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...Indiana: Even with normal weather, corn will be off 5%-10%; soybeans 15%; milk 2%-5%. More beef animals will be sold, but at weights below 1942. > Iowa: The State has an alltime record number of livestock on farms, but grains will...
...N.M.U. sees in this program a direct threat to its power. Most recruits are pink-cheeked, corn-fed youngsters from the Midwest who have never seen deep water, or been exposed to unionism. They are far different from the old-line shellback malcontents who were duck soup for Curran's earlier pinko type of organizing, and they are not obliged to hold union cards. Only 1,000 to 1,500 monthly swing over to N.M.U. This percentage is not big enough if Curran is to hold his grip...
...action made sense even to the greedy Farm Bloc. For by holding corn around its present price, the Administration aimed also to maintain the current corn-hog ratio at a point which encourages turning corn into hogs instead of into cash.* Since 80% to 90% of the corn crop normally goes into hogs on the farm anyway, most farmers will not be penalized by the new ceiling because hog prices are pegged so high that corn-on-the-hoof sells at around $1.50 a bushel. Corn itself has not sold that high since...
...price of a commodity to the farmer, plus all Government benefits, equals the 1909-14 average price, adjusted for living costs. But the Farm Bloc maintains that anything the Government pays him to conserve his soil, limit his production, etc. has nothing to do with the price of corn, or oats or any other commodity. On that basis corn should still go some 12? higher...
...normal" corn-hog ratio of 11-to-1 (i.e., 100 lb. of hogs is equal in price 11-to-1 bu. of corn) is just enough to keep hog production on an even keel. Today the ratio is about...