Washington milk production up; small animal sale day change coming at Stockland

Washington Ag Today May 19, 2011 Milk production in Washington increased three percent in April from April of 2010. That’s what the USDA reported Wednesday. Producers in the state had seven thousand more head of dairy cows and they produced five more pounds milk each compared to April a year ago. Dairy cow numbers in Washington increased two-thousand head from March to April. Nationally milk production was up 1.7 percent in April of this year compared to the same month in 2010.

Now this from Stockland Livestock.

This is Jack McQuiness with Stockland Livestock here in Davenport. One sale this past week. We talked about that earlier. 500 cattle. Steady market all the way around on the feeders. Maybe a buck or two lower on these low grade slaughter cows. Some of these real thin cows in the 60-dollar money. Rank and file of the cows in the mid to high 70s. Younger cows in the 80-dollar money but it is a general trend, lower on the older cows, steady on the better higher yielding cows and bulls.

Our schedule, we will not have a sale on Memorial but we will then have a sale every Monday. A big change in our small animals. We will offer small animals on the fourth Tuesday of every month starting in June. After May we will not be accepting small animals on our Monday cattle sale day starting in June and that will be the fourth Tuesday of every month for the small animals. That’s it from Stockland. Thanks for listening. Thanks for your Business.

Thanks Jack.

I’m Bob Hoff and that’s Washington Ag Today on Northwest Aginfo Net.