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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1981
Page
2
Market report lists cattle and hog prices by weight and grade, with steadiness or weakness noted. Highlights include steer ranges 64-65.40 for 1050-1300 lbs, Holstein steers 61.20-62.40, slaughter cows 41-44, hogs 49-47 for no.1-2 200-260 lbs, sheep lambs 48-52, calves 30-65, feeders 40-60. Top cattle and feed figures shown alongside replacement calves and feeder pig auction notes.
Ettrick market reports steady to strong cattle and hog prices. Cows steady 38 to 48, feeders 44 to 47, calve values 70 to 175 with veal 50 to 80. Hogs strong with top butchers 49, sows 43 to 45, beef and crossbred 58 to 67. Open Holstein heifers 65 to 85, springing heifers shown at 00 to 1200 dollars.
A historical listing shows Chicago grade prices for eggs and cheese plus assorted market quotes for automobiles, sheet iron, appliances, nonferrous scrap and paper. Wisconsin eggs are steady with extra large to medium sizes priced from 70 to 76 cents for extra large through 62 to 67 cents for medium.
Wisconsin potato shipments rose slightly last week to 459,500 cwt though movement slowed. Russets and norgolds dominated 60 percent of movement with prices mostly unchanged. Grain futures barely moved while soybeans and other feeds showed mixed shifts amid steady butter prices.
The bulletin shows Meat meal at 50 percent protein steady at 245 per ton bulk while tankage 60 percent protein rose 10 to 270 per ton bulk. Yellow grease and choice white both steady at 16 and 17 cents per pound respectively. Sacked bran and middlings up 7 to 110 per ton. Brewers' dried grains up 1 to 106 per ton bulk. Alfalfa meal 17 percent dehydrated unchanged at 102 per ton bulk.
Market report lists futures and cash prices for wheat corn oats and soybeans in Minneapolis and Chicago with rye barley flax and sunflowers. Feedstuffs priced per ton including soybean meal linseed meal meat meal and brewers dried grains with last week's figures for feeder pigs and farm pickup pigs in Minnesota.
Daily market news reports spot shipments of Wisconsin fluid milk to other states fell to 15 truckloads, down from 36 the prior week and 70 in the comparable 1980 week. Of last week’s loads, 11 moved into Indiana and four to Illinois. Butter prices rose on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange while other dairy prices held steady. CCC dairy purchases last week totaled 2.2 million pounds butter, 7.8 million cheddar blocks and barrels, and 17.4 million pounds nonfat dry milk powder, with milk equivalent at 122.5 million pounds. CCC sold 1.1 million pounds of Standard NDM powder. For the week ending Sept. 10, U.S. butter output rose 3 percent to 19.7 million pounds, cheese output fell 3 percent to 42.2 million pounds.
Fragmentary OCR shows a member of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Branham, Inc with national advertising representatives in major cities including Minneapolis Chicago Omaha Kansas City Atlanta Dallas. The readable portion mentions offices and membership context.
Chicago Grain and soybean futures were mixed on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat futures rose for September delivery to 4.06 a bushel while oats, corn and soybeans mostly declined with September contracts near 2.73, 2.06, and mixed for soybeans.
The report lists September corn at 6.65 and soybeans around 7.56 with varied futures across months on the Chicago Board of Trade. Previous sales totals and open interest figures are provided, illustrating trading activity across corn oats soybeans and other contracts.
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