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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1977
Page
4
The Agriculture Department plans to start purchasing barrel cheese to lift milk prices toward the government support level. It ends purchases of standard process cheese, citing market prices failing to sustain farm milk prices, with barrel cheese set at 95 cents a pound under the support program.
The Agriculture Department says beef and pork prices will rise this summer and continue moderately into fall. Weather, herd adjustments, grain prices, and harves sizes will influence the gains, with pork and poultry supplies offsetting beef. Producers have boosted pork and poultry, but raw meat output should hold about last year’s level, and retail gains may be limited by demand and costs.
Fourteen chapter members attend the state convention as representatives. Three members Melissa Minor Raymond Cacpid and Jonathan Howard are candidates for state farmer awards. The chapter competes in proficiency and judging programs across dairy sales and service ag mechanics and other categories. The US Centennial exhibition opened in Philadelphia on May 19 1976.
The Agri Women will meet at 7 50 p m Thursday in the 4H Building Island Grove Park Weld County. Linda Jackson will speak briefly at the American Agri Women's program. A Jerry Littin film will be shown and husbands are expected to attend.
Doug Kammerzell of Milliken and Hoger Hoff of Eaton were named top individuals in Weld County Livestock Judging for 1977. Kammerzell earned high placing as senior and Hoff won junior honors as awards were presented at the County Exhibition Building. Awards based on total practice and contest points were sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Haefeli and included rosettes and plaques.
Washington notes that Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland will be referred to more informally as Bob in department news releases and magazine items. Extension Service officials say the editor simply did not hear the preferred name and will adjust. The piece also lists junior and senior division livestock and species winners and credits for the county livestock judging program.
Washington officials released details from a yearly survey showing about six in ten hired farm workers are under 25. In 1976 around 48 percent were 14 to 24, similar to 1975, with roughly 40 percent of under-25 workers being students in seasonal roles.
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