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and buyers are limited, his bargaining power is weaker than if he could 

 choose his time and price. When the price of beef or milk is increasing or is 

 expected to increase, dealers become more active and farmers are in a more 

 favorable bargaining position than in periods of falling prices when the risk 

 of loss by dealers is increased. This is the position of most dairymen in New 

 Hampshire. Specialized beef producers or purebred owners can be more se- 

 lective in their selling. If they own a truck, direct sales to other farmers 

 will eliminate the dealer. This type of sale for replacement cattle is generally 

 limited to the vicinity of the farm. Contacts through the herd association 

 will provide a greater selection of markets for purebred cattle. Commercial 

 hog markets are limited to packers or local butchers, and lambs are largely 

 sold direct to consumers or butchers. 



Buyers of replacement cattle for Southern New England dairy herds 

 can frequently offer attractive prices for dairy cows in . Northern New 

 Hampshire where the price of milk is somewhat less than it is in Connecticut 

 or Massachusetts. This practice may remove the better cows from herds and 

 leave the dairymen with the low producers for local milk production. 



Conclusion 



The major sales of livestock in New Hampshire are dairy herd 

 cull cows for slaughter, and dairy herd replacement cattle. There is a con- 

 siderable amount of custom slaughtering of hogs, but the majority of meat 

 consumed in the state is produced in the West and Midwest. There is no 

 uniform state inspection law for slaughter operations, and conditions vary 



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