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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1976
Page
2
The report outlines harvest progress for sorghum and soybeans with seeding of wheat and alfalfa possible if current weather continues. It warns of methane gas in silage, stresses orderly feeder marketing, cites 1977 interest rise, and notes drought costs for dryland crops. It highlights windbreak protection for corn and weed nutritional values.
David Gilsdorf notes fall spraying aids musk and plumeless thistle control. Fall weather favors thistle spray effectiveness as conditions enable rosette-stage application and weed growth, while winter freezes help injured plants die and soil moisture supports results.
Nebraska soybean producers and handlers held 7.3 million bushels of soybeans on hand as of September 1. State statistician Jack Aschwege of the Nebraska Crop and Livestock Reporting Service reported the figure on Thursday.
Columbus Telegram announces subscription rates for local carrier delivery and mail orders within and outside Nebraska. It also outlines change of address procedures requesting readers notify the postmaster with old and new addresses.
A telegram missing case is noted with a contact number 564-274 and a suspect window between 6 and 6 30 p m on a Saturday referenced as 8109 a m in the fragment.
SCS Forester Jim Carr warns Nebraska landowners to water recently planted windbreaks this fall as drought and grasshoppers raise losses. More than six million trees were planted from 1974 to 1976 for farms, livestock, windbreaks, and wildlife on about 15 000 acres.
Farrowing up across Nebraska with 3 260 000 hogs on hand September 1 reflecting a 23 percent rise from a year earlier and 3 percent above two years ago. Sows farrowed in June through August totaled 150 000 producing a pig crop of 1 095 000 up 21 percent from last year. The Nebraska Crop and Livestock Reporting Service forecasts 325 000 sows to farrow in the next six months or 19 percent more than the prior September-February period.
The National Association of Wheat Growers renewed appeals for farmers to cut 1977 plantings, hoping to avoid increases and possibly trim overall sowing. Government forecasts show a record 1.239 billion bushels in 1976, with carryover rising toward 946 million by next May.
Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz says there will be no cropland set aside in 1977 citing strong export demand for grain and cotton. The move allows farmers freedom under the 1973 Farm Act to shift crops without acreage limits and follows an accelerated wheat export program.
An Agriculture Department economist says soybean prices may ease as producers raise plantings both domestically and abroad. South America like Brazil and Argentina plan later this year for harvests next April, while U S growers may expand acreage if corn is less favorable. World trade and exports are expected to shift with the higher U S output and a larger cotton crop offsetting meal supplies.
Rep. Virginia Smith of Nebraska praised a House Senate conference committee decision to drop 36.4 million dollars from the Pennsylvania Avenue Development funding in the District of Columbia appropriation. She led the push to remove the money from the bill.
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