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try leaders said little change is
expected in average per capita
beef supplies and average con-
sumer prices in the coming
year.
According to USDA econom-
ists, total beef output may
increase slightly next year but
still will remain below produc-
tion levels in the 1983-88 per-
iod. However, consumer prices
are expected to edge higher by
only 1 percent to 2 percent in
1990, compared with 5 percent
gains in 1988 and 1989.
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but about 700,000 tons of the
wheat was bought under EEP.
A metric ton is about 2,205
pounds and is equal to 36.7
bushels of wheat.
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7.75%
7.75%
up from 57.2 pounds in 1988,
with another gain in the works
next year.
Cattle industry leader John
Lacey of Paso Robles, Calif.,
president-elect of the National
Cattlemen’s Association, said
the practice of cutting away fat
from retail cuts has helped
improve beefs image. He also
cited breeding and feeding
advances as further boosts for
the industry.
Topper Thorpe, general man-
ager of Cattle-Fax, a market
information service, said no
dramatic changes are expected
in the nation’s cattle herd or in
U.S. beef production in 1990.
But today’s total cattle herd
of about 100 million head,
including dairy animals, is pro-
ducing almost as much beef as
the much larger herds of the
1970s, Thorpe told a year-end
news conference.
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Thursday, January 11,1990
At last month’s USDA out-
look conference, economist
Steve Reed said consumer beef
prices have set new records
each year since 1987. But com-
petition from pork and poultry
will have an effect.
“With per capita beef sup-
plies beginning to stabilize in
1990, the higher price of beef
compared to competing meats
could become a bigger issue in
the coming months," Reed said.
“These large poultry supplies
and continued large pork sup-
plies could hold down beef
price gains."
“Planting and replanting was
active under nearly ideal
weather conditions," the report
said. “Harvest continued, but
supplies of most crops were
reduced.”
The facility, which is oper-
ated by the Agriculture and
Commerce departments, said
freeze damage in Texas
“became more evident" in the
Rio Grande Valley.
"Lettuce and celery were
severely damaged, and onions
also suffered some loss," it said.
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The USDA has figures to
prove Americans eat mote
poultry than beef. And other
figures to prove they eat more
beef than poultry.
Using the method based on
bone-in retail weights, USDA
says the per capita consump-
tion of beef in 1990 may drop
slightly to an average of 67.8
pounds from 68.6 pounds in
1989, 72.1 pounds in 1988, and
73.4 pounds in 1987. The peak
was 94 pounds in 1976.
Total poultry, which includes
broilers, baking hens and turk-
eys, has been setting records
annually and is forecast to aver-
age 89.4 pounds in 1990, up from
84.4 in 1989, 80.6 in 1988, and
77.8 in 1987, the year when poul-
try first nudged ahead of beef.
But the cattle industry said
that if you take away the bones,«
beef is still way ahead of poul-
try, and Richard Stillman of
USDA’s Economic Research
Service agreed.
Stillman said that on a bone-
less basis, 1989 per capita beef
consumption may average 67.1
pounds, down from 68.2 in 1988.
A further slight decline is
expected in 1990.
On the same boneless basis,
he said, 1989 poultry consump-
tion may average 59.9 pounds,
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Beef
.continues to be No. 1 with
American consumers over
chicken, but (Eat is only when
the Agriculture Department
doesn't count bones.
The USDA estimates per
capita meat and poultry con-
sumption in several ways,
including the retail weight sold
at grocery counters, and on a
retail weight basis without
bones.
If it's the National Cattle-
men’s Association on an end-of-
the-year campaign to boost
beef, the no-bone way is
favored.
Regardless, the association
said Thursday that demand for
beef is stabilizing after declin-
ing for years. And part of the
reason is that farmers and
ranchers have responded to
consumer tastes by producing
leaner cuts.
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The main reason that today's
smaller cattle herd produces
almost as much beef is due to a
number of factors, he said.
“Genetically, you bred a lar-
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true in hogs, sheep and lambs...
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corn acreage was reported
down by 35 percent. The Texas
lettuce acreage was reported to
be cut 79 percent from last wint-
er, while the Florida tomato
acreage is down 32 percent.
But the Florida harvest of
winter strawberries is
expected to be 5,400 acres, up 2
percent from last year.
