull calves 110-135 lbs priced 55-75 with top 84. Holstein heifer calves 65-90 priced 55-… reads. Feeder pig auction notes Monday sales with 40-60 lb pigs 40-50 lbs 45-48 50-60 lbs 48-52. Heavy and light weight packers 42-44, boars 38-40. Feeder cattle steady. Holstein steers 39-45 beef steers 47-55 beef heifers 40-46 utility 30-40.
Wisconsin potato prices held generally steady last week with russet burbanks at 3.50 per 100 pounds, round reds 5.25 to 5.50, and round whites 3.25 to 3.50. Shipments to date total about 5.2 million hundredweight of table stock and 617,400 hundredweight of chip stock, compared with 5.4 million and 6187200 hundredweight a year ago. The Osseo-Fairchild High School FFA Christmas party will be held Saturday from 4 to 10 p.m. in the vo-ag room, featuring charcoal chicken and all the trimmings. tickets are 3 for adults and 1.50 for children 12 and under.
Max Phillips and Sons Complete Automobiles market shows a very weak demand with mixed prices for auto parts. Scrap aluminum listed at 10 to 25 cents per pound, batteries, copper, radiators, and glass from 1 to 35 cents per pound, with commodities like newspapers donated to Sundowners Drum Corps and motor oil accepted. prices fluctuate with markets.
Wisconsin dairy prices show butter down grade AA at 1.50 and grade A at 1.46 with grade B at 1.43 percent. Cheese remains unchanged with Cheddar barrel at 1.33 and 40-lb blocks 1.37 percent. Eggs hold steady with extra large 62-67, large 59-62, and medium 49-52.
Livestock trading at South St Paul yards shows price declines across most categories last week. Slaughter steers, Holstein fed steers, and slaughter cows fell. slaughter lambs rose. veal calves held steady. Feeder stocks varied with Holstein and beef feeders mixed. hogs largely steady to down. sows weaker. feeder pigs soft. Prices cited for fed steers 52.50 to 57.60, sows 46 to 46.5 cents, slaughter lambs 49 to 51 cents, veal 25 cents to 1.05.
Last week prices from American Feeder Pig Co op show select 45 lb pigs at 45.50 to 46.50 dollars. Midwest Livestock Producers list premium grade 40-50 lb pigs at 44 to 47 dollars picked up on farm, and 40-50 lb pigs at 42 to 51 dollars.
Last week grain markets featured mixed futures and firmer cash bids in Minneapolis. Dec spring wheat rose to 3.75, Chicago corn to 2.42, and Jan soybeans to 5.62 as mills showed demand. cash prices edged up or down across wheat, rye, oats, and specialty grains while oilseeds and feeds moved on demand and farmer holding.
Data shows historical grain, eggs, livestock and butter quotes for Dec 16 1981 and Dec 16 1972, with Wheat Corn Oats Soybeans and various livestock categories listed alongside Butter Grade AA quotes and regional price ranges. A later line notes no quote for Butter Grade AA in 1972.
Futures show March wheat 3.76 percent gain, March corn 2.42 percent, March oats 1.69 percent, January soybeans 5.70 percent. Monday cash prices list various grades: spring and winter wheats, rye, corn, oats, soybeans, flax and sunflowers, with feedstuffs prices for Minneapolis per ton including soybean meal, linseed meal, meat meal, brewer's dried grains, wheat bran and middlings, and alfalfa meal.
Daily market notes describe fluid milk production at low to rising seasonal levels across regions with Northwest near the low cycle. Supplies balance with bottling needs though demand remains unaggressive. Wisconsin spot shipments rose to 9 loads last week with 5 to Illinois and 4 to Indiana. USDA purchases reached 160 million pounds of fluid milk.
A dairy goat clinic will be held from 7 to 8 30 p m tonight on the Educational Telephone Network covering all area counties. County extension agents will share local hookup locations as UW dairy goat committee members and breeders answer questions. The program includes national and state dairy goat association activities, nutrition updates, DHI program briefs, and breeding and reproduction topics with an informal discussion on breeding seasons records pregnancy exams and care of pregnant does.
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