While Butter, Lard, Tallow Consumption Drop Soybean Oil Use Grows in U. S. Considei ioi .1 moment Hie oil del nod fioni the =oybcn Com paie consumption fends wdh competing fats and oils Ovei the past 10 years, one of the things that impiesscs is the decline in the u=e of animal fats, and the gene’al rise in the use of vegetable oils, paiticular ly soybean oil. The consumption of butter in the United States continues to decline. The per capita con sumption diopped fiom aiound 7 5 pounds in 1960 to 5 5 pounds in 1969 There was a dramatic diop in total lard consumption fiom 11.1 pounds per capita to 8 5 pounds per capita There has been a modest use in consump tion of edible tallow in the past decade (from 18 to 2 6) but not nearly enough to offset the total decline in total use of animal fats The production of butter, lard and edible tallow in this count!y totaled 4 4 billion pounds in 1960 By 1969, output had fallen to 3 6 billion pounds Thus, theie was about a bil lion pounds less annually of butter, laid and edible tallow available foi consumption at the end of the decade The total pei capita consump HOG SYSTEMS OR EQUIPMENT BIG DUTCHMAN HAS IT ALU REDUCED MORTALITY RATES... LESS LABOR... EASY MANAGEMENT... SANITATION,.. DURABILITY... YOU GET ALL OF THESE ADVANTAGES WITH A BIG DUTCHMAN FARROWING UNIT. 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Big Dutchman has equipped hundreds of profit making hog operations and has an open invitation for you to inspect them Contact any Big Dutchman dealer, representative or write to Hog Division, Big Dutchman, Zeeland, Michigan 49464, We are eager to make the necessary arrange ments for your visit BIG DUTCHMAN Diller Ave., New Holland, Pa. lion of edible vendable oil and animal fats in the United States in 1969 totaled 51 6 pounds as compaied to 45.1 pounds m 1960 Inleiesfnglv, the pel capita consumption of animal fats de ci cased to 16 6 pounds m 1969 as compaied to 20 4 pounds in 1960. while the vegetable oil pei capita intake totaled 37 2 pounds in 1969 as compared to 28 5 pounds in 1960 Soybean oil ac counts for 284 pounds of the vegetable oil poition last >eai as compaie’d to 18 8 pounds in 1960 Total production of edible vegetable oil lose fiom 6 6 bil lion pounds in 1960 to 9 0 bil lion pounds in 1969 So while animal fat pioduction was down nea.ly a billion pounds, vege table oil production was up neaily 2 5 billion pounds Various factois figuied m these changes Cottonseed oil pioduction de dined with the diop in cotton pioduction of lecent years At the beginning of the 1960’5, cot ton pioduction was limning at 14 3 million bales In 1969 the ci op was 10 1 million The diop in laid production is related to the highei quality of meat-type hogs being produced If you look at USDA giadmg A Division ot U.S. Industries, Inc. ‘•tandaids fo boas todav von find that todav si S No slaughter hog is (pule close in appearance to wh. t wt though; ol 20 yeais ago as the lop of thi market No 1 and 2 hogs aic of a much leaner type The diop in butler production is ielated to the long-term tiend Why Soybeans Aren't Big Locally “It’s a crop that’s never reallj moved in this aiea and I don’t think it ever will ” That’s Arnold Lueck, associate county agent talking about soy bean production „n Lancaster County It’s not that soybeans aren’t tiemendously important in Lan caster County The ciop is in valuable to the county’s two big gest faim income producers, dairying and poultry, as a source of high piotein feed at relatively low cost But for a combination of rea sons, the crop has never caught on in this aiea Pei haps the most important leason is that soybeans usually ate “giown on large farms in iifeA Phone 354-5168 Lancaster Farming. Saturday- April 25.1970 tow.i’d tlii suhsti’ir.on of mai gal me on the faniilv tabh The it ,s an ovu.K i unease in the use of fats ,md o.ls \nd an increasing slum of this maiket has gone to ugdible oils [ suspect that the genual mu ease in tne u-t of these pioducts is in pait a icflection ot the big grain areas" where, unlike said, and don't respond well to in Lancaster Courts, it's not fertilizer necessary to have "a high ie turn per acie ” Lueck also noted that haivest Wlth poorer solls mg in this aiea has pioven to be Southeastern Pennsylvania is “a problem” and that "field the onl y P alt of the state Wlth losses have been high ' the full growing season neces saiy loi soybeans, he said, and He thinks the soybean var the high piotein ciop is grown leties have been developed to a limited extent The biggest primarily for the cornbelt aiea soybean area in the state is and “haven’t given the response Bucks County Moie of the heie that they have in the mrd crop is grown in Lebanon than west ” Lancastei County Possibly as a lesult of these The soybean is highh impor othei factois, the vields per acre tant in daily and poultiy feeds in this aiea haven t been laige Soybean meal, Lueck said, is enough to give the fanner the cheaper than cottonseed meal kind of letuin he needs to giow and othei protein sources be soybeans as a cash crop "We cause of the huge quantities don’t get excited about soy grown in relation to other high beans” piotein feeds Lueck noted that Lancaster Soybeans aie generally used County’s rich soils aie not pai- as a supplement ticularly an advantage in soy- In 1966 some 243,000 tons of bean pioduction Soybeans don’t soybean oil meals vveie consum seem to notice much diffeience ed in the state’s farming opera between rich and pool soils, he tions. ct’.mgmt i.itmu 1 ah .*> of \mn nan-. ihui-tis in the turn llu plau, and the I iquencj of i at mu Wi know that the use of ’Snack tvpe' foods has gone up sharpij A Dep.utment of Agn cultuie studv a few >ears ago (Continued on Page 26) As a lesult. soybeans actually catch on much better in areas 25
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