Georgia farm report, vol. 02, no. 17 (2002 September 13)

GEORGIA FARM REPORT
September 13, 2002 Volume 02-Number 17

Stephens Federal Building, Suite 320 Athens, Georgia 30601 Phone: (706)546-2236 E-mail: nass-ga@nass.usda.gov Website: http://www.nass.usda.gov/ga

Monthly Poultry Cold Storage

HIGHLIGHTS Livestock Slaughter Farm Income

Commercial Red Meat Production Agricultural Prices

EGGS IN INCUBATORS, UNITED STATES--AUGUST 1, 2001, 2002

Item

2001

2002

% of Year Ago

--Thousands--

--Percent--

Chickens, Egg Type

29,995

33,183

111

Chickens, Broiler Type

637,953

645,086

101

Turkeys, All Breeds

31,772

32,138

101

[Results from the Monthly Chicken and Egg Report].

POULTRY HATCHING AND PLACEMENT--JULY 2001, 2002

January thru July

Item

2001

2002

% of year ago

2001

2002

% of year ago

--Thousands--

--Percent--

--Thousands--

--Percent--

Pullet Chicks Placed Domestic (U.S.) 1/

Broiler Type

6,326

6,602

104

46,848

48,929

104

Egg Type

340

282

83

1,961

1,829

93

Chicks Hatched - Broiler Type

Georgia

113,844

117,389

103

780,054

792,618

102

United States

769,449

781,421

102

5,276,818

5,389,702

102

Chicks Hatched- Egg Type

Georgia

2,266

2,194

97

15,424

15,324

99

United States

38,640

35,218

91

280,365

254,242

91

Turkeys Poults Placed

United States

27,064

25,666

95

274,602 2/

272,969 3/

99

[Results from the Monthly Chicken and Egg Report and the Monthly Turkey Hatchery Report]. 1/ Domestic placements as reported by leading breeders includes expected pullet replacements from eggs sold during the preceding month at the rate of 125 pullet chicks per 30 dozen case of eggs. 2/ Turkey poults placed September 2001-May 2002. 3/ Turkey poults placed September 2001-May 2002.

NUMBER OF LAYERS AND EGG PRODUCTION--JULY 2001, 2002

Number of Layers

Eggs per 100 Layers

Total Eggs Produced

2001

2002

2001

2002

2001

2002

--Thousands--

--Number--

--Millions--

GEORGIA Hatching Table Total Georgia 30 STATES* Hatching Table Total 30 States UNITED STATES* Hatching Table Total U.S.

9,084 11,227 20,311
54,346 257,017 311,363
59,144 273,087 332,231

9,516 10,608 20,124
54,674 259,285 313,959
59,492 275,777 335,269

1,921 2,124 2,033
1,853 2,229 2,163
1,856 2,233 2,166

1,902 2,036 1,973
1,858 2,261 2,191
1,856 2,262 2,190

176 240 416
1,007 5,728 6,735
1,098 6,097 7,195

181 216 397
1,016 5,863 6,879
1,104 6,237 7,341

[Results from the Monthly Chicken and Egg Report]. * 2001 revised.

USDA/NASS COOPERATING WITH THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

COMMERCIAL POULTRY SLAUGHTER 1/--JULY 2001, 2002

January thru July

Item

2001

2002 % of Year Ago

2001

2002

--Thousands--

--Percent--

--Thousands--

Young Chickens

Georgia

104,147

109,387

105

694,244

718,698

United States

709,391

753,910

106

4,888,782

5,014,399

Mature Chickens

Light Type, U.S.

6,516

8,034

123

53,668

59,657

Heavy Type, U.S.

5,991

6,601

110

40,159

41,307

Total U.S.

12,507

14,635

117

93,827

100,964

Percent Condemned Young Chickens

--Percent--

--Percent--

Georgia

0.94

0.76

1.21

0.87

United States

1.22

0.92

1.37

1.03

1/ Federally inspected slaughter data as collected by Meat and Poultry Inspection Program.

% of Year Ago --Percent--
104 103
111 103 108

LIVESTOCK SLAUGHTER, UNITED STATES 1/--JULY 2001, 2002

Number Slaughtered

Average Live Weight

Total Live Weight

Species

2001

2002

2002 as% of 2001

2001

2002

2001

2002

--Thousand Head--

--Percent--

--Pounds--

--Thousand Pounds--

Cattle

2,942.5

3,187.1

108

1,216

1,248

3,577,258 3,977,918

Calves

83.3

95.7

115

312

290

25,942

27,798

Hogs

7,447.6

8,067.5

108

260

260

1,936,790 2,101,406

Sheep & Lambs

243.5

257.6

106

140

127

34,185

32,649

[Results from the U.S. Livestock Slaughter Release]. 1/ Includes slaughter under Federal Inspection and other commercial slaughter, excludes farm slaughter.

