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HOG SUPPORT price has been increased from 

 $12.50 to $13 a hundredweight, Chicago basis, for good 

 and choice butcher hogs, all weights up to 270 pounds. 

 The new support price became effective April 1 1 and 

 will continue to Sept. 1, 1946. Along with announce- 

 ment of the new support price. War Food Administrator 

 Marvin Jones set the national fall pig goal at 37 million 

 head, 18 per cent more than the number raised last fall. 

 Price Administrator Chester Bowles also announced on 

 April 11 that there would be no reduction before Sept. 

 1, 1946, in the ceiling prices for live hogs from the 

 present levels of $14.75 a hundredweight, Chicago basis, 

 for butchers and $14 for sows. 



the entire war effort than for farmers to drive ahead with 

 their production schedules, despite wartime handicaps." 



ABOUT 240 million more bushels of corn are avail- 

 able for livestock feeding now than a year ago, accord- 

 ing to the WFA. If normal yields are obtained on the 

 96 million acres of com, which farmers indicated on 

 March 1 they intended to plant this year, sufficient feed 

 supplies should be available to fatten a 37-million fall 

 pig crop, as well as meet the other feed and industrial 

 requirements for corn, says WFA. 



SET ASIDE order on turkeys, covering 21 entire 

 states, including Illinois, became effective April 8 and 

 runs indefinitely into the fall months. It requires 100 

 per cent disposal to the WFA for military uses. Owners 

 of 25 birds or less may arrange for release if they ore 

 more than 100 miles from an authorized processor. 



LOAN PROGRAM for 1945 crop hay and pasture 

 seed on a note and loan agreement when the seed are 

 stored in an approved warehouse, ajid including farm 

 storage for sudan grass, has been announced by the 

 WFA. Loans are available on the basis of the support 

 price for about 40 different seeds. Operations of the 

 loan program will be similar to that in 1944 through the 

 AAA, for the account of the CCC. 



OP A HAS JUST issued a preferential list of occupa- 

 ■ tions for use in selecting persons to receive passenger 



cor tires. First priority, classed as Group I, is limited 

 almost entirely to persons whose occupxitions are of 

 emergency nature. Group II includes persons employed 

 in other essential plants and those whose occupations 

 are highly important to the war effort. In this group 

 are farmers, form workers, and representatives of man- 

 agement, labor and government who recruit for es- 

 sential establishments. 



WFA ADMINISTRATOR Marvin Jones announced 

 April 6 that the review of the whole food situation makes 

 it clear that production in line with the established 

 goals for 1945 is even more important than when the 

 goals were set. "The need," he scrid, "for continued 

 high-level production is apparent, and the production 

 pattern established by the goals is still the most prac- 

 tical balance for 1945. Nothing is more important in 



CONTROLLED MATERIALS allocated for farm ma- 

 chinery in the second quarter of 1945 have been cut to 

 195,000 tons, according to WPB. About 256,000 tons 

 were used in the first quarter of this year, and 279,000 

 tons in the second quarter of 1944. WPB indicates how- 

 ever, that on increase in allocations could be expected 

 after V-E day. 



WPB CHAIRMAN J. A. Krug reports that farm ma- 

 chinery production in 1946 will be substantially in- 

 creased for farm needs if VE day makes a shift from 

 all-out military production possible in the near future. 

 Production of farm machinery for this quarter has been 

 running about 30 per cent behind schedule. 



PRICE-SUPPORTING loans will be available on flax- 

 seed grading No. 2 or better, according to a govern- 

 ment announcement early in April. The base support 

 price for No. 1 flaxseed of the 1945 crop — available 

 on flax stored in terminal warehouses will be $3 per 

 bushel at Minneapolis, Red Wing, Milwaukee, Chicago, 

 and Portland. The No. 2 price will be 5 cents less. 



NEW GAS FORMS will be given to formers the next 

 time they apply for a supply of E and R gasoline cou- 

 pons for off-the-highway use. After the farmer gets this 

 new form, each time he spends one of his E and R 

 coupons his dealer will write on the form the amount 

 delivered. This signed delivery record will be sub- 

 mitted when application is made to the ration board 

 for new supplies of E and R coupons. 



WFA ANNOUNCES that the 1945 base support price 



on soybeans will be $2.04 per bushel for green and 

 yellow beans grading U. S. No. 2 with moisture content 

 of 14 per cent delivered by farmers to a country ele- 

 vator, processing plant or other normal delivery point. 



WHEAT CARRYOVER next July 1, according to cur- 

 rent estimates, will run between 350 and 375 million 

 bushels. This would be slightly above the carryover 

 of July 1, 1944, and considerably below the carryover 

 of 632 million bushels in 1942 and 622 million bushels in 

 1943. Exports of U. S. wheat are expected to increase 

 this year to help ieed Europe. 



CORN PURCHASE program of the WFA ended May 

 1. The program provided for the purchase of farm- 

 stored corn grading No. 3 or better (except for moisture 

 content) at applicable ceiling prices, and of com grad- 

 ing below No. 3 at market prices. A March 31 report 

 indicated some 4 million bushels were purchased in 

 Illinois, but more was expected to be bought in April. 



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MAY, 1945 



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