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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1981
Page
2
South St Paul Minn Monday volume lists cattle 2500 hogs 4500 sheep 600 and 300 weaners. Slaughter steers steady with choice 1050 1250 lbs at 59 to 60.70. Good and choice 58 to 59. Utility cows 41 to 46 canners 35 to 41 dairy heifers 43 to 49.
Steady to higher bids across cattle hogs and sheep with Holsteins 50 cents to 1 dollar up for certain lots. Slaughter cows and bulls show varied gains, calves and feeder pigs priced per weight class, and replacement calves including Holstein numbers. Open Holstein heifers and springing Holsteins noted with price ranges and terms.
Wisconsin eggs and produce report shows butter and cheese prices steady with unchanged Chicago grade milk levels. Egg market evaluation lists steady weight classes for extra large, large, and medium eggs with weight ranges and the two weight classes 54 and 154 referenced by the committee.
A WSJ brief shows last year figures for commodities including flour at 10.95 a hundredweight and coffee at 1.23 a pound with sugar beet 0.3390 per pound and broilers 0.5331 per pound. Also listed are pork loins at 0.93 per pound ham at 0.65 and cattle hides at 0.49 per pound with unit prices shown.
Last week prices show American Feeder Pig Co-op Select at 45 lb range 33.25 to 34.25 dollars. Midwest Livestock Producers offered 40- to 50-lb premium pigs 32 to 34.50 dollars picked up on farm, and 40- to 50-lb pigs 37 to 43 dollars.
Prices quoted by Max Phillips and Sons for complete automobiles, ferrous and nonferrous scrap, sheet and appliances, and bulk items. Market steady with quoted ranges per ton or hundredweight, noting deep freezers, batteries, aluminum, radiators, stainless, newspaper, corrugated boxes, and dry news-only material. terms reference NT units and market condition date of sale.
Grain and livestock quotes list Wheat Corn Oats Soybeans and multiple categories for eggs butter potatoes and cheese. Prices are given as ranges for classed products with year 1980 figures Feb 25 and 1971 data for comparison including dairy beef and veal categories and regional potato varieties.
The week ending February 19 sees Minneapolis March wheat up 9.0 cents to 4.61 and sunflower futures up 26 cents to 11.93 per cwt while Chicago corn gains 1.0 cent to 3.63 and soybeans rise 18.0 cents to 7.59. Cash spring wheat weakens slightly while other grains show varied shifts across spot and futures.
Cash grain prices for Wheat Corn Oats Soybeans Rye Barley and flax are listed with New York and Chicago quotes. Feedstuffs prices include soybean meal linseed meal meat meal brewers dried grains and cereal byproducts with per ton FOB Minneapolis figures.
Chicago futures data show estimated sales at 16,341 contracts for the period, Friday sales at 17,135 contracts, and open interest at 44,836, up 536 from the prior reading, indicating increased market activity and demand.
Prices at South St. Paul stockyards were steady or higher for feeders and sheep with hogs and slaughter cattle showing declines or mixed results. Slaughter steers mostly steady to down with some high-yield grades up. Holstein steers firm to higher. slaughter heifers and cows lower. bulls down. feeders steady to higher. barrows and gilts weak, sows and boars down. slaughter lambs up slightly. feeder lambs strong. Estimated carcass value for a 600–700 lb beef carcass: 104.78, versus 110.14 a year ago. hide and offal value for a 1,000-lb steer: 57.50, down from 64.30 year prior.
The Country Today is a rural oriented independent weekly mailed each Wednesday to farms and agribusinesses in western and northwestern Wisconsin. Note the brief mentions of association membership and national advertising network across major cities.
Wisconsin potato shipments rose slightly last week with 162 500 hundredweight shipped, 18 400 cwt more than the prior week. Season total to date including seed shipments stands at 7 792 600 cwt, only 0.8 percent above last season's 7 729 300 cwt. Russets account for 79 percent of table stock movement, followed by round whites at 15 percent and round reds at 6 percent.
For the week ending February 19 there were no spot shipments of Wisconsin fluid milk and cheese and butter prices remained unchanged. The prior week CCC bought 11.4 million pounds of butter, 2.2 million pounds of cheddar blocks, 4.5 million pounds of barrel cheese, 14.5 million pounds of nonfat dry milk powder, and 604,800 pounds of American cheese loaves at 1.43 percent, totaling about 307.5 million pounds milk equivalent. All bids for standard grade NDM were rejected for low prices. For the week ending February 12 butter production was 26.5 million pounds, down 1 percent from the prior week but up 16 percent from a year earlier, while cheese production was 48.9 million pounds, unchanged from the prior week and up 17 percent from a year earlier.
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