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...average market price. The packer can pay this premium because under the contract the farmer follows expert advice on breeding and feeding, gets leaner pork, which brings higher retail prices and competes better with beef. With marketing risks removed, farmers can deliver more pork-on-the-hoof. Packers have shown hog-raisers how to take a unit of 33 breed sows, breed eleven of them every two months and over a year deliver 500 hogs to market in six marketings as opposed to the old rate of two per year. Thus, they smooth out seasonal peaks, and avoid gluts that...
BEEF PRICES will go up next year because supplies will head down. In Texas, beef on the hoof is selling for 14¾? a Ib. v. 9⅓½?a year ago; cattle raisers are holding cows off market to replenish their drought-thinned herds, but it will take them several years to do so. Result: beef output will slip from 83 Ibs. per capita this year to 81 Ibs. in 1958, only...
...clock on the cold, blustery morning of last week's Kentucky Derby, Trainer Jimmy Jones of Calumet Farm made an agonizing decision: he scratched Gen. Duke, the heavy favorite, because of a bruised hoof. Immediately, bettors switched affection to the Wheatley Stable's Bold Ruler. Almost forgotten was Gen. Duke's stablemate, the muscular bay colt Iron Liege...
...scene-can be readily identified by any Texan. But his grasshopper is not just a laboratory specimen; it is a wondrous creature of heat and noise. When he painted Brahma Bull, Dozier did not try to provide a guessing game for Texas cattlemen adept at estimating values on the hoof, but to capture "the thing you always feel about a bull. He's the most powerful of the animal kingdom, and he seems to know it." In Place in the Desert (see cut), viewers are more likely to respond to Dozier's sense of the earth...
...troubled U.S. farmer, the Agriculture Department reported happy news. Farm prices in mid-May climbed 3%, the fourth straight monthly rise and one of the biggest jumps in years. Potatoes, fruit, hogs, lamb and cattle all rose; in some areas prices for meat on the hoof were up as much as 6%. As a result the overall farm index jumped to 242% of the 1910-14 average, only two points below last year's level...