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Lamb Market Firm To Up Where
Tested
Lightweight slaughter lambs were firm at San Angelo this week and
$3-5 higher at Fredericksburg, though they were down as much as $3
in South Dakota. Feeder lambs in Texas were steady to firm where
receipts were high enough for comparison.
Plains Feedlots Taking
$97-98
In Early To Midweek Movement
Plains feedlots slipped a bit last week to settle mostly at $100,
and by midweek this go-round Texas Panhandle feeders had turned
loose of about 22,000 head at $97-98. Kansas prices were in the same
range.
Slaughter Meat Goat Prices
Show A Somewhat Softer Tone
Slaughter meat goat prices showed a softer tone in most recent
sales. Fredericksburg was steady to firm and Junction mostly steady,
but San Angelo was weak, Hamilton $5 lower and New Holland,
Pennsylvania $5-10 lower per head.
RANGE SALES
USPB Members Anxious To Start
Chapter Two With New Partner
U.S. Premium Beef is a microcosm of the beef industry with members
in the cow-calf, seedstock, stocker, farmer-feeder and commercial
feedyard sectors. The company attributes its success, in part, to
members’ willingness to take on risk, even in challenging times, to
change old ways of thinking and move from being producers of cattle
to producers of beef meals.
Panhandle Water
Authority Eyes
Wind Farm To Power Their Pumps
With landowners in the Texas Panhandle starry-eyed over the
possibility of royalties flowing in from proposed wind farms, one
group is looking at using wind turbines simply to offset what
they're paying for electrical energy.
S. Texas
Sheriff Says Violence
No Longer Just Along The Border
Border
violence is a phrase heard often these days, but Victoria County
Sheriff T. Michael O’Connor says the trouble has long since passed
the border and is on into the state.
Property Rights Attorney
Says
Wind Leases Require Scrutiny
"There's a lot of opportunity here for landowners," Frank Falen, a
Cheyenne, Wyo., lawyer, says of wind energy, "but landowners need to
keep in mind that it's not without risk."
Myths About
Chuckwagon Abound,
But Facts Don’t Always Concur
Dr. Bill Green, curator of the Panhandle Plains Museum, admits that
he is committing heresy when it comes to chuckwagons and Col.
Charles Goodnight.
Bone-In U.S. Origin
Beef Makes
Reappearance In Korea This Week
South Korea will import ribs and other bone-in cuts of U.S. beef
this week for the first time since they were banned in December 2003
because of BSE.
Abilene Feeder Steer
Prices Decline $1-2
Feeder steers under 500 pounds were $1 lower, over 500 pounds $1-2
lower, heifers under 500 pounds steady, over 500 pounds $1 lower,
slaughter cows and bulls steady to $2 lower, replacement cows and
cow-calf pairs $50 higher. Receipts totaled 1278 head.
Angelo Packer Lambs, Feeder
Cattle Firm
Light slaughter lambs were firm, slaughter ewes steady, kid goats
weak, nannies steady. Estimated receipts totaled 7500 head.
Athens Feeder Cattle Steady
To $2 Higher
Compared to two weeks ago, feeder steers and heifers sold unevenly
steady to $2 higher, slaughter cows firm, slaughter bulls $3-5
higher. Receipts totaled 1866 head.
Beeville Auction Sells
453 Head Of Cattle
No cattle market comparison was available due to the previous week’s
holiday closing. Receipts totaled 453 head.
Boxed Beef Cutout Prices
All Increase
The national comprehensive boxed beef report for last week showed
prices up $3.28 from the previous week at $169.04. A year ago the
cutout value was $141.97.
Heavy Buffalo Feeder
Cattle Prices Higher
Compared to two weeks ago, feeder steers and heifers weighing
400-500 pounds were $1-2 lower, 550-800 pounds $2 higher, slaughter
cows and bulls $6 higher. Receipts totaled 2176 head.
Clifton Feeder Cattle
Prices Increase $2-4
Feeder steers and heifers were $2-4 higher, slaughter cows $4
higher, slaughter bulls $2 higher. Receipts totaled 1400 head.
Coleman
Feeder Steer,
Heifer Prices Higher
Feeder
steers under 500 pounds were $1-2 higher, over 500 pounds $1-3
higher, heifers under 500 pounds $2-3 higher, over 500 pounds steady
to $1 higher, slaughter cows and bulls $2-4 higher, replacement cows
and cow-calf pairs steady to $100 higher. Receipts totaled 1702
head.
Most Comanche Cattle
Prices Termed Steady
Feeder cattle were mostly steady compared to the pre-holiday sale,
some classes of calves $2-4 higher, plainer and lighter calves
lower, slaughter cows and bulls $3-5 higher. Receipts totaled 648
head.
Dalhart Feeder Cattle
Steady To $1 Higher
Feeder steers and heifers were steady to $1 higher compared to two
weeks ago, slaughter cows and bulls firm. Receipts totaled 1386
head.
Most Edinburg Feeder
Cattle Trends Higher
Feeder steers and heifers were $2-4 higher, slaughter cows steady,
slaughter bulls steady. Receipts totaled 325 head.
Emory Steers, Heifers Called
Unevenly Steady
Feeder steers and heifers were unevenly steady, slaughter cows $1-3
lower, slaughter bulls $2-3 higher. Receipts totaled 1336 head.
Most Fredericksburg
Feeder Cattle Higher
Steers and heifers sold $2-3 higher, slaughter cows and bulls $2-3
higher. Receipts totaled 1505 head.
