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...rains had hurt most farmers. During most of the month, field work was at a standstill. To increase the scarce livestock feed supply, farmers had planned a record crop of oats. But less than half the oats in Illinois and Iowa, less than a third in Nebraska, had been planted...
Less Food-Later. Last week 100 carloads of Canadian feed wheat were shipped into Kansas, No. 1 wheat-producing state, to replenish dwindling supplies of livestock feed. U.S. grain stocks are running dangerously...
...livestock population is now so big that practically all of last year's bumper corn harvest, plus a carry-over of 394 million bushels, will have been drawn from the cribs by October, when the 1944 corn crop is harvested. It is estimated that by July, wheat stocks in the cavernous elevators will be down to a little more than a month's supply. In one year the record number of U.S. livestock will have eaten all the grain that the land produced, plus the huge surpluses from other years...
...large as last year's bumper crops. A poor harvest would mean swift national disaster, for grains are the broad base upon which rests the entire agricultural economy. Better than 60% of all cultivated U.S. farm land is planted to grains, most of which are fed to livestock and thus converted into meat and dairy products. Without grain there can be no hogs, no prime beef, ho poultry or eggs, no bread, and much less milk...
...even if the nation is lucky and reaps a bountiful harvest-for the eighth successive season-the grain traders argue that there will not be enough grain for all needs. Livestock numbers, they say, must be reduced 20 to 30% if the U.S. is to have bread for its citizens, corn for its war industries* and wheat for industrial alcohol. When livestock numbers are reduced, the U.S. will tighten its belt...