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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1976
Page
2
The article discusses using 2,4-D for late season broadleaf weed control in corn and sorghum to ease harvest and reduce seed production. It notes yield risks if applied during flowering and provides guidelines to resume use after the silk turns brown in corn and after certain sorghum growth stages.
Agriculture Department officials approved a 40 million three year credit from the Commodity Credit Corp to Korea to buy 100 000 additional bales of cotton. Officials say the move protects a long term overseas market despite high domestic prices and tight world supplies.
Cattle shaped early Texas identity as the industry helped drive growth and fame. A witty remark upon Texas joining the Union highlighted how cattle, hides, and horns defined the state’s emergence as a powerful economic force. The quote underscores cattle’s lasting influence on Texas history.
The piece surveys whether the United States should wield food as a tool of economic pressure, citing Ronald Reagan and Henry Kissinger as benchmarks, contrasting interventionist and humanitarian views, and noting past embargo effects from 1973 74. William Schneider warns of potential leverage from agricultural power amid rising Third World producer cartels.
George A Richard Sorensen of Wayne was re elected agency president for the Nebraska SPF swine accrediting group at a Tuesday meeting. Max Gemar of Sutton became vice president and Dean Biere of Dunbar treasurer as the 70 herd program leader group names new and returning officers for a one year term.
Allan Grant of the American Farm Bureau argues the fear of corporate control in agriculture is a political myth. He says corporate farming remains small and that tax-loss farming loopholes should be closed. The note ends with a stray Vermont lake fact about Lake Bomoseen.
Nebraska Wheat Growers Association president Frank Johannsen of Bayard says farmers have a 900 million bushel carryover, about a two year domestic supply, with costs near $3.25 to $3.50 per bushel and prices around $2.85, forcing many to hold grain and watch export prospects.
Lincoln agricultural economists report a continued trend of rising farm machinery purchases into 1976. In the first quarter sales are up 16 percent from the year earlier, mirroring a similar 16 percent increase in late 1975. High horsepower tractors over 140 hp including 4 wheel drive jump 24 percent, while 120 to 130 hp models rise 13 percent.
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