The Poultry And Egg Situation Vol 72

Author : United States Department Of Agriculture
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364879030
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Poultry and Egg Situation, Vol. 298 written by United States Department Of Agriculture and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-18 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Poultry and Egg Situation, Vol. 298: June 1978 Broiler and turkey production is expected to con tinne at record-high levels throughout 1978. Egg production should stay above a year earlier through the summer, but may slip below year-ear lier levels this fall. Prices of broilers and turkeys will stay above 1977 levels through the year. Egg prices may about match 1977 this summer before rising above in the fall. Strengthening in feed costs likely will lead to higher-than-year-earlier produc tion costs in coming months. Egg production in April was 3 percent above a year earlier. Output was up 5 percent in January, but increased. Culling caused the margin to slip back to only 2 percent above in March. However, in April, culling dropped well below a year earlier and egg production rose to 3 percent above April 1977. There will be fewer replacement pullets than a year ago in coming months, but this may be largely offset by reduced culling of old birds. The rate of lay likely will stay above year-earlier levels. Egg production is expected to average 2 to 3 per cent higher through the summer before dropping below a year earlier this fall. Egg prices by late April had dropped well below production and marketing costs. They likely reached their lows for the year in May and will trend upward this summer and fall. Cartoned Grade A large eggs in New York will average slightly below the 58 cents a dozen of a year ago during april-june. Prices this summer are expected to strengthen and average near the cents a dozen of a year earlier before moving above 1977 in the fall. Increased consumers' income, high food prices, larger hatching egg use, and strong breaking egg use will bolster egg prices in the first half of 1979. However, production costs are also expected to be above a year ago. Broiler production will continue above a year earlier but the increase is narrowing to around 6 percent during april-june because of a scarcity of hatching eggs earlier this year. Since then, hatch ing eggs have become more available, and recent weekly egg settings indicate that early summer broiler marketings will be up 7 to 9 percent. Strong broiler prices and expected lower red meat suppliesare likely to offset any rise in feed ingredient costs, pointing to continued expansion in production. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.