Funds
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research centers throughout
the country, Beattie noted.
In his speech later in the
evening to the extension
association, Bettie said
agriculture and farm
problems were things people
Just didn’t think about for the
past two decades. “A whole
generation has grown up
with plentiful food,” he told
the group. “They’ve never
had to worry about going
hungry, and they haven’t
given much thought to
agricultural problems. But
public attitudes are starting
to shift. People are starting
to notice us again. They’re
seeing headlines about food
prices, agricultural exports
and even cattle rustlers.”
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awareness,’ Beattie 1 expects,
will have a good effect on
agricultural research. He
said he hopes some of the
money that used to go for
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stead into agricultural
programs.
“We’re entering a unique
era of awareness for
agriculture,” he said. “The
business of supplying food to
our own people and the
people of the world is of
prime importance. Food
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influence on national
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An interesting sidelight of
the new awareness of
agriculture, Beattie noted,
was the increasing
enrollment'in the College of
Agriculture. In the 1969-70
school year, he noted, there
were 1276 enrollees in the
College. This year there are
2540 enrolled, an increase of
99 percent. In the same
period, total enrollment at
the University has risen by
only 14 percent.
Just as surprising are the
facts that some 65 percent of
the College of Agriculture
enrollees are from urban
areas, and 20 percent of
them are women.
On the subject of food
prices, Beattie said he ex
pects them to rise to World
War II levels, when food took
an average of 22 percent of
the average consumer’s
disposable income. Even so,
he said, “The nation will
still have the best, most
economical source of food of
any country in the world.”
He noted food prices have
been on a continual down-
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ward slide as a percentage of
disposable income. He said
the consumer’s share of food
costs has gone down steadily
from the post World War I
period to IS to 18 months ago
when the figure got down to
‘15.4 per cent of disposable
income being spent for food.
“Then along came the sale
of wheat to Russia and
soybeans to Japan wiping
out surpluses and forcing
prices to take a sharp turn
upward,” said Beattie. Now,
he said, the figure has
probably hit about 18.5 per
cent of the disposable in
come.
“I don’t think we can ever
expect this thing to go back
down to around the 15 per
cent we saw a year-and-a
half ago,” said Beattie.
‘Everything the farmer
needs to produce food and
fiber has gone up but his
income hasn’t gone up
proportionately.”
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from January 1973. U.S. average milk production per
cow during January was 824 pounds compared with
826 pounds in January 1973. During January there
were 11.3 million milk cows on farms, down 3 percent
from January 1973.
Potato Stocks Increase
Stocks of potatoes stored in Pennsylvania on
February 1,1974 totaled 1,550,000 cwt., according to
the Crop Reporting Service. This is 7 percent more
than a year earlier. These stocks represent potatoes
held for all uses by Pennsylvania growers, local
dealers, and processors.
Total U. S. stocks on February 1, 1974 was 102.4
million cwt, 4 percent less than the 107.2 million cwt.
on hand a year earlier. Disappearance (sales, home
use, shrinkage, etc.) from the 1973 fall production of
252.0 million cwt. to February 1, 1974 was 149.6
million cwt. Comparable disappearance from the
1972 production was 141.7 million cwt.
U.S. Feed Grain Carryover to Hit 22-Year Low
U.S. feed gram use for 1973-74 may be a little below
last season's big volume, but it'll still exceed
production and drop carryover to its lowest point in
22 years, according to a summary of the Feed
Situation issued last week.
Carryover was 32 million tons at the beginning of
this season, while production totaled 205 million tons.
But, while use may not equal last year’s record 173
million tons, it’ll come close. And, exports are seen at
40 million tons, also short of last year’s 43 million-ton
total. Nonetheless, total disappearance is seen at
around 211 million tons - - well above production.
And, carryover is now seen at 27 million tons - - the
lowest since 1952.
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