The Poultry And Egg Situation PDF Download

Excerpt from Poultry and Egg Situation: July, 1971 Output of eggs this summer will hold above a year earlier while broiler production will lag. Although prices for eggs, broilers, and turkeys will strengthen, those for eggs and turkeys will still trail 1970 levels. Egg output this year has averaged nearly 3 percent above 1970. The margin has narrowed in recent months, and may virtually disappear by the end of 1971. Bayer numbers on June 1 were up about 1 percent and pullet chick placements for laying flocks have been down since last December. However, the use of Marek's disease vaccine promises to reduce the relatively high pullet mortality of recent years and at the same time increase the livability and vigor of the laying flocks. Thus, the laying flock size may hold near year-earlier levels during most of 1971 despite fewer pullet chick placements. The rate of lay probably will continue higher in 1971. More pullets entering the flock in recent months, a healthier flock from the use of the vaccine, and heavy culling of old flocks early in 1971 will all contribute to increased productivity. Egg prices this spring skidded to their lowest levels since May 1968. Producers' prices in mid May averaged cents a dozen, cents below April and about a half cent below May 1970. Prices continued to decline into June. Prices of Grade A large eggs delivered in Chicago in early June were around 27 cents a dozen, about 2 cents below mid -may and 7 cents below the previous year. Subsequently, prices have strengthened to the 30-cent level. Egg prices will increase. This summer as output declines seasonally. Prices likely will weaken as usual in early fall, then strengthen as increased demand for holiday use more than offsets the seasonal rise in egg production. By the end of the year, egg prices may average about the same as in 1970. Broiler meat output in the first half of 1971 likely will average only slightly below 1970's record production. January April output in Federally inspected processing plants was billion pounds, nearly the same as a year earlier. However, a larger percent of total broiler production is currently marketed through these plants than a year ago perhaps I to 2 percent more. Output for April was down 5 percent. Production is expected to remain lower this spring and summer with some pickup, relative to a year earlier, in the fall. Broiler chick placements for marketings in June and July were about 4 percent under a year earlier. And broiler type eggs in incubators on June 1 were down 5 percent. 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.