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Wheat Marketing Reform Changes Farm Trade in America
The Food Administration Grain Corporation now controls wheat marketing nationwide to remove speculative pricing. A Missouri farmer, Col. B. M. Jenkins, unloads at a cooperative elevator and learns prices depend on new grades and fixed rules from New York. The piece explains price calculation from primary markets to country points and notes the shift toward a government managed, nonspeculative grain system.
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Uncle Sam
Food Administration Grain Corporation
Col
BM Jenkins
Missouri
Co-Operative
Col. Jenkins
Food Administration
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Tam
Sam
Minking Corporation
United States
America
Ned Northern
Gite
Reu
France
Georgia
New York
Grain Corporation
St. Louis
Pood Administration Grain Corporation
New York City
Sikeston
B. Sikeston
Clevater