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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1972
Page
6
Kansas cowherds grow with demand for beef and efficient use of roughages. Profit hinges on low feed costs, strong management, and high calf crops. Practices include artificial insemination pregnancy testing performance testing and cross breeding.
4 H members are invited to start the home improvement project by creating a personal space through choices in design and materials. The program links to woodworking and sewing and encourages family involvement plus community support for the civil defense project overseen by Richard Jepsen at Kansas State University.
The article urges builders, officials, and citizens to plan conservation from the start to minimize erosion and flood damage. It recommends debris basins, terraces, grassed waterways, and temporary and permanent vegetation, noting costs, enforcement limits, and the need for local controls.
Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz will address the 1972 Kansas Agricultural Convention in Topeka on Thursday Jan 13 at the City Auditorium main arena. The program includes Attorney General Vern Miller and a five screen quadra sound presentation Miracle On The Land. Butz is a nationally known speaker with a background as an Indiana farmer and former Eisenhower era official.
The National Farmers Union urged consumers, bankers and small-town businessmen to back higher government price guarantees for grain farmers. NFU President Tony Dechant seeks a 25 percent rise in price-support loan rates for wheat and feed grains including corn. A House bill awaiting Senate action backs the plan tied to a federally owned grain reserve.
The Agriculture Department reports US meat production through November 1971 rose five percent from 1970 due to near record pork supplies. Beef led with about 19.9 billion pounds, pork reached 13.3 billion, veal fell, and lamb-mutton rose slightly amid higher cattle slaughter weights.
US Agriculture Department reports 40.8 million tons of fertilizer used in the year ending June 30, up 3.5 percent from 1969-70. Nitrogen up 6.3 percent, phosphate 4.7, potash 3.5. farmers spent $2.1 billion, $160 million more than the previous year, with corn receiving the largest share. Fertilizer prices rose eight percent in 1971, and prices may level off in 1972 with phosphate near price ceilings.
Gene and Ned Swingle of Zenda Kansas say they will quit Kansas taxes and move to British Honduras to start a 2000 acre cattle operation. They own land their grandfather homesteaded and describe the ground as a jungle. They have visited twice and plan to depart in two to three weeks.
Kansas commercial red meat production rose 7 percent in November to 159 million pounds, with 199000 cattle slaughtered and pork at 32 million pounds. For the first 11 months of 1971 total output reached 1.67 billion pounds, up 17 percent from 1970, while beef yearly production hit 1.34 billion pounds and hogs 327 million.
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