This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 14 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1982
Page
2
Market rundown lists cattle and hog categories with steady to strong quotes. Cows, bulls, fed cattle, calves, hogs, and feeder cattle shown with price ranges and quality descriptors across utility and dairy lines. Springing Holstein heifers quoted at 900 to 1100 dollars.
Strong utility cows held at 38 to 42 while top 44.40. Dairy heifers 38 to 45. Bulls steady with top 49.90. commercial bulls 42 to 48. Common utility bulls 28 to 35. beef bulls 35 to 42. Calves few select 50 to 60. good to choice 40 to 50. standards 25 to 40. culls 25 and down.
Steady calf prices listed for Holstein bull calves 110-135 lbs and heifer calves 50-120 lbs with tops. Fed cattle steady with weight ranges 54-61. Monday feeder pig auction notes bulk 40-60 lb pigs with price bands and weights. Feeder cattle show weak Holstein steers 42-51 and beef cattle 40-58 with utility classes 25-40.
South St. Paul stockyards shows cattle steady to lower for slaughter steers and Holstein types, hogs and lambs higher or steady. Feeder steers 59.90 to 63.90, barrows up 50 cents to 1, sows higher, slaughter lambs 60 to 66, ewes 12 to 16, feeder lambs 55 to 60, carcass value 105.48 for a 600 to 700 pound beef carcass, hide value 5.63 per cwt.
North American livestock prices show mixed movement across cattle hogs and sheep in South St. Paul. Strong to 50 cents higher for slaughter steers and heifers, steady to weak for sheep and lambs, with feeders and cows holding firm on several grades. Prices listed by weight bands and quality categories for steers, heifers, cows, bulls, hogs and lambs.
Wisconsin eggs and produce prices show steady to unchanged values. Butter grades range from 1.46 to 1.47 with Grade B at 1.40. Cheddar barrel price at 1.31 and 40 lb blocks at 1.35. Eggs list by size show steady quotes for extra large 80 to 85, large 77 to 80, and medium 72 to 75. Weight class evaluations posted for No. 1 to No. 4 along with breaking stock and checks.
Market listings show prices for complete automobiles one unit and various scrap items. Quoted values cover non ferrous scrap aluminum batteries radiators stainless newspaper and other metals with per hundred weight and ton measures, plus grain eggs livestock butter potatoes and date stamps from March 24 1981 and March 24 1972.
Prices rose on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange with May wheat at 4.01, May corn at 2.71, and May soybeans at 6.31. Spot barley and rye showed mixed moves while flaxseed declined and sunflower oil stayed soft, with oats and other feed grains broadly firm or higher.
For the week ending March 16, soybean meal prices were mixed with spot 44 percent protein up 70 cents to 179.10 per ton, 47 percent protein meal for southern Minnesota plants up 16 dollars to 192.10. Linseed meal held at 152, sunflower meal fell to 110, meat meal rose to 210, tankage to 230, yellow grease down to 14.5, white grease up to 0.17, wheat millfeeds up 8, alfalfa meal up 1. Brewers' dried grains unchanged at 90.
Federal milk order prices report outlines price setting for class I nonfat milk and other milk classes across regions. The document details base prices and adjustments, affecting producers and processors, with figures and effective dates for the current marketing year.
Last week prices for feeder pigs show the American Feeder Pig Co op selecting 45 lb pigs at 46.25 to 47.25 dollars. Midwest Livestock Producers offers 40 to 50 lb premium grade pigs at 45 to 47.50 dollars picked up on farm, with 40 to 50 lb pigs priced from 49 to 54 dollars.
Futures prices for Wheat Minneapolis 4.04 Corn Chicago 2.72 Oats Chicago 2.00 Soybeans Chicago 6.37 Rye No 2 3.75 Corn No 2 2.51 Oats No 1 2.18 2.25 Barley Larker 3.00 3.15 Beacon 2.95 3.10 Feed No 3 or better 2.50 Soybeans No 1 yellow 6.16 Flax No 1 7.40 Sunflower seeds cwt 11.40 March 16 Minneapolis feedstuffs per ton Soybean meal 44% 179.10 Soybean meal 48% 192.10 Linseed meal 34% 152 Meat meal 50% 210 Brewers dried grains 90 Wheat bran 70 Alfalfa meal dehydrated 98
No spot shipments of Wisconsin fluid milk last week, down from nine loads the prior week and from one tanker a year ago. In 1982, 106 tankers left Wisconsin on a spot basis, versus 12 loads a year earlier. Butter prices fell a cent on the Chicago exchange. other chee se prices unchanged. CCC bought 343.3 million pounds milk equivalent in week ending March 18, and sold 0.837 million pounds of NDM for feed. For week ending March 11, U.S. butter production fell 3 percent week over week, 1 percent above last year, while cheese output held firm.
Wheat, corn and soybeans posted gains in moderate CBOT trading on Monday. March wheat at 3.61, corn around 2.63, soybeans near 6.23. oats slipped to 2.19. Open interest rose across grains, with noted previous sales and daily changes.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.