USDA Announces
Sale Of
WASHINGTON The
remaining 55 million pounds of
1983-crop hurley tobacco owned
by the U.S. Department of Agrir
culture’s Commodity Credit Cor
poration have been sold for $30.8
million, according to CCC Execu
tive Vice President Milton Hertz.
The sale consisted of 39.6 mil
lion pounds of strips, 12.5 million
pounds of stems and 3.5 million
pounds of scrap. Strips are the por
tions of the leaves remaining after
the leaf stems are removed.
Hertz said successful bidders
were notified July 1 and that the
accepted bids ranged from $l.lO to
30 cents per pound, averaging 72
cents per pound for strip quality
tobacco. The strips were sold for
$28,374,688. Stems were appor
tioned to the buyers based on
pounds of strips purchased. The
12,484,042 pounds of stems were
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sold for 13 cents per pound for a
total of $1,622,925. The 3.574,350
pounds of scrap were sold for
$835,437, averaging 23 cents per
pound.
On May 13, CCC invited bids
for purchase of the remainder of
the 212 million pounds of tobacco
which CCC has acquired May 7,
1986 from the Burley Stabilization
Corporation of Knoxville, Tenn.
and the Burley Tobacco Growers
Cooperative Association of Lex
ington, Ky., as mandated by the
provisions of the Consolidated
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
Act of 1985. The associations had
pledged the tobacco as collateral
for CCC loans and have contracted
to assist CCC as servicing agents
for maintenance and sale of the
tobacco.
Hertz said sales of hurley tobac
co acquired from the Burley
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pounds for $103,621,792 and sales
of burley tobacco acquired from
the Burley Stabilization Corpora
tion totaled 30,985,200 pounds for
$22,069,895.
CCC was owed $608.6 million
in total principal and interest on the
212 million pounds of tobacco
when CCC acquired it. Hertz said.
All of the $109.5 million that was
owed in interest was recovered by
CCC from the producer funded no
net cost tobacco account. Also,
$125.7 million will be derived
from sales proceeds, resulting in a
net loss of approximately $373
million on the tobacco, he said.
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hot humid weather is upon us. Dur
ing the next few months cows will
experience stress for several days
or weeks at a time. Unfortunately
those micro-organisms in the dry
cow area, maternity pen, stalls,
bedded pack and generally
throughout the bam are not
stressed but instead they accelerate
Jheir growth during such weather.
Thus the cows are not only stressed
by the weather but also by the
higher concentration of micro
organisms.
Stressed cattle are more suscep
tible to infection especially around
the time of calving and in early lac
tation. Research shows that most
any stress at the time of calving
whether it be retained placenta,
difficult calving, uterine infection
of milk fever will result in longer
days to first estrus, reduced con
ception rate and possibly a higher
incidence of cystic ovaries.
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precautions are not taken to pro
vide a clean, dry and well
ventilated environment for the
cows. Such infections may persist
well into the autumn. Some man
agement practices that may help to
reduce summSr stress and infec
tions are as follows;
• Insure that all cows and heifers
receive plenty of clean, fresh
water. Don’t take water consump
tion for granted.
• Provide supplemental ventila
tion when needed.
• Shade should be provided for
cows on pasture.
• Maintain appropriate body
condition. Overconditioned and
underconditioned cows suffer
more during hot humid weather.
• Insure cattle receive an adequ
ate intake of salt, potassium, sele
nium, vitamin E and vitamin A.
• Separate the cow that is due to
freshen from the other dry cows.
• Cows should calve in a clean,
dry nearby pasture or if one is not
available a maternity pen should
be reserved for calving.
• Clean out the stalls, maternity
pens and the dry cow area more
frequently.
• Consider reducing the con
centration of animals in each group
especially in the dry and early lac
tation group.
• Fence off poorly drained and
swampy areas where the cattle
tend to congregate in the mud and
contaminated water.