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March 17, 2018 www.MidwestMarketer.com Supplement to IFT Publications

Cattle gather in the mist on a Jasper County, Iowa, farm. Photo submitted by Tim Perry MWM2

2 www.MidwestMarketer.com / March 17, 2018 MIDWEST MARKET REPORT A Pox On This Column Weekly Avg. Price Comparisons Source: USDA, along with the Iowa man in Wahoo, Neb., March 10, 2018 and Missouri Departments of Agriculture said he ate all the eggs A he could. He felt it Iowa South Dakota was his contribution to beef FEEDER STEERS Med/Lg 1 March 12 FEEDER STEERS Med/Lg 1 March 12 sales; every egg he ate was one Wt Range Avg. Wt Price Range Avg. Price Wt Range Avg. Wt Price Range Avg. Price 374-398 381 204.00-215.00 210.13 408-437 423 199.00-202.00 200.55 less chicken! 411-440 424 190.00-213.00 203.64 518-524 523 180.00-195.00 190.38 569-599 583 172.00-205.50 194.17 People take chickens per- 456-499 482 193.00-213.50 200.67 608-649 631 166.00-184.50 173.39 500-548 523 183.00-209.50 193.60 651-697 680 157.50-177.50 169.09 sonally. My brother, Bob, had 555-598 578 177.50-196.00 186.75 700-749 734 152.00-162.50 155.55 633-638 637 168.00-172.00 170.00 750-797 778 139.00-156.50 148.26 a rooster named Oscar. They 668-692 678 158.00-167.25 162.14 801-845 822 135.50-153.50 146.46 hated each other! 700-740 721 148.25-164.00 155.48 852-897 871 127.00-147.25 138.96 753-798 776 137.50-157.00 149.87 901-949 926 130.25-143.00 139.15 Lots of kids like Big Bird 803-849 821 131.00-148.00 143.06 951-994 973 130.00-135.00 132.33 on Sesame Street. The state 850-899 879 132.00-142.50 136.41 FEEDER HEIFERS Med/Lg 1 906-945 932 125.00-139.00 135.26 444-448 446 162.50-178.00 169.70 birds of Rhode Island and 953-996 988 121.00-131.75 129.87 469-497 482 162.00-180.50 171.82 500-549 518 158.00-174.00 163.24 Delaware are both chickens FEEDER HOLSTEIN STEERS Lg 3 557-599 577 152.50-168.50 160.21 None this week. 602-649 636 133.00-158.75 153.74 — one red, one blue. Oklaho- 651-696 678 136.00-151.75 144.47 ma has two cities named af- FEEDER HEIFERS Med/Lg 1 701-746 726 131.50-141.50 137.76 406-448 431 173.00-183.00 179.49 752-799 777 126.00-140.75 133.37 ter the humble poult: Chick- 454-499 477 160.00-185.00 171.74 800-848 830 123.50-133.25 128.88 kasha and Henryetta. Toledo 501-548 523 156.00-175.00 168.01 854-898 876 123.00-129.75 127.03 550-598 564 148.00-172.50 162.44 908-914 909 123.50-128.00 125.21 had a minor league baseball 602-649 623 142.00-149.50 147.31 959-994 967 120.25-128.00 124.93 team called the Mud Hens. squirrel, armadillo, alligator, frog legs and squid 656-669 661 137.25-147.00 141.43 SLAUGHTER COWS 702-745 726 130.00-145.00 136.15 % Lean Wt Avg. Dress High Low Some folks love chicken. But it’s hard to find have a chicken-like flavor. Even rattlesnake meat 750-795 768 126.50-138.00 132.40 802-845 824 126.00-133.00 130.62 Breakers anybody who loves a chicken! tastes like chicken! 869-893 885 123.50-129.50 125.20 75-80 1515-2193 64-70 -- 59-61.00 Chickens don’t make good pets. It is hard to Boners Some may think this comparison is fowl play SLAUGHTER CATTLE March 12 80-85 1030-1710 63-70 -- 60-63.50 housebreak a chicken. They don’t respond well but I think it adds a little glamour to the pore ol’ Wt Range Avg. Wt Price Range Avg. Price Lean to training. Maybe that’s why we don’t see more chicken. It adds pizzazz to the chicken to be as- Slaughter Steers Choice 2-4 85-90 905-1303 58-64.50 -- 54.00 chicken races, trained chicken acts or seeing-eye sociated with these exotic creatures. 