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Actually, total egg production in Virginia is running just a little above last year now, but the picture could change if a spell of really hot weather hits the older layers.
Virginia's price for Grade A large eggs last week was 40- \A to 41 - '4, with mediums at .14 to 35 cents. New York Grade A large were 42-to 46-Va and mediums at 35-to 37-VaTurkey
prices look as if they may hold for the next two or three weeks, with some possible strength in Beltsville type broilerfryers.
Supplies of all type birds are below last year, and the trend over the nation seems to be to hold the birds that will make it for what looks like a rosy ThanksgivingChristmas market.
This coupled with early buying of frozen birds by retailers as a hedge against fast-iising Fall prices is keeping the current market above last year and so far has prevented the summer price slump that was evident for the past two years.
Slaughter of Beltsville Whites for the first three weeks of July was 16 per cent below last year and has been below for the last five months. Slaughter of heavy birds for the same three-week period was up 21 per cent from last year but hasn’t depressed the turkey market.
But slaughter ot broiler-fryers, though it is below last year, has
62.7%