"Growers saved most plants
from the Christmas weekend
freeze by forming ice caps on
plants with overhead sprink-
lers,” the report said. “The
freeze will lower yields
because fewer pickings will be
made. Virtually all plants are
expected to survive if tempera-
tures remain moderate for the
next few weeks.”
Looking at the carrot situa-
tion, most of Florida’s crop was
destroyed, although growers
“are expected to replant most,
if not all, Of the lost acreage,"
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A
respite from holiday cold is
hastening replanting of devas-
tated winter vegetable crops in
Florida, but the vast winter
wheat areas of the Great Plains
are left without protective snow
cover.
The government’s Joint Agri-
cultural Weather Facility said
Tuesday that temperatures in
the first week of January also
“eased livestock stress” over
much of the nation, although
variable readings contributed
to pneumonia among animals
in parts of Iowa.
“Lack of snow cover con-
tinued to cause concern for
winter wheat producers in the
central and northern Great
Plains, except for Montana,
where snow cover was mostly
good," the agency reported.
In another report, the Agri-
culture Department said freez-
ing Christmas weather that
ripped into winter vegetable
areas of Florida and Texas was
blamed for sharply reduced
acreages of broccoli, celery, let-
tuce and tomatoes for winter
harvest.
Overall, farmers are
expected to have about 191,000
acres of seven selected winter
vegetables for harvest, down 8
percent from a year ago, the
report said. No actual produc-
tion estimates were included.
In Texas, for example, no car-
rots are expected to be
harvested, although acreages
are up in California and
Florida.
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Improved pasture or hayland
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ranchers, according to Dan
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vation Service in Port
Lavaca.
Prescribed burning is app-
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area or pasture under condi-
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spread of the fire are con-
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the success of the burn.
Using fire in combination
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example would be to spray
brush in the spring with
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the pasture from grazing dur-
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bum in the late winter
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specific objective in mind
before deciding to bum a
pasture. Some of these could
be to control Maccartney
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sprouts and seedlings of run-
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the report said. Part of the
severely damaged crop in the
Rio Grande Valley of Texas
may be salvaged by hand
harvesting “if the price is high
enough.”
Department analysts have
said that although citrus and
fresh vegetable prices are
expected to rise in the first
quarter, overall consumer food
prices in 1990 are still expected
to go up a modest 3 percent to 5
percent, compared with 5.7 per-
cent in 1989, the sharpest gain
since 1981.
One reason is that vegetable
fields can be replanted quickly
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Soviet Union has begun to use a
renewed subsidy allocation
, under an Agriculture Depart-
ment program to buy more U.S.
wheat at cut-rate prices.
, Officials said Tuesday that
Moscow bought 480,000 metric
tons of wheat for delivery next
month under a long-term grain-
supply agreement.
F. Paul Dickerson, general
sales manager for the depart-
ment's Foreign Agricultural
Service, said 10 private compa-
nies shared in the sales.
The wheat was sold under the
department’s Export Enhance-
ment Program, or EEP, which
provides subsidies to exporters
selling U.S. commodities to
designated foreign markets.
Dickerson said 1,534,200 tons
of wheat remain in the Soviet
Union’s current EEP alloca-
tion. A new purchase line of 2
million tons was announced
Dec. 19, in addition to 14,200
tons remaining in a previous
allocation.
Only wheat has been
approved for sale to the Soviet
Union under the price-subsidy
program.
The seventh year of the
U.S.-Soviet grain agreement
began Oct. 1. With the latest
sales, the Soviet Union has
bought about 1.3 million tons of
wheat for 1989-90 delivery and
more than 11 million tons of
corn, plus some soybeans and
soybean meal. All of the wheat
was sold under EEP
arrangements.
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oversupply, rising production
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tors. Thorpe said the herd liqui-
dation has ended and a “modest
expansion” has begun.
“Efficient cow-calf operators
have made profits during the
past few years,” Thorpe said.
“Now, if weather is favorable
and if financing becomes
cheaper, more producers may
hold back heifers and expand
their breeding herds. However,
we do not see foresee rapid
expansion."
Stillman said in a telephone
interview, “Part of the reason
beef has been declining the last
several years was that we’ve
corrected (the statistics) to
allow for a closer trim on retail
cuts."
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Surber, Chester C. & Fortney, Paul, Jr. The Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 73, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 11, 1990, newspaper, January 11, 1990; Port Lavaca, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1280564/m1/3/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Calhoun County Public Library.