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The April series of sales sponsored by the Marshall Feeder Cattle Association realized prices generally lower than the 1980 spring vendues, but in view of the current state of the cattle market the return was considered satisfactory.
Approximately 100 cattle producers. from Fauquier. Loudoun. Rappahannock and the Shenandoah Valley sold 3,037 graded feeder steers and heifers for a total of $1,216,544. compared with 3.028 sold for SI.276.809 in the 1980 spring offering.
Animals averaged S40I this year compared with $422 last year, a decline of 5 percent. John Berna. MFCA. president, commented that the reduction reflects the generally lower cattle prices and a three-pound-peranimal decline in average weight.
Steers weighed an average of 646 pounds and returned $447 per head or $69.14 per hundredweight, versus 656 pounds. $460 per head and $70.04 per cwt. in 1980.
Heifers had an average weight of 568 pounds, providing consignor-owners with an average of $315 per head or $55.40 per cwt. A year ago heifer averages were ,564 pounds. $347 per head and $61.62 per cwt.
The majority of the cattle sold to feedlot operators in Pennsylvania. Buyers also came from the Mid-West, Maryland. Delaware and Virginia.
Berna said that despite lower prices he believed the 17
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