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RAPP CHATS
Rap Owings
extension Agent, Agriculture
Here is a brief on the area state graded feeder calf sales. Source of information: two of my former 4-H Club members, Pete Lohr, Virginia Market News Service and Randall Updike, Virginia Division of Markets and Marketing. Also, last year’s files and a thoroughly chewed up pencil. I claim all credit for any errors in arithmetic or mistaken interpretation of market trends.
Starting with the Orange Sale on September 23rd buyer demand has firmed and throughout the week there has been a gradual but steady increase in prices received. Both steer and heifer prices are averaging about $3.75 more per hundredweight than at these same sales a year ago. The same average 500 pound steer that sold for $152 per head last year is bringing about $170 per head this year. Few pens of light steers have been topping the sales around $38 per cwt.
Orange - Sept. 23
Steers - Average per cwt. $33.40, Average Weight, 503.
Heifers - Average per cwt. $27.43, Average Weight, 463.
Sale Average - per cwt. $31.33, Total Head, 945.
Charlottesville - Sept. 24
Steers Average per cwt. $33.55, Average Weight, 535.
Heifers - Average per cwt. $28.51, Average Weight, 490.
Sale Average - Per cwt. $32.13, Total Head, 1,192.
Culpeper - Sept. 25
Steers • Average per cwt. $34.35, Average Weight, 507.
Heifers - Average per cwt. $29.04, Average Weight, 458
Sale Average - Per cwt. $32.72, Total Head, 1,054.
Marshall - Sept. 25
Steers - Average per cwt. $35.45, Average Weight, 491.
Heifers - Average per cwt. $29.48, Average Weight, 451.
Sale Average - Per cwt. $33.02, Total Head, 1,374.
During 1969 slaughter and feeder prices have followed the same general curve. Prices per cwt. shot up in April. Topped out
90.7%