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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1947
Page
16
Chicago futures surge as three dollar wheat, a 99 year high, prompts shorts to cover amid 690000 bushels outstanding. Cash wheat climbs near 3 dollars while government stockpiles and government contracts complicate deliveries. New margins lower leverage in March and May wheat futures to curb speculative buying.
Washington reports a tentative US Mexico agreement to spend nine million dollars by June 30 to eradicate Foot-and-Mmouth disease in Mexico. Total costs will exceed this amount with two years expected for full eradication and further funding possible.
Iowa Farm Bureau directors meeting in Des Moines vow to oppose any bill that taxes REA transmission unless municipalities face a similar tax. They cite 1943 resolution favoring tax exemption for REA lines and say REA cooperatives are like municipal plants as non profit entities serving farmers. The group notes current House bill omits municipals, leaving no alternative but to oppose the measure.
Public sale by Dr H C Stitzel on March 19 one mile north of Waubeek. Guernsey cattle sale by Dave oe six miles northwest of Cedar Rapids on March 29. Oat hog sale by J M Tudor four miles north of Stanwood on March 21. Public sale by Joe F Stanek three and a half miles northwest of Mt Vernon on March 22. Closing sale northwest of Mt Vernon on March 26.
Board sources say margins after satisfying the initial requirement must be kept at Wheat 30 cents, corn 16, oats 12, barley 25. On Monday’s closes margins at 25 percent would be about 77 cents for March wheat, 69 for May wheat, 66 for July, and 57 for September. CEA also sought higher margins from grain exchanges at Kansas City and Minneapolis. Minneapolis implemented new requirements March 15. Kansas City directors postponed their decision.
Mrs Hazel Whalen and Edward Schoenthal were reelected to the board of directors of the Waukon Equity Cooperative Association at the annual meeting. Officers re elected include Henry Fossum as president Lou Sherman as vice president and Schoenthal as secretary treasurer. George Hexom remains director and William G Ashline serves as manager.
Cargill Inc. filed an amended suit seeking 10.624 million dollars in damages and an injunction to bar the Board of Trade from fixing futures prices. The action stems from a May 1946 decision to halt certain grain contracts after government ceilings rose, leaving old ceilings in place. The suit, initially filed May 21, was amended and supplemented Tuesday.
Ralph J. Orr George S Lyon and Julius Broth ers each shipped a load of cattle to Chicago Monday The local shipping association also shipped a load of hogs Edwin Wilcox Robert Serbousek Marvin Hand wardsen and Neal Paulsen also have shipped cattle recently
The Lamb Feeders Day program in Ames will include Swift Man Haase speaking on lamb merchandising and live lamb grading demonstrations. Harry Linn, state secretary of agriculture, will explain the market news service. The morning program begins at 10 a.m. in the meat laboratory.
Rep. Case suggests using American British occupation zones in Germany to recruit farm labor for the United States. He cites benefits including obtaining good labor, lowering abroad relief costs, and easing population pressures, noting Jamaica and Mexico programs have been unsatisfactory.
University of Nebraska study shows farmers in Nebraska use a pay as you go policy and have not increased loans for current agricultural operations since 1941. In contrast, commercial and industrial loans, real estate, and consumer loans rose. Dr. Edgar Z. Palmer notes war inflation raised assets but farm loans stayed flat, then rose postwar. Agricultural lending fell to 5 percent of total bank loans by 1946, down from 15 percent in 1941.
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