Farm Production Upsweep Is Seen
Washington AP reports top Ford administration farm officials forecast 1975 crop production reaching record levels with normal weather. Yeutter and Hume cite potential 6.7 billion bushels of corn and over 2 billion of wheat, though actual 1974 harvests were lower. They warn global shortages require broader foreign aid, fertilizer use, and domestic investment.
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Washington
Ford Administration
Clayton K. Yeutter
United States
Yeutter
David L. Hume
Foreign Agricultural Service
American Feed Manufacturers Association
Minneapolis
Minn
Land Bank Offers Planned Loans For Agricultural Financing
The Land Bank invites borrowers to discuss goals and borrowing reasons. It emphasizes understanding customer needs and proposes carefully planned loans with longer terms and reasonable rates to help farmers prosper.
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Land Bank
Idle Plants Could Ease Fertilizer Shortages Worldwide
Washington AP reports that reinstating idle fertilizer plants in poor nations could ease a global crunch and high prices. The Agriculture Department notes rising demand in rich countries while LDCs hold idle capacity, risking limited supplies for farmers as nitrogen prices surge. Grain prices are expected firm through 1975, influencing fertilizer demand.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
U.S
Sit Tight On Wheat Growers Told
Washington AP The National Association of Wheat Growers urges members to delay selling grain until cash markets react to tighter export policy. Association President Ray Davis cites White House curtailments on wheat and corn sales to the Soviet Union and a new export reporting system.
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Washington
National Association of Wheat Growers
Association
Ray Davis
White House
Soviet Union
Davis
Delegates Named To Market Co-Op
Four delegates and alternates from Audrain County were chosen at a district Farmers Livestock Marketing Assn meeting held at the VFW Hall in Vandalia. Named were Jerry Northcutt James Jerman Joe Botts and Jim Mulherin. The cooperative livestock commission business operates near St. Louis at National Stock Yards and in Springfield at Union Stock Yards. For the first seven months this year cattle volume rose 24 percent and hog volume 34 percent.
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Vandalia
Audrain County
Farmers Livestock Marketing Assn
VFW
Jerry Northcutt
James Jerman
Joe Botts
Jim Mulherin
Cooperative Livestock Commission
National Stock Yards
St. Louis
Union Stock Yards
Springfield
Seminar Attendance By Mr and Mrs Bill Coen
Mr and Mrs Bill Coen attended a human relations in management training seminar sponsored by the Missouri Farmers Association. The session ran September 13 to 15 at Wulff Harbor Resort on the Lake of the Ozarks. Coen is a manager trainee assigned to MFA Exchange in Mexico.
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Bill Coen
Missouri Farmers Association
Wulff Habor Resort
Lake of the Ozarks
Coen
MFA Exchange
Mexico
Robinsons Buy Top Yorkshire Boar at National Barrow Show
Claude Robinson Jr. of Wellsville paid 8700 dollars for a Yorkshire boar, the top price at the National Barrow Show. Don and Jack Morrissey of Wyoming Illinois exhibited it. Robinson also paid 2600 dollars for the top selling Yorkshire gift shown by Dick Rucker of Algona Town, whose champion boar went to Guadalajara for 3000 dollars.
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Claude Robinson Jr
Wellsville
Barrow
Don
Jack Morrissey
Wyoming
Claude Robinson
Dick Rucker
Algona
Town
Guadalajara
11th Charolais Congress At Crown Center Kansas City
The 11th annual Charolais Congress by Missouri Charolais Breeders Assn runs Oct 18–20 in Kansas City with Crown Center Hotel as headquarters. AICA meetings, Miss Charolais USA 1975 crowning, entertainer Walter Blaney, and Q and A with Rep Jerry Litton frame a busy program including a junior heifer show and Red Carpet Sale. The Breeding show on Oct 20 features over 200 Charolais entries and the Role of Excellence Show for 1974.
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Missouri Charolais Breeders Assn
Kansas City
Crown Center Hotel
American International Charolais Association
Crown Center
Oakland Hat
U.S
Walter Blaney
Astronauts
World Congress of Magicians
Jerry Litton
American Royal Building
Canada
Bean Assa Wildly Angry Over Stoppage
MEMPHIS AP President Ford canceled the 125 million bushel grain shipment to the Soviet Union, a move the American Soybean Association calls a massive blow to farmers and the free market. Ralph T. Jackson says export restrictions hurt agriculture and that soybean prices fell up to a dollar per bushel over the weekend. The ASA notes past embargoes damaged trust with foreign buyers and among farmers.
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Memphis
Gerald Ford
Soviet Union
American Soybean Association
ASA
Ralph T. Jackson
Ford
Jackson
U.S. farm exports face volume drop but higher prices lift value
Agriculture Department expert H Reiter Webb Jr says total farm export value for the year ending June 30 will near record levels at about $21 billion, despite sharp declines in tonnage for wheat and feed grains due to drought and frost. Higher prices keep values buoyant across commodities.
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Washington
U.S
Agriculture Department
H. Reiter Webb Jr
Department
Foreign Agricultural Service
Webb
Foreign Agriculture
Midwest
USDA
Congress
More Garlicky Wheat This Year
Kansas City AP reports more garlicky wheat this year as garlic weed bulblets contaminate grain, causing discounts up to 1 dollar per bushel. Rod Turnbull of the Kansas City Board of Trade notes the smell signals contamination and millers avoid the wheat, while buyers warn of tighter feeding supplies.
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Kansas City
Rod Turnbull
Kansas City Board of Trade
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