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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1983
Page
2
South St Paul Minnesota bids show cattle and hogs trading with steers and heifers up to 50 cents higher. Holstein and utility cattle move in wide ranges with feeder and calf quotes, futures listed for wheat corn oats soybeans and barley, plus Monday cash prices for spring wheat and corn markets.
A free two hour seminar at UW Stout Student Center Ballroom on January 19 at 7 p.m. will cover retirement planning. Regional experts will discuss economizing legal aspects of personal finances trusts life insurance and charitable giving with a Q&A. Open to the public.
Prices quoted for ferrous and non ferrous scrap items include large and medium autos, whole motors, sheet iron, appliances, deep freezers, aluminum, batteries, radiators, stainless, newspapers, corrugated boxes, U Can Recycling Center items, and glass. Rates shown per hundred pounds or cents per pound with notes on foreign material and ton equivalents.
The readable OCR fragment lists grain prices for January 13 1982 with Wheat at 4.08, Corn 2.73, Oats 2.08 and Soybeans 6.34 percent, along with egg trays and livestock figures including cows, heifers, bulls and cattle, plus butter Grade A 1.40 to 1.47. A second entry references January 10 1973 with Wheat 2.734, Corn 1.624, Oats 0.98 and Soybeans 4.33, and notes limited quotes for eggs and some livestock values.
Wisconsin market summary reports last week saw over 20,000 head sold at auctions monitored by the Agriculture Department. Totals include 6,850 cattle 9,650 calves 2,225 hogs and 2,625 feeder pigs with varied changes from the prior week. Slaughter cows mostly $2 lower veal calves steady to firm and barrows and gilts 50 cents lower while sows rose a dollar at Marion Johnson Creek Ripon and Lomba markets.
Last week's prices show American Feeder Pig Co op listing 45 lb pigs at 46 to 47 dollars. Midwest Livestock Producers lists 40 to 50 lb detailed pigs at 46 to 49 dollars picked up on farm in South St. Paul Minnesota. Some 40 to 50 lb lots are not available.
A survey of week ending Jan 7 shows slaughter steers and heifers mostly steady to $1 higher, except South St. Paul firm to 50 cents up. Cattle slaughter 682,000. hogs 1,511,000. sheep 127,000. Cull cows high share. many terminals saw sharper cow losses. Hog and lamb prices mixed with some gains in late week. Lambs 52-54 cents. carlot dressed lambs down East Coast.
Madison notes the December Minnesota-Wisconsin Price averaged 12.62 per hundred for 3.5 milk, up 6 cents from last month and year over year. USDA Daily Market News cites final Class II prices across 43 markets at 12.65 Group A 12.70 Group B and 12.80 Group C. CCC bought 11.8 million pounds butter 10.6 million cheese and 21.8 million nonfat dry milk the milk equivalent 348.4 million pounds. Cheese output in five states rose 2 percent year over year while butter fell 7 percent. Wisconsin shipped three spot loads of milk last week after a prior week of none but below last year at this date.
The Wisconsin Brown Swiss Association schedules seven Canton meetings across January and February in Baraboo announces the annual state meeting February 19 at the Holiday Inn Southeast Madison. The morning session features a film on genetic defects with an animal geneticist and AI industry representative. Secretary-Treasurer Jodi Porter, Baraboo, provides more information.
Marathon County 4-H hosts four meetings titled Tools for Leadership for project and organizational leaders. Sessions cover leader responsibilities, 4-H record keeping and awards systems, and planning project meetings at four county locations including Mosinee Wausau Athens and Stratford. All start at 7 30 p.m. Registration by January 19 and contact Sheila Urban for details.
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