Fredericksburg Feeder
Lambs Steady To Firm
Stock and feeder lambs were steady to firm, lightweight slaughter
lambs $3-5 higher, heavyweights steady to firm, stock and feeder
goats steady to firm, slaughter goats steady to firm. Receipts
totaled 3612 head.
Goldthwaite Sells 2583
Head Of Sheep, Goats
No market comparison is available due to the previous week’s holiday
closing. Receipts totaled 2583 head of sheep and goats.
Light Graham Feeder Steers
$2-4 Lower
Feeder steers under 500 pounds were $2-4 lower, over 500 pounds $2-3
lower, heifers under 500 pounds $2 higher, over 500 pounds steady to
$3 higher, slaughter cows and bulls steady to $3 higher. Receipts
totaled 1300 head.
Hamilton Lambs Steady,
Stocker Cattle Steady
Lambs were steady Monday, ewes $5 higher, kid goats $5 lower,
nannies $20 higher. Receipts totaled 1961 head.
Imported Meat Total 11% Below Year Ago
Imported meat
for the week ending May 31 totaled 22,845 metric tons. This compares
to 25,670 metric tons for the same period last year and is an 11
percent decrease. The following figures represent metric tons.
Industry Feeder Cattle
Prices Lower By $2-4
Feeder steers and heifers were $2-4 lower, slaughter cows steady,
slaughter bulls $3-4 higher. Receipts totaled 1058 head.
Most Mason, San Saba
Stocker Calves Higher
Stocker steers and heifers sold $2 higher at Mason and San Saba,
feeder steers $1 higher, feeder heifers $2 higher, packer cows and
bulls $2 higher. Receipts totaled 3720 for the two sales.
Junction Sheep Steady,
Kids Steady To Higher
Kid goats were steady to $1 higher, other sheep and goat classes
mostly steady. Receipts totaled 1922 head.
Lampasas Feeder Steer,
Heifer Prices Higher
Feeder steers and heifers were $2-3 higher, slaughter cows $1-2
higher, slaughter bulls $2-5 higher. Receipts totaled 999 head.
Wool and Mohair LDPs Unchanged
As of Wednesday the LDP for mohair remained at $1.10. The ungraded
wool LDP also remained unchanged at 17 cents.
Heavy Llano Steer, Heifer
Prices Steady
Steers and heifers over 600 pounds were steady, lighter weights,
particularly heifers, $2-4 lower, cows $3-5 lower, bulls steady.
Receipts totaled 554 head.
Lockhart Auction Sells
1201 Head Of Cattle
No market comparison is available due to the previous week’s holiday
closing. Receipts totaled 1201 head.
Red Meat Production 5% Above
A Year Ago
Total red meat production under federal inspection last week was
estimated at 965.8 million pounds, 21.3 percent higher than the
previous week and five percent more than last year. Cumulative meat
production for the year to date was 5.2 percent higher than last
year.
Milano Feeder Steers,
Heifers Mostly Steady
Feeder steers and heifers were mostly steady, slaughter cows steady
to $2 lower, slaughter bulls steady. Receipts totaled 832 head.
Post-Holiday Sales
Nationwide
Saw Yearling Prices $2 Higher
Yearling feeder cattle sold mostly steady to $2 higher across the
country last week, steer and heifer calves mostly steady on a light
test.
Pleasanton Steers Sell
Mostly Steady To Weak
Feeder steers were steady to weak, instances $3 lower, heifers
steady, slaughter cows firm to $2 higher, slaughter bulls steady to
firm. Receipts totaled 420 head.
Brazile Leads In All-Around;
Josh Peek Trails By $29,000
In PRCA’s all-around competition, Trevor Brazile, Decatur, Texas,
leads with $129,931 in season earnings to date. He is followed by
Josh Peek, Pueblo, Colo., with $100,650; Steven Dent, Mullen, Neb.,
$79,714; Curtis Casidy, Donalda, Alberta, Canada, $72,892; and Cash
Myers, Athens, Texas, $69,346.
Steers And Heifers Weak To
Off
In Angelo Special Sale Monday
Steers and heifers were weak to instances $1-2 lower on 500-700
pound heifers here Monday in the season’s third special feeder
cattle sale at Producers Livestock Auction.
Superior Livestock Video
Sale
Receipts Total 330,000 Cattle
The “Week in the Rockies” video sale had feeder steer and heifer
prices mixed, yearlings over 600 pounds $1-4 higher with the
greatest advance on weights over 800 pounds, calves extremely uneven
but in most cases weaker. Receipts totaled 330,000 head.
Three Rivers Cattle Receipts
Total 983
No cattle market comparison was available due last week’s holiday
closing. Receipts totaled 983 head.
Domestic Wool Quiet, Aussie
Trade Steady
Domestic wool trading on a clean basis was at a standstill last week
with no confirmed sales under moderate to good demand.
Loose
Ends
Hindsights
Coming Up...
August 2
— Early Fall Replacement Female
Sale, Jordan Cattle Auction,
Mason,
Texas.
August 4-6 — 2008
Texas
A&M Beef Cattle Short Course, College Station,
Texas.
August 7
— Special Stocker and Feeder
Sale, Jordan Cattle Auction,
San Saba,
Texas.
August 11
— Special Stocker and Feeder
Sale, Jordan Cattle Auction,
Mason,
Texas.
August 11
— Stocker and Feeder Calf
Sale, Producers Livestock Auction, San Angelo,
Texas.
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