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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1949
Page
6
The agriculture department announced changes to the 1949 potato price support program aiming to reduce costs and discourage overproduction. The plan cuts supports to 60 percent of parity, lowers average price to about 1.80 per hundred pounds, and imposes planting allotments to qualify for aid, replacing the two-tier system.
An eight year old mare led the auction at Columbus Junction last week selling for $150. Ninety head were sold with averages between $50 and $65. A team of brown mares aged nine and ten brought $175, with other teams selling from $125 to $140.
A lengthy advertisement lists multiple forthcoming auctions near Walker Anamasa Mt. Auburn and Cedar Rapids with times from Feb 8 to Feb 15 for livestock machinery hay grain and household goods plus estate and public sale notes. It follows with commentary on meat price declines and their impact on consumers from industry and USDA sources.
The USDA forecast a modest rebound in meat and meat animal prices in the next month or two. It cites seasonal drops in marketings, steady consumer demand, and expects pork and lower grade beef to rise while higher quality beef stays steady until spring. Storm losses in the west unlikely to affect near term meat supplies as other regions supply most slaughter animals.
Twenty four Junior Farm Bureau members from Iowa plan a Feb. 20 departure from Des Moines for a 10 day Mexico tour. Frank Ehman, director of young people's activities, will lead and chaperon the trip with 14 boys and 10 girls sailing to San Antonio by chartered plane before continuing by bus. The group is scheduled to return March 5.
The Winter Fair soils program will feature Dr Horace Chee and James W Fitts leading Iowa State College experts in soil testing demonstrations at Cedar Rapids. Free soil sampling arranged by PMA and county offices will be tested at ISU labs for one dollar per sample with 10 to 15 cents per acre for accuracy.
Tipton FFA members defeated Muscatine 36 to 28 to claim the traveling FFA basketball trophy at the West Liberty invitational. West Liberty then beat West Branch in the consolation game.
Farm Bureau membership in Iowa reached about 99,425 last week, up more than 6,000 from the prior week, with director Wayne Tyler noting the figure is roughly 75 percent of the 1949 quota of 135,000. Snowbound roads halted drive two weeks, but most routes have reopened for renewed effort.
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