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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1972
Page
14
Auction listings for New Holland and Lancaster markets show hog receipts and price ranges for Monday through Wednesday including US No. 1 200-245 lb and other weights, with barrows gilts and boars prices, plus Oklahoma City cattle receipts and feeder steers and heifers price ranges and weights across several grades and loads. Lancaster has no market report on Labor Day.
Active sale with 150 head at 200 to 260 pounds. Prices ranged from 29.50 to 30.25 per hundredweight with openings 25 to 50 higher, 1 to 2 hundredweight bands at 200 to 230 pounds and 29.75 to 30.00.
Auction in Indianapolis reports 38 head at 30.50 with 200 to 235 pound hogs selling mostly 25 to 75 higher. Activity noted for 200 to 250 pound animals with prices around 29.50 to 30.00.US 1-2 duties and 38 head described with varied weights and gains in price.
Auction reports 219 head of hogs with barrows and gilts down 25 to 50 cents. U S 2 3 weights 200 to 235 pounds 29.00 to 29.50 per cwt, many lots 28.25 to 28.85 for 190 to 250 pounds, 350 to 650 pound sows mainly 25.50 to 26.10, boars 21.25 to 23.75, 11 feeder pigs 30 pounds at 16.25 each.
Slaughter steers 25-50 lower in slow trade while cows gain 1.00-1.50 and bulls hold steady. Feeders stay steady with good demand. three day receipts 13,900. Labor Day movement softens prices. wholesale carcass trading opened bearish. Slaughter totals show steers 29 percent, heifers 49 percent, cows 10 percent, feeders 10 percent.
Trend shows cattle rising while hogs retreat. Potatoes hold steady and eggs gain strength. Market commentary supplied by the Commodity Dept Reynolds Securities Inc.
Abingdon Virginia reports 283 head sold including Steers Choices from 705 to 800 pounds at 38.00 to 38.25 per hundredweight and 805 to 1000 pounds at 34.00 to 35.80. Good and Medium weight classes range 33.00 to 43.75, with Common steers at 33.25 to 34.70. Cows and bulls listed with varied utility and cutter grades. Earthquake note mentions 50 000 earthquakes annually worldwide with about 100 large enough to cause substantial destruction near populated areas.
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