Show A FOOD a farm farill i WAR NEWS Is am irid E W S I 1 price declines in both eggs and poultry are expected in the months ahead by the bureau of agricultural economics of the USDA egg prices are expected to decline more than seasonally after november and to be at or near support levels during most of the winter and spring since demand will weaken because of reduced army requirements and improved meat supplies while egg production in the first hall half of 1946 may not be much different from the first half of 1945 prices received by farm ers for cli chickens ickens are expected to decline this fall from the all time peak reached in august but the demand supply gap for poultry has been so wide that the decline in price probably will not be seve severe re farmers may also receive lower prices for turkeys during this marketing season october through january than last season due to the record turkey crop and a material re in procurement by the armed services supplies of turkey meat available for civilians this year will be over four pounds per capita compared with 3 to avs M pounds during the past two years when civilian demand was not fully met and the prewar average of 26 pounds production is 22 per cent above the record 1944 turkey crop due to strong dema demand nd ample feed supplies and favorable e returns for the past three years the greatest production expansion since 1938 has been in the northeast utah and the pacific coast states where large scale commercial production has been anant japanese agriculture was in a chronic state of depression before the war and faces many problems in the postwar post war defeat period the US DAs office of foreign agricultural relations reports before the war agriculture provided employment for 40 per cent of japans population with an average of 27 acres of cultivated land per family even in years of good farm prices however the ma majority bority of farmers depended on non farm employment for one fourth of their income japanese farmers produced about 80 per cent of the count rys food supply most important production was raw silk which represented 90 per cent of all silk entering world trade reasons for the depression in japans agriculture can be traced to industrialization policies the topography the small holdings and wide spread tenancy system and the p pres sure of population on oil a small cu cultivated area M total wool production in the unit cd d states stales will fall below million pounds for the first time since sinca 1929 this reduction has been under way since 1942 due to more profitable returns from other farm products than from lambs and wool higher production costs and a difficult labor situ situation allon since 1942 the annual rate of total consumption of apparel wool has been twice as large as the 1935 39 average owing to large military requirements quire ments and large givihan con sumer demand however con sump tion of domestic wool has been smaller than prewar because selling prices of domestic wool are some f 12 to 20 per cent higher than prices of comparable imported wools consumption will decline moderately in the latter part of 1945 the USDA believes because of the decline in production of military fabrics and con of domestic wool will decline more sharply than total consumption if the present price disparity continues |