Burdette’s four step profit joke and a critique of farm scale
Dick Warner reports at Lancaster Farm and Home Center where Les Burdette laughed cattle feeders with a four step profit joke that mocks theft. The piece notes a flaw if markets fall and contrasts Roman World Food Conference views on small farms becoming efficient producers and US role in global hunger.
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Les Burdette
Burdette
Lancaster Farm and Home Center
Rome
Washington
Richard L Strout
Strout
Ag Day 1975 Observance Gains National Attention
David Bennett of Miller Publishing Co. notes Ag Day will be March 24, the first Monday near spring. The U S Senate adopted a resolution and a House action is expected. The day honors American agriculture and efficient farming families, with growth across the country. Could the Garden Spot join this observance?
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David Bennett
Miller Publishing Co
Minneapolis
U.S Senate
House
Bennett
Cattle on Feed Down in 23 States in 1974 Slumps
USDA reports 23 major states held 9,619,000 cattle on feed for slaughter in 1974, down 26 percent from 1973 and the lowest since 1965. Feedlots declined from 146,220 in 1973 to 137,732, with both small under 1,000 head and larger 1,000-plus capacity lots falling. Total cattle marketed through feedlots was 23,224,000, down 8 percent from 1973. Larger lots still accounted for 65 percent of fed cattle, but head marketed from big lots fell to 4,458,000 in 1974.
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USDA
Usda Crop Reporting Board
Grain stocks slide as US exports to Japan stay strong
USDA data show all wheat stocks at 299 million metric tons, up 19 percent from a year earlier. Four feed grains total 114 million tons, down 22 percent. Corn 36 billion bu down 19 percent, sorghum 381 million bu down 41 percent, oats 511 million bu down 20 percent, barley 229 million bu down 29 percent. Soybeans 271 million tons, down 14 percent. Japan remains the top US farm export market for 1975, with higher prices offsetting a potential 10 percent volume drop, keeping exports near 34 billion dollars in fiscal 1974 and 1975.
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USDA
Japan
Pek Bt Atv Ats Etry
MATCHED SET Lesson for February 2 1975 Devotional Reading Colossians 3
Contemporary Christians treat church life as optional while Acts 2 shows the full congregation devoted to teaching fellowship breaking of bread and prayers. The early church shared all things and grew daily as worship study fellowship and service united. Love and hospitality guided stewardship and outreach.
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Peter
Jesus Christ
God
Jesus
Division of Christian Education
National Council of the Churches of Christ
U.S.A
Community, Press Service
Cattle Feeder’s Day Discusses Hog Integration and Manure Use
The seminar covers running hogs with steers to boost feed efficiency and profits, plus timing grain sales given potential price shifts for the 1974 crop. It also urges marketing cattle at ideal finish, managing grain reserves, and valuing manure as fertilizer to cut nitrogen costs.
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Les Burdette
Farm Calendar Highlights Local Young Farmer Events
The listing covers a series of farmer group meetings and events in February. Highlights include the Ephrata Young Farmer Banquet at Mt. Airy Fire Hall, the Pennsylvania Yorkshire Swine Association show and sale at the Farm Show Arena, and a Dairy conference at the Guernsey Barn Pavilion with Hoard's Dairyman editor Eugene Mueyer as keynote. Other items note Milking School, Dairy Cattle Management meetings, a Cattle Feeders workshop, and Garden Spot Young Farmer banquet at Blue Ball Fire Hall.
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Ephrata Young Farmer's
Mt. Airy Fire Hall
Yorkshire Swine Association
Farm Show Arena
Guernsey Barn
Eugene Mueyer
Young Farmer’s
Blue Ball
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Lata
Lawren
Althouse
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Agent Telephone
Manheim Young Farmer’s Sol
Manheim High School
Dairymen
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