Texas farm report notes heat drought and crop yields across state
The Texas Agricultural Extension Service reports sustained heat over 100 degrees in many areas with scattered rains aiding crops, pastures, and hay. Peanuts peaches pecans and grain sorghum show progress while screwworms boll weevils and other pests rise. harvests face delays in some districts due to rains and field conditions.
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College Station
Tex
Texas
John E. Hutchison
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
High Plains
Hutchison
Extension Service
Panhandle
South Plains
Billy Counter
Lubbock
North Central
Upshur
Ray Siegmund
Fort Stockton
West Central
Central
John Burleson
Stephenville
Blackland
Southeast
Upper
Gulf Coast
Uel Stockard
South Central
Doyle Moore
Uvalde
Price Controls Worry Farmers
Texas Farm Bureau President J. T. Woodson warns that price controls on raw agricultural products could harm farming by reducing supplies and encouraging black market activity. He urges President Nixon to oppose a broad freezing of farm prices, noting inflation has inflated meat and poultry costs.
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Waco
Spl
Texas Farm Bureau
J. T. Woodson
Cost of Living Council
Nixon
Texas Farm Leader
Polar Differences Between Poles
The South Pole Station sits on an ice plateau over 9,000 feet high, operated by the U.S. Navy. The North Pole rests on a thin ice sheet atop roughly 10,000 feet of ocean water.
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South Pole
U.S. Navy
North Pole
Surprising Local Hailstorm Hits Cotton Fields
A brief hailstorm struck a one half to one mile wide and ten mile long area Saturday, denting cotton crops. Rainfall varied from .2 to .5 inches in the region, with .11 inch officially recorded at Childress airport. Mrs Ernest Rea observed the cloud as it approached near Tell.
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Tell
Childress
Federal Aviation Administration
Ernest Rea
Eating Costs Different From Cost of Food
College Station reports food prices not solely rising with costs, noting beef price shifts reflect broader market forces. Texas experts say consumer perception often misreads conditions, while farmers adjusted production after past low prices. Storm damage near High Point and Humble Town devastates cotton and crops, with replant plans and ongoing assessments by local agents.
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College Station
William Vastine
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Vastine
Childress
Highway 83
High Point
Humble
Teddy Hightower
Texas Employment Commission
Ronny McNutt
Claude Andrews
Claude
Leon Henley
Surplus Wheat Sold To Indonesia Reduces West Texas Surplus
Congressman Bob Price announced USDA concluded purchase negotiations with Indonesia for 25 000 bales of short staple low microaire cotton at over 3 750 000 dollars. The sale, about ten percent of the 1971 crop surplus, cuts West Texas surplus caused by poor weather. Indonesia will pay under PL 480 on a long term basis.
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Bob Price
USDA
Indonesia
West Texas
Price
United States
Replant or Hold: Hail Damage Decisions for Rolling Plains Cotton
Cotton producers facing hail damage on the Rolling Plains must weigh replanting versus standing crop. Extension expert Dr. Robert Metzer notes optimum yields with two seedlings per foot in 40 inch rows and urges a thorough field check before decisions. If replanting, select early maturing varieties such as Lockett 4789A and Paymaster lines.
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Robert Metzer
Lubbock
Metzers
Metzer
Lockett
Ribcot
Gregg
Tamecot
Blanco
Dunn
Rain tree story and agricultural updates from World Almanac
World Almanac notes the rain tree’s leaves close in cloudy or dark weather. It catalogs variety names and notes May wholesale milk, May egg and poultry hatch figures for Texas, and livestock sales down or up from last year. It also cites DDT bans and the start of the 1972 cotton season with a promising Lower Rio Grande Valley crop.
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Texas
Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Iowa
Arizona
California
Colorado
Nebraska
World Almanac
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Texas Agriculture
John C. White
San Juan
Rio Grande Valley
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Texas Farm Report
Rogers Lumber Company
Dial
South Dakota
Casey Tibbs
Steve McQueen
Junior Bonner
Ronny F. McNutt
Williams Jon Chretien
Williams
Bartlett
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Coker
Paymaster
Northern Star
Anri-Business News
Texas Department of Agriculture
State Farm
Earl Harwell Childress
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
Bloomington
Ithinors
Sanitone Fresh
Hargrave Laundry Cleaning
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