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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1983
Page
2
Daily livestock guide lists cattle, vealers, hogs, sheep, and dairy prices for South St. Paul Minnesota and Eau Claire Wisconsin. Includes steers, heifers, cows, calves, feeders, hogs by weight with steady or varying quotes, plus grain and butter values from March 9 1973 and March 10 1982 references.
Prices quoted from Max Phillips and Sons complete automobiles market firm Seeneeneneeenee Compact. Prices listed for ferrous scrap non ferrous metals and other items including paper volume and aluminum cans. The second item reports the Wisconsin Ginseng Grower's Association meeting today from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Rib River Ballroom Marathon with board elections and agriculture department discussions.
Slaughter steer and heifer prices last week were mixed amid an unstable wholesale beef trade. USDA Livestock Market News reports slaughter steers and heifers at Midwest terminal markets were steady to a dollar lower as buying interests remained cautious.
Futures wrap with Mar Wheat at 3.77 and May Corn 2.88, May Oats 1.58, May Soybeans 5.89. Cash prices list Winter and Spring wheats, corn, oats, soybeans, flax, sunflowers, and feeds. cattle, hogs, lambs, and wool markets show varied gains and declines across regions with price ranges for steers, heifers, cows, bulls, and feeder stock.
Grain futures rebounded from earlier losses as gold slid mid week and the dollar eased. USDA Grain Market News noted last week’s trade before gold tumbled again, with corn and soybeans selling slowed and prices mixed. Minneapolis March wheat rose to $3.75, Chicago May corn slipped to $2.88, and soybeans to $5.85. Rye, oats, barley, and oilseed prices also moved, with flaxseed and sunflower seeds down, meal prices uneven, and by products mixed amid lighter farmer selling.
Badger Cooperative will run a series of twelve district annual meetings starting next Monday in Stetsonville with District 3 members, then Marshfield, Wittenberg, Shawano, Greenville, Kelly Lake, Seymour, Waupaca, East De Pere, Tilden, Rice Lake, and Gilman. Equity checks equal 25 percent of 1982 earnings. Meetings cover manager reports, resolutions, elect Young Cooperator reps, nominate directors, plus 282 quality awards. In 1982 members marketed 1.227 billion pounds of milk, with total sales at 242 million dollars.
Wisconsin eggs steady with February exchange data showing Extra large to Medium ranges. Butter prices adjusted, USDA exchange dated March seven. American Feeder Pig Co op posts 45 lb select at 50 to 51 dollars. Midwest Livestock Producers lists 40 to 50 lb premium pigs at 48.50 to 51.50 dollars, farm pickup 54 to 57 dollars.
The February Minnesota Wisconsin Price for 3.5 butterfat milk stood at 12.59 per hundred, down three cents from January but up thirteen cents from February 1982. Government purchases totaled 4.1 billion pounds in the first nine weeks of 1983, up about 21 percent year over year. Wisconsin to Minnesota shipments were minimal with one semi tanker going out of state last week. Fluid milk shipments remained steadier with minor fluctuations. Milk production peaks in the Deep South, rising in the East and steady in the West.
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