Faulty Forecasts Costly Crop Policy Errors
Washington upi The General Accounting Office blamed the agriculture department for faulty crop forecasting that led to 1.67 billion dollars in incorrect policy actions in a single year. The GAO noted widespread misses in wheat and corn acreage, yields, demand, carryover supplies, and prices, while the USDA admitted room for improvement. Don Paarlberg cautioned that forecasting is only one factor among many in policy decisions and urged better documentation for forecasts to enable evaluation.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
General Accounting Office
USDA
GAQ
Congress
GAO
GAC
Department
Don Paarlberg
Largest single grain shipment bound for India from Tacoma
A 105000 ton shipment of American wheat, the largest single consign by one company from a U.S. port, is loaded at Continental Grain's export elevator in Tacoma Washington. The wheat sails on the Indian flag vessel Abul Kalam Azad to Solaya on India's west coast.
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India
Soviet Union
U.S
Continental Grain Company
Tacoma
Wash
Abul Kalam Azad
Solaya
Back To School Chores Unnerves Farm Friend
Mardella asks for help reviewing four kids clothing costs as back to school season nears. She frets over budgets, contemplates pass‑downs, hemming and patching jeans, and keeping costs down with a swap shop idea while managing a busy household. Poverty is framed as a shared hardship but practical thrift underpins their plans.
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Mullersburg
Mardella
Triad
Ford To Get Rich Roast of Fair Champion
President Ford paused at the Iowa State fair to admire Chris Maier's grand champion steer. Harvey Feilen of Des Moines bought the 1,203-pound steer for a record $3.10 a pound and will give both standing rib roasts to the President. The rest of the beef goes to Iowa State University football training table.
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Ford
Des Moines
Chris Maier
Harvey Feilen
Feilen Meats Co
Iowa State University
Linn Rural Electric Re-elects Directors
Linn Rural Electric re elected three incumbent directors to three year terms at the annual meeting held Thursday at the Armar ball room in Marion. Re elected were Robert Bathcheler Central City Vernon D Rammelsburg Paio and Raymond Zenisek Soion. In the organizational meeting afterward the seven directors named officers for one year: Joseph J Marak Swisher president Bathcheler vice president Rammelsberg treasurer James D Jordan Marion secretary and Delbert Stewart Springville assistant secretary.
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Linn Rural Electric
Armar
Marion
Robert Bathcheler
Central City
Vernon D. Rammelsburg
Paio
Raymond Zenisek
Soion
Cooperative
Joseph J. Marak
Swisher
Bathcheler
Rammelsberg
James D. Jordan
Delbert Stewart
Springvilla
Farm Business Tour Planned at Booth Farm
The Cedar Valley Farm Business Assn. will hold a farm management tour at Booth and Son Inc. in Alburnett on Friday Sept 5 starting at 1:15 p.m. The farm grows corn and soybeans and runs a farrow to finish swine confinement operation. James Johnston Iowa Farm Business Assn. state coordinator will discuss farm corporations.
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Booth Farm
Alburnett
Cedar Valley Farm Business Assn
Booth and Son, Inc
James Johnston
Iowa Farm Business Assn
Dry summers may repeat 20 year sunspot cycle in Midwest
Des Moines report cites Freese of Freese-Wells weather service and ISU's Thompson linking sunspot cycles to Midwest droughts. If cycles hold, 1976 could mirror dry periods of 1936 and 1956 with hot July averages and low rainfall, while winter remains without a pattern.
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Pamela Huey Des Moines
UPI
Harvey Freese
Freese-Wells Weather Service
Drouth
Midwest
Freese
Pr. Louis Thompson
Iowa State University
Ames
Thonmipson
Des Moines
National Weather Service
Junie
Iowa
NWS
Thompson
Canadian Maine Anjou Gets Duty Free Import Status
Washington USDA has recognized purebred Maine Anjou cattle registered in Canada as eligible for duty free import. Per certificates of pure breeding, pedigreed animals may enter the United States. Recognition follows review of records from Canadian Live Stock Records in Ottawa and adds to 13 other breeds already acknowledged.
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Washington
U.S
Ottawa
USDA
Calvary
Alberta
Holstein-Friesian Assn
Canara
Brantford
Ontario
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May
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