White Deer News (White Deer, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 1974 Page: 3 of 8
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THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1974
WHITE DEER NEWS
PAGE 3
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A Weekly Report Of Agri Business News
arm-facts
Compiled From Sources
Of The Texas Department of Agriculture
John C. White, Commissioner
Something To Cry About . . . Sheep and Lambs On
Feed Are Down But Up . . . Livestock Slaughter
Increases . . . Feeder Cattle Prices Decline.
If you like onions (and who doesn't) here's something
to cry about. The Texas spring onion crop for 1974 is
forecast at 18 per cent above last year's crop. This year's
spring crop is expected to be the largest since 1967 and the
* third largest on record.
Peak movement of the crop is expected in April. The
quality of the crop appears to be excellent in the Rio
Grande Valley. Harvest in the coastal bend area is expected
to get underway in April. At Laredo, the crop is making
good growth with the first harvest due during the early part
of April. In the San Antonio-winter garden area cold
weather has reduced stands some. But the crop is making
good progress and harvest is expected to get underway
there in April or May.
Acres for harvest this year are estimated 21,000,
which is an eight per cent increase compared to a year ago.
Yield per acre is expected to be up nine per cent from last
year.
A 53 PER CENT increase in sheep and lambs on feed
is noted by the Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
as of March 1 compared to 1973. Drylot sheep feeders with
a lot capacity of 2,000 head or more had 113,000 sheep
and lambs on feed for slaughter as of March 1. This is four
per cent below the number on feed as of February 1.
Current intentions to market are: March 46,000;
April 44,000; and May 23,000. April and May intentions
are incomplete because additional lambs could still be
placed on feed and marketed during this period.
RED MEAT production in Texas increased four per
cent compared to a year ago. A total of 201,000,000
pounds of meat was produced in the state during January.
Cattle slaughtered numbered 317,000, calves 8,700,
hogs 131,000 and sheep and lambs 116,000 head. Cattle
and sheep and lambs increased but calves and hogs dropped
below a year ago.
Nationwide, commercial production of red meat was
two per cent more than a year earlier and 12 per cent more
than December of 1973.
FEEDER cattle prices are being affected due to losses
of feedlot operators. This has been happening since
mid-January. A number of reasons are listed as the cause of
this new round of confusion in the livestock industry.
Compared to fat cattle prices, feeder cattle were
over- priced.
The number of feeder cattle available is also another
cause for the feeder cattle price situation. January sales of
cattle and calves at. Texas livestock auction markets were 1 7
per cent above a year ago. Most of these were feeder cattle.
Another weakening factor for feedlots was a drop in
the fed cattle market. Choice 900 to 1,100 pound steers
sold direct from feedlots averaged S50.45 per hundred
weight during the first week of February. By the last week
of the month, prices had dropped 13 per cent to around
S44 per hundredweight.
Feedlot operators, meanwhile, are losing S135 to
$155 per head, which isS35 to $55 per head more loss than
they experienced in late 1973.
FARM export totals are rising again. Agricultural
exports for the fiscal year ending June 30 are expected to
total about $20 billion. This would be almost $1 billion
^ above the estimate made last November.
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STORY a
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PIANOS
March Nutrition
Month Encourages
Good Eating Habits
School students, like most eve-
ryone else, often eat what they
like and not necessarily what is
good for them. So feels Martin
Garber, regional administrator
for the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture's Food and Nutrition Ser-
vice (FNS).
March Nutrition Month, a na-
tionwide campaign to promote
better nutrition, is aimed at peo-
ple with poor eating habits in
hope their eating habits can be
changed.
School cafeterias operating un-
der the National School Lunch
Program offer nutritionally bal-
anced meals and milk to all stu-
dents. The lunch program for
public schools in Texas is admin-
istered by the Texas Education
Agency, in cooperation with FNS.
Children whose families can't
afford to pay full price for the
lunches get them free or at re-
duced cost.
Some 1, 328, 000 students in
Texas eat school lunches each
day.
The nutrient value of foods is
something everyone should know,
says Administrator Garber. Teach-
ing this information to school
age children will guide them as
they form eating habits which
last a lifetime.
Lunches produced under the
National School Lunch Program
are a good means of imparting
nutrition education. Each Type
A meal must meet standards es-
tablished by FNS. Each Type
A meal consists of meat or other
protein-rich food, vegetables
and/or fruit, bread, butter or
margarine and milk.
Texas' chairman for March
Nutrition Month is Dr. Barbara
Mitchell, who is also president
of the Texas State Nutrition
Council.
Thar’s Gold
In Them
Thar Beans
AUSTIN-Texas pinto bean
growers are no longer
working for “beans” as the
price for pintos has risen to
unprecedented highs in
1974.
Agriculture Commissioner
John C. White recently
reported that pintos were
selling at $3 2.50 per hundred
pounds in January compared
to $27 in November, 1973,
and $9.85 in November.
1972.
Lowered production
coupled with increased
demand domestically and
abroad have brought the
sharp increase in pintos and
all other classes of beans.
Despite relatively high prices
at planting time, U.S. bean
growers did not increase
their 1973 acreage, probably
because farming alternatives
looked better at the time,
White said.
U.S. acreage was off one
percent with yields down
seven percent from 1972.
Total pinto bean production
in the U.S. in 1973 was
4.707.000 cwt., compared to
5.173.000 cwt. in 1972.
Colorado, Idaho and
California are the leading
producers of pintos. Texas
production is limited to
Moore and Culberson
Counties, which produce 800
to 1,500 pounds an acre.
‘‘The Department of
Agriculture has received calls
from farmers across the state
asking about bean
production; so our own
production may increase this
year,” White commented.
World demand for the
pinto bean as a protein
source has steadily increased
despite a decreased supply.
Demand from foreign
markets has increased due to
the short supply of protein
foods, while domestic
markets are turning toward
dried beans as an answer to
the higher prices of all
protein foods.
Return From Ft. Worth
Mrs. R. M. Hubbard and'Mrs.
Tom Anderwald made a business
trip to Ft. Worth last week. Mrs.
J. C. Freeman accompanied
them and visited Mrs. Marsene
Weaks, a former White Deer
resident.
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