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Three lAA Men Get 

 New Assignments; 

 Hire Field Editor 



NEW assignments for three men are 

 the results of recent changes in the 

 staff of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation and its associated companies. 

 In addition, the lAA publicity depart- 

 ment has announced it has hired a new 

 field editor for The RECORD. 



J. L. Pidcock, manager of Illinois 

 Cooperative Locker Service, has been 

 named director of the newly-created de- 

 £< partment of locker service. 



Sam F. Russell, lAA director of live- 

 stock marketing, has taken over the 

 additional duty of managing the Illinois 

 Farm Bureau Serum Association, an 

 lAA affiliated company. 



New director of grain marketing is 

 Cecil F. Musser, who formerly managed 

 the Serum Association. 



Russell Van Cleve, 27, Yorkville, has 

 been added to the lAA staff as publicity 

 assistant and field editor of The REC- 

 ORD. 



Pidcock will continue as manager of 

 the Locker Company but will spend 

 about two-thirds of his time on his new 

 duties. 



He started work as head of the new 

 department on Oct. 1, just two years 

 after being employed as manager of the 

 Locker Company, an associated com- 

 pany of the lAA. 



Pidcock came to the Locker Company 

 post from the Indiana Farm Bureau Co- 

 operative Association. He was gradu- 

 ated from the University of Kentucky 

 and served as farm adviser in that state. 



Russell, a native of Wyoming, has 

 been with the lAA since December 

 1937, when he took over as head of the 

 livestock marketing department. For 

 10 years before that, he was farm ad- 

 viser in Adams county. 



He attended the college of agriculture 

 at Missouri University and worked as 

 a county agent in the "show me" state. 



Musser started to work for the lAA 

 in Oct., 1939, as a field man and six 

 years later became manager of the 

 Locker Company. He previously was 

 employed as assistant manager of the 

 Logan-Mason County Service Company 

 and as Logan county organization di- 

 rector. 



Van Cleve, who was graduated from 

 the Northwestern University school of 

 journalism in 1947, has had experience 

 in both the newspaper and publicity 

 fields. 



He was employed by the national 

 public relations division of the Ameri- 

 can Legion for one year. He came to 



R. Van Cleve 



Sam Kuttull 



J. L. Pidcock 



Cecil Muuer 



the lAA after spending a year as sports 

 editor and reporter for the Sikeston, 

 Mo., Daily Standard. 



His father, Hugh Van Cleve, is a 

 member of the Kendall County Farm 

 Bureau. Van Cleve grew up on his 

 father's farm near Yorkville. 



He attended the University of Illinois 

 for three and one-half years but left 

 there before being graduated to enter 

 the air forces. He served as a pilot for 

 three years during the recent war. 



He is married and the father of one 

 son, Roger, 2. 



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The OUTLOOK for '50 



as seen by Government Economists 



NEXT SPRING'S pig crop will be 

 larger than the 1949 spring crop 

 by five per cent or possibly 

 more, in the viewpoint of the Bu- 

 reau of Agricultural Economics. 

 The logic of this forecast is found in 

 ample supplies of corn and the hog-corn 

 ratio this fall. 



BAE's forecast was outlined last 

 month by Harold F. Breimyer, agricul- 

 tural economic statistician, at an out- 

 look conference in Washington. Here 

 are some points made by Breimyer: 



"The seasonal decline in hog prices 

 now under way may be a little more 

 than the long-time average of 18 per 

 cent, but it may not be as great as would 

 usually be expected from the 15 per 

 cent increase in last spring's pig crop. 

 . . . Early and lighweight marketings 

 and the manner in which cold storage 

 holdings have been handled have tended 

 to cushion the price decline for hogs. 

 "Usual price relations would indicate 

 that a 10 per cent larger output of pork 

 through much of 1950 would result in 

 a somewhat greater precentage drop in 

 prices of hogs. . . . The hog-corn ratio 

 is expected to be above average during 

 a large part of the year. . . . Slaughter 

 weights of hogs have been lighter than 

 a year ago and are expected to continue 

 lighter by a few pounds next year. 

 More Beef Foreseen 

 "During 1949, cattle numbers are 

 probably being increased by about one 

 million. . . . Cows and calves in par- 

 ticular are being held back and the in- 

 crease in numbers promises more beef 



in the future. About as much beef will 

 be produced next year as in 1949 and a 

 larger part than usual will again be of 

 the better quality produced from grain- 

 fed cattle. 



"Since supplies of beef are expected 

 to be about the same, the year-average 

 prices of beef and cattle in 1950 are not 

 likely to be greatly different in 1949. 

 ... A small drop is likely because of 

 the larger supply of pork and a possible 

 slow decline in incomes of consumers. 

 Sheep and Wool 



"Sheepmen may rebuild their herds 

 somewhat next year. As a result, 

 slaughter may be even smaller than this 

 year ani lambs are likely to remain high 

 in comparison with prices of other meat 

 animals. . . . Prices of woo! received 

 by producers as well as market prices 

 are likely to average somewhat lower 

 in 1950 than this year." 



Feed Outlook 



With another big feed supply avail- 

 able, the Bureau of Agricultural Elco- 

 nomics anticipates that farmers will 

 continue feeding their livestock fairly 

 liberally during the coming year even 

 though livestock-feed price ratios may 

 not be quite so favorable as during the 

 1948-49 season. 



This was pointed out by Malcolm 

 Clough of the Bureau of Agricultural 

 Economics. Said Clough: 



"The processing of feed grains into 



food and industrial products is expected 



to continue somewhere near the 1948-49 



level, but exports may be a little small- 



(Continued on page 22) 



DECEMBER, 1949 



