Prices Soar at Pennsylvania Chicken of Tomorrow Auctions
Spirited bidding on May 16 for the second and third place broiler lots topped the grand champion as 688 of 733 entries sold for a total of $15 520 86. Top price 6 per pound went to reserve champion 12 birds at Coatesville and to the third place lot at Butler. The Franconia sale saw George Fachet’s Bucks County entry fetch 240 a pound, while Ronald Shaffer’s York County birds sold for 261 75. Nearly 200 buyers participated as the program promotes poultry production.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Poultry Federation
Coatesville
Butler
Franconia
Montgomery County
George Fachet
Rummersville
Bucks County
Telford
Fachet
Ronald Shaffer
Dover
York County
Beacon Milling Company
Cayuga
N. Y
Robert Rodgers
Butler RD
E . Robertson
Lancaster
Poultry Federation
Bruce C. Laub
Neffs
Leigh County
Lehigh Farm Bureau
Richard Landes
Fountainville
Peach Bottom firm lists ER Herr at Farmersville
Farmersville Equipment Co on Ephrata RD 2 presents ER L Herr in Peach Bottom. The entry notes Herr associated with peach farming equipment and regional services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmersville Equipment Co
Ephrata, R.D
Meat and Income: Consumer Meat Share Rises with Income
The article links rising disposable income per person with higher meat consumption from 1920 to 1938, notes wartime price controls and black market effects, and shows postwar growth in meat spending. It cites 1947 disposable income at 1,157 dollars with 6.7 percent spent on meat to 1950s figures of 1,608 dollars and 51 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Livestock Sale Highlights Across Multiple Towns
In Coatesville 8 928 pounds sold for 50 or 57.5 cents per lb netting 5101 08 with top buyers Shaffer Ream and Clanton. Susquehanna Lockers Sunbury moved 111 lots averaging 52 5 cents per lb for 49485 pounds netting 2975 34 with buyers B Wartzler Haines Moyer. Hollidaysburg 154 lots averaged 53 cents per lb 6739 pounds netting 3571 56 with top buyers Fast Hardrode and Heltzel Hines and Johnson. Butler 132 lots averaged 63 5 cents per lb 4547 pounds netting 2889 50 top prices to Osterling Delu Wagel.
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Coatesville
Ronald Shaffer
Shirley Ann Ream
Lebanon RD
Miller and Bushong
Lancaster
James Clanton
Kennett Square
L. L. Logan
Susquehanna Lockers
Sunbury
Furst
Ernest B Wartzler
Mechanicsburg
American Stores Company
William Haines
Middle Creek
Snyder County
Weis Stores
Sunsbury
Stanley C Moyer
Milton RD
Vincent Hines
Hollidaysburg
Carl Johnson
Altoona RD
Villa Restaurant
Tyrone
Food
Altoona
H B Price
Butler
Robert Rodgers
P G Osterling Feed Company
Charles E. Delu
Delu
Robert Wagel
Valencia
Mellon National Bank and Trust Co
Local Poultry Contest Winners And Auction Averages
Last year Sara Ann Herr of Rohrerstown Lancaster County won the Pennsylvania DOT contest and earned 650 dollars per pound for her entry. This year she placed tenth in statewide judging and received 3 dollars per pound at Coatesville. The first twenty lots of birds sold at the Coatesville auction averaged 185 dollars per pound.
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Hollidaysburg
Sara Ann Herr
Rohrerstown
Lancaster County
Coatesville
Direct-Cut Harvester and Windrow Harvester for Forage
Snavelys Farm Service of New Holland Pennsylvania offers Direct-Cut Harvester for grass and legume silage Windrow Harvester for wilted or dry hay and Row-Crop Harvester for corn sorghums and other tall row crops L. H. Brubaker
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Snavelys Farm Service
New Holland, Pa
Also Mentioned on This Page
NEW Oliver
Harrows
Wee
Noliver
N. G. Hershey & Son Manheim
RD. 1
ER. L. Herr
Bn Brn
Sizpowhee
Allis Chalmers S and Service
L. H. Brubaker
Lancaster, Pa
N. G. Myers & Son
Rheems, Pa
R. S. Weaver
Stevens, Pa
Lititz, Pa
Mann & Grumelli Farm
Serv
Quarryville
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