Swine Man Discovers Cows In Pork Market Hope
Bill Luce, hired as a swine specialist at Oklahoma State University, admits a real problem. He notes Oklahoma sits in pork deficient area with hogs slaughtered here often shipped from the north. Luce says the state has great potential to boost pork production and supply the southwest as an open market awaits.
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Bill Luce
Oklahoma State University
Cow Country
USA
Kentucky
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Southwest
Luce
Energy conservation as temporary answer to energy crunch
Washington AP reports National Rural Electric Cooperative Association chief Robert D. Partridge warns conservation will fail to meet future needs without new fuel supplies. Co-ops expect $1 billion of equipment in 1978 and 3.73 million meters by 1982 to serve 8.11 million rural customers. He emphasizes conservation as part of a long term plan, notes past insulation standards gains, and mentions USDA lending for insulation plus ongoing studies on irrigation, home use controls, heat pumps, and solar heaters.
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Washington
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
America
Robert D. Partridge
Alaska
Partridge
Association
Ufacturers
Tennessee Valley Authority
Agriculture Department
NRECA
Irrigation Management
Wheat farmers urge subsidies to boost U S wheat sales
Directors of Great Plains Wheat Inc endorse government loan programs and export subsidies to lift U S wheat in world markets. Wyoming farmers voted to join export marketing scheme funded by seven state wheat commissions. Minnesota Wheat Commission to decide by December. President Mike Hall cites aggressive sales by Australia, Canada and Argentina and expects European Community subsidies to surface early winter. The board says subsidies are not needed in normal competition but would endorse them if necessary to move U S wheat into world trade.
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Wichita
Kancapi
Great Plains Wheat, Inc
U.S
Wyoming
Export Marketing Organisation
Minnesota Wheat Commission
Mike Hall
Australia
Canada
Argentina
European Economic Community
Hall
Interior Dept Targets Large Landowners to Break Up Corporate Farms
The Interior Department proposes rules to force corporations investors and other large owners in 17 states to divest over a million acres of excess land in the arid West. The plan enforces the 160 acre limit for land irrigated from federal projects, aiming to aid family farmers and curb absentee ownership. Regulators expect lawsuits from landowners challenging the action.
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Washington
Interior Department
Interior
Cecil D. Andrus
Congress
Federal Bureau of Reclamation
Andrus
Keith Higginson
Bureau of Reclamation
Rocky Mountains
Weather Summary From August Forecast Page
A fragmentary forecast shows Wed and Thu temperatures in the mid seventies with thunder showers possible. Scattered rain and showers appear in the later days with cloudy conditions and fair periods through the week.
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Oklahoma
Northwest
Oxlaroma
Is alcohol fuel the future in Topeka debate
In Topeka and Nebraska discussions, gasohol blends of grain alcohol and gasoline face economic hurdles. Farm cooperatives chairmen say pump prices must reach about $1 to $1.40 per gallon before gasohol becomes financially viable, with costs of gasoline and grain, by products, and distribution shaping the outlook. Nebraska lawmakers note a successful pilot but claim major oil firms hinder progress while state laws foster a gasohol program via motor fuel tax allocations.
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Topeka
Kan
API
Gasohol
Monday Lane Harold
Farmland Industries
Parison
Floyd Shoup
Far-Mar-Co
Leran Schmil
Nebraska
Newton the new wheat variety gains wide support in Kansas
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station and counterparts in Oklahoma and Texas find Newton, a semidwarf wheat variety, merits and no major faults. Named for Manhattan Kansas, it resists soil borne mosaic virus and will be available to farmers for fall 1978 planting. Trials began in 1974 with cross of Senut and Mexican spring.
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Manhattan. Kan
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station
Oklahoma
Texas
Newton
Kansas
Kansas State University
Manhattan
Hays
Hutchinson
Floyd W. Smith
Elmer Heyne
Kansas City
Salina
Lobby group backs consumer agency urged by farmers
The Consumer Federation of America pushes for a non regulatory Agency for Consumer Protection as its top priority, aiming to work with farmers on mutually beneficial legislation and to secure support for a consumer agency bill in the House. The push follows inflamed farm commodity prices and a tense political climate amid opposition from Carter and Agriculture Department leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Consumer Federation of America
House
Consumer Federation
Agency For Consumer Protection
Congressional
Carter
Agriculture Department
Iowa
Tom Harkin
Busine
Harkin
Glenn English
Dokla
Max Baucus
Dmont
Federation
Consumer Protection Agency
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Springfield
Billy Sharber
Jack Sharber
Konawa
Bates Ranch
Billy
Konawa Future Farmers of America
Rorale Cale
SDAY
Oflahoma
Thabker
Aus
RSS
Southeas
Thursda
Batlad
Sunuat
Ava
Calling For Consumer Agency
USDA
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