Kuhfuss Scores Farm,
Despite a drop in the retail
price of meats in recent
weeks, there still is an ab
normal spread between
retail and farm prices,
William J. Kuhfuss,
president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation,
said last week before a youth
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leadership conference in
Oakbrook, Illinois.
With hogs selling the
previous week at $3O to $32
per hundredweight and
choice slaughter steers at $39
to $42 per hundredweight,
farmers are losing from $6 to
$8 per head on hogs and up to
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$lOO per head on cattle, the
national farm leader said.
While retail meat prices
dropped some, Kuhfuss said,
they do not reflect the drop
from the February high of
$4B for steers and $42.30 for
hogs to the present levels.
Such losses are causing
farmers to take a careful
look at increasing hog
production and in buying
replacement cattle for their
feedlots, he said, and this
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Soviet Crop Planting
The Soviet government
announced Wednesday that
bad weather has seriously
retarded the sowing of
spring crops. The phrasing
and statistics in the report
indicated the nation may
face another agriculture
crisis this year.
The front-page report in
the central government
newspaper Izvestia revealed
that only 70.9 million acres of
spring crops - including
grains, sugar, cotton, sun
flowers and vegetables - had
been sown by April 22.
This compared with 107.2
million acres by the same
time last year, when the
country’s fanners produced
a record grain crop of 222.5
million tons.
In 1972, bad weather and
mismanagement on the
farms resulted in major
grain shortfalls and forced
the Kremlin to spend some $2
billion of its precious hard
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could mean higher consumer
prices resulting from shorter
supplies in the future.
The Federation president
said that farmers must have
either higher market prices
for cattle or hogs or a
reevaluation of the other
costs that must be paid for
by the consumer so an
adequate return can en
courage an increase in
production at a level to
compensate the farmer and
currency to import Western
grain.
The spring wheat crop
accounts for 60 to 70 per cent
of annual grain production.
Izvestia said the poor
weather had affected all
major agricultural regions
of the nation, from east
ern Siberia to the European
part.
In the critical regions of
the Russian Federation, it
said, only 21.7 million acres
of spring crops were sown
compared with more than
54.3 million acres last year.
Less than half the spring
crops were sown in the
northern Caucasus zones and
only a quarter of those in the
rich black soil regions, the
heart of the nation’s grain
producing.
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“Grain farmers are also
faced with an increase of
some 100 percent for fuel and
from 200 to 300 percent in
crease in fertilizer costs.
“Like everyone else,
farmers have been hit by
increasing inflation which
the government reports ran
at an annual rate of 10.8
percent for the first three
months of 1974, with in
dications for further in
creases in the second
quarter.
“There can be little doubt
, that government-fed in
flation is one of the major
causes of high food prices for
everything, including food.
“Government price
controls created chaos in the
livestock industry and led to
the wild price gyrations that
hurt farmers as well as
consumers,” Kuhfuss said.
“With the removal of price
controls April 30, there is
some hope that the livestock
industry can return to more
normal operations with
supply and demand per
forming their normal
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