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FARM MARKET TRENDS
From the Form Market Barometer, by Gilbert
Guslor, uo learn that prices recoived by
farmers and cash income from tho farm mar
ketings in 1949 msy average almost as high
as in 1948. This of course doponds upon
economic trends and the development of gpv
ornment programs. Houovor, it is predicted
that farm costs uill remain high and not
farm incomes uill bo less than for 1948.
Feed grain prices probably uill be louor
for corn and steady for oats and barley
during the rest of 1948. Full adjustment *
of corn prices to a nou crop basis has been
delayed by unuillinghess of producers to
contract the new crop freely at prices ma- »
terially under tho loan value, by some ex
port buying and by demand from processors
and other domestic users uhose stocks had
run extremely lou. Offerings of oats and
barley uill gradually diminish and current
lou prices uill encourage large consumption,
uhich uill tend to sustain prices even though
corn prices decline.
Egg prices probably uill hold near'recent
high levels for the next feu ueeks, but the
start of a seasonal decline probably is not
far ahead. Highest prices for the season
vsually are reached durint the months of
October and November. Egg prices for 1949
ere predicted to average about tho same as
for 1948, according to the U.S. Department
of iigriculture, uith higher prices than
this year in the first half and louer prices
in tho lattor part of tho year than 1948.
Production for 1949 is expected to be about
1 tho same as for 1948.
! Potato prices probably will advance gradu
ally during tho next four or five months
mainly because of tho rising government
support buying price. The crop estimato
price has been increased to 418,400,000
bushels compared with 384,400,000 bushels
last year#. With the crop mostly under
cover, market offoringstwill docline in tho
noxt month# But, large* government purchases
for conversion into flour or diversion to
other uses will continue necessary to main
tain, prices at support levels# Support
prices probably will be sbt for 60 percent
of parity for the 1949 crop and the average
goal probably will be reduced about 15 per
cent. *
TREND of the MM MARKET
Lntost* average'prices at Chicago except'
wool at Boston, flaxsocd at Minneapolis,Hay
at Kansas City: * - Year
Hogs,av. cut. ’ '§nl?65r:5i7#65 l)§f?25
Steers,good native,cwfc. 32.45 34.05 29*65
L.'Uiba, av..cut. ’ 24i90~ 25^25
YooXjgr.^- bl.jComb.lb# #58|- i58
Wheat,No.2 hard winter bu.2.24^ 2;25-^
Corn'No.3 yellow,bu. 1.62^- 1.92
Oats,No.2 white bu. ’.77
Bye No; 2 bu. ' i; 72
Barley,Nominal range, bu. 1.33J
:?lajcseod,No.l, bu; 6i00
Hoy ,TT.S.l, alfalfa, ton 27.50'
Uggsi Standards,doz. .49.
Hens, live, lb.' .31*
Buttor;92 score,lb. ' .63^
Choose,single daisies,lb. .43|
?ot at od s, Hu s s ets ',U • S . 1,6 wt 3 • 40
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