Production Trends and Risks in Agriculture Foresee Moderate Rise
Editor notes Rex R. Bailey of Doane Agricultural Service discusses farm output and consumption from 1951 to 1955, predicting tighter production to match demand, potential relief from subsidies, and worries about recessions. He cites low prices, cattle peaks near 98 million and 92 million in the 1960s, with hog declines and poultry gains ahead.
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Rex R. Bailey
Doane Agricultural Service
Bailey
Mechanization Blamed For Accident Increase
Dr Franklin Top of Iowa City warned that farm accidents rise as reliance on mechanized farming grows. He linked fatigue from long hours and reduced horse rest to injuries, urged midmorning breaks, and stressed dangers from tractor use, safety design gaps, and loss of market confidence shaping farming risks.
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Chicago
Franklin Jr. Top
Iowa City
The
American Medical Association
Qr. Top
Dr. Top
Top
Minnesota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Ollie
Childdren Ander
New Low Cost Plan Aims Dairy Production Records
Washington dairy officials announce a weigh a day a month plan to simplify milk tracking. Farmers weigh each cow's output morning and night once monthly, mail one form to a central office, costing about 50 cents per cow yearly. The system feeds calculations on production, costs, and potential herd decisions, aiding culling and efficiency.
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Washington
American Dairy Science Association
Ilinois
Agriculture Department
Summer vegetable harvests forecast with fewer melons
The Agriculture Department predicts larger tonnages for fresh vegetables like cabbage cauliflower carrots sweet corn and beans, while melons green peppers beets and eggplant are expected to be nine percent lower. Prices should hold near last year as demand remains strong for fresh market crops. processed vegetable output for 1956 37 is seen rising modestly with a larger frozen pack offsetting reduced carryover stocks.
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Washington
Cabculture Department
Dairy Farmers Market Milk Collectively Now
Officials note about one third of wholesale milk falls under federal orders and roughly half the nation's urban potato production is to be served from market supply. Prices to farmers in late summer are expected to rise above the year-ago lows due to tighter competition from other crops, with no fall crop production estimate available though acreages mirror last year.
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North Atlantic States
Talismen Logk
Jaen
Growth of U S Chicken Industry After War
The postwar rise of United States poultry shows shifting supply sources. Over 90 percent came from farm stocks in 1934. now over two thirds comes from specialized broiler flocks. Demand rose while laying flock by-product meat fell as farmers bred more eggs from fewer birds and used sexed poullets.
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