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I Hog Producers and Pad
sentatives of the Fooi
Agricultural Oepai
New Plan of
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In accordance with the policy of the
;OOD to cons an. i cyi cucu uauro aica in i
| of importance to special branches of t
I convened In Washington a meeting of
I Agricultural Advisory Board and the sj
A industry to consider the situation in the
ft The conference lasted for three da;
V executive committee of the fifty packing
I for pork products and with the member]
J -foreign pork purchases.
The conclusions of the conference \
The entire marketing situation has
so changed since the September Joint
conference as to necessitate an entire
iteration in the plans of price stabilization.
The current peace talk has
alarmed the holders of corn, and there
has been a price decline of from 25
cents to 40 cents per bushel. The fact
.that the accumulations of low priced
> com in the Argentine and South Africa
would, upon the advent of peace
and liberated shipping, become available
to the European market has created
a great deal of apprehension on
the part of corn holders. This decline
1?? ?^ omnncr coHnO STOWPfS
'Hits syicau ic<u ninw^ w.. ~ 0?
>that a similar reduction in the prices
of hogs would naturally follow. MoreOver,
the lower range of corn prices
iwould, If incorporated in a 13-to-l ratio,
obviously result in a continuously
falling price for live hogs. In view
of these changed conditions many
r swine producers anticipated lower
prices and as a result rushed their
hogs to market in large numbers, and
tills overshlpment has added to and
i aggravated the decline.
I The information of the Department
f of Agriculture indicates that the supply
of hogs has increased about 8 per
'cent, while the highest unofficial estimate
does not exceed 15 per cent Increased
production over last year. On
the other hand, the arrival of hogs
! during the last three weeks in the
'seven great markets has been 27 per
cent more than last year, during the
corresponding period, demonstrating
the^. unusually heavy marketing of the
available supply. In the face of the
excessive receipts some packers have
jiot maintained the price agreed last
^ 'month. On the other hand, many
[of the packers have paid over the
[price offered to them in an endeavor
:td maintain the agreed price. The result
In any event has been a failure
v to' maintain the October price basis
\ determined upon at the September conK
* Terence and undertaken by the packers.
Another factor contributing to
the break in prices during the month
has been the Influenza epidemic; it
has sharply curtailed consumption of
pork products and temporarily decreased
the labor staff of the packers
* about 25 per cent
: The exports of 130,000,000 pounds
of pork products for October compared
with about 52,000,000 pounds
In -October a year ago, and the
J export orders placeable by the Food
Administration for November, amount
to 170,000,000 pounds as contrasted
with the lesser exports of
198,000,000 for November, 1917. The
Increased demands of the allies are
continuing, and are In themselves
proof of the. necessity for the large
^production for which the Food Administration
asked. The increase in export
demands appears to be amply
?UfflClent to ta&e up Uie rnucaoc 1U
.hog production, but. unfavorable mar ket
conditions existing in October afford
no fair index of the aggregate
!f supply and demand.
' It must be evident that the enormous
shortage In fats In the Central ,
:35mpires and neutral countries would
iImmediately upon peace result in ad{ditionai
demands for pork products
which, on top of the heavy shipments
to the Allies, would tend materially
to increase the American exports, injasmuch
as no considerable reservoir of
[supplies exists outside of the United
'States. It seems probable that the
;present prospective supplies would be
[Inadequate to meet this world demand
iwith the return to peace. So far as it
is possible to interpret this fact, it apjpears
that there should be even a
[Stronger demand forv pork products
i after the war, and therefore any alarm
[of hog producers as to the effect of
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peace is unwarranted Dy me ouuook.
In the light of these circumstances
lit is the conclusion of the conference
;that attempts to hold the price of hogs
to the price of corn may work out to
jthe disadvantage of pork producers,
fit is the conclusion that any interpreItation
of the formula should be a
broad gauged policy applied over a
long period. It is the opinion of the
conference that in substitution of the
previous plans of stabilization the
Ldve Stock Subcommittee of the Agricultural
Advisory Board, together with
tHe specially invited swine representat
tives, should accept the invitation of
the Food Administration to join with
the Administration and the packers in
determining the prflpes at which controlled
export orders are to be placed.
