Grain Contract Expands Wheat Delivery Sites at KC Board of Trade
The Kansas City Board of Trade voted to start trading wheat futures at full prices and to liberalize grain delivery on futures. Gulf price contracts would allow delivery via warehouse receipts from any approved elevator, with freight paid to Houston. Deliveries must meet exchange requirements and be in regions with a grain exchange, licensed facilities, and adequate insurance and bonding.
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Kansas City Board of Trade
Commodity Exchange Authority
Houston- Gulvestan
Houston
Win Vernon
Board of Trade
Wichita
Vernon
Linn Swine Crop Clinics Planned
The lone State university extension service in Linn county will conduct a swine clinic on Tuesday Jan 8 and a crop clinic on Friday Jan 11. Both clinics run 10 am to 3 pm in the REC building in Marion with experts from Iowa State University discussing tillage, fertilizer, weed control, pest management, and swine facilities.
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Lone State University Extension Service
Linn County
Richard Freeman
REC
Marion
Town State University
John Berthelsen
Ed Kirby
Eldo Hans
Waterloo PCA Loans Reach Record 13 Million
Waterloo Production Credit Association loans outstanding to farmers hit 13 million on December 6, with 57 new loans totaling about 1.7 million closed since January 1. High cattle costs, larger farm units, and labor replaced by machinery drive growth. Operations cover Buchanan, Black Hawk, Grundy, Bremer, Chickasaw and Butler counties, with Independence office at 3 million and 70 farm operations in Buchanan county.
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Waterloo Production Credit Assn
PCA
Leon Harris
PUA
Buchanan
Black Hawk
Grundy
Bremer
Chickasaw
Butler
Independence
Don Brokman
Buchanan County
Pioneer Starts Improvement Plan in Des Moines
Pioneer Hi-Bred International announces a 5.1 million capital improvement program for 1974 in Des Moines. President R Wayne Skidmore notes a 479 percent jump from 1974’s 2.9 million. Over 2 million funds seed corn production plant expansion to boost annual capacity by about 11 percent. About 400,000 will buy seed field detasseling equipment to widen seed acreage handling and storage.
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Des Moines
APY
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc
R. Wayne Skidmore
Farm Price Index Rises but Still Below Peak
Washington AP The agriculture department index shows a 1.5 percent rise for December across grain livestock and farm inputs yet remains about 11 percent below its August peak. The report notes overall prices 4.4 percent higher than a year earlier despite the monthly decline in several items. Beef and pork prices fell while wheat hit a new high. soybeans corn and other crops rose from November levels with dairy and production costs also up. The parity ratio stayed at 91 percent.
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Agriculture Department
Aber Ancor
Ita
Sididt Dty
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Farm Crop Plans Report Signals 1979 Production Push
The Agriculture Department will issue January reports from the Statistical Reporting Service on 1974 crop and livestock plans based on a survey of 48 states. It aims to show intended acreages for corn oats barley sorghum soybeans cotton flaxseed and wheat, to meet export needs and boost domestic availability.
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Washington
Agriculure Department
Key
Nixon
Statistical Reporting Service
Sioux City Stockyards Claim Lead Over Omaha
Sioux City Union Stockyards report says Sioux City surpassed Omaha as the world’s top livestock market in 1973 with 2,687,993 head receipts. Of these, 814,008 cattle and calves, 1,771,849 hogs, and 102,136 sheep were shipped, while St Paul recorded 2,867,332 head and Omaha 2,313,528.
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Sioux City
Sioux City Union
Omaha
St. Pat
Minn
St. Paul's
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