Cattle Price Outlook: Slower Feed Cattle Market Ahead
College Station Texas A E S livestock marketing specialist Avacek notes a price downturn in feed cattle and heavy slaughter weights. He forecasts heavy fed cattle marketings in the West and Corn Belt over three to four months with the April June quarter about 16 percent below last year. He advises bailouts on capital investment and marketing fed cattle when they reach the cheered grade.
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College Station
Avacek
The
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Lowacek
Uvacek
Auction Report From Last Week Livestock Sale
Cattle numbered 432 and hogs 211 sold at the weekly Livestock Auction. Prices paid ranged across steers grade choices and yearlings, fat cows, stocker cows, bulls, calves, and hogs in multiple grades. Top hogs were No 1 to 3 grade, while feeders to 125 pounds brought 1.10 to 1.29 per pound.
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Teite
Meibenwie
Unm
Ube
G&s
April Granted Teper Cola Bottling Co. In Texas
April settled by Teper-Cola Bottling Co. of Waco Texas under appointment from Pepsi-Cola Co. of New York. The agreement assigns distribution rights likely affecting regional soft drink sales and market access.
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Teper - Cola Bottling Co. Co
Waco, Texas
Pepsi - Cola Co
New York
Swine Show Awards Lead Off Cameron Meet
Elizabeth Nelson won first in the H Swine Demonstrators show in Cameron with Verda Ruth Malone, Wil etn Earl Davis, Larry Kay, and Wayne Albert Franklin earning second through fifth. District judging in Austin placed Nelson eighth in a class of fifteen boars and Mahalia Petty’s boar won eighth in a class of fifteen. Community Improvement Program judges will visit Milam County branches including Branchville Gause and Griffin Chapel on April 2 with Maysfield joining the 1963-64 contest year. Posts and landowner fencing costs highlighted, noting pine posts as cost effective for fencing per Bill Smith.
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Cameron
Elizabeth Nelson
Griffin Chapel
Verda Ruth Malone
Gause
Wiletn Earl Davis
Larry Kay
Day- Ma
Wayne Albert Franklin
Jones Preire
Austin
Mahalia C. Petty
Jones Prairie
Milam County
Texas
Prairie View
Branchville, Gause and
Maysfield
Milam County Plans Wheat Acreage Allotment Details
Milam County ASCS announces 1984 crop wheat allotments mailed to operators. Large farms receive a share of the 1964 national wheat allotment of 495 million acres. smaller farms get a choice between their national allotment or a percentage of their 1959 to 1961 acreage but not more than 15 acres. A referendum on May 21 will decide marketing quotas for the 194 wheat crop. Small farms must register by May 13 to vote.
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Alva FE. Sanders
Milam County Agricultural, Stabilization and Agricultural Service
Sanders
County Agent Advises On Iron Chlorosis In Local Lawn
Milam County Judge Don Humble notes St Augustine grass struggles here due to chlorosis iron shortage. Diagnosis via yellow leaves with green veins. fix with iron sulfate or copperas applications, applied dry with spring fertilizer. Caution against copper staining sidewalks. soil changes offer permanent cure only with long term adjustment.
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St Augustine
A & M College
Blackland
Milam County Seeks Brucellosis Clean-Up Petition
Milam County Livestock Improvement Association marshals a drive to eradicate Brucellosis amid penalties on diseased stock and movement restrictions. About 900 stockmen have signed, needing 1014 to petition the Texas Animal Health Commission for aid.
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Milam County
Texas Animal Health Commission
Milam County Farm Bureau backs cattle signing program
Cameron Texas readers learn the Milam County Farm Bureau Board votes to spend over $200 to help stockmen secure signers for a program. No out of pocket cost for producers beyond penning cattle. For more info contact local officials and veterinarians. The note also mentions 27 cents for cotton and a dress shirt cost.
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The
Milam County Farm Bureau
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Ryser
Pepsi-Cola Company
John Snett
U. S
Bill Smith
Extension Forester
Milam Ascs Report
Don Humble
J. DD. Moore
John S Batte
Bill Arthur
Maldive Islands
Indian Ocean
Lilly Creamland
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Matula’s Shopworth
LS. Ww
Mabisco
RITZ
Bama
Wrigleys
Borden's
Palmoli
Ves
Cee
Orient
the Doctor
S&h
Cusek Pharmacy
Temple Hwy
Rivers Dairyland
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