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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1957
Page
9
Lancaster reports show a Friday auction average of 19.60 cents for broilers with 41,650 birds sold and prices ranging from 19 to 21 cents. Eighteen lots totaling 74,380 birds were sold, plus two capons totaling 2,400 birds at 28 and 28.4 cents.
May futures show gains across wheat corn oats and soybeans. Wheat rises slightly as corn advances one percent and soybeans edge higher amid mixed demand signals.
A detailed list records buyers, quantities, and prices per cent for White Vantress and Indian River birds. Notable entries include multiple bids from Pennsylvania Farm Bureau and Mandata Poultry, with several lots selling at 19 to 20 cents and some no sale bids.
A $25 per plate dinner for poultry producers is planned for April 17 by the Lancaster County Poultry Assn and Lancaster Poultry Exchange. The event may move to a larger hall if needed, to fund the new Poultry Exchange Building. Co chairs Martini Miller and Jay Greidel said tickets admit one person and a guest.
Martin Engel from Parkesburg and L. M. Chance of Bart Lancaster Farming-1 commend the newspaper as a wonderful weekly. They praise value for money and readability, noting the paper is well received and worth the spend.
The Lancaster sale reports the season’s largest offering of slaughter steers selling 50 cents higher than last week. Demand favored choice and prime steers. heifers and sows rose about 25 cents, bulls steady, stockers and feeders mixed. Receipts include 70 loads of slaughter steers, 3 loads of heifers, with 45 percent stockers and feeders and 10 percent cows.
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