Laotian Rice Boom Spurs U S Food Aid Debate
Laotian peasants sell their good harvest and seek emergency U S food aid as they run short after aid cuts. AID notes indicate the surplus is traded for cash, delaying storage for seed and future needs amid a push toward self sufficiency. Kennedy pressures U S policy on Southeast Asia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth J. Freed
Washington
United States
Agency For International Development (Aid
Laos
U.S
Straube to head industry panel on pesticide shortages
Washington H L Straube vice president of Stauffer Chemical Co named to head an industry committee to assess the seriousness of pesticide chemical shortages used in food production and to help alleviate critical supply gaps. The group will identify feedstocks intermediates and other materials needed to manufacture pesticides and will act as industry spokesman and liaison with federal agencies including the USDA EPA and the Department of Commerce.
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Washington
H. L Straube
Stauffer Chemical Co
Straube
Federal Energy Office
USDA
EPA
Department of Commerce
Agriculture Department
Impoundment Costs Iowa $3 Million in Soil Funds
DES MOINES AP Iowa farmers face losses of over 3 million dollars in conservation funds after a federal impoundment cut 40 percent of Rural Environmental Assistance Program REAP funds. Farmers Union President Lowell Gose criticized the move as penny wise and pound foolish, noting greater conservation needs as farming expands.
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Iowa
DES Moines
Lowa
Iowa Farmers Union
Lowell Gose
Congress
Gose
Office of Management and Budget
Washington
Farmers Union
China Urges Grain Saving and Stockpiling After Record Harvest
The People's Daily calls on peasants to economize on grain use and build emergency stocks in case of war or bad harvests. It notes regional plans must consider grain capacity, urges avoiding starch from grain, and contrasts China’s modest mechanization with Soviet aims. The 1970 harvest is described as slightly above 1971’s record.
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Peking
People’s Daily
Soviet Union
China
Charles & Rita Mae Meyer
Wory Cross
Iowa
Holy Cross
Kewanee
J.D. Mall
Tyson
Am Hess
Worthingto
Tri-State Realty
Central Ave
Dubuqu
Albert H. Noble
Mineral Point
Wisconsin
Cler Morena
Dubuque
Parm Loan Service Inc
Fertile farmer faces fertilizer and energy woes in 1974
Jefferson area farmer Max Naylor, who posted a record crop and high prices in 1973, warns that 1974 depends on plentiful fertilizer and energy supplies. He notes plans to plant fence to fence and expand herds, but fear of fertilizer shortages and the energy crisis threatens optimistic outlooks amid high production and rising costs.
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Jefferson
Max Naylor
Naylor
Department of Agriculture
Japan
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Angus
Mach
George Smith
Center Point
Bruggemann
S of Petersburg
Elmer Peiffer
Keoto
Colin Tschantz
Monticello
Erwin Hartig
Tipton
Paul Schmidt
Conroy
Erma Carmon
Gerhardt Krug
Cedar Rapids
Close Out Sole
Clair Franson
Mi. N of
Alburnett
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Southeast Asia
Kennedy
By Seth S. Ning
New York Times Service
Farm Lean Service
Tristate Auction Division
Nel
Ituwet, Tr Wit
Kenneth Ile
High Street
Metropolitan National Bank
Monona
Bona Fide
Iown
Morris Plan Securities Company
Eam
VEFAR
Moramerica
Morris
Morris Plan/MorAmerica Financial Corporation
American Building
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