Drought rains reach core wheat belt but gains may be limited
Drought relief rains soak Great Plains wheat regions with officials saying millions of acres damaged beyond recovery. Kansas farmer Earl Hayes notes some relief yet warns most winter wheat cannot be saved. Oklahoma and Texas report large losses and delayed harvests.
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Wichita
Kan
U S
Earl Hayes
Stafford, Lan
Kansas Association of Wheat Growers
Hayes
Great Plains
Don Dudley
Oklahoma Wheat Commission
Texas
John White
Panhandle
White
Amarillo
Kansas
Colorado
Oklahoma
KAWG
Earl Bowers
Colorado Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Soybean Exports and Use Forecast Improve This Year
The USDA Outlook and Situation Board reports the Sept. 1 1976 soybean stockpile at about 280 million bushels, with exports and domestic demand driving disappearance to a record pace. Use is seen above 1.4 billion bushels but below the 1975 crop by around 100 million, while the 1975-76 season average price is near $4.65 per bushel.
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Department
USDA
USDA interprets price trends and farmer plans in food markets
The Agriculture Department links rising incomes to stronger consumer demand for food and fiber. It notes larger early-year output, easing farm and retail prices from last fall, and continued livestock expansion. Brazil contemplates a minimum export price, with subsidies if prices slip, while U S soy price supports stay at 2.50 per bushel.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
Department
Farmers Start Early Field Work Amid Warm Spring
Warm weather has allowed farmers to begin spring field work earlier this year. The Agriculture Department says planting is far advanced, though some farmers paused activities awaiting rainfall for better germination conditions.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
End dairy year stockpile of nonfat dry milk tops 375 million pounds
The Agriculture Department reports the end of the 1975-76 dairy marketing year on March 31 shows a total stockpile of nonfat dry milk at 375.4 million pounds, about 30 percent higher than the 232.7 million on the same date last year, indicating an uncommitted inventory.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Dry milk stockpile reviews and grain marketing year shift
The report notes a surplus of dry milk with no earmarked donation or sale as of that date while butter and cheese show uncommitted supplies only from prior periods. It also outlines USDA's switch of marketing years for oats barley rye and flax seed to start June 1 aligning with wheat, to reflect earlier harvests in southern regions and avoid misleading stockpile data.
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Department
Commodity Credit Corporation
USDA
Washington
Agriculture Department
Congress
Oklahoma 4Hers to contest in first National Hobby Fair
Hobby-minded 4H'ers from Oklahoma and about 30 states plus Canada will compete in a National Hobby Fair this summer titled Postmark Collecting. The event educates on postal history and origins of local installations and runs July 10–11 at the Tishomingo Community Center with entries due by July 4 from clubs or individuals.
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Oklahoma
Canada
Tishomingo
All American Horse World Exposition Adds Cutting Horse Event
The 1976 All American Horse World Exposition in Oklahoma City will include 11 Cutting Horse classes in the Western Section from June 1 to 12 at the State Fairgrounds Arena. Total cutting horse premiums total 8000 dollars with a 2000 dollar Open Cutting Horse Championship purse.
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William M. Munford, Jr
State Fairgrounds
Oklahoma City
America
National Cutting Horse Association
Fort Worth
Tex
Munford
Greater Oklahoma
Charity Horse Show Association
Santa Fe Plaza
Fairgrounds
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Bowers
Dewey Davis
Federal Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Meade County
Davis
The
Brazil
Foreign Agricultural Service
Oklahoma County Unit
American Cancer Society
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