Flooded Illinois farms still harvest strong corn and soybeans
Western Illinois farmers endured early spring floods with up to four feet of water that delayed planting. After the floods receded, soybeans and corn thrived under favorable weather, yielding mixed results with some 20 percent losses on flooded lands. Total flood losses approached tens of thousands, yet overall grain production set records.
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George Bonney
Banner
Illinois
Bonney
Illinois River
Bruce LaRosh
North Pekin
LaRosh
Tazewell County
Fulton County
Bob Dunton
Havana National Bank
Dunton
SIU-C nematode research on WSIU TV program
Plant and soil science professor Oval Myers explains destructive soybean cyst nematode in a SIU Today program airing at 9 p.m. Thursday on channel 8. Talks with Robert Frank and Orval Twenhafel accompany discussion of funding for resistant soybean strains. Crop losses in 1979 reached 400000 in Jackson County and up to 10 million across Illinois.
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Oval Myers
Southern I Ilinois University-Carbondale
WSIU
SIU
Robert Frank
Jackson County Extension
Orval
Twenhafel
Jackson County
Illinois Soybean Program Operating Board
Myers
Illinois
Farmers urged conservation as life amid soil policy drive
Washington AP conservationists at a two day National Conference on Soil Conservation Policies urged higher priority for water and soil protection. Gerald R Calhoun president elect of the Soil Conservation Society of America said farmers must make conservation a way of life and cited four key challenges including feeding a growing world and preserving farmland. He stressed profit as essential to sustaining family farms and urged balance of economics ethics and ecology. He reminded attendees that sanitation disposal outpaces a large share of global population.
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Soil Conservation
Soil Conservation Society of America
National Association of Conservation Districts
Agriculture Department
Gerald R. Calhoun
Society
Calhoun
Odds against young farmers rise only slightly since 1940
Don Kendall reports on a USDA analysis showing that despite higher capital needs, the chance for a young person to buy a farm has moved from one in 2.5 in 1940 to about one in 3.1 in the 1970s. The study by Eddy L. LaDue of Cornell examines financing, down payments, interest, and investment for entry, noting opportunities often arise when a current farmer dies or retires.
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Don Kendall Washington
Agriculture Department
Eddy L. LaDue
Cornell University
Ithaca
N.Y
USDA
Economics, Statistics and Cooperatives Service
LaDue
Agricultural Finance Review
Decline in U.S. Farms Shrinks List of Young Farmers
A government report notes that farm numbers in the United States have fallen over four decades while fewer farms are sold annually. The pool of potential young farmers has also decreased, raising competition for remaining farms and complicating entry for new entrants against established operators.
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United States
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