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Food Producing Ability
Long-Term Price Lever
Food producing ability in
agriculture will be a long-term
price lever during the next few
years, according to Dr. George
E. Brandow, professor of
agricultural economics at The
Pennsylvania State University.
At the same time, he’s confident
that enough food can be produced
to give all Americans fully
nutritious diets
The possible difficulty ahead,
he says, is that agriculture will
not be able to produce all the
meat, especially beef, that
consumers will want to buy with
higher incomes while, at the
same time, providing all the feed
grains, soybeans, and other farm
products that foreign countries
may want to buy from us.
Dr. Brandow described several
factors expected to influence
prices until about 1980, in a
special foods issue of “Science in
Agriculture,” the quarterly
magazine of the Agricultural
Experiment Station at "Penn
State. Brandow’s comments are
summarized below
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Food buying to Increase
Population probably will rise
about one per cent per year.
Purchasing power of consumers
is almost sure to increase and to
cause more spending on meat
and poultry. Much more land is
required to feed consumers with
such products, especially beef,
than would be needed if food
grains and vegetable proteins
were consumed instead. Syn
thetic foods, meat substitutes,
and other new products may
somewhat modify requirements
for farm resources.
Export Demands Up
Several of the more advanced
nations are reaching the stage of
affluence where demand for
meat and poultry products is
rising strongly. This may mean
substantial purchases of such
products from the U.S., but it is
more likely to mean large im
ports of our feed grains and
' soybeans with which to produce
their own livestock products.
Devaluation of the dollar has
increased other countries’ buying
■4>ower in our markets.
Cropland Available
In 1973, with most government
acreage restrictions removed,
farmers planted 321 million acres
to principal crops. Perhaps this
will be increased by 15 million)
acres with all restrictions off in
1974. Many more acres of
generally poorer land could be
cropped. Such poorer land can be
expected to be put to use slowly,
however, and only if prices are
persistently high. Return of large
acreages of formerly abandoned
farm land to production does not
seem likely to happen.
Yields trending upward
Yields of most crops have been
trending upward because of
improved varieties, heavier
fertilization, more effective
disease and insect control, and
still other reasons. The trends
should continue if research goes
forward, if supplies from in-
dustry are available, and if few
restraints are placed on farming
methods. One possibility is that
concern about the environment
and food safety will lead to suf
ficient restriction on use of
agricultural chemicals to reduce
crop yields or at least to slow
down the rate of increase.
1973 not typical
The extremely tight situation of
1973 reflected some temporary
conditions on both the demand
and the supply sides of world
markets. The 1973 situation,
therefore, is unlikely to be typical
of the next 5 or 10 years. At the
other extreme, it is unlikely that
the United States will ever again
keep as much land out of
production as it did in 1972. The
best guess seems to be that full
use of land now readily available
for production will about statisfy
demand at crop prices above
those of early 1972 but well below
the peaks of 1973.
Some years of shortages and
other years of surpluses-probably
can be expected. Instability is
likely to replace chronic sur
pluses as the principal farm
problem.
Inflation to continue
Continued inflation in more or
less degree is likely in the United
States. It will increase farm costs
and will also tend to raise farm
prices. Price-cost relationships
will be more favorable to farmers
than they were prior to 1972 if, as
expected, chronic surpluses do
not reappear. Nevertheless, the
year 1973 may set the highwater
mark for net farm income for
American farmers for years to
come.
The unusual-markets of 1972
and 1973 were much more
favorable to crop producers than
to dairymen or poultry men.
Relationships between prices
received and feed costs should be
more favorable for dairy and
poultry producers in the next few
years than in the recent past.
' The 'Special foods issue of
“Science in Agriculture” deals
, with- severalaspects of food
production. Single copies are
available free from the
Agricultural Mailing Room, 112
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“When a chicken alights on a rope, the rope doesn’t
get any rest and the chicken doesn’t get any rest,”
African Proverb
DRAFT HORSE
AND
MULE SALE
WEDKSMr, UN. 2,1974
at 12:00 Noon
PAUL Z. MARTIN’S
2 Miles East of Intercourse, Pa., along Route 340.
75 Head Kentucky Work
Horses and Mules
Following is a description of Horses and Mules:
Pair of 3 year old Sorrel Mare Mules, broke and tops; Pair of
2 year old Sorrel Jack Mules, green broke, real pair; Bay and
Sorrel Mare Mules, full sisters and broke best; 7 Head of Sorrel
Mare and Horse Mules, 2 and 3 years old, all from same farm;
Pair of Sorrel Mare and Jack Mules, 3 years old, thin and
broke; Pair of Red Sorrel Jack Mules, 5 and 6 years old, real;
Pair of Brown Mare and Jack Mules, 6 years old; Pair of
Dapple Gray and Sorrel Mules, 7 years old, worked together;
Black Mule, rear white legs; Pair Brown Mules, 7 years old,
broke, leader.
DRAFTHORSES
Sorrel Mare, 6x7, real chunk, 1600-lbs.; Roan Mare, 1400-
lbs.; Pair of Chbstnut Mares, 4 and 5 years old, 2800-lbs.,
broke; Pair of Chestnut and Bay Mares, worked together, 9
years old; Sorrel Gelding, 6 years old, best Horse ever ship
ped; Pair of Sorrel Mare and Gelding, tops; Pair of Gray Mare
and Gelding, 3500-lbs., tops, 1 single line; Big Bay Gelding,
Brown Gelding, Yellow Gelding, Sorrel Mare, 9 years old, 1700-
lbs.; Gray Mare 6x7 years; Pair of Gray Coach Type, 3 and 4
years old; Blue Roan Gelding, 3 years old, 1600-lbs., broke;
Chestnut Mare, 7 yrs. old; Brown Mare, 6 years old.
The following Driving and Harness Type:
Black Mare, 5 years old; Sorrel Gelding, 15.3, 3 years old;
Sorrel Roan Mare, 7 years old; Bay Mare; Black
Brown Gelding.
NOTICE: 15 more Head not listed from Kentucky. Jonas
Fisher will have 3 or 4 Pair of Mules, acclimated and broke for
Bill Warner.
ALSO LOCAL CONSIGNED HORSES.
ATTENTION! I have been buying these Horses and Mules
for three months and I don’t know how many more I will have
like this Good Stock for future sales.
HORSES HITCHED at 10:00 A.M.
NOTICE: SALE LIMITED TO 100 HEAD.
HORSES SELL AT 12:00 NOON
PAUL Z. MARTIN
BLUE BALL, PENNA. 17506
Residence (717) 354-6671
Business (717) 768-8108
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First Farm Equipment Sale for 1974 - Wed., Jan. 23 at 9
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Pa. 16802. This ,fbod issue
features 14 articles dealing with
various phases of food produc
tion.