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...Agriculture was actually worried because there was so much food in cold storage. Example: there were 140 million Ibs. of turkeys in cold storage, 25 million more than last year. There would be no place to put incoming crops if such stored surpluses were not soon sold. Furthermore, a near-record number of cattle, 4.3 million, were being fattened on the feed lots. Soon, they would be coming to market. Looking at the full cupboards, the Office of Temporary Controls confidently predicted that food prices would be down this spring...
...high of 464,999,000 bushels, there was plenty for all. But last week the Government was reaping a bumper crop of wastage from the seed it had so generously sown. Perfect weather and DDT combined with the Government incentive to boost this year's crop to a near-record...
...Paul Revere's Ride," a tested tactic from his 1938 campaign for governor, had routed an already beaten opponent. Instead of the expected close finish, popular Stassenman Ed Thye breezed in ahead of longtime (24 years) isolationist Senator Henrik Shipstead with a 3-to-2 lead. With a near-record Republican turnout, winner Thye looked like a sure bet for the Senate in the fall. His running-mate, Luther Youngdahl, was nominated for the Minnesota governor's chair by an even larger majority...
...feed grains (corn, oats, grain sorghums) will be the smallest since 1941. The corn crop, feedbin for the livestock industry, was estimated at not quite 2.7 billion bushels-543 million bushels less than a year ago. For dairy farmers this may be made up, in part, by a near-record hay crop. Nevertheless, farmers look for a shortage of feed for their 715 million animals, fear next year's meat supply will be even less than...
...last week's official forecast was for the biggest wheat crop ever harvested, near-record yields of corn, oats, small grains, rice, peas, beans, vegetables, tobacco. Fruit crops were guesstimated from 10 to 15% greater than in 1943. For the third consecutive year the weather in the principal food-producing area for the United Nations had been miraculously favorable...