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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1965
Page
10
Weekly report shows prices for light type hens unchanged to higher with offerings barely adequate and some flocks moved to free space for pullets. Demand fair with few heavy hens moved at unsettled prices. Turkeys dull with offerings up and prices from 15.9 to 173 cents, total sales 1,413,400 head, about 200,000 more than prior week.
Delmarva markets show steady broiler and fryer prices with light bidding and adequate supply. Slaughter estimates for Fri-Sat around 898000 head compare with 949000 last weekend. 24 hour trading shows broilers 160-168 cents per lb on 1,040,600 head. Calves and hogs also move with mixed gains and declines, while sheep and lambs show modest shifts in prices and weights across various grades.
Listings show dock weights in cents per pound with hens light type 72 to 84 percent, heavy type 8 to 17 cents, pullets 12 to 44, roasters 10 to 28, turkeys toms 15 to 20 hens 22 to 38, rab bits 20 to 35, pigeons per pair 52 to 80, jumbo squab 70. Total coops sold 833.
Broilers and fryers on the Eastern Shore Exchange averaged 16.49 cents per pound this week, down 0.05. The report notes fluctuating live prices and market movement affecting growers and buyers on the regional poultry market.
Report covers cattle trades with head counts and price ranges for cutters bulls and feeder steers. Notes weights 1000 to 2425 pounds and slaughter beef prices from 26 to 27.25. Target buyers and sellers observed activity across grading categories.
Feeder steers sold at Lancaster Auction, with good to mostly choice 950 to 1100 pound cattle fetching 24.75 to 26.25 per hundredweight, and good 650 to 800 pound steers at 23.50 to 23.75.
Market test lacks sufficient head in any one class for New Holland sheep. Prices for Spring Slaughter lambs range 22 to 24 dollars per hundredweight with 24.00 noted. Utility sheep listed at 20 to 20.50 dollars per hundredweight.
Shell egg quotations for New York market cover Monday August 30 through Friday September 3. Regular supplies persist with mediums stocked and cleared. Data compiled by Urner Barry Co. in 1965.
In the September 1 1965 run cows sold steady with receipts of 164 cows 4 bulls and 10 heifers Fresh Holsteins 250 to 500 Guernseys 125 to 210 other breeds 125 to 300 Bulls 140 180 heifers 65 to 115 August 30 1965 sale of 271 head Horses and ponies fetched 100 to 275 for riding and driving stock no mules offered Hogs slipped 50 cents with 464 head sold Market hogs 26 to 27 wholesale 2550 26 heavyweights to page 14 continued
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