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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1962
Page
6
Lancaster Poultry Center reports Dec 20 broiler sale with 57 350 head across 11 lots trading 14.4 to 15.5 cents per lb while four lots totaling 14 600 failed to sell at 14.9 to 23.0 high bids. Leghorn fowl and other lots offered, with 3 550 heavier birds unsold. Complete sale details list lot numbers sellers growers ages weeks and days buyers and prices.
Delmarva reports prices unchanged over the 24 hours ending Friday morning as live offerings stay light amid fair demand. Ready to cook demand improves slightly with weekend slaughter projected at 710,000 head on the Eastern Shore, up from 584,000 last weekend. Farm prices range from 142 to 157 for 695,500 head, including 361,500 head sold at Thursday's Eastern Shore Poultry Growers Exchange sale. Thirty one percent sold between 150 and 152.
The week shows last minute orders clearing receipts and a firm market as of December 14. Egg prices rose by one point from the prior week, Brewers averaged 1503 and 20 percent mash cost growers $9600 per ton. The comparable week last year had broilers at 17.30 with mash at 92.90 per ton.
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