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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1964
Page
5
Mulching reduces moisture loss and eases harvests for strawberries and tomatoes. Choose from rotted manure straw sawdust peat moss corn cobs or ground corncobs and apply 6 inches deep, deeper for straw. Add 12-12-12 fertilizer or ammonium nitrate to offset nitrogen draw from mulch and monitor grass growth for best weed control results.
Stokely-Van Camp braces for a 14 day pea harvest season at the Norwalk plant to process the first of five major crops. Fieldmen start March 1 with growers contracting 525 acres this year due to a rainy spring. The operation peaks with ten viners working 10 hours daily to shell, wash, grade, and can peas for shipment nationwide.
UPI says crop and livestock prices farmers received fell 2 percent in the month ended April 15,marking a 2 percent drop from a year earlier and the lowest for April since 1957. Production costs rose and parity hovered around 75 percent as wholesale milk lettuce and cattle led declines.
The Agriculture Department reports a widening gap between cattle prices and consumer beef prices over the last decade. It notes that profits per sales dollar for packers and retailers are not large versus other industries. The farm value of a 1000 pound steer rose 50 cents from 1954 while retailer returns climbed 39 dollars and packers’ returns increased.
A cabinet committee urged new rural job training programs to help farmers hit by current retraining gaps. It called for experimental non farm training in rural areas and a demonstration project to improve rural education for youths preparing for non farm or mechanization driven farm jobs.
Columbus Ohio The Ohio Crop and Feed Report shows Apr 1 cattle on grain feed totaling 192000 head down 9 percent from January. Quarter ended March 31 feedings up 12 percent from 1963 at 38000 head and 56000 cattle marketed in the quarter, down 2 percent from a year ago. Feeders plan to market 92000 head in April to June.
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