This report reviews the U.S. meat industry's and the prevailing rates performance for the month of April 2004 First-quarter cattle, hog, broiler, milk, and egg prices averaged above a year earlier. The price increases are in the face of export restrictions currently affecting beef and broilers and larger-than-year-earlier pork, broiler,...
In this report total costs of producing milk in 2000 ranged from an average of $11.58 per hundredweight cwt of milk sold in the Fruitful Rim-West region to $18.23 per cwt in the Eastern Uplands. Operations with 500 or more milk cows had significantly lower total operating and ownership costs,...
This report evaluates performance of the U.S. poultry industry throughout the year 2002. It reports that the total production had grown during this period, but the exports had declined. U.S. poultry (broiler, turkey, and other chicken) production in 2002 reached 38.1 billion pounds on a net ready-to-cook RTC basis, up...
This report describes methods of predicting the performance of light-frame wood structures with emphasis on floor and wall systems. Methods of predicting structural performance, fire safety, and environmental concerns including thermal, moisture, and acoustic performance are addressed in the three major sections. Structural adequacy is the fundamental requirement for light-frame...