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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1981
Page
2
Livestock listings show cattle and hog prices at South St Paul with steers heifers cows and bulls trading higher by up to 1, while hogs ease slightly. Detailed ranges include choice and good grades for steers and heifers, with lambs and sheep steady and calves and feeders priced for various weights across Eau Claire markets.
Steady Holstein bull calves 110-135 lbs to 65-80, top 95. Heifer calves 100-150 lbs to 177. FED CATTLE steady 53-57. Monday feeder pig auction 40-60 lb pigs 40-50 lbs 35-37 percent, 50-60 lbs 37-39 percent. Hogs weak 1 and 2 butchers 210-240 lbs 38-39 percent. heavyweight 33-34. bears 27-29. Feeder cattle steady Holstein steers 42-55, beef steers 52-62, beef heifers 42-55, utility 32-42.
Madison Wisconsin shipments rose slightly last week with 151,000 hundredweight moved. Season total reaches 8,218,500 cwt, just above last year's pace, Russets dominate with 79 percent of table stock, followed by round whites at 15 percent. Feeder pig prices appear in the 33 to 36 dollar range for 40 to 50 pound pigs.
Prices quoted from Max Phillips and Sons show market values for complete automobiles and non ferrous scrap. Items include motors, sheet iron, steel components, appliances, deep freezers, aluminum cans, and newspaper or corrugated paper with per hundredweight and per item figures. notes indicate market condition and date of sale.
Wisconsin dairy markets show unchanged butter prices with Grade AA at 1.47, Grade A 1.45, and Grade B 1.36 percent. Cheddar barrel 1.31 and 40 lb blocks 1.35 percent. Egg prices steady with extra large 70-74, large 68-72, and medium 61-66. Weight classes No. 1 through No. 3 listed as 55, 55, and 50 respectively.
The Minneapolis Grain Exchange saw rye hold firm while other grains declined amid softer demand and improving crops. For the week ending March 5 the Minneapolis March wheat future fell 14 cents to 4.40, Minneapolis May sunflower seed down 37 cents to 12.02 per hundredweight, and Chicago May corn futures down 13 cents.
Prices in a 1971 market roundup show Wheat at 1.73, corn 1.55-1.56, oats 78, soybeans 3.06% for March 11. Eggs large 37-39, medium 34-35. Livestock bids include cows 16-23% and fed steers 22-31%. Spot goods saw rye at a record high 4.05, soybeans down 19 cents to 6.86, and Chicago May soybeans at 7.26.
Minneapolis and Chicago price listings show wheat corn oats soybeans and other grains with contract grades and percentages. Local feedstuffs include soybean meal linseed meal meat meal brewers dried grains and other meals with per ton prices for March 3.
South St. Paul stockyards reported broad declines last week with slaughter steers 50 cents to $1 lower and cattle values easing across categories. Slaughter cows and bulls softened, feeders fell $25, and Holstein calves and replacements showed mixed shifts. Estimated carcass value for a 600–700 pound beef carcass was $100.71, versus $110.24 a year earlier.
The Country Today lists its Eau Claire address and copy details, noting it is a subsidiary of Eau Claire Press Co. with multiple editorial and regional offices. Nonsense text follows, including garbled sequences that do not form readable facts.
No spot shipments of Wisconsin fluid milk moved into other states in the week ending March 5, versus one load the prior week and 17 tankers in the comparable 1980 week. Butter and cheese price changes were flat, while CCC purchases totaled 368.9 million pounds milk equivalent. Butter and cheese production rose week to week while remaining below year-ago levels in parts of the dairy report.
Futures trading data across markets shows mixed closes in Cents per lb and dollars per unit with new highs and varying open interest. Notable figures include Fresh Broiler Chickens and Potatoes data, corn and note on sales and total open interest changes from Thursday to Friday with scattered percentages and prices.
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