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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beef would bring. Even though there is no price ceiling for steers, the packers are holding the bids down to a level where they can break even when they resell the steers as meat. And that level is too low to make fattening profitable with corn at 85? a bu...
...Pork on the hoof hit a 22-year high of $15.30 cwt. last week despite retail price-fixing. At $15.30, economists figured that scientific feeding of 85? corn in the trough brought over $2.50 a bu. gross when resold...
Last year's whopping 945,000,000-bu. crop came atop a 385,000,000-bu. surplus. Half of this titanic 1,330,000,000-bu. total is still in storage even as this year's wheat hits the market. Besides this, Canada has a 400,000,000-bu. surplus, Argentina has half as much again waiting hopelessly for ships. To top everything, U.S. farmers this year will raise a bumper 868,000,000 bu. (weather permitting). Result: Western Hemisphere wheat supplies, already huge, will be utterly fantastic...
Months ago the Agriculture Department warned wheat farmers to build storage facilities if they did not want some 400,000,000 bu. of this year's crop to rot for want of storage space. Consequently, some wheat farmers are already shifting family furniture and livestock, are stuffing wheat into spare rooms, pigsties and woodsheds. More prosperous growers rented empty stores. Meanwhile overworked Western railroads are planning a complete embargo on wheat shipments unless a farmer can prove he has arranged for storage space at the terminal. Harvesting this year's wheat will take thousands of workers whose labor...
...come from lumber dealers, who have devised handy, prefabricated farm storage bins. And CCC may transfer from Iowa corn country some 17,000 steel bins used to store excess corn surpluses. (Big demand for hogs and alcohol have emptied these corn bins, which hold up to 70,000,000 bu...