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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1977
Page
3
Washington AP report shows the farm price index fell five percent from May 15 to June 15, the steepest drop in 20 months. Lower prices for soybeans, grain, beef cattle, vegetables, and fruits drove the decline, with hogs and milk tempering the fall.
Jefferson City Production Credit Association branch manager Gary Wrye attended the Missouri Production Credit Conference at Lake of the Ozarks. Notable speakers included UM agronomy professor Chris Johannsen Ronald Dozier of St. Louis Federal Land Bank and Harold Gray of Dairymen Inc. Wrye reported that Audrain County farmers received over 7 million in farm and family credit in the first half of 1977.
Washington reported that Labor Secretary Ray Marshall favors a system requiring federally subsidized researchers at land grant universities to give advance notice of new farm machines that could cost workers their jobs. He plans to discuss this with USDA officials after a Rural America, Inc. meeting.
A USDA report based on 400 Montana to Texas bankers finds nearly 14,000 farmers in nine central states cannot repay loans and face foreclosure this year. It warns as many as 60,000 more may need to refinance or liquidate assets to meet payments.
NOVELTY Mo University of Missouri researchers at Greenley Center enter second year of studying soil erosion and yields under various tillage methods. They compare moldboard, chisel, disc and no till, finding no clear yield difference yet while noting fuel savings and erosion control benefits. Colliver adds crop rotation and fertilizer interactions to the long term study focusing on energy-efficient tillage impacts.
The Agriculture Department's Economic Research Service says rural nonfarm employment rose about 22 percent from 1970 to 1977, doubling the 11 percent gain seen in cities. Claude C. Haren notes rural areas gained faster, reflecting stronger rural job expansion.
The Agriculture Department lists beef milk and peaches as plentiful for July. Beef output will drop 4 to 6 percent from last year due to fewer grain fed cattle, yet supplies remain above mid year average. Grain fed beef is abundant while pork broilers eggs and turkeys are adequate. City jobs rose 6.8 million, with rural gains led by services mining and finance. Migrant farm workers rose 13.3 percent to 213,000. they were 8 percent of 2.8 million farm laborers.
Area agronomy specialists report a spike in fireblight affecting apples pears hawthorn and related species this spring. The disease shows first on new growth with shepherds crook shaped limbs and yellowing leaves that may move rapidly. cankers and sticky ooze can appear later. Managers should prune blighted twigs in late winter or before March 15 and disinfect tools between cuts.
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