Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 46, DeMotte, Jasper County, 29 September 1944 — Form Topics [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Form Topics

Early and Proper Marketing Urged Prompt Cattle Sale Urged as Necessity Farmers are urged to give some consideration to their cattle marketing plans for the remainder of the year. Because of possible market gluts, M. P. Mitchell, at Purdue university, calls to their attention the following points: 1. Low grade beef cattle may be sent to market soon, before western cattle begin to move in volume. This would include cull aged cows of both the beef and dairy types, grazing cattle that are not to be grain fed nor kept for breeding, and, in some cases, surplus breeding cattle that are now on farms in excess of the farm’s normal carrying capacity. 2. Although beef cattle prices under the controls now in force may not behave normally, there are good reasons for expecting prices of most grades of cattle, except the better grades of grain fed cattle, to work to lower levels. This is especially true at the time that markets reach a glutted condition, in late summer and autumn. 3. Cattle now on grain feed probably will continue in a strong relative price position for the remainder of this year. However costs of gains in the feed lot are high relative to market values. There is, therefore, not a great deal of inducement for feeders to hold such cattle for further price advances Grain fed cattle, because of their scarcity, undoubtedly will be less affected by market gluts than the plainer grades of cattle on the market. Grain fed cattle will continue in strong demand.