Australian beef to stiffen competition
A United States Agriculture Department report notes that imports of Australian beef could intensify competition for U.S. cattlemen. Australia redirected beef to Europe and Japan amid high demand, but signs of normalization point exporters back toward the U.S. market, while New Zealand exports to the United States have risen due to drought and high prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.S
Agriculture Department
Australia
Europe
Japan
New Zealand
United States
Department
Foreign Agricultural Service
City Gin makes first Reeves County bale of 1973 season
Farm manager Jose Correa brought a 1640 pound load from C T Spence farm five miles west of Pecos to City Gin Co. The bale was ginned Monday, weighed 514 pounds with 7060 pounds of seed. H L Robertson said the Stoneville upland cotton was the first Reeves County bale of the year, ginner Sixto Olivas.
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Old King
City Gin Co, Inc
Reeves County
C.T. Spence
Pecos
Jose Correa
H.L. Robertson
Stoneville
Fort Stockton
Sixto Olivas
C.T. Spence Farms
City
Cotton export controls not the answer to farmers
AUSTIN Texas AP State Agriculture Commissioner John White argues export controls on cotton will not solve farmers’ problems. He says farmers will not increase production without profit certainty and warns embargoes could lower prices. The solution lies in boosting production of food and fiber while ensuring reasonable profits for farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
John White
White
Briscoe to keynote inaugural Texas rural conference
Gov Dolph Briscoe will speak on October 23 at Texas first rural conference expected to draw about 1500 leaders. He aims to make Texas No 1 in agriculture. Other speakers include Rep Bob Poage and Agriculture Commissioner John White.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Dolph Briscoe
Texas
Briscoe
Bob Poage
D-Tex
John White
Economists study farm price drop and history
Washington AP economists from the Agriculture Department analyze an eight percent fall in raw farm prices last month led by livestock. They note the drop would have been larger without rises in wheat and cotton, compare it to declines in 1920, and cite USDA records of price slumps. Ronald D. Knutson named administrator of the Farmer Cooperative Service, succeeding Eric Thor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
USDA
Ronald D. Knutson
Minnesota
Farmer Cooperative Service
Knutson
Montevideo
Minn
Eric Thor
University of California
Berkeley
Agricultural Marketing Service
Purdue University
Export control fight urged by Texas Farm Bureau president
Texas Farm Bureau President J T Woodson urged Congress and the Administration to oppose export controls on agricultural products. In a telegram to six national leaders, he argued exports support balance of payments price stability and U S trade standing. Telegrams went to Nixon Butz Shultz Dunlop Tower and Bentsen. Woodson noted 1973 export sales rose 60 percent and Texas farmers captured nearly 860 million dollars of that year’s total.
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WACO
Spl
Texas Farm Bureau
J.T. Woodeson
Woodson
U.S
Texas
Salt cedar drains Texas streams in water study
A Texas Water Development Board special report warns salt cedar and mesquite sap water from West Texas streams. It cites the Brazos River arid flood plains releasing over 92,000 acre feet yearly into the atmosphere, about 36 billion gallons. The study, by Texas Tech University, spans from Possum Kingdom Lake to the Salt and Double Mountain Forks.
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Austin
West
Texas
Texas Water Development Board
Brazos River
Texas Tech University
Possum Kingdom Lake
Young County
Salt
Double Mountain
Stonewall County
Texas A&M finds electrochemical purifying system for rural water
Texas A&M University researchers at TAES have developed an electrochemical water purification method that uses electricity and salt chlorine to treat rural water. The system aims to reduce turbidity color and minerals while killing bacteria, meeting drinking water standards and easing chlorine shortages. TAES Director Dr Jarvis E Miller notes the project could reach local stores in two to three years and improve living conditions in rural areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas A&m University
Department of Agricultural Engineering
U.S
TAES
Jarvis E. Miller
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Miller
Scientists use pheromone to curb bollworm spread
University of California entomologists led by Dr. H H Shorey report identifying and synthesizing the pink bollworm sex pheromone gossyplure a first of its kind pheromone based pest control. Tests show gossyplure far more effective than hexalure and aim to reduce insecticide use by western cotton growers. Field trials since 1971 cover 300 acres in the Coachella Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside. Cal
University of California
H.H. Shorey
Shorey
California
H.E. Hummel
Lyle K. Gaston
R.S. Kane
Science
Yoakum grower wins grand hay show award in Texas
Leslie Prause of Yoakum won the Grand Champion prize at the Texas State Hay Show for Coastal Bermuda grass hay. His entry also took the perennial grasses division crown among 65 entries with about 100 attendees. Prause received a $500 prize and a special plaque, while division champions earned plaques and cash, and judges noted high crude protein of 18 percent for the top entries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Prause
Yoakum
Houston
Prause
Houston Chamber of Commerce
Occidental Chemical Co
Neal Fratt
al Novosad
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Pratt
Novosad
Texas A&m University
New irradiation equipment developed for screwworm plant
C G Scruggs SWAHRF director said engineers at the Southwest Animal Health Research Foundation developed new irradiation equipment for the Mexico land based screwworm eradication plant. Trustees authorized the project more than three years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Mexico
Southwest Animal Health Research Foundation
C.G. Scruggs
Swahrf
Harvesting progresses with cotton and rice delays in parts of Texas
Harvesting is on schedule overall in Texas with good yields in most crops. Cotton and rice in South Texas and coastal areas trail due to prolonged rains, while cotton opens rapidly in Blacklands North Texas and Rolling Plains. Soybeans and peanuts show strong progress. cattle prices ease with higher marketings. screws worm cases exceed 3,000 nationwide, behind only Arizona.
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College Station
Tex
Texas
John Hutchison
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Blacklands
South Plains
Hutchison
Arizona
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Soil Conservation Service
Texas Education Agency
Texas Plant Food Institute
Affiliated Supply
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Cottingham Bearing Corp
Crosby
West 3Rd Street
Vision
Ronnie Dogget
Treanor
Farm & Ranch Pipe Lines
Manuel Arvizu
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