COMMERCIAL RED MEAT PRODUCTION--UNITED STATES 1/, JULY 2001, 2002

January-July 2/

Kind

2001

2002

2002 as % of 2001

2001

2002

2002 as % of 2001

--Million Pounds--

--Percent--

--Million Pounds--

--Percent--

Beef

2,177

2,426

111

14,861

15,636

105

Veal

15.7

16.7

106

112.3

109.0

97

Pork

1,435

1,557

108

10,786

11,135

103

Lamb & Mutton

17.1

16.3

96

130.2

127.6

98

Total Red Meat

3,645

4,016

110

25,889

27,007

104

[Results from the U.S. Livestock Slaughter Release]. 1/ Based on packers dress weights and excludes farm slaughter. 2/ Accumulated totals and percentages based on unrounded data.

COLD STORAGE STOCKS--UNITED STATES, JULY 31, 2001

Commodity

Jul 31, 2001

Jun 30, 2002

Jul 31, 2002

% of Jul 2001

% of Jun 2002

--Thousand Pounds--

--Percent--

Butter

151,123

242,999

238,047

158

98

Cheese, Natural

752,564

792,470

825,533

110

104

Eggs, Frozen

16,650

12,720

12,711

76

100

Frozen Fruit

1,183,584

895,480

1,010,887

85

113

Fruit Juices, Frozen

2,205,759

2,232,540

2,174,465

99

97

Meats, Red

717,437

918,037

920,920

128

100

Beef, Frozen

351,360

396,869

423,235

120

107

Pork, Frozen

339,547

497,817

473,851

140

95

Poultry, Frozen

1,185,721

1,506,300

1,580,945

133

105

Turkeys, Frozen

534,170

644,100

702,994

132

109

Vegetables, Frozen

1,573,035

1,369,523

1,574,610

100

115

Potatoes, Frozen

1,282,588

1,223,538

1,124,267

88

92

Peanuts, Shelled

533,333

531,862

454,651

85

85

Peanuts, In Shell

16,373

34,401

29,678

181

86

Pecans, Shelled

50,550

52,955

54,187

107

102

Pecans, In Shell

61,021

120,484

104,568

171

87

[Results form the Monthly Cold Storage Report].

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States
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

1997
1,104,363 19,292
751,294 1,918,215 6,474,344
703,865 91,272 95,872
2,276,898 1,999,742
115,344 682,989 2,050,559 1,276,677 3,721,237 1,761,825 1,276,425 625,254
55,646 254,852 139,551 399,136 753,840 1,025,538 1,277,811 280,763 2,014,587
47,702 14,178 149,757 545,677 193,342 3,244,630 274,583 1,875,669 828,599 641,614 658,966
8,856 514,161 1,140,430 479,578 3,713,507 226,837
91,199 501,691 1,133,330
24,868 793,738 229,736

NET FARM INCOME FOR STATES, 1997 - 2001

1998

1999

--1,000 Dollars--

1,214,183

1,451,315

18,997

19,814

888,410

882,858

1,635,028

1,978,264

5,384,264

5,296,522

839,101

910,309

117,495

141,420

146,097

140,898

2,601,292

2,722,008

1,975,165

2,174,977

108,346

103,302

909,699

955,982

1,368,209

986,057

761,407

392,783

2,170,272

1,553,074

1,481,240

1,547,578

1,118,342

901,947

391,387

587,286

91,129

114,786

312,433

352,560

38,541

51,405

356,464

728,455

1,299,646

1,232,848

1,006,977

994,859

715,432

411,863

313,962

498,320

1,785,117

1,687,604

78,602

69,155

15,073

23,771

154,685

135,751

603,170

678,787

450,493

676,229

2,225,571

1,955,220

946,115

697,306

1,312,849

872,662

675,932

1,009,425

498,974

325,959

795,903

861,702

7,595

8,665

339,171

446,812

1,313,116

1,334,957

322,911

230,306

3,439,550

5,033,180

269,333

282,626

114,362

139,433

490,925

416,767

1,179,060

671,684

22,354

12,070

1,191,042

1,292,045

87,005

193,246

United States

50,479,841

1/ Source: Economic Research Service/USDA.

