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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1973
Page
15
Weekly prices paid for poultry and live weights with items including ducks hens roasters pullets drakes geese rabbits guinea pigs and pigeons. Market notes show prices lower for light hens demand fair offerings and heavy type hens sold to canner processors. farm prices listed for Pa and N J.
Philadelphia egg prices stay steady with balanced offerings and firm undertone. Retail values show White Grade A Large 66 to 67 cents and Medium 60 to 61 cents delivered store door. Baltimore market remains steady with carton demand uneven, White Grade A Large 69 to 75 cents and Medium 65 to 68 cents. Broiler fryer demand steady for whole chickens, lighter for parts, with heavy slaughter schedules and Burdensome live supplies. Pool trucklot US Grade A 38 to 45 cents, Plant Grade 37 to 43 cents for Thursday arrivals.
Slaughter steers drop 25 to 50 cents from last week on 1200 to 1350 pound yields. heifers down up to 50 cents. cows 1 to 1.50 lower. bulls steady. Four day receipts 18,800. feeders weak to 50 cents lower. Heavy Canadian and feeder demand observed with high quality lots and various yield grades noted. Steers and heifers with Choice to Prime levels traded in mixed loads. average slaughter cost steady around 40.87 for three days on 1120 pounds.
Egg Clearinghouse Inc Durham NH computes Gradeable nest run prices and they appear for the first time this week in Lancaster Farming. The prices reflect actual trading data from a nationwide egg trading center for producers packers and marketers.
Placements of broiler chicks in the Commonwealth for the week ending October 27, 1973 reached 1,293,000, up 45 percent from the prior year but 10 percent below the previous week. Over the last 10 weeks average placements were 15 percent higher than a year ago.
Lancaster Farming announces weekly issue details with contact addresses in Lititz and Lancaster. The paper, edited by Richard E Wanner, charges $2 a year in Lancaster County and $3 elsewhere, and has been published since November 4, 1955.
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