Philippines IFYE delegate enjoys US life on a farm
Ofelia Del Rosario, a 30 year old IFYE delegate from the Philippines, stays three weeks with the Earl Cook family on a Cen tralia farm. She notes Americans are frank, compares school systems, and discusses her background, duties, and plans to visit more farms before returning home in six months.
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Ofelia del Rosario
FYE
Earl Cook
Route 3
Centralia
Alan Fisher
Y Sanger Mundy
United States
International Farm Youth Exchange
IFYE
Philippines
Earl D. Cook
Miss del Rosario
National
4-H Club Foundation
4-H Club Advisory Council of the Philippines Inc
Bureau of Agricultural Extension
Kirksville
Springfield
Maryland
Mexico
Columbia
California
del Rosario
Miss de Rosario
Cook
Farm Price Drop Not Likely To Trickle Down
Washington AP. USDA official Don Paarlberg told Congress that farm price declines in early 1974 are not likely to pass to consumers due to rising middleman costs. He warned retail food prices may rise as overall inflation increases, with farm retail spreads up 25 percent from Aug 1973 to Mar 1974 and margins expected to grow through 1974.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Don Paarlberg
USDA
Congress
Paarlberg
Middleman
Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S
Corn Inventory Drops 15 Percent From Last Year
Washington AP The Agriculture Department reports April 1 corn stocks at just over 2.85 billion bushels, down 15 percent from a year earlier. Total of the four major feed grains reaches 102.7 million tons, 14 percent below last year. Wheat inventory stands at 550 million bushels, 41 percent lower than a year ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
First 1974 crop acreages to be estimated in May survey
The USDA survey from May 22 to June 4 will contact about 2000 Missouri farmers as part of 70 000 nationwide interviews to estimate 1974 crop acreages planted or intended, with results used for July 11 crop production and June 21 hog and pig livestock estimates. Barrowman notes the effort supports market indicators amid rising food production and prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Donald W. Barrowman
Missouri Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Missouri
Barrowman
U.S
Farm Bureau urges orderly wheat marketing in Kansas
Kansas Farm Bureau president John J. Armstrong calls for regulated storage and staggered release of the 407 million bushels of wheat expected to be harvested, to reduce price swings and stabilize consumer wheat prices. He warns against dumping the crop at harvest and urges sales between September and June 1975.
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Manhattan
Kan
Kansas Farm Bureau
John J. Armstrong
Armstrong
Agriculture Department
State Bureau
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