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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1985
Page
4
A detailed snapshot of futures and cash prices across grains and livestock with bids from Minneapolis and Chicago. Includes wheat, corn, oats, soybeans, flax, sunflowers, barley, feedstuffs, and live cattle, hogs, and lambs with price ranges and estimated receipts.
Beetown livestock market reports two sales. October 8 sold 573 head including calves and cows with Holstein and beef categories. prices listed for each class. October 5 sale at wp2 had about 900 head of CH beef and Holstein cattle across weight brackets, plus feeder cattle and premium pigs details. Midwest Livestock Producers notes weekly price ranges and a 1,476 head tally with pigs on Green tagged farm pickup in South St. Paul Minnesota.
The document lists October trade ranges for calves, replacement calves, Holstein stock, beef calves, veal calves, feeder pigs, dairy cattle, feeder cattle, fat cattle, cows and heifers, sheep, hogs, and related classes. Prices cover selectors from utility to prime, with per head or hundredweight figures for bulls, heifers, steers, sows, and other categories.
Record of commodity quotes dated October 10 to October 11 covering eggs and produce prices, dairy products, and livestock. Includes butter, cheese, Wisconsin eggs, cattle, Holstein bulls, fed heifers, steers, feeder cattle, replacement calves, hogs, and beef bulls with ranges for grades and classes.
Beef steers brought 58.25 to 59.50 while heifers sold 57 to 58.25. Holstein steers moved 51.50 to 53.75. Butcher cows ranged 36 to 43.75 with bulls at 44.75 to 45.25. Veal calves 40 to 71. Packer sows 36 to 37 and boars 33 to 34.
Weakness at week end as Soviet Union shifted some corn to wheat for immediate delivery while rains delayed harvest in many regions. Wheat futures rose on export demand and plant delays. corn traded unevenly. Minneapolis prices edged higher on harvest delays. soybeans eased though oilseed trade improved. Sunflowers and flaxseed rose with cold North Central snows. barley mostly higher on export demand.
Slaughter steers gained 2 to 4.50 dollars, with some up to 6, as packet buyers and wholesale beef moves boost demand. Slaughter cows mostly steady to down 1, bulls down 1, heifers strong in Iowa and Minnesota. Weights 950 to 1,350 pounds led with steers at 57 to 60.50, some 62 at Sioux City. Hog and lamb quotes mixed. barrows, gilts up, sow prices firm to higher. slaughter under federal inspection nearly flat year over year. Lambs 100 to 130 pounds ranged 62 to 66.10 for best grades.
Feeder pig sale on October 9 moved 1407 head with prices up about 1 per head. Heavier pigs sold 31 to 46 per head with 60 pound items reaching 45.75 and extreme tops reaching 44 for 44 pound groups and 39.75 for 48 pounds.
Madison reports 49 spot loads of whole fluid milk shipped out of state for the week ending Oct 10, up from 17 last week but far below 129 a year earlier. Forty two loads went to Florida, Southern Illinois received seven, and Indiana three. Production remains steady with slight fluctuations while fluid offerings ease on weaker Chicago area Class I demand and Southern buyer demand shows signs of improvement. Manufacturing plants run heavier than last week.
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