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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1978
Page
7
The Agriculture Department reports for August that beef will have a slight seasonal rise but still 4 to 6 percent below a year earlier. Adequate means meeting needs, with plentiful and light categories shown for other foods. July had marked the first adequate beef rating in nearly three years.
U S Agriculture Department reports the 1978 lamb crop about 8.02 million head, down 7 percent from 1977, while shorn wool production falls to 100.4 million pounds, down 6 percent. Lambing rates in the West dropped to 94 per 100 ewes from 97, tied to prolonged cold weather, with Texas hit by poor winter grazing and low conception.
Randy Hillers of Manchester showed the champion market hog at the Delaware County Fair swine show. Carlin Lubben of Delhi exhibited the champion pen of three.
The annual leadership camp of the Iowa FFA Southeast district met at the West Liberty Fairground with about 130 members advisers and guests. Sessions emphasized leadership personal development officer teamwork and chapter planning.
Farmers on the Great Plains seek EPA approval to use heptachlor and dieldrin against invading grasshoppers. EPA officials say the agency would require public hearings and 30 to 40 days for a decision. An EPA official notes 10 other pesticides exist to control grasshoppers on alfalfa, wheat, corn and soybeans.
Ken Andorf of Garrison working for his cousin Jim Fleming near Garrison says their combine is ready for oats. Rain has kept the almost ripe grain too damp to harvest. Andorf, 21, a Wheaton native, is starting farming by working for Fleming in exchange for equipment to farm 55 acres.
A 1976 Labor Department analysis shows the hired farm workforce at about 2.8 million, stable since 1971 after a long decline tied to mechanization and farm consolidation. The cohort was mostly young, white, and male, with 60 percent under 25 and 74 percent male.
A study of migrants shows about 60 percent under 25, one third students, 72 percent male, averaging 82 days of farm work and 1807 dollars yearly. Whites 57 percent, Hispanics 36 percent, blacks and others 7 percent. Also note Air Force Captain Virgil Grissom became the second American in space on this date in 1961 with a 16 minute Mercury flight.
The Agriculture Department foresees global grain reserves expanding next July 1 as the Soviet Union and China post bigger harvests. Wheat and coarse grains for 1978-79 are expected to meet or exceed world needs, with U.S. production slipping to about 241.8 million tons.
The Carter administration loan plan offers $2 per bushel to corn farmers to avoid selling into a weak market. Farmers may sell later and repay or keep the loan and hand over the corn at maturity. By August 1, many loans mature and officials fear the government will own substantial corn, with 13 million bushels in Iowa affected and millions more maturing through autumn.
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