This rill be regularly done. The influence
of these orders will be directed
I to the maintenance of the common object?nsusely,
the stabilization of the
'price of live hogs so as to secure as far
!ar it ia possible fair returns to the
V
IRKETS PLANNED I
(ers Confer With Repred
Administration and
tment and Adopt
Regulation.
Food Administration since its foundahe
agricultural industry on occasions
be industry, on October 24 there was
the Live Stock Subcommittee of the
>ecial members representing the swine
i hog market
ys, and during this time met with the
g firms participating in foreign orders |
s oi uie rixxj Auiniiiistraoon oirecung
vere as follows:
producer and the Insurance of an adequate
future supply.
These foreign orders are placed
upon the basis of cost of hogs to the
packers.
As the result of long negotiations
be'ween this body and the Packers*
Committee, representing the 45 to 50 i
packers participating in foreign orders,
together with the Allied buyers, I
all under the Chairmanship of the
Food Administration, the following undertaking
has been given by the packers:
In view of the undertakings on the
part of the Food Administration with
legard to the co-ordinated purchases
of pork products, covered in the attached,
it is agreed that the packers
participating in these orders will undertake
not to purchase hogs for less
than the following agreed minimums i
for the month of November, that is a \
daily minimum of $17.50 per hundred j
pounds on average of packers' droves,
excluding throw-outs. "Throw-outs"
to be defined as pigs under 130
pounds, stags, boars, thin sows and
skips. Further, that no hogs of any
Kina snail De Dought, except throwouts,
at lew than $16.50 per hundred
pounds. The average of packers'
droves to be construed as the average
of the total sales in the market of all
hogs for a given day. All the above
to be based on Chicago.
We agree that a committee shall be
appointed by the Food Administration
to check the daily operations In the
various markets with a view to supervision
and demonstration of the carrying
out of the above.
The ability of the packers to cairy
out this arrangement will depend on
there being a normal marketing of
hogs based upon the proportionate increase
over the receipts of last year.
The increase in production appears to
be a maximum of about 15 per cent
and we can handle such an increase.
If the producers of hogs should, as
they have in the past few weeks, prematurely
market hogs in such increasing
numbers over the above it is entirely
beyond the ability of the packers
to maintain these minimums, and
therefore we must have the co-operation
of the producer himself to maintain
these results. It is a physical
Impossibility for the capacity of the
packing houses to handle a similar
over-flood of hogs and to find a market
for the output The packers are anxious
to co-operate with the producers
In maintaining a stabilization of price
and to see that producers receive a fair
price for their products.
(Signed) THOS. E. WILSON,
Chairman Packers' Committee.
The plan embodied above was adopted
by the conference.
xne rood Administrator nas appointed
$ committee, comprising Mr. Thomas
E. Wilson, chairman of the Packers'
Committee; Mr. Everett Brown,
president of the Chicago Livestock Exchange;
Major Roy of the Food Administration,
Mr. Louis D. Hall of the
Bureau of Markets, to undertake the
supervision of the execution of the
plan in the various markets. Commission
men are asked to co-operate incarrying
out the plan embodied in the
packers' agreement. It must be evident
that offers by commission men to
sell hogs below the minimum established
above is not fair, either to the
producer or the participating packers.
Mr. Brown has undertaken on behalf
of the commission men in the United
States that they will loyally support
the plan.
It is believed by the conference that
this new plan; based as it is upon a j
positive minimum basis, will bring better
results to the producer than average
prices for the month. It does not
limit top prices and should narrow
the margins necessary to country buyers
in more variable markets. It is
believed that the plan should work out
in SIR AVPrflW
Swine producers of the country will
contribute to their own interest by
not flooding the market, for it must be
evident that if an excessive over percentage
of hogs is marketed in any
one month price stabilization and control
cannot succeed, and it is certain
that producers themselves can contribute
materially to the efforts of the j
conferences if they will do their marketing
in as normal a way as possible.
The whole situation as existing at
present demands a frank and explicit
assurance from the conferees represented?namely,
that every possible
effort will be made to maintain a live
hog price commensurate with swine
production costs and reasonable selling
values in execution of the declared
policy of the Food Administration
to use every agency in its control to
secure justice to the farmer.
