Show AAA farm news aiom comity un AAA A office boffl food supply tightens up latest reports leporta of the department of agriculture ou on tho the coun try arys s feed supplies for the seasons shows feed grains and byproduct by product feeds about two per pel cent smaller than 1944 45 a large supply of batso oats ind and the prospect pio that carryovers carry cany overs of corn and bavley probably will bo be reduced to fairly low levels at tha end of the current season seabon total supplies of feed concentrates for the ilia 1945 ag ac sea avasou soll including feed groins grains by pro pio duet duct feed and wheat and rye ie loi for teed feed aai wot of december 1 were vers indicated at about 5 milieu tons this Is nearly neaily 3 million tons less than th 1044 45 supply total of leed feed grains are aie larger than a year ear ago but less wile wheat it will be ba led fed this season than last ind ad byproduct by product teed feed ti supplies will wl be slightly smaller biu aller than the record supplies of last season competition for available supplies of feed concentrates probably will be severe throughout the winter and spring world orld production ut ul sugar don world sugar production in 1946 1945 46 may increase by tons according to a forecast by the department of agriculture while au all increase Inci ease front from 8 88 8 million tons toils last year to about 10 in million illion tons toils is expected in north and central america and the west indies sharp production dec deceases vases in tile the far vast last africa australia Austi alla and islands of the pacific will more than 0 oi set increases in the western hemisphere world output of beet and cant can sugar in 1945 1946 46 4 is estimated at million tons toils iia as compa complied ed with the 1944 46 45 total of 2 82 million tons estimated output for 1945 1946 46 Is 27 million toils less thau than in iii 1843 44 and 65 million tons below the 1935 33 39 average beet sugar output ha been up since 1013 1943 in norte america but Eu ropes has beai down due to shortage of 0 fertilizer fuel and transportation cans cane sugar production pio is estimated at tons less than last year and 2 million tons below the prewar ai esage mail sign up li A county sign up school 1 Is scheduled for this month it Is now expected that farmers in this the county can begin signing up for the 1346 1946 agricultural conservation program by the first of airich farmers 1 aimers vio expect to participate in the 1946 program must be signed up by may 1 1946 1046 the 1946 agricultural conservation program goes farther than an any previous AAA program tu meet the conservation needs ot of the individual farms according to J vern hopkin chairman of the state AAA committee under the 1946 program counties as well veil as states stales will receive an allocation of funds to operate their conservation programs assistance which the government will gle give farmers either in payments or in conservation materials or 01 services will be based on actual needs of the farms according to the money available and the needs of other farms in the county count this makes it possible for the county committee to work out a conservation program with each farmer that will do the most lor for the money spent in fit conserving his water nater and land resources fertilizer short of eads needs commercial fertilizers f tor 0 r world food cro in may continue in seriously short supply according to the department of agriculture which estimates ahe world shortage ot of ahe plant foods nitrogen phosphor le ic acid potash at about one million short tons requirements for fertilizers in liberated countries have made the existing shortage worse even eren though war plants have been re converted to produce fort continued on last page AAA farm news 01 continued from page on one the supply meet demand two ways to meet the tae world shortage have leen been suggested they are aber to increase production to the maximum and ship materials from surplus areas to deficient areas and to reduce the level of fertilizer use in all countries 4 however farmers in the united states dhave fertilizers sufficient to maintain the high level of food production prospective 1945 46 supplies available tor for U S farms farina are nitrogen about the same as a year ago potash about the same as a year ago but with less in sulphate form and phosphate somewhat more mon than abear a year ago with an increase in ordinary super phosphates |