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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generation ago hybridization of corn -combining the best properties of parent types into a better offspring-revolutionized U.S. agriculture, resulted in upping corn yields by 500 million bu. without putting a new acre into cultivation. Last week U.S. Agriculture Department scientists reported another breakthrough with another feed grain: the flat-leafed, tall-stalked sorghum that waves in many a dry field in the Great Plains. Within five years most of the more than 10 million acres now planted to grain sorghum will be switched to the new hybrid seed, thus raise sorghum output by 20% to 40% on the same...
...sell part of the worrisome surplus behind the Iron Curtain for cash. To Red-run Czechoslovakia will go 300,000 lbs. of butter at 42½? a lb.-15½? less than the government's own purchasing price. For $19 million, grain-hungry Poland will get 10 million bu. of low-grade wheat...
...state and county fairs years ago, the crowning events for U.S. farmers were such contests as corn picking and husking and a tug of war between horses. A fast-working champion could harvest corn at the rate of 100 bu. a day. But today's farmer has little interest in such events; with a mechanical corn picker, he thinks nothing of picking and husking 1,500 bu of corn a day. For machine-age farmers a big event at fairs is the tractor rodeo," in which farmers compete at starting tractors attaching implements, plowing the straightest, fastest furrows. Merely...
...Secretary Ezra Taft Benson will peg prices at an average 76% of parity, v. 82½% this year. If farmers kick over the quotas, the support price will automatically drop to 50%. Benson's reasoning on the 76% figure: with forecasts for the smallest wheat crop (845 million bu.) in twelve years, 1956 will be a good year to cut down the mountain of surplus farm products that the U.S. must now buy under its support program...
WINTER-WHEAT FORECAST has the Agriculture Department worried. Estimates are that this year's crop will be down 17% from last year's 790,700,000 bu. and 25% below the ten-year average, largely because of acreage cutbacks and a severe drought in the Texas-Nebraska wheat belt. Agriculture Secretary Benson is afraid that farmers will vote down controls this year, thus kick over high price supports in favor of higher acreage...