Freeze Policy Prompts Texas Agriculture Insight
Texas A&M researchers led by Dr. Carl E. Shafer analyze Nixon’s 90 day price freeze. They warn farm level prices may stay steady while retail costs stay frozen and export markets shift with trade measures. Japan and EEC reliance cited as key factors.
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College Station
Nixon
Carl E. Shafer
Agricultural Extension Service and Experiment Station
Department of Agricultural Economics
Texas A&m University
Shafer
Texas
Committee of Agricultural Economists
Agricultural Economic Group
U.S
Japan
Canada
Texas Farm Report Highlights Strong Harvest Prospects
Texas crop and range prospects improved with warm sunny weather. Cotton harvest trails last year but several districts report good hay yields, moisture rebounds, and livestock in good condition as farmers prepare land for oats and wheat across panhandle to east regions.
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College Station
Tex
Texas
John E. Hutchison
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Hutchison
Panhandle
Hereford
South Plains
Vernon
Far West
West Central
Central
Waco
Blackland
Blacklands
South Central
Rio Grande Valley
Corpus Christi
Texas to Hold Public Hearing on Seed Labeling
Agriculture Commissioner John C. White announced a public hearing on September 7 at 10:00 a.m. in the John H. Reagan Building Austin to establish labeling rules for treated seeds. Bill Staffel, director of the Seed Division, will outline proposed guidelines affecting agricultural and vegetable seeds under Senate Bill 457.
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Austin
Agriculture
John C. White
Texas Department of Agriculture
John H. Reagan
Bill Staffel
TDA
Senate
Texas
White
Homestead Act Opens Vast Public Land to Settlers
The act became effective January 1 1863 and enabled more than a million families to receive title to over 248 million acres across the plains prairies and mountains of the West per the World Almanac.
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America
The
World Almanac
Plains
Prairies
West
Fertilizer Advice Boosts Texas Pastures
College Station reports good grazing and hay prospects from recent rains. Texas Agricultural Extension Service pasture expert Al Novosad says applying fertilizer, especially nitrogen, now will raise fall production and quality on perennial pastures.
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College Station
al Novosad
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Novosad
Bermuda
Klein
Buffel
Love
Bahia
Moon Rock to be shown in Plainview at field day
Hale County Soil and Water Conservation District will display a Moon rock at the 14th Annual High Plains Research Foundation Field Day in Halfway Texas. The event runs September 9 1971 from 1030 to 430 with tours 130 to 430 and presentations on tillage seed treatment and soil conservation.
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Hale County
NASA
Houston
Lewis
Jim Valliant
Foundation
Waste Must Be Cut On Cotton
Memphis special report urges cutting waste to boost 1971 cotton yields and profits. Dr. C R Sayre notes long-term surplus reductions and rising demand while extension services and ASCS push harvesting, ginning, and late-season practices. The piece cites picker losses of 11 percent, potential income gains from improved efficiency, and recommended use of desiccants defoliants and Guthion to combat boll weevil infestations.
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Memphis
Tenn
C. R. Sayre
National Cotton Council
ASCS
United States
Sayre
Washington
State Agricultural Extension Service
Defoliant Use Urged For Wet Year In Texas Cotton
In a wet growing season Texas cotton producers are advised to consider defoliants to aid harvest. Cotton specialist Fred Elliott says true defoliants help plants shed leaves, exposing green bolls to light and air to mature and open faster. Defoliants are used with picker harvesting.
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Elliott
Texas
College Station
Fred Elliott
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Drought Relief Grain Arrives at Brooks Grain Co
A total of 660000 pounds of drought relief feed has arrived at Brooks Grain Co including 300000 pounds of government oats and 360000 pounds of grain sorghum. This final shipment, part of 1160000 pounds ordered by the local ASCS, aids ranchers and farmers facing the drought with reduced feed prices for primary and secondary livestock including cows bulls calves sheep and goats.
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Paducah
Brooks Grain Co
ASCS
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European Economic Community
EEC
Texas A&m Committee of Agricultural Economists
Texas Farm Report
Copryr
Rogers Lumber Company
Dial
Moon Rock
Plainview
Baez
P Quality Professional
Childress Index
Main ST. P.O
Childress
City Carrier
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