Co Ed Returns From Belgium Farm Life Inspires Student
Joyce L Riggs a 22 year old University of Maryland student and International Farm Youth Exchange participant returned from Belgium where she lived on four farms in Ypres. She described Belgian farming as intense with minimal machinery and noted women perform hard labor. She plans to remain on the dairy farm and hopes to be a farmer after graduation.
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Boniug
Joyce L. Rizegs
University of Maryland
Belgium
International Farm
Joyce
Remus Riggs
Gaithersburg
JFYE
National
4-H Club Foundation of America
Department of Agriculture
Ypres
Europe
Price-Cost Squeeze Continuation Likely
COLLEGE PARK MD November 19 Farmers in Maryland face a continued price cost squeeze that kept 1954 cash farm receipts 4 percent below 1953. George Stevens of the University of Maryland cites a 1955 outlook of little change with steady domestic demand and modest export gains. He warns no improvement in the price-cost gap and urges efficient management to keep net incomes near 1954 levels.
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College Park
Maryland
George Stevens
University of Maryland Department of Agricultural Economics
Department
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Stevens
Farm Bureau backs Benson plan for flexible price supports
Maryland Farm Bureau members pass by voice vote a resolution endorsing Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's Plan of flexible price supports after a debate led by E. Brooke Lee. They call for a fair trial, oppose compulsory health insurance, and urge farm income from operations after 65 to be treated as investment income, while supporting foreign sales programs and lower military service deferment.
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Baltimore
Maryland Farm Bureau Today
Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson
Benson
E. Brooke Lee
Montgomery County
Lee
H. C. Byrd
Byrd
Reputlican
McKeldin
American Farm Bureau Federation
New York City
U. S
Down Corn Becomes Widespread After Hazel Damage
Maryland farmers face extensive down corn from Hurricane Hazel with labor and livestock shortages. Mechanical pickers offer salvage, aided by lower gear and optional attachments. Agricultural engineer Guy Gienger urges safety, proper use of guards, and dealer-sourced down-corn equipment while noting a 1955 U S antibiotics output of 2,100,000 pounds.
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College Park
Maryland
Guy W. Gienger
University of Maryland
Gienger
Middletown Valley 4-H Boy Wins Chicago Trip
William Kepler, a 20 year old Middletown 4-H Club member and Western Shore dairy achievement winner, earns a trip to the 33rd National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago. He has run a Holstein dairy herd on a 130 acre farm, plus purebred Yorkshire swine projects, and has shown at county and state fairs.
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College Park
William Kepler
Middetown
Chicago
Frederick County
Western Shore
Middletown
Maurice Ahalt
Paul Lutz
Kepler
Earl R. Kepler
RFD
William
Wiliam
DHIA
McDonogh School
Maryland
Mac
Kansas City
Springfield
Willam
State Farm Bureau
Middletown High School
Wheat Placed Under Government Loan Surges in 1954 harvest
New York November 19 Farmers push wheat into the government loan program at a rapid pace through October 15 1954 totaling about 302 million bushels 1954 crop about a third of the year’s yield and adding to prior supplies. By contrast 1953 saw 350 million bushels sought shelter but that was only 20 percent of the crop. Overall about 1.069 billion bushels are now committed to the loan with prices around 2.49 to 2.59 per bushel at Kansas City.
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New York
United States
Commodity Credit Corp
Kansas City
Increasing Weight Of Beef Should Be Goal
COLLEGE PARK Nov. 49 Increasing the total pounds of beef marketed should be the goal of every producer says Boyd T. Whittle University of Maryland Extension animal husbandman. He urges performance records on cattle similar to dairy poultry and swine and notes the value of culling cows and bulls based on first calf weight growth and efficiency. He also advises scales for accurate records and outlines practical steps such as culling light calves and cows, selecting heavy yearling replacements, and choosing thick growthy bulls to improve herd efficiency.
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College Park
Boyd T. Whittle
University of Maryland Extension Animal Husbandman
Whittle
Acreage Allotments For 1955 Corn Crop
The U S Department of Agriculture announces that corn acreage allotments will be in effect for the 1955 crop and designates counties in commercial corn-producing areas where these allotments apply. Fourteen Maryland counties remain in the commercial area.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Maryland
George J. Martin
Maryland Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Caroline
Carroll
Cecil
Dorchester
Frederick
Harford
Kent
Montgomery
Queen Annes
Somerset
Talbot
Washington
Wicomico
Worcester
Martin
Allotments Tied to Eligibility in Corn Areas Under Law
An excerpt explains allotments as a condition of eligibility in commercial corn producing areas for price supports. The law exempts non-commercial areas from allotments but sets 7 percent of commercial rates for county loan and purchase agreements when allotments are in effect. The Agricultural Act of 1954 exempts corn from marketing quotas.
Pipeline Milkers Use Is On Increase in Maryland
COLLEGE PARK November 18 The use of pipeline milkers is increasing on Maryland dairy farms. A Maryland Extension dairyman John P. Dietrich notes a California Extension report showing pipeline milking uses four hours of labor per 1000 pounds of milk versus 5.1 hours for bucket machines. The study also notes concerns that testing was disrupted by pipeline systems, making representative weights and samples harder to obtain.
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College Park
Maryland
John P. Dietrich
University of , Maryland Extension Dairyman
California Extension Dairymen
Dietrich
California
Maryland dairymen urged to continue pipeline milking tests
A survey examined cow milk output around test days over nine days and found only a three tenths pound per cow per day variation. Cows were not notably disturbed and production remained as good on test day as other days. Dietrich urged continued testing under the pipeline milking system.
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Dietrich
Maryland
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