1320-1495 1396 129.25-134.00 131.66 SLAUGHTER BULLS Yld Grade 1-2 Slaughter Holstein Steers Choice 2-3 Wt Avg. Dress High Dress Low Dress chickens. Chickens have made at least two historical 1530-1580 1552 85.00-87.50 86.50 1670-2515 86-97.00 101.00 86.00 Chickens come several ways: as hawks, peals, contributions to modern civilization that I can Slaughter Heifers Choice 2-4 1200-1388 1297 129.35-133.25 130.69 pox and coffee-flavored (chicory), BBQed, fried, think of: The Pecking Order and the chicken-fried Nebraska in little lumps called McNuggets and with their steak. But on the whole, the image of chickens is SLAUGHTER COWS % Lean Wt Avg. Dress High Low FEEDER STEERS Med/Lg 1 March 12 tail between their legs! You can get them in a less than flattering, i.e., henpecked, bird-brain, Breakers Wt Range Avg. Wt Price Range Avg. Price basket, in a bucket or in a coop with fries. egghead, chicken-hearted, chicanery, hench- 76-80 1235-1870 58-64 65-71 -- 388-389 389 199.00-220.00 207.06 Boners 426-447 432 209.00-218.00 214.32 The poultry industry has done well in market- man, fowl-mouthed and Henry the Eighth! 81-85 1075-1705 49-56 -- -- 453-494 477 187.50-211.00 200.29 ing its product. Lean 509-540 530 179.00-210.50 195.85 In veterinary school, we had to take an exten- 86-90 810-1870 40-47 -- 20-38 550-592 573 175.50-208.00 185.34 600-649 624 167.50-189.50 183.37 Beef is distinguished in its advertising by its sive 20-minute course in Poultry Surgery. I had SLAUGHTER BULLS Yld Grade 1 653-697 677 153.00-179.00 169.93 unique flavor, i.e. “nothing satisfies like beef.” 700-749 723 142.00-169.75 160.24 trouble with the class. I kept calling the pectoral Wt Avg. Dress High Dress Low Dress 750-798 772 148.00-162.00 153.15 Did you notice that everything tastes like chick- muscle white meat. 1605-2480 70-82 -- -- 800-845 820 138.25-150.50 147.01 850-895 875 136.50-150.50 142.14 en? I intended to get a master’s degree in Poultry 909-938 923 132.25-139.50 137.70 Missouri 954-982 966 133.00-142.00 139.14 When one doesn’t know how to describe the Medicine, but Colonel Sanders was closed when FEEDER STEERS Med/Lg 1 March 9 FEEDER HEIFERS Med/Lg taste of some edible tidbit, they claim it tastes I went to enroll! 402-448 419 172.00-200.00 186.78 Wt Range Avg. Wt Price Range Avg. Price 452-497 483 160.00-183.00 174.99 like chicken. Octopus tastes like chicken. Rabbit, www.baxterblack.com 250-295 280 200.00-223.00 207.86 501-549 528 158.00-182.00 172.79 300-348 324 195.00-235.00 210.23 552-599 577 152.50-173.50 164.90 350-398 379 180.00-240.00 209.05 600-648 623 142.00-167.00 158.53 400-449 431 172.00-237.00 204.55 650-698 671 139.50-159.00 150.79 450-499 474 164.00-235.00 200.99 700-746 719 135.00-145.25 142.13 500-549 525 165.00-222.00 193.76 750-799 781 130.00-142.00 136.12 550-599 574 155.00-200.00 182.03 800-846 831 130.00-135.00 132.75 600-649 625 148.00-196.00 176.77 853-897 873 132.00-136.50 135.59 Midwest Got Cattle? 650-698 677 129.00-187.00 165.25 915-940 920 127.00-132.00 130.58 700-749 722 130.00-169.50 158.52 750-799 770 134.00-156.50 145.96 Everything cattle related 800-847 822 130.00-144.00 138.75 MARKETER 852-897 870 126.00-140.25 134.53 Illinois at cattleseller.com 913-921 917 128.50-135.00 131.41 971-998 988 120.00-125.00 121.89 FEEDER STEERS Lg 1/2 March 12 Catalogs, sales reports, classifieds, FEEDER HOLSTEIN STEERS Lg 3 Wt Range Avg. Wt Price Range Avg. Price markets, livestock auctions. 276-290 280 90.00-109.00 94.93 None this week. 350-369 358 85.00-106.00 94.65 FEEDER HEIFERS Lg 1,2 FEEDER HEIFERS Med/Lg None this week. 250-298 278 170.00-189.00 177.46 300-348 326 160.00-202.00 181.89 350-399 378 158.00-194.00 174.49 400-449 426 157.00-185.00 169.37 450-498 472 151.00-182.00 164.82 500-549 524 135.00-184.00 164.18 550-598 571 132.00-175.25 155.75 600-649 621 131.00-167.00 152.10 650-699 672 130.00-158.00 144.31 700-745 722 125.00-150.50 136.61 751-799 771 124.50-137.25 131.16 803-841 830 118.50-136.00 128.46 857-874 864 117.50-134.50 126.85 900-946 925 119.25-129.00 123.02 800-475-6655 986-991 989 105.00-116.50 112.04 www.midwestmarketer.com