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-Lanccrater Farming. Saturday. September‘l2, 1959^
• Mr. Hog Producer could occur as early as Oc
(From base 1) tober, will be lower 111811 the
UiTom page i; July price prospects are,
sonal farrowings however, that prices won’t
move a few dollars of price ” h Dumber 1955
from one season to another w of abflut $10 . 50 .
On the other hand, stab y jjj ne per cen t more fall
in the supply an( * price o are p i anne< j by farmers,
pork strengthens the demand Market supp ii es of hogs next
for it. So there is a benefit faP and w j n t e r may not be
In smoother farrowings. up as m uch as last winter.
Marketing of hogs from Then marketings were in
the large 1959 pig crops be- creased by an unusually
ban only recently. Because large number of spring-far
numbers marketed will be rowed hogs held for delayed
consistently larger, prices sale.
will be lower in the next 12 But even so, lower prices
months than in the past year, than this past winter and
But because of smoother spring are foreseen,
seasonal supply* prices are The big question concerns
not expected to bounce a- prospects for the spring crop
round much in the year a- of 1960, nd for prices when
head. Instead, they may hug hogs from that crop are mar
fairly close to the lower lev- keted in the fall,
el now being established. Several factors point to an
This fall, for instance, pri- increase in spring farrowings
ces probably will fluctuate in 1960. Low hog prices will
within a rather narrow tend to choke off a rise, but
range. Their low, which may not prevent it entirely.
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A farther indr ease 1 in far- reduction iti the price of
rowings next spring would hogs. pork* will
seriously endanger hog pric- meet more competition from
es in the- fall of 1960. Prices beef next year, as cattle
this fall, at best, will be on slaughter rises.
the borderline of acceptabil- Industry Reward
ity. If more pork were to be To the industry as a whole
produced by next fall, price there would be a reward for
problems would be mvdtipli- avoiding overexpansion in
ed. 1960. To hold production
More pork next year would steady, or cut it back a bit,
probably reduce hog prices would set the stage for a
further. The hog market is price upturn. After two years
sensitive to changes in sup- of decline, recovery late in
ply. Since the end of World 1960 would be most wel-
War 11, an increase of 10% come. —Harold F. Breimyer,
in pork supply per person Ag. Economics Div. AMS.
Tighter Controls Imposed
On Barley-Sorghum
The U. S. Department of USD A 21'? 4-59) that these
Agriculture has announced crops also may be declared
that producers of barley or subject to the price support
grain sorghums for harves m limitation.
1960 who wish to get non- Under a provision of . t he
recourse price support on lg6o Agricultural Apprdpria
edher of these crops m ex- tion^t -{Public Law 86-80).
StcSe'it™“lS price suport - to
their acreage of me cr p g person on the 1960 pro
per cent below their 1959 du * t £ n of agricultural
acreage and otherwise be in commodit de clared by the
compliance with price sup- Secretar / of Agriculture to
port regulations. be in lus supply is limit .
A similar announcement ed to $50,000' unless “such
was made Aug. 6 with res- person shall reduce his pro
pect to wheat for harvest in duction from that which such
1960 (press release USD A person produced the preced
-2174-59).
The Department also re- as the Secretary may deter
peated its warning to large mine to be essential to bring
growers of fall-seeded oats, production in line within a
rye, or flaxseed (press release reasonabe penod of time
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The Secretary i,
ed barley and gr :
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and determined th»
duction cut exe mD ,
ducer of either 0 f
from the effect 0 f
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cent maximum fJ
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date'of the advam
fimds or at such la)
the _ Secretary m
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The limitation, d
officials emphasize*
to individual “ pers
to individual f armi
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listed all tarms
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