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Show j Farm Notes For Sound Farming "This country's agricultural economy can never become stable as long as food and fiber production must be carried on unprotected from crop hazards," G. F. Geissler, manager of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Corpor-ation told State Commissioners of Agriculture at a meeting in Detroit. "All of us have seen many individual in-dividual farmers and whole agricultural ag-ricultural communities sink from prosperity to bankruptcy through no fault of their own," said Geissler, Geis-sler, a North Dakota farmer and former Western Region Director of Triple-A. "The need to protect pro-tect farmers' incomes from this type of loss is so apparent that the greatest possible effort should be made to develop a workable crop insurance program." pro-gram." Among ,the serious problems encountered in the development! of insurance, Geissler pointed out, was the lack of adequate farm data on both yields and loss expectancy, and the difficulty of making adjustment of crop losses loss-es which will be fair to both producers pro-ducers and the insuring agency. Field Seed Output The 1946 production of 6 major ma-jor field seeds alfalfa, alsike clover, red clover, sweet clover, timothy and Sudan grass is estimated es-timated at 302,961,000 pounds of clean seed. This is 13 per cent above 1945 and 4 per cent more than the 1940-44 average. Production Pro-duction of alfalfa, and red and alsike clover is above average, while the other three fall below. Acreage and poundage payments pay-ments provided in the Agricultural Agricul-tural Conservation Program for alfalfa, and red and alsike. clover, clov-er, and the higher market-prices received by growers have resulted re-sulted in a larger seed harvest than first expected. Milk Output High Good pastures and liberal feeding of concentrates are resulting re-sulting in records in milk output per cow. But fewer milk' cows are on the job and total milk production in October was 8.9 billion pounds, comoared with 9.1 billion in October 1945 Through October of 1946., output out-put totaled 2.3 billion less than for the first 10 months of last year. Farm milk production goals about a billion pounds larger than this year's production, have been recommended to States. The large supplies of available feeds should permit heavier feeding of dairy cows, and at the " same time permit expansion of the 1947 spring pig crop and increased in-creased cattle - feeding. Some slowing down of the recent heavy rate of culling dairy herds is also al-so recommended. Small Increase In Sugar More sugar may be available to consumers. in 1947 if production pro-duction figures remain the same if the estimates are not upset by fires, droughts, shortages of containers, storms and diseases, James H. Marshall, director, Sugar Branch of the Production and Marketing Administration, said recently. Cuba's 1947 sugar production is conservatively estimated at 5 million tons, from which 2,-100,000 2,-100,000 tons would be required to meet U. S. ration requirements require-ments at the-1946 level, 740,000 ' tons for Cuban local requirements require-ments and exports, and 1,135,-000 1,135,-000 tons to meet the 1946 ration level in Europe. These total 3,-975,000 3,-975,000 tons, leaving a balance of 1,025,000 tons, from which any additional U. S. supply would come. |
