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Weekly Farm Price
Outlook
(This u die w# prospects/for * Virginia farm prices looked to the Virginia Department of Agriculture on Friday. The Department alien it to farmers with the warning that no one can predict prices and be right all the time.) i£ T LAMBS 1 If you think those lambs are getting on the heavy side you'd better sell them"now. Z ’/ ■ Since bucks have been taken wit and put >n separate grades with the ewes and wethers in a grade by themseves,* tlv bucks are bringing about a dollar less than formerly.
! Historically lambs prices usualy drop following the middle of June since this is the peak period of supply for spring lambs. This year the June supply will be a* little greater than normal because of the slow start of lambs due to thes severe late winter and early spring.
Prime lambs brought $23.50 to $25.00 last week, with choice sell- ' ing at $22.50 to $24.00. In Tennessee and Kentucky prices were under ours by about 50 cents
BARLEY !The Virginia harvest starting next week should bring the usual harvest-time' drop in barley prices. The starting price is expected to be from $1.00 to $1,10 a bushel. Checking our pricing guide' of last week, we find that oifr feed value in comparison with com at $L70 a bushel might better have re^d $1.46 fed to dairy cows, $1.28 _ for beef cattle, $1.17 fed to poultry, and $1.33 for hogs.
Richmond last week paid $1.00' for number 3 barely, 43 pound test weight. i
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