Poor Country Policy Restricts Food Supply
Washington report from the Agriculture Department’s Foreign Agricultural Service finds many less developed countries face disincentives to farming from price controls procurement practices export taxes subsidized imports and credit and land restrictions. The study by Abdullah A. Saleh links domestic limits to lower food output citing examples in Zaire Greece the Dominican Republic Indonesia and India and notes U.S. policy has shifted toward production in recent years.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Foreign Agricultural Service
Abdullah A. Saleh
Saleh
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
U.S
Butz
Zaire
Greece
Dominican Republic
Indonesia
India
West Bengal
Corn Planting Advances Amid Varying Southern Weather
The Agriculture Department reports spring corn and crops making progress in parts of the South but lagging in areas hit by cold, wet weather. Texas corn planting was 25 percent complete by March 16, behind last year but above normal. heavy rains and flooding in Tennessee flooded thousands of acres of fall sown grains. Florida and Alabama saw good small grain growth while Louisiana fields remained waterlogged. spring oats and barley in Kansas were five percent planted versus 15 to 35 percent normally. winter wheat remains favorable in eastern Kansas and Oklahoma, with dry conditions in southwest Kansas and the western Oklahoma panhandle.
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Washington
South
Agriculture Department
Texas
Tennessee
Florida
Alabama
Louisiana
Kansas
Oklahoma
Panhandle
Missouri Veterinarians Honored During Veterinary Medicine Week
Governor Bond proclaims a Missouri Veterinary Medicine Week from March 23 to honor more than 800 veterinarians in the state for animal and farm sector contributions. Nationally about 29,000 veterinarians work in private practice, government, industry, and education, with a projected shortage of over 5,000 by 1980 despite new schools. Missouri graduates average 65 to 72 veterinarians yearly, with 855 total in 25 years.
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Missouri
Kit" Bond
College of Veterinary Medicine
D.V.M
New ACP Programs Planned in Audrain County
Mary Bosler, county ASCS executive director, notes a new 1975 Agricultural Conservation Program funded at 190 million dollars will promote soil and water conservation. In Audrain County the first signups are for pasture improvement seedings and sod waterways, requiring a soil test for pasture plans and readiness to start for sod waterways. Other eligible practices and signup dates will be announced after county regulations are received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Bosler
ASCS
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Congress
Audrain
Racing Dates At State Fair Downs Opens 1975 Season
The 1975 racing season begins at State Fair Downs in Sedalia on March 30 at 1 30 p m with nine races including Spring Quarter Horse Futurity and Derby trials and Spring Championship trials. Estimated purses total over 40000 with multiple states represented. Other dates listed through early July with daily post time at 1 30 p m.
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State Fair Downs
Sedalia
All Breed
Missouri Horse Racing Association
Manure spreader specs under ASAE standard caution
Sperry New Holland's Adam Gehr warns farmers to compare spreaders by ASAE cubic feet measurements rather than bushels. He cites cases where bushel ratings mislead, explains struck versus heaped loads, and stresses standardized ASAE ratings help farmers avoid apples-to-oranges comparisons amid rising fuel costs and production pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam Gehr
Sperry New Holland
Gehr
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
ASAE
Oir
Local Breeders Sell Performance Tested Bulls at Mo Sale
Raboin Farms of Mexico and John B Hopkins of Auxvasse will sell bulls in the 19th Annual Mo Performance Tested Bull Sale on April 4 at 9:00 am in the University of Missouri Livestock Center, Columbia. Ninety bulls plus 39 others, including 59 angus and 54 polled herefords, meet stringent performance and health standards with a six month breeder guarantee and a 90 day semen test. Catalogs available at the Extension Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raboin Farms
Rte 2
Mexico
John B. Hopkins
Auxvasse
University of Missouri Livestock Center
Columbia
Missouri Beef Cattle Improvement Assoc
The
University of Missouri
Extension Center
Record Crop Prospects If Weather Improves In 1975
AP Farm Writer Don Kendall reports that USDA officials say 1975 could yield record crops for wheat and corn if weather cooperates. Wheat may reach 2.02 to 2.23 billion bushels, corn 5.75 to 6.4 billion, with soybeans at 1.45 to 1.55 billion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Kendall
Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
Department
We Care About Wildlife Week in Missouri Observed
National Wildlife Federation promotes Wildlife Week with theme We Care About Wildlife Habitat led by Charles Davidson state chairman. Conservation Federation of Missouri joins to urge habitat protection through backyard planting and conservation programs. The federation offers a free reprint Invite Wildlife to Your Backyard for planting guidance. Audrain County Pork Producers meet April 1 with Hoss Swofford discussing swine management to save baby pigs. Mexico venue at 7 30 p m.
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Charles Davidson
National Wildlife Federation
Missouri
Conservation Federation of Missouri
Davidson
Department of Conservation
Conservation Federation
East Capitol
Jefferson City
Hoss Swofford
Audrain County Pork Producers
Production Credit Meeting
Mexico
Mr. Swofford
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Atkins
Jefferson Magxicu
P.O. Box
Eastern Missouri Harvestore, Inc
Mexico, Mo
Ford Power
Berkeley
A&c
Missouri Farm Bureau
Danny Barnes
Vandalia
Richard Erisman
Centralia
Alan Adam
Donald Oberlag
University Extension Center
Dale Schwarre
Addanta
Soil Service
Lasso Pius Lorox
Watchey
Nutrena
Land Bank
Federal Land Bank Association OF Mexico
Swofford
Tatara Farm Equipment
Mexico Equipment Inc
Hiway
Farmstead Systems, Inc
P.O
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