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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1968
Page
5
Ouachita Parish County Agent announces the 48th Annual meeting of the American Soybean Association to be held nearby for Louisiana growers. Organizers urge attendance to discuss farming techniques and market strategies.
Cattle receipts totaled 6 728 head across ten sales last week, up 2 percent from the prior week but down 3 percent from a year ago, with no major price changes for slaughter or stocker cattle. Hog receipts across eight markets reached 1 508 head, down 9 percent from the prior week and 10 percent year over year, with steady prices apart from higher values for large hogs. The broiler and fryer market remained steady for August 1 to 7, with farm prices around 14 cents per pound and adequate live supplies. Markets for hens and eggs showed stability amid fair to good demand, while regional cotton and sweet potato movements and a series of extension meetings in Louisiana dominated farm activity through August and September.
Nine thousand two hundred channel catfish fingerlings were delivered to twenty six cooperators of D Arbonne and Boeuf River Soil and Water Conservation Districts for a new pond stock project. The fingerlings arrived from Natchitoches National Fish Hatchery by a tank truck at the West Monroe Agriculture Building. Davis Baker of the Soil Conservation Service oversaw distribution. fish were provided at no charge to cooperating landowners through the Soil Conservation Service.
Heavy rains raise internal parasite concerns across Louisiana herds Dr Steven S Nicholson LSU Extension warns bermuda pastures foster stomach worm larvae causing weight loss and illness in cows and calves. Treatments must be synchronized and pastures rested. slaughter withholding periods apply. Fishing pond program expands Ouachita Parish with 800 ponds slated for stock fish delivery this fall and next spring.
The Cotton Board recommended approval of a $10 million 1969 research and promotion program to be run by the Cotton Producers Institute and carried out by the National Cotton Council. Bruce N. Lynn and Duke H. Shackelford announced the plan, noting a 25 percent 1969 budget increase over 1968 and praising Louisiana growers for supporting the $1 per bale effort.
The Soil Conservation Service assisted 1 102 040 recipients in fiscal year 1967 with technical help. Small and family farms accounted for over 80 percent of recipients and nearly 50 percent were small farms. About 10 percent served housing use or land in transition to suburban use, with less than 10 percent in large or special interest farms. A small farm earns under 10 000 dollars yearly. a family farm employs under 1 2 man-years and earns 10 000 to 40 000 dollars.
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