Beef Prices Rise But Likely to Ease Later This Season
Wholesale beef and live cattle prices climbed to the highest in 20 months, nudging hamburger and steak costs higher for shoppers. USDA economist Larry Duewer said the rise stems from delayed marketing and ample cattle, with prices expected to recede as pastures improve and market volume increases. The report notes beef grading standards debates and potential cost effects on consumers.
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Associated Press
Larry Duewer
U.S. Agriculture Department
Washington
Duewer
Omaha
Neb
United States
Agriculture Department
Department of Agriculture
U.S. District Court
Independent Meat Packers Association of Omaha
Peaches Poised for Bumper Southern Indiana Crop
Salem Indiana grower Nevil Colglazier shows off a thriving orchard with small peaches. Nevil and his brother Paul report widespread optimism among Southern Indiana orchards after years of winter damage and spring freezes.
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Salem
Ind
Nevil Colglazier
Nevil
Paul
Indiana
Turkey Drovers and the Rise of Colonial Poultry
The article traces poultry in early America from 17th to 19th century farming. It details domesticated and wild fowl, drovers driving flocks to cities like Philadelphia, and the later post-Civil War surge in poultry interest and breeding stock prices.
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New World
Springtime Dangers for Southeastern Farmers Warned by USDA
The USDA cautions southeastern farmers about screwworm insect incursions as spring arrivals and drought-driven livestock movements from Texas increase reinfestation risk. APHIS regulations require thorough inspection, insecticide spraying, and health certificates for livestock traveling from the southwest to the southeast, controls lasting through November 30. The report also notes larger leaf tobacco stocks as of April 1, totaling 4.31 billion pounds with a year-on-year increase driven by domestic flue cured and foreign-grown tobacco.
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Atlanta
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
U.s.-Mexico
Texas
U.S
Mexico
Southeastern
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
APHIS
Southwest
United States
Puerto Rico
Grape Growers Face Price Dip Across States
California wine surplus drives prices down prompting New York producers to brace for similar cuts. Thomas Chadwick of Taylor Wine Co notes demand remains from connoisseur buyers while overplanting in California floods markets. New York totals show a large crop with potential market gaps as April 1, 1974 data indicate rising flue cured and falling burley tobacco stocks.
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Rochester
UPI
California
New York
Thomas Chadwick
Taylor Wine Company
Hammondsport
N.Y
United States
Widmer Wine Cellars, Inc
Naples
Finger Lakes District
Grapes Surplus Dims Hope for Local Growers in New York
Edward Rak of Chautauqua County laments a changing market as Widmer Wines and Finger Lakes processors signal less demand for Concord grapes. Growers warned to expect lower prices for remaining fruit while out of state juice surpluses could be bought for mixing.
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Widmer Wines
Edward Rak
Chautauqua County
New York
Concord
Finger Lakes
Southeast farm expenditures to fall as cotton acreage shrinks
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta forecasts Southeast farm production expenditures decline by at least 125 million dollars, about 10 percent, due to a 37 percent drop in planned cotton acreage. Ginners may shut down for 1975. soybean and other crops rise modestly but cannot fully offset cotton losses.
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Indiana
Earl Park
Purdue University
Hoosier
Park
Colglazier
Kentucky
Gerard Huber
Starlight
Clark County
Huber
Hubert
Atlanta
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Gene Sullivan
Sullivan
Mississippi
Bank
USDA official reassigned amid grain inspector controversy
The USDA official over privately employed grain inspectors shifts to deputy director while Howard H. Woodworth remains head of the division in name. David R. Galliart will take the top post as the department calls the move internal with no stated link to indictments in New Orleans about inspector bribe schemes.
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Washington
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Ervin Peterson
Agricultural Marketing Service
Peterson
Howard H. Woodworth
David R. Galliart
Des Moines Register
Woodworth
New Orleans
Engineers needed Rochester sees strong demand for engineers
The University of Rochester foresees 5 000 to 6 000 engineering jobs going unfilled in the next three years as Carlyle Whiting notes a favorable outlook. Freshman engineering majors at UR have doubled since 1970 amid broader U S unemployment concerns.
Grain inspectors debate raises fear of toll on imports
Galliart 48 cited ongoing Civil Service Commission review and Woodworth undecided on deputy director post as changes loom in the grain division. The unit under the Agricultural Marketing Service oversees about 3000 grain samplers and inspectors nationwide amid threats of violence and possible reduced grain tonnage. Rep Edward Mezvinsky has introduced legislation to federalize inspectors.
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Galliart
Civil Service Commission
Woodworth
Agricultural Marketing Service
Edward Mezvinsky
Iowa
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