Livestock outlooks grim as USDA report predicts price drops
Livestock producers face steep losses amid USDA Livestock and Meat Situation notes. Beef prices have fallen sharply from August highs with some producers losing over 100 dollars per animal shipped. Weaker feeder cattle values and higher costs signal potential overhang and falling fed beef prices next spring. Hog prices declined from August to mid November while hog production remains limited.
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Masonic Homes Ayrshire Tops In Canadian Show
The 1973 Royal Winter Fair in Toronto crowned Masonic Homes Flashy Star as inter breed udder class winner. The Ayrshire cow, bred at Masonic Homes Farm Elizabethtown PA, is now owned by Stanley Mount and Allan Barr of Brome Quebec.
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Canada
United States
Masonic Homes Farm
Elizabethtown
Masonic Homes
Stanley Mount
Allan Barr
Brome
Quebec
Ayrshire
National Food Policy Conference at Hershey
Shapp and McGovern spoke at a two day National Food Policy Conference held at the Hotel Hershey. Few farmers and Republicans attended, but speakers focused on food supply and aiding world hunger with Bishop Swanstrom urging global diets and moral responsibility.
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Hotel
Edward E. Swanstrom
Catholic Relief Services
Bishop Swanstrom
America
Agway Shows Up Buyers Ignore Tobacco Meet
Mark Hess told about 75 tobacco producers at Hinkletown Elementary School that a single price hurts quality growers. Dr. Robert Herr organized the meeting as part of Garden Spot High School’s program, noting major buyers were absent and urging questions to nonattending firms.
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Hinkletown
Hess
Robert Herr
Garden Spot High School
Loag
Herr
American Cigar Co
Bayuk Cigar Co
P. Lorillard
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