45,582,424

46,186,850

2000
1,130,102 14,607
775,971 1,483,193 5,562,440
692,593 181,052 133,031 2,580,426 1,980,308 103,393 907,684 1,537,088 779,667 2,427,202 974,454 1,731,412 519,173 113,779 450,130
51,877 313,814 1,302,460 785,829 1,000,980 271,946 1,357,120 100,142
13,574 246,266 540,658 594,423 3,182,784 945,657 1,103,646 1,025,231 377,622 1,115,517
7,731 571,678 1,467,803 537,965 4,022,757 244,871 150,945 695,674 1,035,006
49,576 715,741 140,769
48,047,767

2001
1,581,452 10,144
1,003,699 1,399,823 3,768,764
989,681 144,018 217,857 2,166,133 2,298,556
93,897 1,147,092 1,418,739
964,199 1,946,475
958,188 1,229,695
418,095 82,397
521,901 27,327
190,607 695,508 1,111,748 909,969 303,919 1,610,282 119,231
12,594 188,837 819,647 802,820 3,201,148 586,777 1,049,230 922,482 265,856 968,555
5,542 684,031 1,217,697 510,788 4,288,138 394,636 136,045 600,139 620,758
47,703 888,360 199,756
45,740,933

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PRICES RECEIVED BY FARMERS--AUGUST 15, 2002 WITH COMPARISONS

Georgia

United States

Commodity
Corn Cotton Hay, All, Baled 2/ Oats Soybeans Tobacco Winter Wheat Calves Beef Cattle 4/ Cows 5/ Steers & Heifers Milk Cows 6/ Hogs

Price per Unit
$/Bu $/Lb $/Ton $/Bu $/Bu $/Lb $/Bu $/Cwt $/Cwt $/Cwt $/Cwt $/Head $/Cwt

Aug 2001
2.29 48.20
3/ 1.855 95.90 55.30 42.50 79.00 -

Jul 2002
27.90
3/ 1.770 84.50 48.10 37.40 67.90 -

Aug 15, 2002
26.30 1/
3/ 1.810 83.40 47.50 37.00 67.00 -

Aug 2001
1.90 36.00 97.40
1.25 4.85 1.810 2.71 106.00 70.60 43.10 73.50
50.80

Jul 2002
2.13 37.60 93.60
1.69 5.35 1.860 3.19 94.90 63.80 37.40 66.60 1,670.00 39.20

Aug 15, 2002
2.48 31.50 1/ 93.70
1.75 5.65 1.835 3.59 94.70 63.60 36.10 66.30
34.20

Barrows & Gilts Sows All Milk 7/ Chickens Excl. Broilers Com'l Broilers 9/ Eggs, All 2/ 10/ Table 2/ Hatching 2/ Turkeys 2/

$/Cwt $/Cwt $/Cwt
/Lbs /Lbs /Doz /Doz /Doz /Lbs

-
7.7
81.5 34.2 150.0
-

-
8.1 -
86.8 34.0 150.0
-

-
8.2
90.7 41.0 150.0
-

51.50 39.40 16.50
42.0 56.6 38.8
38.7

40.20 20.00 11.20
31.0 57.6 38.1
38.3

34.90 20.80 11.20 8/
29.0 62.2 43.9
37.9

[Results from the Monthly Prices Received by Farmers]. 1/ Based on sales during first half of the month. 2/ Mid month price. 3/ Price not published to avoid disclosure of individual firms. 4/ Cows, steers and heifers. 5/ Beef cows and cull dairy cows sold for slaughter. 6/ Animals sold for dairy herd replacement only. Prices published Jan., Apr., July, Oct. 7/ Before deduction for hauling. Includes quality, quantity, and other premiums. Excludes hauling subsidies. 8/ Preliminary. 9/ Live weight equivalent price to producers, includes growers and contractors combined. 10/ Average of all eggs sold by farmers including hatching eggs and eggs sold at retail.

INDEX NUMBERS--UNITED STATES

2001

Jul

UNITED STATES (1990-92 = 100)

Prices Received

108

Prices Paid

124

Ratio 1/

87

Aug

Jul

110

100

124

124

89

81

[Results from the Monthly Prices Received by Farmers]. 1/ Ratio of index of prices received by farmers to index of prices paid.

2002

Aug
101 124
81