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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1957
Page
5
Seasonal milk production trimmed Pennsylvania farm prices by 10 cents per hundred pounds by Feb 15, driving a four point fall in the state index to 241 of the 1910 14 base. Dairy returns held at 5 per hundred pounds wholesale, while grain and meat prices offset gains.
On February 27 the program permitted emergency grazing of Soil Bank winter wheat acreage on designated drought counties. The extension runs from February 28 through April 15 in 12 states including Colorado Iowa Kansas Missouri Montana Nebraska New Mexico North Dakota Oklahoma South Dakota Texas and Utah.
Two Lancaster County Farmers Association officials William B. Jacobs and J Roy Greider met with U S Congressman Paul B Dague in Washington to outline the group s stance on Taft Hartley Act federal aid to education and Soil Bank and farm program issues They support a strengthened Taft Hartley Act protect union membership rights oppose broader minimum wage expansion and favor keeping school funding and regulation at state level while seeking less federal control.
Farm Women No 16 will gather in Christiana on Wednesday March 13. Edith Mendenhall serves as co host. Lucy Mendenhall hosts with a PP&L representative presenting a talk and film. Roll call invites guests you would like to entertain.
L L Huber of the Agricultural Experiment Station at Penn State told 40 seed corn growers at a Jersey Shore meeting that profits rise with plant density from 10 000 to 13 000 16 000 per acre potentially yielding about 800 extra dollars across 20 acres. He noted tradeoffs between early and late maturing corn and soil fertility. He highlighted high yields from Pennsylvania hybrids despite droughts and pests and cited contest results for Pa 602A Pa 507 Pa 820 Pa 333 Pa 444 and others.
France aims to boost livestock output in four years under the Third Modernization Plan. Calves up 25 percent, hogs up 12 percent, and sheep up 35 percent to meet rising domestic demand and aid neighboring imports, per the Foreign Agricultural Service.
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