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PRESS RELEASE: August NYC Multifamily Transactions Hold Steady Year-Over-Year

2013-10-17 20:43:00| National Real Estate Investor

Gail Donovan The New York City multifamily market took a modest breather in August posting 59 transactions, a slight 3 percent year-over-year decline, according to Ariel Property Advisors’ Multifamily Month in Review for August. read more

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Crop Conditions Hold Steady

2013-07-30 15:30:00| National Hog Farmer

Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture In the top 18 states for corn and soybean production, crop conditions are holding steady with solid advances being made in crop maturity, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) report for July 29. Corn condition at 46% good and 17% excellent duplicated last week’s rating. However, in states like Kansas, only 29% of the crop was rated as good and just 4% was listed as excellent. read more

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Packers Hold Steady

2013-06-15 21:33:00| National Hog Farmer

By Steve Meyer, Paragon Economics Inc., Adel, IA Moderate growth in sow herd, average litter size would test weekly limits. One year ago, it appeared that packing capacity would become a real issue in the fall of 2013. The concern was well-founded, as producers were expanding the breeding herd by roughly 1% and average litter size was growing at a rate of about 2% per year. The combination suggested that U.S. hog slaughter could grow by more than 3%, year on year, by late 2013. With hog slaughter already headed toward a new quarterly record of 30.433 million head in fourth-quarter 2013, the prospect of pushing 3% more hogs through the current packing sector looked daunting. Then the worst drought in 50 years came knocking. Plans to grow the breeding herd and improve litter size slowed. Slaughter levels in fourth-quarter 2013 will likely be lower than last year. But questions about packer capacity loom. read more

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