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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1968
Page
8
In Birmingham Alabama the AP reports egg prices for large and medium sizes climbing sharply while small eggs stay mostly unchanged. Retailers pay per dozen with consumer grade white eggs priced from 37 to 41 cents for large and 29 to 35 cents for medium, with small at 23 to 25 cents.
ATLANTA AP reports demand for live broilers and fryers today remains strong with farm prices mostly up about 3 percent. Trade is limited as offerings are adequate to extremely short on hens and heavy types show no slaughter. light farm activity noted.
Prices paid growers in Birmingham Alabama for beans greens peaches plums peas squash and tomatoes. Butterbeans pole beans round greens turnips and greens collards peaches in quart baskets tomatoes in cartons. Prices range from 1.00 to 4.00 with variations by quality and type.
Nashville reports cattle prices with slaughter steers and heifers steady to strong and cows up to 1.00 higher. Weights listed include 1035 lb steers at 26.00 and 600-750 lb heifers at 22.50-23.00, while calves 150 priced 32.00-34.00. Hogs up to 750 higher with US 1-2 200-230 lb at 20.25-20.50 and sows 15.00-16.00. Sheep with no early sales.
Decatur reports show diverse commodity pricing with cottonseed at 40 dollars per ton and milk at 6.55 dollars per hundredweight for Grade A. Wood and pulpwood prices appear, alongside grain values for corn, oats, milling wheat, barley, and soybeans, reflecting a broad agricultural market snapshot.
The New York market held a narrow advance after noon with active trading. Investors priced in a Fed move raising margins to 80 percent, while gains were trimmed by losses in General Motors Sperry Rand Alcoa and US Gypsum. IBM fell while Xerox rose and Du Pont posted a solid gain.
New York AP reports manufacturers records show prerecorded tape sales rose 74 percent in 1967 to a $106.1 million retail value. Eight track cartridges led gains with $59.6 million versus $23.8 million in 1966. reel-to-reel and four and eight track tapes included. The industry plans to add prerecorded cassettes to the study.
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