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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1968
Page
15
The 1969 Cotton Program removes diversion payments and keeps the loan rate at 20.25 per pound based on middling one inch cotton. It also increases the price support payment rate from its current level under the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965.
The Farmers Home Administration approves a $288,500 direct loan to 402 farm and rural families in Caldwell Parish for the Columbia Heights Water District. Project upgrades include a new well, a 140000 gallon storage tank, 13 miles of new lines and a water treatment plant, creating 25 construction jobs and 5000 man-days of labor. The system will serve 3 churches 16 commercial sites one school a hospital a nursing home and 380 residences with repayment over 40 years.
The 13th annual Tri State Soybean Forum themed Marketing and Efficiency in Soybean Production will take place January 23 at the Downtowner Motel in Greenville Mississippi. Louisiana Arkansas and Mississippi farmers processors and others will hear talks on marketing soybeans and future markets with a 10 a.m. start and 3 p.m. adjournment.
In Madras India AP reports K Vinayakam tells the Madras State Assembly that exporting monkeys to foreign countries is blasphemy against Hindu beliefs which honor the monkey God Hanuman. A Socialist member S.
Balasubramaniam argues monkeys should be exported despite fears they harm crops. A third member calls the argument futile since the federal government has banned export of monkeys.
Gayle Ashley works as laboratory supervisor and farm factotum at Louisiana Tech. He oversees 10 student assistants and three full-time laborers while pursuing a master's in botany. His duties span preparation, maintenance, landscaping, and supervising tomato turf and garden vegetable research projects.
United States farmers logged some of the largest 1968 crop yields and a net income near 15 billion dollars, the fourth highest on record, boosted by bumper wheat, corn, and soybean crops and strong livestock production amid rising production costs and price supports.
Louisiana Cotton Producers Association asks Sen. Allen J. Ellender to push back the July 31 1969 deadline for loan cotton to remain in private control. President Jack Hamilton of Lake Providence argues extension could boost future prices and improve Louisiana farmers income amid slow market movement.
Louisiana growers placed 861000 broiler chicks in the week ending December 21, down from 891000 the prior week. Hatcherymen set 975000 eggs, while finished broilers sold for 12.7 cents per pound live weight at the farm, with statewide and national comparisons noted by the Federal State Market News Service.
Washington reports Nixon's incoming administration will face pressure to widen farm policy shifts by the early 1970s seek to retire cropland from production under a soil-bank approach. Analysts cite the Cropland Adjustment Program and Conservation Reserve Program as seedbeds for broader land retirement ideas backed by groups like the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Farm operators in Catahoula Parish must file cotton allotment transfers for 1969 by December 31. Notices of allotment, projected yield have been mailed. Transfers may occur only within the parish and not to farms outside Louisiana. Transfers between owned and operated farms do not require a referendum approval.
Research specialists from nine states and Puerto Rico will gather in Biloxi Mississippi for the Southeastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America meeting January 28 to 30. The three day session at Buena Vista Hotel will feature insect control research and public access. Dr James S Tynes LSU Cooperative Extension entomologist will chair and preside, with participants from universities government agencies and private industry. The branch covers Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee and Puerto Rico.
The ASCS office warns that the December 31 deadline governs all transfers of 1969 cotton allotments in Catahoula Parish farms whether by sale lease or ownership change. This deadline applies to transfers including sales leases and owner transfers of allotments.
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