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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1981
Page
2
SLAUGHTER CATTLE ranges include Young high yielding 41 Utility 38-41, Canner 33-39. Slaughter bulls 42-50 with top 51. South St. Paul stockyard reports Monday totals: Cattle 2,208, Weaners 180, Hogs 4,687, Sheep 992. Holstein steers 1,200-1,600 lbs at 58-60, Heifers 925-1,100 lbs at 60-61. Sheep and lambs steady to higher with lambs 90-120 lbs 49-51 wooled, 51-53 shorn. Equit.
Steady prices across cattle categories with top utility cows 38 to 42 cents, dairy heifers 40 to 46, and common utility bulls 35 to 44. Beef bulls 44 to 48, calves steady with select 50 to 65, good to choice 40 to 50, standard to good 30 to 40, culls 30 and down.
Weekly grain review shows steady replacement calves with mixed weights and top Holstein calves. Fed cattle, feeder pigs, hogs, cows, bulls, and veal values offered with varied prices, plus non ferrous and ferrous scrap markets and grain futures. Wheat corn soybeans and other feedstuffs moved, with cattle and feed prices summarized.
Wisconsin eggs show steady markets with extra large 74-78, large 71-76, medium 65-70. Butter rises to Chicago Grade AA 1.50 percent, Grade A 1.48 percent, Grade B 1.47 percent. Cheddar cheese unchanged with barrel 1.31 and 40-lb blocks 1.35 percent.
Cattle and hog prices fell overall while sheep rose or held steady last week. Slaughter steers and cows moved lower, Holstein steers rose, heifers mostly edged down, feeders steady to down, and lambs up. Estimated carcass cut-out value stood at 104.62 for 600 700 pounds, with hides and offal at 6.11 per hundredweight.
Unclear readable fragments mention organizations and places but contain excessive garbled letters. No verifiable facts or names are present to form a meaningful summary.
Readable text shows a financial line item referencing Chicago area sales with values 68.40 for August and September and a prior sales total of 2,392. No clear event or named entities beyond Chicago.
Futures and commodity prices listed include hogs with June July August October and December contracts, fresh broilers with various price points, Russet potatoes, and corn. Previous sales and open interest figures are noted for several items, showing daily changes and totals across multiple commodities.
The issue catalogs futures in Wheat Corn Oats Soybeans Rye and Barley with price ranges and futures for Minneapolis. It also provides Sept 29 feedstuffs prices per ton including soybean meal linseed meal meat meal and brewers dried grains plus last week's prices for feeder pigs from Midwest suppliers in South St Paul Minnesota with weights 40 to 50 pounds.
Readable OCR shows price ranges for GRAIN WHEAT corn oats soybeans and EGGS Butter and POTATOES for two dates October 7 1980 and October 7 1971. Included are LIVESTOCK equity figures for cows heifers bulls fed cattle slaughter hogs sows boars slaughter lambs veal calves and related categories.
Wisconsin potato shipments declined modestly last week with 356 500 cwt moved, down 11 800 cwt from 368 300 cwt prior. Season total reaches 3 477 500 cwt, about 8 percent above last season. Russets nearly two thirds of movement at 67 percent, round reds 15 percent.
Dairy Market News reports week ending Oct 1 spot shipments of Wisconsin fluid milk sent out of state fell to six truckloads from 11 last week and 37 a year ago. Four loads went to Illinois and two to Indiana while CCC purchases for year ending Oct 1, 1981 totaled 357.2 million pounds butter and 1.49 billion pounds of milk equivalents across dairy products.
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