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SHEEP PRICES WEEKLY - AULIE-ATA MARKET

Цены на скот · Mal bazar baalary · Sunday market, Aulie-Ata, Talas valley

Market of 31 October 1999. Next update after next Sunday.

Animal	Low	High	Usual	vs last week
Ram, fat-tail, 1.5-2 years	300	480	380	+20 (people buy for the winter meat)
Ewe, adult	200	320	250	=
Lamb, this year	130	220	170	-10
Goat	120	200	150	=
Cow, Aulie-Ata, milking	1,800	3,000	2,300	+100
Bull calf	600	1,100	800	-50 (the feedlot buyers didn't come)
Horse, working	1,500	4,000	2,200	=
Hay, bale	6	9	7	+1

All prices in som. 5 som = 1 dollar. "Usual" is what most animals went for, not the average, I don't have a calculator at the market. Good racing or ulak horses are not on this list, they are not sold at the market.

Aulie-Ata market
The sheep row, September 1999, from my truck. The empty blocks behind are the old factory district.

Notes this week

Many sellers from the Kara-Buura villages, they want to sell before winter, hay is expensive.
Buyers from Talas for the winter meat, and for weddings and name days, autumn is toi season.
The feedlot people from Otkormochny were not there, the bull calves stayed cheap. Everybody says the Americans (or the Mexicans?) are opening the old fattening complex again and will buy everything. We will see.
Road from Kyzyl-Adyr good. Bring your own water, the café by the gate is closed now.

Price history (usual price of a fat-tail ram)

 Jun 99  ######################          330
 Jul 99  #######################         340
 Aug 99  ########################        350
 Sep 99  #########################       360
 Oct 99  ##########################      380

About

I am Tologon, I keep sheep near Aulie-Ata and drive a truck. Every Sunday I am at the market anyway, so I write the prices in a notebook. My son types it here on Monday in the computer club in Kyzyl-Adyr. Farmers and traders in Talas ask us the prices, now they can look here. If you want prices from another market, write and maybe we can find somebody.

Mail: tologon_mal@attelkom.net

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