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Show FEED RESTRICTIONS WORK HARDSHIP ON COUNTY FARMERS Livestock and poultry growers face an uncertain situation due to a recent order by the government restricting feeding of wheat, according ac-cording to A. F. Bracken, extension agronomist at Utah State Agricultural Agricul-tural college, County Agent Hyrum Steffen announced. Utah is a cereal importing state, I depending upon surpluses of other areas for feeding livestock, the i agronomist said, and while the period pe-riod between now and harvest appears ap-pears most critical, yet in the year ahead we may still face restrictions restric-tions in order to meet food needs. But adjustments can be made to partly relieve the local situation, he stated. In 1945, a total of 66,000 acres of spring wheat, 150,000 acres of barley bar-ley ,and 47,000 acres of oats were harvested in Utah, Prof. Bracken said. Goals for these crops in 1946 call for seeding 70,000 acres of spring wheat, 60,000 acres of barley, bar-ley, with no change for oats. The high acre yields of 1945 likely will not be repeated again this coming year, the agronomist predicted, but if average yields are produced, Utah farmers will grow as much barley and spring wheat as in 1945, provided acreage goals are reached. To meet critical world-wide needs for additional wheat as food, Clinton P. Anderson, secretary of agriculture, has issued a recent order asking that spring wheat goals be increased 5 per cent or mew;. This would mean a total seeling of 73,500 acres in Utah, he said. Farmers can comply with this order, much to their advantage, by substituting wheat for oats and, to produce more feed, substituting barley for oats, according to the agronomist. If the average acre yield of these three grains is multiplied multi-plied by respective digestible feed values, barley producel 1604 pounds to an acre, wheat 1527. and oats 881 pounds. From these yieds, if barley bar-ley is given a value of 100, wheat only drops to 94, but oats falls to the low level of 55. Thu to meat this critical itua- tion it is to the advantage of farmers, feeders, and those who need food to plant oat acreage to wheat first and barley second, Prof. Bracken aid. |