Pioneer Pres. Predicts
6.1 Bil. Bu. Corn Crop
An agricultural seed
company official last week
predicted the 1974 corn crop
in the U.S. will not exceed 6.1
billion bushels, causing food
costa to remain at their
present levels or perhaps
increase.
R. Wayne Skidmore,
president of Pioneer Hi-Bred
International, Inc., told the
New York Society of
Security Analysts that ad
verse spring weather can be
blamed for cutting earlier
estimates of both acreage
and per acre yield. The head
of the lowa-based seed firm
said preliminary results of
his own company’s survey of
com growers shows they
were able to boost acreage
only 9 per cent instead of 10
per cent as estimated in
March by the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
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estimate that due to flooding,
reduced plant population,
late planting and lower
fertilizer rates, an average
com yield of 88 to 90 bushels
can be expected. This means
a U. S. crop of 6.0 to 6.1
billion bushels,” Skidmore
said.
The U.S.D.A. projected
yields of 97 bushels per acre
before the planting season.
Using its March 1 survey of
acreage intentions, the
department forecast a U.S.
corn crop of 6.7 billion
bushels. On June 24, it
reduced its estimate by 300
million bushel.
Farmers last year
produced only 5.6 billion
bushels of com. As a result,
carryover on October 1 of
this year is expected to be
about 450 million bushels or
about one month’s reserve.
The much larger crop
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predicted earlier would have
reduced high feed costs
currently plaguing livestock
and poultry growers. This, in
turn, could have resulted in
somewhat lower consumer
prices for meat, milk and
eggs. The big crop would
also have permitted high
levels of corn exports to
continue, aiding the U.S.
balance of payments.
The smaller crop
prospects this year almost
certainly call for another
year of all-out production,
Skidmore said. He forsees
adequate supplies of seed for
1975 planting.
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Price
N.Y.-NJ.
A uniform farm price of
$7.37 per hundredweight
(46.5 quarts) for June milk
deliveries to pool handles
under the New York - New
Jersey marketing orders
was announced today by
Thomas A. Wilson, market
administrator. The uniform
price was $8.03 in May 1974
and $6.27 in June 1973.
The butterfat differential
was established at $.070 for
each tenth of a pound of fat
for June milk testing above
or below 3.5 percent.
This column will discuss
the impeachment question
before the House of
Representatives. However,
it will not presume to make
any judgment whatever
about the case either for or
against the President. As I
have said on so many other
occasions, that judgment
can only be made once the
Judiciary Committee has
presented all the evidence
and has made its recom
mendations based upon that
evidence. Then, and only
then, can each Congressman
Farm Milk
for June in
Market
Wilson stated that receipts
from purchases reached
899,748,787 pounds, an in
crease of 20,592,522 pounds,
2.3 percent from May 1973.
Class I receipts of producer
milk totaled 367,402,946
pounds in June, decreasing
by 28,941,222 from June 1973.
Handlers paid $10.13 per
hundredweight for fluid milk
product receipts. This ac
counted for 40.8 percent of
the pool.
It was also noted by Wilson
that bulk tank unit receipts
rose to 850,662,998 pounds,
increasing from 808,788,603
pounds in June 1973. This
jump altered their
proportion of the pool
receipts from 92.0 percent in
1973 to 94.5 percent this year.
The volume of tank milk
used as Class II and subject
to the transportation credit
amounts to $515,394.49. This
cost covered 515,394,449
pounds, 60.6 percent of tank
receipts.
I Pool producers continued
■ to decline in number from
I 22,280 to 21,204, while
■ average daily deliveries per
■ producer rose 99 pounds
■ reaching 1,414.
I ■ The market administrator
I said that the handlers’
I reports used to compute the
I pool decreased to 116 from
I 134. The pool bulk tank units
I fell to 214, decreasing by 6
I from June 1973.
I For May deliveries the
I gross value to farmers
I totaled $66,451,084.91. Wilson
| explained that this included
| differentials required to be
| paid to dairy fanners but not
'| voluntary premiums or
I deduction authorized by the
I farmer.
I All prices quoted are for
I milk of 3.5 percent butterfat
I received within the 201-210
■ mile zone from New York
I City
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weigh the facts, search his
conscience and make a fair
determination of how he
should vote.
But, since fairness is an
all-important ingredient in
something as serious as
impeachment, I have grown
increasingly concerned
about the way the Judiciary
Committee has been han
dling the flow of information
that will be so vital in
making a final deter
mination in the House.
The leaking of selected
material by members of the
Committee was inexcusable.
These men and women were
given a solemn respon
sibility when the House
entrusted them with the
impeachment investigation.
While I sincerely believe that
the chairman and the
majority of the members of
the Judiciary Committee
find the leaks as ob
jectionable as I do, the fact
remains tnat a few members
of that committee have
degraded the investigation
by selectively leaking in
formation in an obvious
attempt to undercut the
President’s defense.
But perhaps even more
disturbing is the policy,
evidently developed by the
whole committee, to give the
news media information
before the rest of the House
Members are permitted to
see it and evaluate it. When
the differences between
White House transcripts and
those prepared by the Easier To Replace?
Judiciary Committee were As a roan’s head gets bigger,
revealed, those of us with the the easier 18 to 611 hls shoes '
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 20,1974 —
obligation for voting on the
impeachment question in the
near future had to find out
about those differences in
the newspaper. And, of
course, that meant that out
source of information had
been subjected to any
editorial changes and
omissions that the papers
felt were in order.
The question is whether we
are running a judicial
proceeding or a circus on
this whole impeachment
issue. If we’re running a
circus, then I can understand
why you have your public
relations men getting the
story to the news media as
your first consideration. But
if it is a judicial proceeding
that we’re conducting, and
the Constitution clearly
indicates that impeachment
is a judicial-type action, then
those of us who are serving
basically as grand jurors
should be the committee’s
chief clients. At the same
time it is being released to
the press.
The circus atmosphere is
disturbing because I believe
that, above all else, the
American people want the
outcome of this whole
Watergate crisis to reveal
the truth and serve justice on
the people responsible for
violating the law and
misusing their power. That
outcome cannot be achieved
when the principal attempt
is to win headlines.
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