Hagan and Ensor Receive Farm Management Awards
PARIS The University of Missouri Extension Center in Paris announced Mr and Mrs Joe Hagan Jr of Monroe and Mr and Mrs David Ensor Holliday as this year’s Farm Management award recipients at the annual Farm Management Awards Day in St Louis on Dec 10. The Hagans, farming since 1960 on 881 acres with 106 owned and 775 rented, produced 250 acres of corn at 85 bushels per acre and 360 acres of soybeans at 35 bushels per acre last year. They plan to expand the hog operation using new confinement facilities. They have three children, Mark 11, Machelle 8, Tom 5, and are active in church and civic groups. The Ensors, farming 700 acres with 620 owned, grow hogs beans and corn, recently added a beef herd, deep well with automatic waterers, and a machine shed and shop. They have two sons, Matthew 5 and Jason 2, and David teaches Sunday and Bible school and is a director on the MFA Exchange.
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University of ‘Missouri Extension Center
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St. Louis
St. Louis Stockyards Co
Production Credit Association
University of Missouri Extension Division
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Machelle
Tom
David Ensor
Ensors
Winter Wheat May Be Second Largest Ever Harvest
Washington based government projection, from Dec 1 surveys, shows next year's winter wheat could reach almost 1.5 billion bushels. It would be 9 percent below this year’s record but 8 percent above 1974, with conditions ranging from poor to excellent nationwide and protracted plains drought affecting the crop outlook.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
U.S
Great Plains
Texas
Manna
Department
Plains
Hog Crop Up for 1976 Pork Supply Outlook
The Agriculture Department says the 1976 pig crop will be larger than this year, with 5.4 million sows expected to give birth in the six months ending May 31. That’s up 8 percent from last season’s Dec 1 to May 31 farrowings but 16 percent below the 1973-74 period. Total hogs and pigs on farms on Dec 1 stood at 49.6 million, down 10 percent from a year earlier and 19 percent from 1973.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Missouri
US Food Prices Among Slow Risers
Washington AP report notes a USDA Foreign Agricultural Service survey of 15 countries showing the United States had slower retail food-price increases than most peers. US prices rose 7.7 percent from Sept 1974 to Sept this year, with Australia 5.2 and West Germany 5.8 percent. Argentina jumped 275 percent, UK 27.7, and Brazil 2.6. Other gains included Belgium 11.8, Canada 13.2, Denmark 12.1, France 12.8, Italy 14, Japan 11.8, Mexico 12.9, The Netherlands 8.7, and Sweden 16.4.
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United States
Agriculture Department
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USDA
Foreign Agricultural Service
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United Kingdom
Brazil
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
France
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
Sweden
No-Till On Heavy Soil Cuts Yields
Ray A. Kimmel reports Purdue studies show tillage type affects corn yields with results tied to soil drainage and climate. On poorly drained heavy clay soils fall plowing boosts yields while no tillage and shallow tillage underperform. Conventional tillage gives best stands on poorly drained soils. strip tillage suits well drained soils, and no tillage reduces erosion but demands higher seed rates.
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Ray A. Kimmel
Purdue
Farm Prices Up Less Than Expected in 1975
Washington AP report says retail food price increases may total about 8 percent in 1975, below the 9 percent forecast, with beef and pork prices easing by December. Officials caution final figures await year end review and 1976 outlook remains uncertain. The farm retail spread rose 4.1 percent from October to November, driven by beef and pork costs.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Agriculture
Department
J. Dawson Ahalt
Local Hampshire Hog Show Draws Farmers to Dothan
Danny and Elgin Lewis of Curryville Jim Foster of Montgomery City and Walter Northcutt of Middletown will attend the National Hampshire Winter Meat Hog Conference in Dothan Alabama early in January. The event showcases Hampshire swine with prizes awards and sale opportunities. More than 300 head are entered for the contest.
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Danny
Elgin Lewis
Curryville
Jim Foster
Montgomery City
Walter Northcutt
Middletown
Hampshire
Dothan
Ala
Farm Reports Agree New Record Predicted
Washington officials said farm exports for the first four months of the 1975-76 fiscal year were on target to set a new record. July through October exports reached 6.8 billion dollars, up 10 percent from a year earlier, with wheat, feed grains, soybeans and cotton showing sharp gains and rice oil meal vegetable oil and tobacco volumes declining.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Economic Research Service
Missouri Wheat Crop Rise to 57 Million Bushels in 1976
Missouri officials forecast an 18 percent rise in the winter wheat crop to 57 million bushels for 1976, the second largest in state history. Seeded wheat acreage is about 1.9 million, with national winter production projected at 1.5 billion bushels. The report also notes hog inventories, sow farrowing figures, and broad grain export values led by wheat and corn shipments with Soviet Union trade at $442 million for July to October.
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Columbia, Mo
Missouri
Missouri Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
United States
Soviet Union
Richard E. Bell
Obsolescence Memo Now Ruled Obsolete
Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz signs an order declaring Secretary's Memorandum No. 1889 obsolete. The document notes a review found prior memoranda obsolete, listing memorandum No. 1880 from Aug 28, 1975 as the previous obsolete memo. A spokesman says another memorandum will likely declare the new memo obsolete in the future.
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Washington
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Agriculture Department
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