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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1973
Page
4
Kansas cattlemen face volatile prices as the Cost of Living Council moved the beef price lift three days earlier. Packers and retailers weigh in on a muddled market with midstream roles shifting, while farmers fear a price collapse if supply surges.
Prices for beef face a volatile outlook as demand weakens and heat waves strain budgets. Experts cite a suspected black market, altered wholesale practices, and higher feed costs driving costs up, while cattle slaughter remains below normal and pork and chicken prices ease. Farmers fear break even as live beef prices hover near 50 cents per pound amid rising costs.
Thirty years ago six of Italy's seven battleships were accounted for with four reported safe in Allied hands at Malta. One had reached a sanctuary and one was sunk by German bombers.
US farm officials publicly differ with the Justice Department over antitrust exemptions for cooperatives and marketing orders. Assistant Secretary Clayton Yeutter says marketing orders remain needed to stabilize perishable farm products, while the DOJ probes Capper Volstead Act immunity and coop price controls amid concerns of undue price enhancement.
Mason City AP reports Iowa Beef Processors plant workers began a midnight Sunday strike over contract demands, ending negotiations since last November. Union leader James Dodge of Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen and plant VP Arden Walker defend wage boosts given in 1972 and 1973 amid rising output costs. The article also notes broader U.S. ag trends with cropland output rising 60 percent 1950–71 and population up 35 percent.
Dalry barn in Mid-Prairie and Town Mennonite communities invite area residents to a Wednesday meeting on September 19 at 1:15 p.m. The gathering aims to discuss local schools and community matters.
Planned at Yoders the Marcus and Milford Yoder farm six and one half miles west of the Cheese Factory in Kaland recently installed a double four parlor with weigh jars and a special unit washer. Electrically controlled feeders meter feed as each cow is milked. Freestall housing serves 45 cows with expansion to 60 planned. Passaic haulage hay and feed form part of the feeding program. Kent Nelson of Towai State University Extension will discuss urea in silage and other protein sources. Eldon Hang Area Extension Livestock Specialist will discuss reproduction problems at the meeting.
In Des Moines, Agriculture Secretary Robert Long condemned land exploitation aimed at higher yields. He warned the public won’t tolerate a repeat of the Dust Bowl days, citing plowing in the South and Great Plains to support 1974 wheat and cotton crops. He praised Iowa soil conservation laws as a model for tackling erosion.
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