G- LtincnsU’i- Farming. Saturday. August 22,1970
Can Headaches of Growing Hog Numbers Be A verted?
Producer Says Pork Demand High
The picsidcnt of the nntion’s
hog fmmen leccnlly inject the
ine.it industi > to “Inke .1 care
ful look at supply and demand
f.ictois befoic hitting the panic
button about a potential over
•supply of poik".
Increase Pastureland Yields
With Seeding Now, Smith Urges
Now's the time for faime.s the test worked imo me ground,
who want to increase the yield Select and plant perennial
fiom then old or established grasses that will give maximum
pastureland to do the 30b for summer glowth such as oichard
best returns next year, according grass (eithei Pennlate or Penn
lo Mdx Smith. Lancastei County mead).smooth biomegiass (Sara
agricultural agent. toga or Lincoln), timotny (Cli
“Both expelience and lesearch max or Common), reed canary
ahow late August or early Sep- grass (Common)
(ember is the best time to make One or two of the above
•a new seeding This is because glasses in mixture will give more
cooler weather and moie mois- summer forage, Smith said, than
tine give plants a good start this native bluegrass oastuies.
Fall and next Spring befoie hot The seeding should be made by
weather ailives next Summer, the middle of Se{tembei for the
Smtih explained best lesults.
“We m the extension service Smith noted, toowe-'er. that
suggest several steps to get the f armei- s m this . ,- ea geneially
mb done,” Smith said He out- h Jve t° und they can realize a
lined the proceduie as follows Bi eater letmn pel acie h' ‘"™-
If it’s an old pasture to be field CIO P S on land whlch 13
icnovated, the old sod 01 giowth l =ve l an d suitable
,bould be completely killed by Pastmeland is still the best use
plowing 01 discing. fci man y fields whlch aie stee P
Then a complete soil test 01 iocky
should be made and the amount Wheie the pastureland is too
of lime oi feitilizei indicated by sleep foi plowing Smith sug-
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Intei coin se
Roy B Keppy. of D.ivonpoit.
lowa, said that "a vital statistic
is being ignoied when intended
fallowings me computed with
parallel peaks icachcd in 1943 "
"Since we last produced this
many hogs, the nation's popula
"
with the
FEEDS
I. B. GRAYBILL
& SON
Strasburg
New Holland
tion has giown by about 70
million people What may have
been a glut on the market 27
years ago could actually add up
to a consumer shoitage this
year and next"
The lowa fanner, widely
iccogmzed as one of his in
dustry’s most successful pro
ducers of quality hogs, suggest
ed that ‘‘on a per capita basis,
we have been in iccent years
producing considerably less
pork than the nation could eat
Every pound of our production
has been consumed, even with
market hogs running for $25
to $3O and with in-store prices
at near-peak levels.
‘‘We are concerned, of course,
that the current and expected
buildup may be developing too
fast for the market to adjust
immediately, but two or three
gests lime and fertilizer, accord
ing to soil tests, in late March or
Apul
Faimeis who want additional
mfoimation on pastui eland reno
vation should obtain the 1970
Agionomy Guide fiom the ex
tension seivice by calling 394-
GBtl The Guide gives additional
details on peiennial glasses for
foiage pi eduction.
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taclois can lake the edge from
a deep decline.
“One. produceis can piotcet
price and make the pioduct
moie appealing by soiling caie
fully and selling hogs at 220
pounds or less Price spieads
that will develop this fall will
make caieful marketing profit
able.
“Two, the entire industry can
make special efforts to move
the heavier supply into con
sumption with increased adver
tising and promotion, featur
ing the fact that consumer
prices will be most attractive.
We at the Poik Council are
planning a subsantial 32-city
advertising campaign, paid by
producer funds, to augment the
sales efforts of packers, whole
salers, retailers.
“Third, the lower prices pre
dicted will make pork even moie
attractive to overseas markets
We shipped 60 million pounds
of pork to Japan alone in 1969,
a year when we were actually
pork-short on domestic need
and prices were quite high
That market and others could,
if our expoit forces are alert,
take three to four times as
much poik away fiom the do
mestic market,” Keppy said
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Noting that hog prices have
traditionally raced from peak
to valley and back, Keppy said
that “the pork industry is in
excellent shape to prevent a
real skid.
“Our product is better, lean
rr, moie attractive than at any
time in history. For the first
time, we have an active, orga
nized producer association to
help level off supply and pro
tect prices. And the packing
retailing industry is using
modern patterns to merchan
dise the product. If we can
mount a coordinated effort, we
can probably wade through a
bad period with minimum dam
age to price and income.”
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