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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1981
Page
2
South St. Paul Minn Monday cattle volumes include 2000 head cattle 200 hogs 4500 sheep 300 slaughter steers up 50 cents with heavies 644 to 65.85 per cwt. Holsteins steady to 60 60.40. cows down $1. hogs up 50 cents with 200-260 lb No 1 and 2 at 49Y2 to 50. lambs steady and spring feeder weights 50-55 per cwt.
The Eau Claire market shows mixed cattle quotes with cows and calves steady to weak. Utility cows bring 40-45, dairy heifers 42-47, beef bulls 43-48, replacements 70-95 for Holstein calves, hogs strong at 42-49, feeder cattle soft for Holstein steers 42-52 and beef types 52-58, and pig auction notes on Monday mornings.
Ettrick cattle price table shows livestock categories from cows and bulls to fed cattle and veal. Prices cover utilities cutters light canners heavy dairy good beef light steady to weak repl. beef and Holstein replacements, top butchers, sows boars and feeder cattle values. Springing Holstein heifers are offered at 900 to 1200 dollars.
On July 24 exchange date butter prices ease with Chicago Grade AA at 1.47 percent, Grade A 1.46 percent, Grade B 1.44 percent. Cheddar unchanged with barrel 1.28 percent and 40 lb blocks at 1.35 percent. Wisconsin eggs steady with extra large 70-77, large 68-72, medium 57-62. Egg Market Evaluation Committee shows weights for Class No 1 through 4 and breaking stock at 51, 50, 45, 38, and checks at 40. American Feeder Pig Co-op referenced from last week.
The page lists scrap prices for complete automobiles ferr ous scrap and non ferrous items with unit terms NT and CWT. Futures wheat corn oats and soybeans show mixed prices. Livestock prices at South St. Paul stockyards report trends on steers heifers cows bulls and feeders with specific price ranges and carcass value estimates.
The clip lists commodity prices for July 29 1980 and July 29 1971 including GRAIN Wheat corn oats soybeans, EGGS by size, LIVESTOCK values for cows bulls fed cattle slaughter hogs sows boars beef feeder cattle, BUTTER Grade AA, POTATOES Texas round reds and California long whites, plus BARLEY Larker Beacon and various feedstuffs and soy meal prices. It reflects historical price data with ranges and unit measures across grains livestock and inputs.
USDA grain review notes lower week markets as excellent growing conditions persist across the Upper Midwest. Minneapolis September wheat up 60 cents to 4.31, November sunflowers at 12.56, Chicago September corn down 0.08, August soybeans down 0.18 to 7.27. Other grain moves include spring wheat 4.56, winter wheat 4.31, durum mostly steady, and oats soybeans flaxseed and sunflower oil also quoted with mixed changes.
The readable parts point to a senate brief with unsettled wording and missing details. Names places and dates are unreadable, leaving a skeletal summary of a legislative item without clear actions or outcomes.
Spot shipments of Wisconsin fluid milk to other states rose to 26 truckloads for the week ending July 23, up from two the prior week and far below the 73 loads a year earlier. Six tankers went to East North Central states, 20 to a South Atlantic state, the first South Atlantic shipments since February. Butter on the Chicago Merc declined 2 cents to 1.46 for grade A, with grade B at 1.44 and grade AA unchanged at 1.47. CCC bought and sold large volumes of dairy products including 4.7 million pounds of butter and 20.4 million pounds of nonfat dry milk powder.
Grain and soybean futures fell Monday as traders priced continued high borrowing costs reflected in the interest rate futures market. Analysts noted weak U.S. Treasury bill and bond performance as a key driver, with wheat slipping slightly on export hopes from India Turkey and possible Soviet purchases. Prices for wheat corn oats and soybeans moved lower with September wheat at 4.10 a bushel and August soybeans at 7.27 a bushel amid futures activity on the Chicago Board of Trade.
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