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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1978
Page
2
Wisconsin Dairy Steady prices for cattle calves and feeder cattle with top Holstein calf values in the 60 to 88 range. Bulls and hogs show steady to strong demand and price ranges across utility beef and packer categories.
Monday auction figures show cattle 3,300 hogs 4,200 and sheep 300. Slaughter steers and heifers offer Active Choice 57 to 59, Good and Choice 56 to 57. Holstein steers and heifers 52 to 53 for Choice, 50 to 52 for Good and Choice. Slaughter cows steady with Boning and Utility 38 to 41, Canner and Cutter 32 to 39. Slaughter bulls steady No 1 and 2 1,400-2,100 lbs 43-48, 1,100-1,400 lbs 39-44. Wealers firm 65 to 77 for 150-250 lbs. Hogs fairly active No 1-3 200-250 lbs 50 to 51, sows 48-49, boars 41. Sheep and lambs 61-62 for Choice and Prime slaughter lambs.
Cows steady to 42 cents. Steers steady 51-57, heifers 45-55. Holstein and replacement animals range 55-130, veal 60-80. Open Holstein heifers 55-75, springing Holsteins 600-900. Sows 41-43. Bears 38-40. Top butchers 49-49.
USDA Livestock Market News reports widespread price declines last week with slaughter steers 50 cents to a dollar lower and Holstein fed steers down as much as $2. Slaughter heifers and cows mostly $1 lower, bulls down, veal calves up to $5 higher. Holstein replacement heifers 90 to 200 pounds up to $97, replacement bull calves $60 to $75. Feeder steers and heifers about a dollar lower as market remains fleshy good overall.
Wis feeder pig prices ranged 40 lb pigs at 46 to 48 dollars with premiums up to 48 dollars. Cattle reports show 800 to 1100 lb slaughter steers at 59 dollars, fed heifers to 56, cows to 41, bulls to 49, and calves to 90. Beef feeder steers at 65.40 and Holstein feeders to 55.20 with replacements to 48. Lambs to 64, ewes 5 to 20, feeders 63 to 65, hogs in St Paul averaging around 43 with slaughter hogs to 50 and boars 42 and sows about 43.
A one year-ago market roundup lists grain prices for wheat 2.31 percent, corn 2.224, oats 1.47, soybeans 7.89. eggs by size 59-66 cents. livestock values for cows 18-26, dairy heifers 26-30, bulls 26-34, calves 27-55, fed cattle 33-38, slaughter hogs 42-42.5, sows 35-36, boars 25-30, beef feeders 30-35, Holstein feeders 30-33, slaughter lambs 53-56. butter Grade AA 1.0071, Arizona norgolds potatoes 5.50.
Agricultural prices list grain wheat 1.35 corn 1.17 oats 77 percent soybeans 2.72 percent Eggs extra large 35 medium 27 Livestock equity cows 15 21 heifers 18 22 bulls 17 25 fed steers and heifers 19 27 veal calves 22 41 slaughter hogs 19 20 sows 14 154 boars 13 14 slaughter lambs 27 44 28 Cheese cheddar loaf 494 564 brick 53 58 single daisies 53 56 Swiss Grade A 59 63 Swiss Grade B 56 61 Potatoes California round reds 5.25
Market bulletin lists butter prices for Chicago and New York grades, cheese values for cheddar barrels and Swiss grades, and Wisconsin eggs steady with size ranges. Notable quotes include unchanged cheddar barrel at 96.7 and Swiss grades at 1.34 1.32 1.28, with egg scales across extra large to medium.
Scrap prices list various materials from Max Phillips and Sons with unit ranges for complete automobiles, ferrous and non ferrous scrap, batteries, radiators, stainless steel, and newspapers. Includes notes on market conditions and date of sale.
From Wall Street Journal This Week Ye Flour seven dollars and ten cents per cwt. Coffee one dollar seventy five cents per pound seven dollars seventy five cents Cocoa not quoted Sugar beet one dollar eighty six and a half cents per pound one dollar forty five cents Broilers five and seventeen hundredths cents per pound four hundred sixty six items Pork joints one dollar and one cent per pound ninety cents Hams seventy nine cents per pound seventy cents Cattle hides forty eight pounds thirty six and a half percent
The Grain Market News for the week ending June 10 notes moisture conditions in the upper Midwest are the best in years and crop development remains normal despite late seeding. Minneapolis cash prices moved lower with winter wheat at 3.24 dollars, spring wheat 3.28, durum 3.80, rye steady at 33.10, and corn down about 11 cents to 2.36.
Twenty Pepin County youths finished a 10 hour tractor certification course in Durand on June 7 and 8. Instruction covered tractor operation, classroom topics, and equipment use with Durand Implement Co providing gear. Participants hailed from Durand Arkansaw Mondovi Plum City Pepin and surrounding communities.
The notice provides prices for futures and cash grains including Wheat Corn Soybeans and related products. It lists Spring Wheat and Winter Wheat grades with moisture percentages and price quotes, plus Durum Rye Corn Oats Barley Flax Sunflower Seeds Bran Sinseed Meal Soybean Meal Brewers Grains Alfalfa Pellets and Molasses with per ton or per cwt figures.
Wisconsin shipped 1,104 loads of fluid milk out of state in the first five months, nearly 2.5 times the 449 loads current at year’s end May 1977. Spot shipments involve semi trucks and out of state buyers. Casein supply worries grow as drought hits New Zealand and Australia, while Australia moves to shrink its dairy sector. US butter output for the week ending June 1 fell 7 percent to 21.6 million pounds, cheese up 2 percent to 49.9 million pounds from a year earlier.
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