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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1977
Page
3
Assistant Agriculture Secretary Alex P. Mercure directed the Farmers Home Administration to draft rules allowing federal financing for adobe built homes. Adobe, a sun dried brick of clay mud straw and manure, has long been used in Spanish and Indigenous settled regions.
Researchers from South Dakota State University and Sioux Steel Company created a solar powered grain drying bin. The unit is a standard round steel dryer with two thirds of its exterior coated to act as a solar collector. It replaces LP gas drying, cutting cost from about 9-10 cents to 1.2 cents per bushel, saving roughly $600 per 8,000 bushels.
Missouri researchers convert corn stover into cow and sheep feed by grinding, oxidizing with hypochlorite, then treating with ammonium hydroxide to raise crude protein from 4-5% to 18-19% and improve digestibility. They hope to apply the method to straw and test feeds in animals, not just lab tests.
Washington AP report shows farm parity prices for wheat near 1933 levels as mid-summer cash prices hover around $2 a bushel, about 40 percent of parity. Secretary Bergland forecasts no price improvement. ERS notes small seasonal gains unlikely to exceed loan rate. World stocks remain large but could tighten with export demand.
U S farm export values may slip 5 to 10 percent in 1977-78 after a period of growth, with estimated export value dropping from a projected 24 billion dollars this year to about 21.6 to 22.8 billion. Tonnage is seen barely lower, though prices for grains have fallen due to large harvests.
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