Tobacco protein plan could feed world meals via leaf curing
Washington AP reports ARS researchers at Beltsville Maryland found 12 to 17 percent of a tobacco plant is high quality protein that can be extracted and turned into human and animal food through homogenized leaf curing. The process also removes some harmful tobacco chemicals while yielding Fraction-1-Protein, a pure, tasteless protein with nutritional value rivaling milk and potentially greater than soybeans in final food form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agricultural Research Service Station
Beltsville
F.C. Tso
Tso
ARS
Pork Producers In Bind From Hog Price Slide
Washington reports the Agriculture Department shows hog producers in the severest financial bind in 18 months as the hog to corn price ratio falls to 14.1 by October 15. Hog prices dropped to 32.90 per hundredweight, down 17 percent from September and over 40 percent from a year earlier, while corn prices also fell but less sharply. The decline reflects a surge in hog production and a 1.1 billion pound September output from federally inspected plants, suggesting momentum into 1977.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
Lard Output Rising But Only Slightly
Washington AP reports that hog production gains are lifting lard output modestly in 1976-77 after record lows in 1975-76. Lard may reach about 1.1 billion pounds, a roughly 10 percent rise as hog slaughter grows 15 to 20 percent, with the 68 million head slaughter marking a 1950s-era low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agriculture Department
Missouri Exports Rise Boost Missouri to 11th in Farm Sales
Exports of Missouri agricultural products in fiscal 1976 reached 699.9 million, up from 483.8 million the prior year, moving the state from 12th to 11th in national farm export rankings. Meats and meat products led gains, hides and skins rose, soybeans reached 230.7 million, feed grains 123.3 million, and wheat and flour 116.2 million. State officials credit stronger rural economy and increasing foreign sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Missouri
Department of Agriculture
Foreign Agricultural Service
Wheat Deadline Is Next Week
ASCS director Mary Bosler notes the normal wheat planting period runs Sept 15 to Nov 10 under the disaster program. Producers unable to plant due to weather or other conditions have five days after the final date to file for prevented planting under the 1977 disaster program.
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ASCS
Mary Bosler
Fifth Of Corn, Soybeans Still In Fields
Washington AP Farmers still had more than one fifth of their corn and a quarter of their soybeans to harvest as of Halloween. By Oct 31 the Agriculture Department reported about 77 percent of the corn and 73 percent of the soybeans harvested. Corn in the Midwest advanced rapidly and was only slightly behind last year’s pace. soybeans were ahead of 1975. Cotton harvest rose to about one third in the southern states. The report noted transportation strains but no widespread problems. Winter wheat planting was about 93 percent complete. Moisture from rains aided dryland wheat in Texas Kansas and Oklahoma. Kansas planting stood at 95 percent, same as last year.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Midwest
Dakotas
Towa
Minnesota
Great Plains
Texas
Kansas
Oklahoma
Strategy Meetings To Be In Vandalia
A grain and livestock marketing strategies short course will be held Nov 11 and 18 and Dec 2 at Van-Far High School. Sponsored by University Extension Center and Van-Far High School. Sessions begin 7 p.m. with topics on marketing strategy fundamentals, objectives, and price decisions for grain and livestock futures contracts. Instructors Dr. Richard Rudel and Glenn Grimes from the University of Missouri. Fee is $3. Enrollment by Nov 8 at the University Extension Center in the courthouse in Mexico.
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Van-Far High School
University Extension Center
van- Far High School
Outlook
Richard Rudel
Glenn Grimes
University of Missouri At Columbia
Mexico
Corn And Trees Air Fresheners
An acre of healthy young trees absorbs five to six tons of carbon dioxide annually and emits about four tons of oxygen. An acre of corn performs a similar carbon dioxide reduction and oxygen release, highlighting the environmental value of both crops.
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Harold Duthbert & Sons
Martinsburg, Mo
Woods & Dunn
Auxvasse
Elim
U.S
Reinke
Reinke Mfg CO. Inc
Deshler
Nebraska
Troy, Mo
Portland
Ore
James 8. Boillot
Missouri Department of Agriculture
Jerry Isaacs
American and
Missouri Societies of Farm Managers and
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Lors
Jefferson
IBR
Hove
Lincomix Tylan
Vandalia
Ben Franklin
Endel & Wood
Monroa
JST
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Wellsville
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