Iowa Farm Theft Study Finds Low Losses in Iowa
The Iowa DPS research shows farm machinery and supplies theft totals represent 1.4 percent of larceny value from 1975 to 1977. Machinery theft totaled 281 537 with 38.6 percent recovered. supplies 69 034 with 15 percent recovered. Tractors accounted for 60.3 percent of theft value. Dealers suffered higher per offense values. Most thefts occurred in open fields and unlocked yards, with June peak. State officials urge better securing gear and continued participation in identification programs.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Department of Public Safety
Department
Research Bureau
Charles Larson
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Larson
Big Macs unlikely to rise with beef price forecast
Fast food operators say hamburger prices may rise only partly or be absorbed by other cost cuts. McDonald’s and Burger King executives note prices vary by franchise, while White Castle highlights long-standing low burger prices. The NCA rejects predictions of meat shortages, citing expected pork and poultry gains and flat per capita meat supply.
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New York
National Cattlemen’s Association
Richard Lyng
American Meat Institute
McDonald’s
U.S
Doug Timberlake
Oak Brook
Donna Nicol
Burger King Corp
Miami
Burger King
Jim Wenzell
Wendy’s International Inc
Dublin
Ohio
Lyng
Columbus
Wendy’s
White Castle
Gail Turley
Turley
NCA
Richard McDougal
McDougal
Winter wheat output Expected to rise 15 percent in 1978
The Agriculture Department forecasts winter wheat production for next year increasing by 15 percent. Growers planted 51.5 million acres this fall with an anticipated harvest of 1.44 billion bushels. Plantings are 8 percent above 47.7 million acres seeded in 1977 for 1978, yet 9 percent below 1976 levels. Wheat acreage rises in most major states except Oklahoma and South Dakota where plantings stay level.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Potato shower coats the town in mashed potatoes
In King's Lynn England a heavy potato shower coated houses and cars after a Dormay Foods Factory fault blasted potato granules from an exhaust fan. Workmen spent a week cleaning up the fallout area as residents faced a high mess mood.
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King’s Lynn
England
Dormay Foods
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