Farmers prices rise as machinery costs surge nationwide
U S farming costs climb with July prices paid index up 86 percent from 1967 base and 11 percent from last year. Prices received also rise but volatility persists. Machinery prices, including combines and tractors, show sharp gains, while feeder livestock dip slightly. Russia launches intensified soybean research to boost yields and adapt to colder climates.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
EPA ban on chlordane and heptachlor worries homeowners
Stillwater Oklahoma State University experts say an EPA suspension halting manufacture and sale of chlordane and heptachlor will force farmers and homeowners to rethink pest control. Alternatives like diazinon may replace chlordane around homes while malathion or methoxychlor could serve seed treatments though effectiveness and cost are uncertain. Existing stocks may be sold and used with no time limit, and OSU will update guidance in 1976.
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Stillwater
Environmental Protection Agency
Norman Nesheim
Oklahoma State University
Nesheim
EPA
OSU
Ada School Enrollment Dates Set
Ada Public School enrollment dates announced with sessions for pre school elementary middle and high school. New students must present immunization certificates and birth certificates for kindergarten and first grade. Kindergarten times split by westside and eastside enrollment.
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Ada
Westside
Eastside
South Africa Sees 1974 Tourist Decline of 28 Percent
Cape Town AP reports 610170 tourists visited South Africa in 1974, down 28 percent from 1973. Minister Marais Steyn notes declines in traditional markets such as Spain, with drops exceeding 12 percent.
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Capetown
South Africa
Marais Steyn
Spain
Global petition seeks environmental rights safeguards
The National Audubon Society and the Sierra Club lead a worldwide drive to sign a petition designating environmental protection as a basic human right. Initiated at the EARTHCARE Conference in New York on World Environment Day, it cites failures by nations to act on pledges from Stockholm 1972 and UN General Assembly commitments.
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National Audubon Society
The
Sierra Club
New York City
U. S. Supreme Court
William C. Douglas
Rene Dubos
Marian K. Heiskell
Russell W. Pertson
Council On Environmental Quality
Petez M. Olindo
Petiion
Stockholm
U. N. General Assembly
U. N
Kurt Waldheim
United Nations
U.N
General Assembly
Earth
Palm oil rises as rival to peanuts and soybeans
A shrubby palm fruit about the size of a plum is rapidly challenging peanuts and soybeans for consumer acceptance in the world oil market. Palm oil production has grown fast since 1967, with Malaysia leading. by 1980 world palm oil trade is expected to double and may reshape the U.S. fats and oils economy.
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Washington
Malaysia
Agriculture Department
Department
Foreign Agricultural Service
U.S
Ellen V. McGuire
Usda Agency
Indonesia
Ivory Coast
Cameroon
Ghana
Sierra Leone
Dahomey
Angola
Togo
Colombia
Ecuador
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Statistical Reporting Service
Soviet Union
Russia
Moscow
Soviet Far East
Washington State
British Columbia
James Rich
Route 3
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