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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1976
Page
2
UPI Farm Editor reports dairy cooperatives face charges they push milk prices beyond natural levels under government marketing rules. Patrick B Healy notes farmers plan a campaign to present facts at an April 13 14 symposium and counter the allegations.
Lincoln Nebraska University researchers announce an oral vaccine, Scourvax II, to prevent reovirus and coronavirus calf scours. The vaccine targets the first two weeks of life and is part of a cooperative NU Norden effort begun around 1971.
Subscriptions and postal details appear with missing words and garbled OCR. The fragment mentions Nebraska and Columbus carrier rates, yearly mail rates, and a change of address instruction to notify the postmaster and Telegram. It also notes a missing Telegram and a phone contact with irregular timing.
Healy rejects claims of dairy cooperative monopolies and asserts producing costs rise with time. He notes milk prices closely follow worker earnings and argues price spikes are not supported by historical records. Healy compares current costs to 1955 levels and calls wage-increase demands unrealistic.
The Federal Power Commission will allow public seating at meetings for the first time while keeping some closed sessions for classified matters. Chairman Richard L. Dunham cited greater public understanding of decision making and a push to reduce regulatory lag and paperwork.
The article contrasts George Washington’s farming focus with his Revolution leadership. It notes his Mt. Vernon flock decline and his move to improve agriculture through better draft animals, including mules gifted from Spain and Lafayette. It highlights early haying innovations from New Holland and Sperry New Holland that automated baling and handling, accelerating farm work. It ends by linking these farmer-helping efforts to broader advances across time and regions, including Asia.
An Agriculture Department report says Soviet winter grain acreage in 1975 remains near normal, despite February cold and dry weather. It cites 89 million acres planted with winter grains and forecasts about 72 million acres harvestable, with European areas still recovering from drought and Asiatic regions performing better.
Growers in Nebraska Wyoming Kansas and Montana indicated talks could restart on the 1976 beet crop contracts after a conference call. Negotiations ended March 4 with GWS to bear freight charges and a proposal to pay based on sugar extraction rather than sugar content.
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