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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1977
Page
2
Durand city park committee seeks homeowner input on buying trees for 1977 78 per George L Oncken Pepin County ag agent. Cattle and hog market quotes, plus feed and grain prices, accompany the notice with livestock price ranges and commodity values.
A compact market rundown lists grain prices for Wheat, Corn, Oats, and Soybeans for July 6 1967 and July 6 1976, including egg prices by size and livestock bids for cows bulls cattle veal hogs and lambs. Butter and cheese prices for Wisconsin and Chicago New York markets are included with grade examples.
The report shows a mixed week with slaughter steers and heifers mostly steady to 50 cents higher while cull cows eased. Hogs rose to 1.50, lambs fell about a dollar. feeder cattle gained up to 1, and Holstein figures peaked at 38 with most in the mid 30s.
The Country Today reports livestock prices for the week including hog shows with 200 to 260 pound barrows and gilts in strong demand under 240 pounds. Average hog weight 236 pounds. sows 14 percent of the run. Slaughter hogs mostly 45.50 to 47 dollars, sows 38.50 to 39, boars 28 to 37. Spring lambs 90 to 110 pounds closed 49 to 52, slaughter ewes 5 to 12. Hide and offal from a 1000 pound steer valued at 41.30 versus 43.20 a year earlier.
The grain marketweek ending July 1 saw prices ease as a stronger Russian wheat crop outlook reduced demand. Winter wheat fell about 1 cent per bushel, spring wheat dropped to 2.63, rye slipped to 2.15–2.25, corn dipped to around 2.08, oats rose to 0.05, feed barley steady, soybeans up 0.15 before foreign buyers pulled back, flaxseed unchanged, and sunflowers for July delivery down 0.10 to 11.50 per hundred.
The National Cheese Exchange saw barrel cheese rise while Swiss fell. CCC bought 4.4 million pounds of bulk butter and 16.5 million pounds of NDM. Grade A Wisconsin milk shipments out of state remained slow as fluid milk supply dipped regionally.
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