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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1974
Page
2
Jane Farewell will conduct a workshop at the Armory Norfolk on Monday November 11 registration at 9:00 a.m. The program will cover song leading small group games party planning and ice breakers with a one hullac fee to cover follow up materials. Extension 4-H church and school groups urged to attend.
USDA data show October milk prices up but dairy feed costs up too, widening the milk to feed ratio to 1.17. The overall dairy product index rose four percent in mid October yet remained five percent below a year earlier, with parity price impacts more evident in corn costs and farm milk prices. President Ford indicated no immediate boost to import quotas, while industry reps urge faster price-support action.
The Agriculture Department projects 1974 milk production at 114.5 billion pounds, about 1 percent below last year, with a temporary improvement due to corn silage and good pasture but likely to fade as feed costs stay high. Officials predict further declines as farmers cut back on grain and concentrates.
Sam and Ernst Luchsinger win a 1 by 20 inch color photo at the Rural Recognition Banquet in Columbus on November 19 presented by Citizens Bank and Trust Company. Their 400 acre farm on Columbus northvest edge, owned since 1993, features irrigated cropland, hay, pasture, and farm steds with five wells and practices such as tree planting and surface residue farming. The Luchsinger operation is among five farms named as outstanding conservation award winners by the Lower Loup Natural Resources District for 1974. Award forms follow soil conservation service guidelines with technical help from the district through the field office.
A U S satellite project named LACIE will monitor wheat across a vast North American region using the BATS-B satellite to improve global food supply forecasts. The effort begins with wheat in the Great Plains and may expand to worldwide crop predictions.
The Foreign Agricultural Service reports Taiwan becoming a major export market for U.S. farmers with growing demand for wheat corn barley cotton and tobacco. In the year ending June 30 shipments to Taiwan totaled about 574 million, more than double the prior year.
The American Farm Bureau Federation claims the nation’s largest farm group status with 2,293,680 member families across 49 states and Puerto Rico, highlighting its broad reach and influence in agriculture.
In fiscal 1973 Japan and West Germany topped U.S. farm exports. They bought about 9.0 billion dollars, accounting for 72 percent of total U.S. farm exports. A December 2, 1972 Alabama sinkhole near central Alabama, termed the "December Giant," measured over 400 feet wide and 150 feet deep, and is believed to be the largest in U.S. history.
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