Kansas cattle and calf totals reach 6.20 million January 1
The Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service notes cattle and calves on Kansas farms and ranches totaled 6.20 million head on January 1, up three percent from a year earlier. Cow numbers rose 5 percent to 1.89 million, with beef cows at 1.75 million and milk cows at 136,000. Calves born in 1978 reached 1.73 million, while U.S. totals show 111 million cattle and calves on January 1, 1979, a five percent drop from last year.
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Kansas
Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
United States
U. S
PR Experts Inundate Farmers With Books
Public relations specialists at the Agriculture Department are distributing pamphlets and information kits to protesting farmers. The packets detail state by state prices, 1978 and 1977 cash receipts, and program benefits, with news releases on food prices and Bergland testimony, as editors are urged to follow farm price discussions in Washington.
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Don Kendall
Washington
Agriculture Department
American Agriculture Movement
USDA
Agriculture
Bob Bergland
James C. Webster
Office of Governmental and Public Affairs
Bergland
Farmers Camp Inside USDA As Open Building Policy Fits Protests
About a dozen farmers slept on office couches at the Agriculture Department while hundreds more visited the facility during American Agriculture protests. Officials suspended after-hours sign-ins, allowing sleeping, meals, and access to toilets. some desks were rifled and items like portraits of Carter and Bergland damaged. Security was dispersed, with reports of thefts and notes left in typewriters as the protests continued alongside a separate briefing detailing 1978 farm receipts and USDA spending on food assistance programs.
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Agriculture Department
USDA
American Agriculture
U.S
Joseph T. McDavid
Howard Hart
Stephen B. Dewhurst
McDavid
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