Show P PM N A farm news I 1 potato loan program late potato producers are urged by martel mantel anderson andersen chairman of the plute plate county AAA committee to put enough potatoes under loan fr from OM tile the big 1946 crop so that the market will not be glutted and prices broken to a point where it will be difficult to firmly establish a satisfactory level of returns to producers due to the size of the crop there Is need tor for a large quantity of pota tose to be pieced under loan both to strengthen the market and assure the producers of support prices the governments method of support ing lats late potato pric prices e 9 tor for producers Is through the loan producers who want price support protection on their potatoes should contact their county committee and arrange tor for a loan A formers farmers program U S farmers in every agricultural community of the nation will soon be electing by secret bailot the farmers who will represent them as their local committeemen mitte emen for the next year and delegates who will elect their county committees of farmers at county conventions this democratic administration of farm programs Tams was produced by congress for the agricultural conservation program and these same elected farmers are now responsible tor for local administration of such programs as commodity loans sugar crop insurance production goals price sup ports and others in addition to J the agricultural conservation program because the need tor for refrigerated storage tor for meat has lessened the government limitations on oil inventories of frozen fruits and vegetables and packaged frozen fish in storage have been suspended still effective are provisions limiting refrigerated holdings to 10 months excluding from storage foods not needing refrigeration limiting reservation of space and restricting storage ot of all items in ia freezers livestock livestock are again on oil the upswing following the extremely low receipts in early september but are still far below last year much livestock originally orgin nally ally scheduled tor for marketing in september was sold during july and august when price controls were oft off receipts at the 12 major markets ending september 21 were 35 per cent larger than during the preceding week but 40 per cent smaller than in the corresponding sp week in 1945 the biggest increase was ja in cattle ke tings but a hegt pre of the stocker and feeder run was purchased by farmers to be fattened in teed feed lots this winter this will result in less leis beef in the butcher shop this fall but more and better beet beef several months from now hog showed a 4 27 per cent increase over the ithe preceding week but were 73 per cent smaller than during the corresponding week of 1945 many hogs intended tor for september sale eale were sold at below nornal normal weights in august no substantial increase in P hog is expected until late october in view of the small livestock runs and the present meat situation the U S department ot or agriculture has discontinued meat allocations to foreign countries beyond those amounts already procured meat now hold held in government inventory will bo be available tor for foreign shipment |