Island Harvesting Season Starts On Muscatine Island
Island harvest begins with cabbage and early crops, rain and heat forecast boosting yields. Potato, corn, wheat, rye, and pickle fields progress. new cooling rooms and equipment under construction. Agriculture officials warn young people about farm availability while Mexican berry imports rise. REA urges copper substitutes to cut material use.
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Muscatine
Harry Marx
Halane Farms
Muscatine Island
REA
Washington
Rural Electric and Telephone Program
Rural Electrification Administration
Neal Ural Power and Telephone Cooperatives
Milk Price Support Is Increased
Washington government raises producer price support for manufacturing milk from 45.50 to 43 hundred pounds to halt declining output. This is the second raise since April, affecting milk used for cheese butter and other dairy products and influencing prices in federal markets July through March with about 20 cents per hundredweight in fluid milk markets. Farmers have been quitting dairying as production runs about 5 percent below a year ago.
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Washington i
Agriculture Department
Apo
Agriculture efficiency rising as workers produce for 37 people
An Agriculture Department report shows the average farm worker in 1965 produced enough for 37.02 people, up from 30.79 in 1964 and well above 14.47 in 1950. Total agricultural employment fell to 5.6 million, the smallest since about 1918, after peaking at 13.6 million in 1910.
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Washington
Agriculture
Agriculture Department
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Lone Tree Grain and Feed Co
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West Liberty Grain and Feed Co
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