Show EFFECT OF RECENT HOG MARKETING ACTIONS marketing 0 of f the 1943 record pig crop continues to be one of the major problems on the food front war food administration officials say re cent government actions should go a long way toward implementing an orderly marketing of the huge crop i officials explain the effect of those factions actions as follows 1 the establishment of specific support prices on all hog markets helps to clarify the confusion regarding the exact government support price on markets other than in chicago the support price of one dollar per hundredweight below the established ceiling price effective november constitutes a virtual floor price on all markets prior to this clarification farmers had no definite way of knowing whether they were selling hogs below belov the support price now they know the support price for then market and should not sell hogs for less than that price the october issue of the livestock and wool situation BAE monthly publication carries a front page zone map of ceiling prices at buying stations before shipping hog raisers should get in touch with their marketing agency to be sure the market can handle the hogs when they are delivered 2 packers who fail to pay farmers support prices for their hogs stand to realize a substantial loss the defense supplies corporation of the reconstruction finance corporation po ration will not make rollback roll back subsidy payments to processors who pay less than the support price for slaughtered after november 27 rollback roll back slaughter payments are available to slaughterers slaughter ers who butcher 2500 pounds or more of livestock including hogs cattle and sheep a month for sale as meat prior to september 1 payments were available only to who butchered pounds or more per month since june when retail pork prices were rolled back about three cents Is a pound has been making payments to hog slaughterer at the rate of per cwt cat on live hogs the payment amounts to a 3 for a pound hog average average e weight pounds were in october head of hogs slaughtered at federally inspected packing plants the subsidy payment on these hogs amounted to more than 16 million dollars the rate of hog has been greatly accelerated during november estimates that december january and february hog at federally inspected packing plants will run around head per monab about two thirds of all hogs butchered are killed at federella fede relly inspected plants 3 an increase in the consumption of pork from the large numbers of hogs now going to market was brot about through a temporary increase in the nations meat ration the two points per pound reduction in ration point values of pork ranging from 20 to point reduction depending on cuts and averaging a pound reduction on all cuts will wil permit consumption of larger amounts of pork in the period immediately ahead point values on most cuts were re bained to the end that we would not feast now and experience a pork famine later 4 some stockpiling by the floo distribution administration in buying pork for lend lease and island terr territories stories will further increase the rate of pork moving away from pack ing plants FDA has begun buying larger of pork some of which may be turned back to civilian channels later in the season the extent of such stockpile ur chasin will be birr ted by t ight cold storage situation available storage space is limited since some facilities normally used for meat are now being used tor for fresh its and v i r ir afi 1 I I 1 n t rort I 1 el arc ilc arn T f inse 11 ise all pork needed to maintain I avels vels ahr k fame u fe i nd A up u P ng cron cro until february 17 t arre is no V mit on the amount of fresh loor farmers can sell at ceiling prices or give away providing they collect ra tion stamps for such meat and turn them over to their nearest war price and ration board along with a monthly report of the amount and kind of meat sold the suspension appi applies ies only to hogs farmers are still limited in the amount of beef or mutton they can sell as meat and before selling must have a government slaughter permit j |