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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1936
Page
5
W J Thomason farm agent notes Unity to wage for fair prices as essential income rises from 387,100.38 in 1982 to 1,594,473.47 in 1985. Record shows harvests during the Depression era with prices for peanuts, cotton, and corn fluctuating under the AAA programs across 1920s to 1934, with income peaks and crop values detailed.
Publicion reported this year total of 619000 linked funds with seed investments 220700 and AAA benefits 96081, reflecting a sizable financial outcome.
Auburn extension agronomist J. Lowery outlines four actions to cut feed imports. He urges planting 20 to 30 pounds per acre of soybeans, 400 pounds of lime, 25 to 80 pounds sorghum, and cowpeas, plus small acreages of soybean for poultry feed aged stock. He also recommends sorghum near pastures, cattail millet, Texas seeded ribbon sorghum, and peanuts to graze hogs and feed chickens. He notes 1980 32 soybean yields exceeded 12 bushels per acre and advocates two tons of hay per cow or mule.
The Farm Credit Administration reports 10 700 cooperative associations in the United States with total business of 1 500 000 000 during 1934 35 a 12 1 percent rise from 1933 34. Marketing groups numbered 8 794 with 2 460 000 members and 1 344 000 000 in business while supply buyers had 790 000 members and 187 000 000 in sales. The report notes AAA benefits and a call to farm families to join farm organizations to press for fair prices.
The Central Bank at Washington and 22 district banks reported about $66,900,000 in 2435 versus $40,000,000 in the previous year. The text notes cooperative rankings and broader market negotiations, reflecting changes in purchasing and marketing activity across the banking system.
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