Dare Farmers Risk Abundance in Face of Farm Problems
National Planning Association leaders led by Donald R. Murphy urge retooling farm policy to prevent overproduction and low prices. They favor forward pricing to guarantee minimum prices, expanded Food Stamp usage, and shifting production from unwanted crops to meat milk and fruit, with income support and industry growth.
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United States
Donald R. Murphy
Wallaces
Farmer
Iowa Homestead
National Planning Association
AAA
Steagall
Agriculture Department
Cheap Seed No Bargain Warns Ames Specialist
E. P. Sylvester of Iowa State College seed laboratory warns that bargain seed often contains many weed seeds and is costly in the long run. Farmers should inspect seed tags and buy only from reliable dealers as Iowa labeling laws differ for dealers versus farm-to-farm sales.
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Sylvester
Gazette
Ames
E. P. Sylvester
Iowa State College
Iowa
Upcoming Farm Auctions Across Counties
A sequence of farm auctions runs Monday through Tuesday with closing out sales statewide. Entries list seller names and exact miles from local towns such as Coggan Newhall Swisher Monticello Linn County Home Cedar Rapids Walker Tipton Oxford Junction Ma rengo Troy Mills Lisbon Morley Coggon Mt. Vernon Prairieburg Vinton Alburnett Central City Stanwood Ur bana Center Point and Cedar Rapids with dates February 15 to March 10.
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Coggon
Central City
Loren Bronemann
Monticello
Wear and Bell
Linn County
Monroe Dill
Cedar Rapids
Arlie Walton
Walker
Deal
Gilmore
Troy Mills
Duroc
Bert Miller
Lisbon
Everett Albrecht
Coggan
Albert Stoneking
Mt. Vernon
Emil Meier
Stanwood
Harry Gunn
Urbana
Earl Bach
Center Point
August Kray
Alburnett
Wm. C. Boddicker
Charles Holub
Wm. DeLancey
Kirk
Keith Beatty
Acute Soybean Shortage Seen By Economists
Washington economists warn of an approaching soybean shortage as 41.6 million bushels were crushed for oil in the last three months. With total stock at 45.3 million bushels and large holdings across farms elevators and terminals, experts predict a shortage before the 1947 crop is harvested.
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Washington
America
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
More Farm Operators Employed Last Year Report
The Agriculture Department said Feb 1 farm employment rose nearly 6 percent from a year earlier to about 8.28 million. Family workers totaled 6.69 million, hired workers 1.59 million, including 23 681 foreign workers mainly from Mexico Jamaica the Bahamas and Newfoundland.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Mexico
Jamaica
The
Bahamas
Newfoundland
Farm Institute Sessions Open At Des Moines
Dr. T. W. Schultz of the University of Chicago urged aligning foreign policy with agriculture at the National Farm Institute in Des Moines. He called for proposals from the state department and agriculture department to address agricultural policy and international trade, and urged land grant colleges to study international viewpoints. Leaders from agriculture, industry and labor debated the road ahead for agriculture as the 10th annual institute opened.
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Des Moines
T. W. Schultz
Department of Economics
University of Chicago
National Farm Institute
Iowa State College
State Department
International Trade Organization
Department of Agriculture
Morse Salisbury
International Emergency Food Council
Fowler McCormick
International Harvester Company
Henry Miller Busch
Swift & Company Ties Farm Output to Shared Profits in 1948
A 1948 summary explains Swift & Company turning 981,660,783 dollars from farm materials into meat, dairy and other foods. It notes 63,365 shareholders including 29,941 women, with 1.90 dollars per share dividend in 1948, and 75 cents returned to growers on each dollar of sales.
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America
Swift & Company
Swift
Noted Officials to Address Western Reserve Event
Sam Houston Jones former Louisiana governor and Rep Clifford R Hope Kansas congressman and agriculture committee chair are scheduled to address the evening meeting at Western Reserve University sociology department event.
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Western Reserve University
Sam Houston Jones
Louisiana
Clifford R. Hope
Kansas
House Agriculture Committee
French Minister Seeks Canadian Seed Wheat
French agriculture minister M. Tanguy Prigent visited Ottawa to seek seed wheat from Canada to replant French fields after severe winter losses. He proposed exchanging U S hard winter wheat for Canadian seed wheat, noting Canada could supply planting stock this spring for a fall scrap.
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Ottawa
INS
M. Tanguy Prigent
Canada
France
Prigent
U. S
Champlin Champlin Special White Leghorn Cockerels For Sale
Sale notice offers 900 Champlin Special White Leghorn day old cockerels delivered Feb 18 at 3.50 per 100, plus 1 ton Full-O-Pep mash at 79.60 per ton. Cockerels expected to reach 2,500 pounds by 12 weeks, with orders and house prep encouraged. Leghorn Hybrid cockerels also available at higher weekly prices.
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Champlin’s
Champlin Hatcheries Directory Listings
Local hatchery listings for C. H. Champlin Hatcheries include Cedar Rapids address 1950 E Avenue NW and phone Dial 3-133. Additional locations cited are Independence Fourth Ave SE, Marshalltown South First Ave and B30 102'S with phone 9381.
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E Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Fourth Ave
Independence
South First Ave
Marshalltown
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