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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1966
Page
8
The speaker cites worry about inflation mainly among older citizens who remember the 1929 crash and the Great Depression era. He notes younger people lack awareness and interest, while industry remains central to the discussion.
A Senate agriculture subcommittee will open public hearings Tuesday on a bill sponsored by Sen. George D. Aiken to strengthen farmer bargaining associations. The measure would bar coercion and inducements by processors and buyers and prohibit discrimination against association members in sales. Support from farm groups is anticipated, with opposition from broiler processors.
Linda Kay Burns 20 of Marion, a junior at Iowa State University, was crowned Linn County dairy princess after a five day festival run by the Marion Jaycees. Alternate Linda Wright and runner up Kristine Wright were noted, with contests and community events highlighting Dairy Days.
The agriculture department fights a bill to extend the interior department small reclamation act nationwide. The move would duplicate USDA watershed work and add 31 new offices, dengan Freeman warning of more bureaucracy and loss of integrated conservation requirements. Ronald K. Becker and Stephen C. Becker receive Holstein Friesian junior memberships in Atkins, noting the breed group’s 13,000 junior members.
The Grange urges immediate legislation to guarantee producers receive $4 per cwt for milk used in manufacturing. In a letter to Secretary Freeman, Harry L. Graham warns failure will push U.S. consumption toward imports and worsen the balance of payments. He notes April milk output declined 4.7 percent from 1965 and 10-area production fell 6.2 percent, urging USDA to lift support prices if needed.
The Agriculture Department reports cattle herds are being culled in central portions of the Great Plains due to grass and hay shortages. Pasture feed remains plentiful in the East though some grass needs moisture. In the West livestock movements to higher elevations continue, a normal seasonal trend.
James Sullivan assistant administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration will speak at Dairyland Power Cooperative annual meeting in La Crosse Wisconsin. The co op supplies electricity to several rural electric cooperatives in northeastern Iowa.
The USDA report shows 1964 cattle fed in Arizona and New Mexico at 585 percent of 1947 levels, with California 470 percent and the Pacific Northwest 259 percent. Central Corn Belt share drops from 41.2 to 33 percent, while Western states rise to 30.6 percent of 88 million cattle on feed.
The agriculture department reported that farm employment rose 12 percent from late April to late May, reaching about 5.8 million in May. Despite the gain, May employment remained far below a year earlier at 6,124,000 as machinery and labor-saving devices reduce work.
The data show Kansas and Missouri slashed their combined feedlot share from 12.9 percent in 1847 to 7.4 percent in 1964 while their cattle on feed rose from 648 000 in 1964 and 657 000 in 1847. The 1947 figures placed both states at 10.2 percent.
Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman says meat imports remain below quota levels that would trigger restrictions. He estimates imports this year around 800 million pounds, with last year at 614 million. The 1964 law set a quota trigger at 979 million pounds if foreign shipments rose to that level.
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