Winter Wheat Seeding Up All Over
Farmers across major corn and soybean regions boosted winter wheat plantings last fall amid high prices and expected market strength. The Agriculture Department forecasts a 1974 winter wheat harvest of 1.5 billion bushels, up 19 percent, with Kansas Oklahoma Texas Colorado and Nebraska supplying about half the total. Wisconsin shows dramatic increases, while other states also post double digit percentage rises in seedings.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Great Plains
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Colorado
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Area Hamp Breeders Have All Americans
Hamp shire breeders receive All-American honors for boars and gifts as judged by the Hampshire Swine Registry at Peoria. Included are John Edwards of Middletown a junior yearling Big E, Gust and Merle Kiehne of Lanesboro Minn, Davenport Hampshires of Thompson, Jim Foster of Montgomery City, and others with boars and gilts placing at state fairs and later sales to Ibaragi Swine Farm Japan and Shady Side Farm Powell Ohio.
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Hampshire
Hampshire Swine Registry
Peoria
John Edwards
Middletown
Big E
Gust
Merle Kiehne
Lanesboro
Minn
Bouncer Cms
Davenport
Hampshires
Butz Seeks Farm Press Help On One-Stop Service Centers
Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz asks farm news media to explain a plan to consolidate USDA agencies into centralized one-stop centers. The proposal would merge Soil Conservation Service, Farmers Home Administration, and Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service, sparking concerns that many grassroots offices could be eliminated next year.
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Washington
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Agriculture Department
Butz
USFA
Soil Conservation Service
Farmer's Home Administration
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service
Congress
Box of prime Angus steaks given to Governor Bond at World Forum
A special box of prime Angus steaks from Offutt and Hopkins was presented to Governor Christopher Bond by J J Offutt and Sons and John Hopkins and Son during the World Angus Forum in Kansas City. The steaks came from steers bred by the donors and fed in the Centennary Sire Progeny Steer and Steak Contest, with Governor and Mrs. Bond addressing the international crowd on October 1. Missouri boasts 5,634 active members and 33,905 bulls and females in 1973.
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F.B. Houghton
Missouri Angus Association
Maryville
John Hopkins
Auxvasse
Governor Bond
J.J. Offutt
Mexico
Ricky Hopkins
John Barton
American Angus Association
Columbia
Missouri
Farmers Receive Reduced 1974 Conservation Aid Plan
Washington AP Farmers will receive scaled down conservation help in 1974 with $90 million for a new Rural Environmental Conservation Program to back approved on land projects. Congress had appropriated $175 million, but much was impounded. a $10 million water bank program runs at full Congress level. The RECP continues past conservation practices with long term goals and tree planting, replacing the terminated REAP.
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Washington
Congress
Agriculture Department
Department
White House
Conservation program pays half of approved farming projects
The government uses the ACP to reimburse farmers up to one-half of the cost of carrying out approved conservation projects on their land. Despite efforts by various administrations to cut costs, Congress has repeatedly overridden these attempts and insisted the funds be spent.
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Congress
Affluent Farmers Spur Farm Real Estate Loan Boom
Washington AP reports a sharp rise in farm mortgage lending as of June 30, with major life insurance companies federal land banks and the Farmers Home Administration holding 2 billion more in loans than a year earlier. First half 1973 new loans totaled 1.4 billion by land banks 432 million by insurers and 289 million by FHA. The surge reflects rising land values and prices. Investment in farmer cooperative research is surging, per a USDA study showing average business research spending per co-op rising from 47 000 in 1967 to 114 000 in 1972 and technical development research from 146 000 to 272 000 over five years.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Federal Land Banks
Farmers Home Administ Administration
FHA
The
Economic Research Service
Cooperative Service
Missouri Hog Inventory Dips One Percent From Year Ago
Missouri Crop and Livestock Reporting Service releases the quarterly Hog and Pig report with Dec 1 inventory at 4.325 million, down 1 percent from a year earlier due to a 3 percent drop in breeding stock. Market hogs remain near last year while fall pig crop falls 5 percent to 1.766 million. U.S. totals show inventory up 3 percent to 61.022 million and a 4 percent rise in market hogs to 52.353 million. Farmers foresee 485,000 sows to farrow in the next six months, down 1 percent from prior period.
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Missouri Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Missouri
U.S
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Nate
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Hiway
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Roy Parker
Parker
Beltone
S. Jefferson
Mexico, Mo
MFA, Inc
MFA
Bob Berry
Nevada
Farm & Home
Jefferson
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