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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1981
Page
2
Monday market report shows cattle and hogs bids with varied weights and grades. Slaughter steers and heifers range with mixed discounts and premiums. Holstein cattle show weak to steady pricing. calves, feeders, and replacement calves list narrow margins. Hog values mostly steady to higher, with weights and classes noted. sheep and lambs demand higher for choicest lots.
Market directory listing prices for cattle hogs and calves at Ettrick with categories including weak dairy cattle light canners heavy dairy good beef and Holstein steers. Also notes feeder cattle values for beef and x bred steers heifers Holstein stock and springing Holstein heifers with price ranges and percentages.
Market notes list various scrap and commodity prices including ferrous and non ferrous scrap items with per ton and per hundredweight quotes. Grain prices show weak Minneapolis grain futures with wheat at 4.44 a bushel, sunflowers up, corn down, soybeans down, and spot wheat higher on protein content.
The report lists grain prices for Wheat Corn Oats and Soybeans with percentage changes and farm market receipts for weights in pounds. It records Livestock equity prices for Cows Heifers Bulls Calves Fed cattle Slaughter hogs Sows Boars Slaughter lambs with ranges and notes prices subject to market conditions dated May 20 1971.
The report lists cash grain prices for Wheat, Corn, Oats, Soybeans, Rye, Corn, Oats, Barley, and Flax with various grade notations. It also provides May 12 Minneapolis prices for feedstuffs per ton including soybean meal, linseed meal, meat meal, brewers dried grains, wheat bran, and wheat middlings.
Est sales 9,181 and 10,111 on Friday. Total open interest Friday 28,094, up 984. Futures trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Monday shows unclear high and low figures.
The report lists futures data across commodities including pork bellies corn and notes on total open interest rising for several contracts. It includes Friday sales figures, changes from Thursday, and percentages, with prices shown in cents per pound or dollars per bushel for multiple items.
May 15 exchange news shows unchanged butter and cheese prices from Chicago and Midwest markets. Wisconsin eggs listed steady with weight classes and farm pickup options for feeder pigs, while price ranges for various pig weights and breaking stock are noted by market committees.
No spot loads of Wisconsin fluid milk moved into other states the week ending May 14 unchanged from seven weeks prior and 1980. One tanker of Minnesota milk moved to another West North Central state. National Cheese Exchange and CME prices unchanged. CCC net purchases for week ending May 13 included butter 14.4 million pounds cheddar blocks 3.4 million pounds barrel cheese 6.3 million pounds nonfat dry milk powder 26.5 million pounds and American process cheese loaves 4.1 million pounds at 1.43 percent. Milk equivalent of purchases 433.7 million pounds. CCC sold 502 thousand pounds of Standard grade NDM powder at 0.5506-0.5556. For week ending May 7 butter production 27.5 million pounds down 1 percent from prior week but up 2 percent year over year. Cheese production 56.5 million pounds up 1 to 12 percent respectively.
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