Price lifts and effects ripple through pork and dairy markets
Pork prices surged after a price ceiling lift on most agricultural products except beef. Hogs traded at 50 to 50.50 in Peoria while auctions in New Holland hit record highs. Beef remained under price controls until September, with egg and milk prices rising under new market rules.
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Peoria
Lancaster
Midwest
Penn Packing Company
Philadelphia
Nixon
New Holland
Pa Ayrshire Club Holds 52nd Annual Field Day
The Pennsylvania Ayrshire Club held its 52nd Annual Field Day at Spruce Villa Dairy near Lititz. Dairymen from across the state joined chicken dinners, fellowship, contests, and speeches. Roy Breneman of Willow Street, a dairy specialist with Agway, urged careful feed management amid higher costs and prices.
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Pennsylvania
Auction Cattle Hit Highs Amid Phase Four Beef Ceiling
Crowds cheered as a bull fetched 56.25 cents a pound at Lancaster Stockyards Tuesday. Beef faces a government price ceiling under Phase IV, freezing retail beef until September 12 while other foods rise. slaughter steers hit $50 to $51.60, with a Tees Water bull at 56.25. Hogs also jump sharply in Peoria as market shifts unfold.
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Lancaster Stockyards
Toravel
Washington
New Holland
York FLBA PCA Conduct Annual Meet in York County
The York Federal Land Bank Association and the Carlisle Production Credit Association held their joint annual meeting at the South Mountain Fairgrounds Arendtsville with about 1100 attendees. FLBA manager Kenneth F. Miller announced a loan volume rise of about 3 million over last year. Reelected to the FLBA board were Richard K. Smyser and Harold M. Herr. PCA volume increased by about 700000. Samuel W. Musser Sr. was reelected to the PCA board. The groups total about 2000 farm families across York Adams Franklin Fulton Cumberland and Perry Counties with main office in York and branches in Gettysburg Carlisle and Chambersburg.
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York Federal Land Bank Association
Carlisle Production Credit Association
South Mountain Fairgrounds
Arendtsville
York County
Kenneth F. Miller
FLBA
Richard K. Smyser
Harold M. Herr
Adams County
Robert Stover
PCA
Samuel W. Musser, Sr
Shippensburg
York
Adams
Franklin
Fulton
Cumberland
Perry
Gettysburg
Carlisle
Chambersburg
Highest Priced Tees Water Bull Brings Record Price at Lancaster
At the Lancaster Stockyards on a Wednesday auction a Tees Water bull sold for 56.5 cents a pound, weighing 1290 pounds. Youndt Brothers of Terre Hill bought the animal, with Kilheffer of Lititz receiving the proceeds after keeping the bull since last fall. The buyer, Hoober of J M Hoober Inc, identified the double muscled hindquarters typical of Tees Water cattle, a rare genetic trait noted in English farming.
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Lancaster
Youndt Brothers
Terre Hill
Abraham Kilheffer
Lititz
Kilheffer
Richard Hoober
J M Hoober, Inc
West Virginia
Hooker
Tees
England
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Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board
Commonwealth
PMMB
Pa. Ayrshire Club
Dairyman
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Fulton Grange
Grange Hall
PVATA
Penn State University
York Flba
Nelson Green
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