Weekly Poultry Report Highlights Steady Hens and Mixed Turkeys
Prices paid for light hens mostly 5-6 cents and heavy hens 12-14 cents at farm. Off farm turkey breeders fair with 15-15.5 cents, young hens few at 22 cents. June 27 1967 prices include pullets 28-33, roasters 20-30, rabbits 25-29, guineas 105-117, pigeons 65-80 per pair, total coops sold 568.
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Tucs
Fri
White
Fey
Large
Med
Pullets
Peewees
BROWN
Fey Med
Urner Barry Publications
Chicago live cattle price report excerpt
Chicago wholesale packer prices show rate ranges for slaughter steers and heifers across grades from High Choice to Standard and Low Good. Price bands list weights in pounds and dollar ranges per hundredweight, reflecting market variation and quality tiers.
Eastern Shore broiler prices steady this week
Lot average broiler and fryer live prices remained practically unchanged at 16.08 per lb. Week prices ranged from 15.1 cents per lb on Monday to 168 on Tuesday. Total sales for the week were steady with last week at 1.1 million head.
Pennsylvania Spring Pig Crop Rises Five Percent
Pennsylvania farms produced 370000 pigs in spring 1967, up five percent from 1966 and below the 1961-65 average. There were 48000 sows farrowed, and a record 77 pigs per litter boosted totals. Monthly farrowings by month are listed, with fall farrowings expected near 42000 sows. The U.S. pig crop December 1966 to May 1967 totaled 459 million head, up one percent, with gains in most regions except East North Central.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service
U.S
East North Central
North Atlantic
West North Central
South Atlantic
South Central
West
Live cattle price report and loads by grade and weight
The report lists prices for mixed Prime and Choice cattle per hundredweight with weights from 800 to 2600 pounds. It provides ranges for Good and Standard grades and enumerates Cow utility and commercial, high yielding utility, and canner and cutter values.
County Livestock Dealer Fined For P S Violation
Harold Elmhoff of Stevens, Pennsylvania, was fined $500 and costs in a federal court on May 31 for violating Packers and Stockyards Act registration and bonding rules. The consent judgment enjoins Elmhoff from operating without proper registration and bonding, and he is now in compliance. The case covered 43 dates from 1962 to 1965 when he allegedly sold livestock without registration.
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Harold Elmhoff
Stevens
Packers and Stockyards Act
US Department of Agriculture
Usdas Packers and Stockyards Administration
Cout
Pennsyl
P&s
Imholf
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New Jersey
Chicago
Eastern Shore Exchange
Witmer, Pa
Maynard L. Beitzel
E. M. Herr Equipment, Inc
Brock
Bromco-Cakes
R. D
Willow Street
Lancaster
New York
Vania
Imhoff
Allis-Chalmers
Chet Long
Akron
N. G. Myers & Son
Rheems, Pa
Nissley Farm Service
Washington Bero, Pa
L. H. Brubaker
Lititz, Pa
Allen H. Matz
New Holland
Lancaster, Pa
Grumelli Farm Service
Quarryville, Pa
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