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Estimated U.S. meat production in 1943 (24 billion lb.) is the highest in history. The pork now flowing in will be good, because farmers have found it more profitable to fatten their hogs with corn than to sell the corn at low ceiling prices...
...gristly, because it is not finished on grain before going to market. The reason is that Midwestern feeders have been unable to pay Western cattlemen's high prices and still make a profit. Now that range grass is growing scarce, Western steers are stampeding, not to feeders who fatten steers into tasty corn-fed steaks, but directly to U.S. dining tables...
Reason for all this was simple. Packers, who must sell at a ceiling price, refused to pay the high prices asked for cattle on the hoof. Cattlemen, blessed with the best pasture land in years because of the drenching spring rains, were content to let stock graze and fatten. Only hopeful note: when the hot drought days scorch the pasture lands, cattlemen will stampede to the markets, easing shortages in thousands of city butcher shops...
...their troubles, despite bureaucrats, hell & high water, farmers will plant 279,000,000 acres-10,000,000 more than last year. They will plant 20% more peas and beans (good meat substitutes), 10% more soybeans, 21% more peanuts and flaxseed for oils, 14% more potatoes, 6% more corn to fatten their cattle and pigs. Food Administrator Claude Wickard had never dared hope for such figures. Nor had the nation...
...President McKinnon countered with a national Aircraft Women's Club, whose merchandising potency so impressed Los Angeles' big Barker Bros.' home-furnishings store that it established six free clubhouses for chapter members. Still on the inside track, McKinnon figures that his three papers ought to considerably fatten up the $500,000 gross he made last year with only...