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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1985
Page
4
The timber stand improvement and firewood utilization meeting planned for Saturday is cancelled. KSU extension specialist Gerry Kuhl notes winter cow nutrition must rise with cold. stockers need steady gains, while grain sorghum may be left in fields to dry or be cooled to deter insects and mold.
Kansas growers publish a 17 page Christmas Tree Directory listing farms across counties. Production rises with about 900,000 trees on more than 1000 acres. Free copies available from Franklin County Extension or Kansas State Board of Agriculture marketing division. Also notes Kansas Livestock Association elects Frick as president and Wells as CowBelles president, with Fankhauser highlighting legislative topics. Market report covers Chicago Board of Trade futures for wheat oats and soybeans with mixed changes and commentary on Soviet five year plan impact on U.S. grain exports.
Congress may pass a 1985 farm bill but leaders expect amendments. Randy Russell says changes will occur as surpluses rise and programs like deficiency payments and target prices shape policy. Don Paarlberg predicts the bill will not end the farm crisis and will shift toward market orientation with higher costs and a growing deficit.
Kansas State University economist Bill Tierney labels Capitol Hill a Disneyland East as he urges farmers to sell soybeans now amid a Senate plan to pay producers for crop unsold due to government loan collateral rules. The proposal, if enacted, could lower prices, swell deficits, and alter futures by about 60 cents per bushel.
Kansas City Federal Reserve economist Mark Drabenstott warned that 1985's farm-sector problems will extend into 1986 with continued supply surpluses, weak demand, and falling land values. He cited slow world growth, policy imbalances, and credit strain as factors shaping a prolonged adjustment for agriculture.
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