The stabilization methods adopted
for November represent the best efforts
of the conference, concurred In
by the Food Administration and
Livestock Subcommittee of the Agrl- ,
cultural Advisory Board, together j
with special swine members and the !
representatives of the packers, to im- !
prove the present unsatisfactory situation,
which has unfortunately resulted
because of the injection of uncon- !
trollable factors.
We ask the producer to co-operate
with us in a most difficult task.
The members of the Conference
were:
Producers?H. C. Stuart, Blk Garden,
Va., Chairman Agricultural Ad- i
visory Board; W. M. McFadden, Chi?
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CagO, ilL ; A. ayKQB, laa uruvt^ AH.,
John M. Evvard, Ames, Isl ; J. EL Mer- !
cer, Live Stock Commission for Kansas
; J. G. Brown, Monon. Ind.; E. C. !
Brown, President Chicago Livestock !
Exchange; N. H. Gentry, Sedalla, Mo.;
John Grattan, Broomfleld, Colo.; Etagene
Funk, Bloomlngton, 111.; Isaac
Lincoln, Aberdeen, S. D.; CL W. Hunt,
Logan, la.; C. R Yancey, W. R. Dodson.
Food Administration?Heitaert Hoover,
F. S. Snyder, Major R L. Roy, GL
H. Powell.
Department of Agriculture?Louis i
D. Hall, F. R. Marshall.
The packers present and others i
Bharlng in foreign orders were represented
by the elected packers' committee.
Those represented were:
Packers?Armour k Co., Chicago,
HI.; Cudahy Packing Co., Chicago, IU.;
Morris & Co., Chicago, HI.; Swift &
Co., Chicago, HI.; Wilson & Co., Chica- j
go, I1L; John Agar Co., Chicago, HI.; i
Armstrong Packing Co., Dallas, Tex.; I
Boyd Dunham & Co., Chicago, HI.; |
Brennan Packing Co., Chicago, HI.;;
Cincinnati Abattoir Co., Cincinnati,
O.; Cleveland Provisions Co., Cleve-!
land, O.; Cudahy Bros. Co., Cudahy,!
Wis.; J. Dold Packing Co., Buffalo, N.
X; Dunlevy Packing Co., PiitSDurg,
Pa.; J. B. Decker & Sons, Mason City,
la.; Evansvllle Packing Co., Evansvllle,
Ind.; Bast Side Packing Co., Easifr |
St. Louis, HI.; Hammond Standlsh A
Co., Detroit, Mich.; G. A. Hormel Ji
Co., Austin, Minn.; Home Packing A j
Ice Co., Terr? Haute, Ind.; Independ* J
ent Packing Co., Chicago, HI; Indian*!
apolls Abattoir Co., Indianapolis, Ind.;;!
International Provision Co7 Brooklyn,
!N. Y.; Interstate Packing Co* Winona,!
Minn.; Iowa Packing Co., Des Moines, |
ila.; Powers Begg Co., Jacksonville*
HL; Kingan A Co., Indianapolis, Ind.;
Krey Packing Co., St Louis, Mo.; Laku
Erie Provision Co., Cleveland, 0.; Layton
Co., Milwaukee, Wis.; Oscar Mayei
A Bro., Sedgwick and Beethoven
; streets, Chicago, HI.; J. T. McMillan
Co.; St Paul, Minn.; Miller A Harl; j
Chicago, ni.; J. Morrell A Co., Ottun>
wa, la.; Nuckolls Packing Co., Pueblo, j
Colo.; Ogden Packing and Provision
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Cleveland, O.; Parker Webb A Co., Do j
'troit Mich.; Pittsburg Packing and
Provision Co., Pittsburg, Pa.; Rath
Packing Co., Waterloo, la.; Roberts d
Oake, Chicago, HL; Rohe A Bros., Nen!
York City; W. C. Routh A Co., Logans ;
port, Ind.; St Louis Ind. Packing Co. j
St Louis, Mo.; Sinclair A Co., T. M
Cedar Rapids, la.; Sullivan & Co., De j
troit Mich.; Theurer-Norton Provisioi
Co., Cleveland, O.; Wilson Provislor
Co., Peoria, HI.; Western Packing anc |
Provision Co., Chicago, 111.; Charto j
Wolff Packing Co^ Topeka, Kan.
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