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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1985
Page
4
July 1 trade figures show calves mixed from unevens and highs to 80 for fancy selections. Beef and Holstein replacements steady to weak with heifers and steers priced by grade. Hogs steady to active with strong butchers and packers and feeder pigs at 37 to 42 per head for 40-50 lb pigs.
Comprehensive livestock price list from Beetown and Midwest auctions. Includes cattle categories like fat cattle, Holstein steers, dairy cows, replacements, veal calves, feeder cattle, and hogs with bid ranges. Also notes grain quotes, feeder pig sale results, and general market references for June sales and state averages.
The report lists futures closes for Wheat, Corn, Oats, and Soybeans in Minneapolis and Chicago, with percent changes and cash prices for Spring and Winter Wheat, Durum, Rye, Corn, Oats, Barley, and related feeds. Prices cover No. 1 dark northern Spring Wheats, No. 1 dark hard red Winter Wheats, Durum, Rye No. 2, No. 2 Corn, No. 1 Oats, Barley varieties, and feedstuffs including soybean meal and linseed meals with per ton and per cwt quotes.
June 28 exchange shows butter markets lower on B Grade AA at 1.41 percent, Grade A 1.40 and Grade B 1.35 with no change in cheese. Cheddar barrel and blocks stand at 16 percent and 40 pounds 1.21 percent as of June 24. Wisconsin society notes steady extra large 61 to 64, large 9 to 62, and medium 47 to 50.
Grain markets weakened last week with most prices down as supplies accumulate. Corn slid to $2.67 in Omaha and $2.68 in Minneapolis, with oats barley and beans mixed or steady while new crop harvest outpaces last year. River shipments to midwest ports show declines in wheat corn and soybeans versus a year ago.
USDA market report shows fed cattle prices down sharply last week with steers over 1,300 pounds under narrow demand and widespread discounts. Cull cows topped 41 cents in the Midwest, with hogs and lambs mixed across terminals, and regional notes from South St Paul detail further declines in steers, heifers, and feeder categories amid overall weaker slaughter data.
The USDA reports Madison Butter and cheese in government storage are down from a year ago with butter stocks about 50 percent lower and cheese stocks down over 30 percent. The week saw a 22.1 million pound cheese purchase, including mozzarella, the largest weekly cheese buy since July 1983, plus butter and nonfat dry milk purchases totaling 365.2 million pounds in fluid milk equivalent. Wisconsin shipped no spot fluid milk last week, far below last year’s 68 semi tankers. South milk production is steady, Northeast steady, and West output slipping but holding.
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