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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1982
Page
9
USDA reports farm prices in July were steady overall, 3.5 percent below July 1981, with gains in oranges grapefruit eggs lettuce and peaches offset by declines in cattle tomatoes wheat hay corn and soybeans. Revised June figures show a 1.4 percent drop, twice the earlier estimate, as the index remained below year ago levels amid surpluses high interest rates and weak export demand.
NFU President George Stone and FAMMC President Stu Habe asked the House Dairy and Poultry Subcommittee to probe Secretary John Block for not implementing Section 106 of the 1981 Farm Bill. They say USDA has rejected export offers at world market levels, with prices around 90 cents for cheddar and 50 cents for nonfat dry milk. Stone says Block is holding stocks to pressure Congress into dairy cuts.
A national health official warned that reduced phosphate fertilizer buys may trigger a severe fluoride shortage for public water systems. William Bock of the CDC in Atlanta said state dental health directors and water engineers face an imminent shortage of sodium silica fluoride and hydrofluosilic acid, produced as fertilizer byproducts. Seattle already closed one fluoridation plant amid the disruption.
Early settlers faced brutal log drives and stumped fields as they carved Wisconsin into America’s Dairyland. From brutal labor to stubborn stumps, families toiled to clear land, burn slashings, and pull out stubborn roots with cruder tools and dynamite before modern machines arrived.
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