Hagan And Ensor Receive Farm Management Awards
Paris: University of Missouri Extension Center in Paris awards honor to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hagan Jr. Monroe City and Mr. and Mrs. David Ensor Holliday for farm management excellence. Hagans farm 851 acres with 106 owned, 250 acres corn at 85 bushels per acre, 360 acres soybeans at 35 bushels. Ensors farm 700 acres, 620 owned, major hogs beans corn, added beef herd, deep well, automatic waterers, shop. Both families active in church and community.
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Paris
University of Missouri Extension Center
Joe Hagan Jr
Monroe City
David Nsor, Holliday
Ear
Sonmal Farm Management
St. Louis
St. Louis Stockyards Co
Production Credit Association
University of Missouri Extension Division
Hagan
Hagans
Mark
Machelle
Tom
David Ensor
Ensors
Wheat crop could be second largest ever in 1976
The Agriculture Department forecast on December 1 that next year's winter wheat could approach 1.5 billion bushels, near a record but not assured. The crop would exceed 1974 output by 8 percent though down 9 percent from the current year. Conditions ranged from poor to excellent, with dry weather in the Great Plains clouding prospects. rainfall in November offered relief, but spring will reveal the true impact.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
U.S
Great Plains
Texas
Montana
Plains
Hog Crop Up Forecast To Boost Pork Supply In 1976
Agriculture Department projects the 1976 hog crop to rise with 5.4 million sows giving birth in the six months ending May 31, up 8 percent from last season’s Dec 1 to May 31 period but still 16 percent below 1973-74. Total hogs and pigs on farms on Dec 1 stood at 49.6 million, down 10 percent from a year earlier and 19 percent below Dec 1, 1973.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Dee
US food prices rise slower than most nations
A USDA Foreign Agricultural Service survey of 15 countries shows the United States had the second slowest rise in retail food prices over the past year. The U S index climbed 7.7 percent from September 1974 to September this year, with Australia up 5.2 percent and West Germany 5.8 percent. Other nations posted larger gains including Argentina 275 percent, the United Kingdom 27.7 percent, and Brazil 25.6 percent.
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Washington
United States
Agriculture Department
U.S
USDA
Foreign Agricultural Service
Australia
West Germany
Argentina
United Kingdom
Brazil
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
France
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
Sweden
No-Till On Heavy Soil Cuts Yields
Purdue eight year study shows tillage affects corn yields by soil type and drainage. Well drained soils favor no till. poorly drained heavy clays lose yield with no till. Fall plowing helps such soils. disc and shallow tillage vary. No till reduces erosion but can worsen crusting and nitrogen loss on heavy, low organic matter, sloping fields.
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Ray A. Kimmel
Purdue
Farm Prices Up Less Than Expected In 1975
Washington AP reports that food price increases in 1975 may total about 8 percent, below earlier 9 percent forecasts. Beef and pork prices declined in December, while the farm retail spread rose 4.1 percent from October to November, reflecting higher costs to move and process food.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Agriculture
Farm Reports Agree New Record Predicted
Washington AP reports first four months of the fiscal year show farm exports near the government's forecast for a 1975-76 record. July-October exports totaled 6.8 billion dollars, up 10 percent from a year earlier, with wheat feed grains soybeans and cotton rising sharply while rice oil meal vegetable oil and tobacco fell. Exports so far this year are projected at 22.7 billion up from 21.6 billion in 1974-75.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Economic Research Service
United States
Soviet Union
Richard E. Bell
Missouri Wheat Crop Rise Forecast 1976
Officials project an 18 percent rise in Missouri winter wheat to 57 million bushels in 1976, second largest after 1919. Seeded area about 1.9 million acres, up 4 percent from last year, with national winter wheat production at 1.5 billion bushels and 57.2 million acres seeded. Missouri hog inventory stands at 3.2 million as of Dec 1, down 18 percent from last year but up 3 percent from Sept 1, 1975. Farmers expect 145 000 sows to farrow by February, up 4 percent from last year. next three months projected at 200,000 head, up 5 percent. National hogs on farms estimated at 49.6 million as of Dec 1, down 10 percent from 1974 and 19 percent from 1973.
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Missouri
Local Hampshire Hogs Enter National Winter Conference
Danny and Elgin Lewis of Curryville Jim Foster of Montgomery City and Walter Northcutt of Middletown will compete in the National Hampshire Winter Meat Hog Conference in Dothan Alabama early in January. More than 300 head of Hampshire swine are entered for the contest with prizes awards and potential sale of prize winners.
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Danny
Elgin Lewis
Curryville
Jim Foster
Montgomery City
Walter Northcutt
Middletown
Hampshire
Dothan
Ala
Obsolescence Memo Now Ruled Obsolete
Washington AP Secretary Earl L. Butz issues an order declaring earlier memoranda obsolete including Memorandum No. 1880 from Aug 28 1975. The memo notes a review found certain memoranda obsolete and hints another memo may render the new one obsolete in time.
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Washington
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Agriculture Department
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