Possible Future Trends in the Livestock Industry
A Penn State report by H Louis Moore and J U Bauermann outlines future shifts in livestock production, meat packing, and processing. Plants will cluster near livestock supply and near consumption centers, with increased federally inspected facilities, packer feeder integration, and carcass trading growth, plus more decentralization and value-added services.
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Pennsylvani Livestock and Meat Industs
Penn State
H. Louis Moore
Jus Bauermann
Wirthmore Buys Stickell feed business in Maryland
Granville M Bond of Wirthmore Feeds Inc announced the purchase of D A Stickell & Sons Inc feed business of Hagerstown Maryland. Wirthmore will retain current sales staff and offer full Wirthmore Livestock Feeds and Concentrates line to the new sales area. The Stickell firm has long operated in Maryland Virginia Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Wirthmore traces back to 1886 with plants in New York North Carolina and New England and also sells building materials and home farm garden products.
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Granville M Bond
Wirthmore Feeds Inc
D A. Stickell & Sons, Inc
Hagerstown
Maryland
Wirthmore
D A Stickell & Sons, Inc
Virginia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Wirthmores
New York
North Carolina
New England
Pa Pig Crop Falls to 1935 Low in 1964 Spring
Pennsylvania reports a spring pig crop of 338000 head, the smallest since 1935. The figure is 20 percent below 1963 and 19 percent under the 1938 62 average of 417000. Nationally, the spring crop is 8 percent lower than last year with the corn belt states down 5 percent.
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Pennsylvania
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Omaha
New York City
Peart
Shank’s
Bartlett Pears
Shank Fruit Farms
New Danville Pike
Lancaster
Root
Agway
Agway, Inc
Syracuse, N.Y
Stickell
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