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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1981
Page
2
Madison Wisconsin potato shipments decline as demand wanes. Last week 368,300 hundredweight shipped, 91,200 cwt less than prior week. Season total 3,121,000 cwt, 7.6 percent above last year’s level. russets and norgolds lead, followed by round reds.
The listing shows prices for ferrous and non ferrous scrap including engines and motors, sheet iron, appliances, deep freezers, aluminum cans, batteries, radiators, stainless, and paper like newspaper and corrugated boxes. Quantities are noted in net tons or cents per hundred pounds with price ranges and market condition caveats.
Wheat corn oats soybeans grains and livestock values listed for the day and a year prior. Prices cover grains eggs butter potatoes and various livestock categories including cows heifers bulls fed cattle slaughter hogs sows boars lambs and veal with two sets of figures for different dates.
On the Minneapolis Grain Exchange last week wheat and rye held steady while most other grains fell. Rye remained strong at $3.65 spot No. 1 plump and 2 rye, corn slipped about 5 percent to $2.40, oats eased to $1.97 to $2.02, and soybeans dropped to $6.06. Sunflower oil and various meals moved modestly, with meat meal and tankage also easing in price.
Wisconsin eggs and produce prices were steady or unchanged across categories. Butter cheddar and grain byproducts saw small shifts while egg weights and market evaluation figures list weight class prices and bulk per ton changes for bran middlings brewers' dried grains and alfalfa meal.
The Minneapolis wheat futures show 4.14 percent, with corn in Chicago at 2.85 percent, oats 1.97 percent, and soybeans 6.43 percent. No. 2 rye a 3.50 to 3.60, corn No. 2 at 2.37, oats No. 1 at 1.98 to 2.02, barley Larker 2.80 to 3.20, Beacon 2.70 to 2.90. Feed No. 3 or better 2.21, soybeans No. 1 yellow 5.93, flax No. 1 6.90, sunflower seeds cat 10.65. For Minneapolis per ton Sept 22 feedstuffs: soybean meal 44% 188.30, 48% 206.30. linseed meal 34% 150. meat meal 50% 240. brewers dried grains 106. wheat bran 80. wheat middlings 78. alfalfa meal dehydrated 102.
Slaughter cattle prices fell last week while feeders held steady and hogs and sheep showed mixed movement at South St. Paul. Slaughter steers down 50 cents to a dollar, Holsteins eased, cows mostly three dollars lower, while barrows and gilts declined modestly. Lambs and ewes moved, with feeders steady on select lambs and higher hides and offal values offsetting lower carcass cutouts.
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Last week prices show American Feeder Pig Co op select at 45 lb range 37.75 to 38.75 dollars. Midwest Livestock Producers lists 40-50 lb premium grade detailed pigs 36.50 to 39 dollars picked up on farm. 40-50 lb pigs range 40 to 46 dollars.
Spot shipments of Wisconsin fluid milk fell to 11 truckloads for the week ending Sept 24 from 15 the prior week and 13 a year earlier. Ten loads went to Indiana and one tanker to Illinois. Prices held steady on the CME and National Cheese Ex. For the prior week, butter output reached 19.9 million pounds, up 1 percent from the week, 16 percent year over year, while cheese production rose 3 percent to 43.3 million pounds, up 5 percent from a year ago.
Chicago Board of Trade futures closed mixed after early declines for corn soybeans with slight gains for wheat. Analysts cited profit taking by speculators helping reverse the trend as prices set new seasonal lows for corn and soybeans.
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