Word: livestock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next day Mr. McNutt "froze" manpower in the dairy, livestock and poultry industries, and sent a directive to Selective Service to send a directive to local draft boards to defer all such farm workers. (Week before the Tolan committee noted the testimony of General Hershey: "Of course, the local boards need not pay any attention to 99% of the things which we send out. It is a good thing they do not have...
...Wickard backtracked last week. Conditions had changed in eight months, said he: day by day the hard facts of war were coming home to the U.S. Now Wickard urged the repeal of the 110% farm ceiling price-100% is enough. Moreover, he offered to approve an OPA ceiling on livestock prices provided farmers are protected against low prices. The hoped-for result would be to ease the squeeze between Henderson's ceiling on retail meats and Wickard's refusal to fix prices on the animals that packers...
...them that storing the colossal wheat surplus (tying up, among other things, thousands of bins made of precious steel) is already a terrible headache. He begged them to keep all the wheat they could on the farm and to market as much more as possible in the form of livestock and poultry...
...more & more machines; last year they bought a record-breaking $735,000,000 worth v. only $607,000,000 worth (at higher unit prices) in free & easy 1929. They also went in for more electricity (it was poured into their laps by REA), more fertilizer, better seeds, better livestock breeding practices...
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...