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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1978
Page
2
Market listings show steady to weak values across cattle hogs and calves. Eau Claire prices include utility cows 30-34 and feeder cattle 22-39, while Ettrick reports cows up to 42 and Holstein replacements 40-70 with veal values 45-75 and springing Holstein heifers 550-800.
USDA Livestock Market News reports for the week ending Feb 25 show slaughter steers to 46 dollars per cwt for large 1000-1300 lb lots, slaughter heifers to 44, cows to 34.50 top, bulls to 43.50, veal calves to 85 with most 45 to 65. Feeders mostly steady to down, Holstein feeders weaker, top beef feeders 51 to 53.20, Holstein feeders 35.50 to 42.70, good Holstein replacement heifers 47 to 49.75. Hog and lamb prices follow with sows to 49, barrows and gilts around 42 to 44, slaughter lambs steady with wool 62 to 66, shorn 65 to 68, ewes 8 to 22, feeder lambs 65 to 68.
Feb 24 Wisconsin eggs and exchange trade plus market quotes for cattle hogs sheep and poultry. Cattle steady with steer and heifer prices mostly in the 38 to 46 percent range for various grades. Hog prices show ranges from 36 to 41 percent for No 1 to 3. sows and boars listed separately. Sheep and lambs steady with good and prime grades quoted. butter cheese and egg prices from Chicago New York and Wisconsin markets included.
Market figures show Wheat up 2.67 percent with corn at 2.5442 oats 1.90 and soybeans 7.64 percent. Egg prices quoted by size range from extra large 67 to 74 cents, large 66 to 71 cents and medium 61 to 65 cents per dozen.
Trading in potatoes last week was slow with russet cartons and round whites in short supply. Potatoes Minnesota round reds and Wisconsin russets are priced from 2.55 to 6.00 per hundredweight with bakers at 9 to 10 per hundred. A weekly shipment total reached 222100 hundredweight, season-to-date 8.3 million, up from 7.8 million last year.
An Educational Telephone Network program will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday March 9 inviting all sheep producers. Topics include pasture management wool and lamb marketing replacement ewes and identification of prolific ewe lambs led by Richard Watthauer UW Extension livestock specialist.
In Berne Swiss dairy farmers will vote in late May on continuing production quotas tied to emergency orders from May 1977. A majority approval would enshrine quotas in permanent dairy laws and preserve heavy penalties for over-quota milk. The 1977-78 quota rose to 2.90 million tons, lifting costs to an estimated 15 to 20 million dollars.
Former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz will address the Pierce County Republican Party at the Lincoln Day Dinner. The Purdue emeritus professor will speak after the 8 p.m. dinner at the Steamboat Inn in Prescott.
Minneapolis market quotations dated February 21 show price ranges for spring wheat, winter wheat, durum, rye, corn, oats, barley, soybeans, flax and sunflower seeds. Also listed are bran, sesame meal, soymeal, brewers grains and alfalfa pellets with per ton prices.
Scrap iron fetches 30 to 40 dollars per net ton while scrap sheet runs 12 to 17 dollars. Old batteries vary from 1.50 to 1.90 dollars each. Scrap aluminum asks 15 to 17 cents per pound. Newspaper rates start at 15 dollars per ton up to 1,000 pounds, 20 dollars per ton for 1,000 to 3,990 pounds, 35 dollars per ton for 4,000 to 5,990 pounds, and 50 dollars per ton for over 6,000 pounds.
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