1974 Wheat Program Aims to Spur Output
Secretary Earl L. Butz outlined the 1974 wheat program designed to boost production with no set aside or conserving base requirements. A target price of 2.05 per bushel governs payments, with receipts due after December 1 1974 if prices lag the target. Program features include an allotment of 55.0 million acres and farm-based payments up to 20 000 dollars, plus loans at 1.37 per bushel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl L. Butz
John M. Phillips
Pennsylvania Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee
Iowa Leads Nation in Farm Population in 1970
A USDA study shows Iowa Minnesota and Illinois top states for farm residents in 1970, the first time a Southern state did not hold the lead. By 1960s end farm residents fell from 157 million to 97 million nationwide, with the South suffering the biggest drop due to cotton mechanization and sharecropping declines. North and South Dakota had about one quarter of residents on farms, while only 13 states exceeded 10 percent farm populations in 1970.
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Iowa
Minnesota
Iriiois
US Department of Agriculture
USDA
North Carolina
Texas
South
North
South Dakota
NFU Members Fly From Lancaster for Idaho Enrollment Drive
About a dozen National Farmers Union members from Lancaster and Chester Counties flew from Lancaster Municipal Airport on the Farmers Union Travel Club Convair 580. They joined a 100 member group aiming to recruit new NFU members in Idaho, following a last year drive that added over 500 members in six midwestern states. Lancaster participants include Clair Amand, J Harold Esbenshade, Arthur Graybill, John Huber, Ron Kline, Forney Longenecker, and Roy K Steffy. From Chester County attenders are Sabitor Dazzolin, Thomas Moran, Cox W Shepherd, Walter W Shepherd, and Simon Z Zook.
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National Farmers Union
Lancaster
Chester Counties
Lancaster Municipal Airport
Farmers Union Travel Club
Convair
Idaho
NFU
Lancaster County
Clair Amand
Lititz
J. Harold Esbenshade
Manheim
Arthur Graybill
Stevens
John Huber
Valley
Neffsville
Ron Kline
Forney Longenecker
Roy K. Steffy
Chester County
Sabitor Dazzolin
Landenburg
Thomas O. Moran
Oxford
Cox W. Shepherd
Lincoln University
Walter W. Shepherd
Simon Z. Zook
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Dorothy Neel
ASCS
Gary Hiatt
Pickens
8.C
Congress
Bill Epler
Brewery Gulch
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Cargill
Elmer Shreiner
R.D
New Providence
Carl J. Smith
R.D.1
Myerstown
Nuitrena
Iowa No. 1
Butler Agri
M.K. Hoke
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