Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 197, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1987 Page: 3 of 10
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Port Lavaca Wave, Thursday, April 30, 1987—Page 3
Agriculture
Farm receipts tumble
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By Bryan Weiss
Mother's Day, May 10th
Farm Bureau requests
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Well print your special
immediate farm credit
message in our
Friday, May 8th issue.
II e think
you 're the best
This size
ad only
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(Ads must be paid for in advance)
The Port Lavaca Wave
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Remember
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Happy Mother's Day
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agent's
report
on that feder
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campaign
it was seized
nan “They
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ted assets of
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the district
■njoyed full
Justice De-
n economic
if the feder-
gical reme-
if the intent
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those ques-
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ederal gov-
nany work- ”
I and busi-
jobs to the
who choose
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The American Earm Bureau plan
calls tor the phase-out ol the capital
corporation.
Kleckner said the American Earm
Bureau believes the districts are in
the best position to deal with the pro-
blem loan settlements and sale ol ac-
quired properties "Those at the
district level are belter able to make
those determinations than the Earm
Eor Thursday ag page 3A
TDA launches rural craft show
National Grain Sorghum Pro-
ducers Association is sponsoring the
meeting Victoria County Director
Winfred Kainer. along with Calhoun
County directors Andrew Hahn and
Danny May, will be representing
their counties at the meeting Na-
tional GSPA executive stall will be
present to review the association's
work in export and domestic market
development, utilization research
and the National Grain Sorghum
Yield and Management Contest
terns are not permited
All crafts must be produced to sell
retail, w holesale or on commission
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at 1802 North Mechanic A Dutch
Treat lunch is planned at noon
MAKE IT A DAY TO REMEMBER
by showing how much you care with a
WAVE CLASSIFIED HAPPY AD!
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Thursday,
May 7th.
From
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ATTENTION A,
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Your're losing out
On sale at Circle K and Maverick Markets in Port Lavaca
Join our battle to save
Brooke Army Medical Center
______450 BEDS OR FIGHT______
1 51st state
unlike all
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lies for the
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To attempt
ptly notes
t official,
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ment with
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tile level ol assistance needed on a
district-by-district basis and oversee
the aid
The five-member assistance com
mission would include the Secretary
of Treasury or his designee, the
chairman of the Earm Credit Ad
ministration, a representative of the
Earm Credit System, the Secretary
of Agriculture or his designee and a
farmer-rancher
Kleckner said that arrangement
would streamline the federal aid
process now in law as a result of the
1985 farm credit legislation
The Earm Bureau has called for
an end to fund transfers within the
system, saying there is not enough
surplus available in the stronger in
stitutions to transler to the weaker
ones
Other components of the program
include:
•governmental guarantee of cur
rent member/borrower stock at par
value
•creation of a secondary mortgage
market for agricultural loans within
the Earm Credit System,
•financial assistance provided in
such a way to encourage workouts
ol problems at the local association
and district levels;
1 females emerge, they deposit
from 50-150 eggs on tips ol nuts
Eggs, w hich are just visible to the
naked eye. are greenish white
when deposited, but later become
reddish before hatching Eggs re-
main opaque w hite and remain in
place alter hatching
tisans from outside the city limits of
towns with 25.000 or more popula-
tion Participants must be Texas
residents working in their own
homes or studios
All handcraft materials must be
original Kits or commercial pat-
Trees need spraying
A SPRING insecticide spray insures the nut producer county extension agent. He said May is the month to
a good pecan harvest next fail, according to the spray pecan trees. (Staff photo by Rick Welch)
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Due to state health regulations,
food items cannot be allowed into the
program
Sorghum farmers meeting
EL CAMPt > Sorghum producers
in the El Campo area will meet on
Thursday , May 7, to discuss their op-
tions under the current farm pro-
gram and to compare it to the
Market Oriented Production Plan
proposed by the National Grain
Sorghum Producers Association.
The NGSPA plan, based on pro-
duction goals set at the amount the
market will absorb, would maintain
exports, reduce government cost on
sorghum production by 40 percent
and more than triple the sorghum
producer's net cash income The
Plan was developed by sorghum
leaders from six states who make up
the board of the national association
Eirst generation larvae hatch
from eggs in lour to live days and
migrate to buds tielore the nuts to
teed Alter a day or two they
enter nuts and begin feeding
Pecan trees should be in-
spected lor eggs during the next
several days II you can find
eggs you may be able to more ac-
curately determine the optimum
spray date lor your trees
The May 22 spray date is an-
ticipated lor our area, hut could
be adjusted earlier or later,
depending upon climatic factors
Growers are reminded to include
a fungicide and zinc along with
the casebearer insecticide spray
othing wrong
00 percent of
i agree It’**
■e,” he say*,
mpaignsdo 1
;o any higher
itandard than
kA
nely compli-
according to
Commission
onditions are
sferred from
mttees orga-
dual
become pub-
i negotiating
le 1988 Hart
pay off the
•a restoration ol Generally Ac
cepted Accounting Principles once
Iinancial assistance is provided; and
•reimbursement of member/bor
rowers who lost stock as a result of
Production Credit Association li-
quidations in the Spokane and
Omaha districts
The American Earm Bureau sup
ports issues conscerning the recon
sideration of lending limits and
criteria lor loans, movement away
from average cost pricing ol the
system's loan monies to a com
petitive pricing policy based on the
current cost of capital and reflecting
the relative risk of the borrower and
pursuit of innovative financing
features available to manage in
terest rale risks
WASHINGTON, D C. The
American Earm Bureau federation
is calling for an immediate line ol
credit from the federal government
to be repaid w hen the system is back
on its feet with infusion of lunds
made directly to the district banks
needing assistance
The announcement was made at a
news conference in Washington and
delivered to all members of Con
gress
Dean Kleckner. president ol the
American Earm Bureau federation,
said the farm credit system cannot
work its own way out ol its problems
and is going to need an mlusion of
lederal money "the sooner the bet-
ter."
He said the American Earm
Bureau believes that an effective
program should restructure loans,
provide lor the orderly sale ol ac-
quired properties, work out loans at
the district and local levels, mluse
capital and provide lederal over-
sight for the assistance
"This will result in lower interest
rates lor farm borrowers,"
Kleckner said. “Our goal also is to
keep as many ol the current bor
rowers on the land as possible"
Kleckner's recommendations
were formulated after several mon
ths ol discussion by a American
Earm Bureau agricultural credit
committee.
As part oi a 21 point assistance
program. Amgfigan Earm Bureau is
recommending that a financial
assistance eggppission la- created to
implement Mil administer the
rescue packijgeitwt Congress is ex
pected to pfnvrtic this year The
commission would draw on a line of
credit from the t S Treasury,
which would hav6 a specific limit
The commission would determine
pared to most other states. Anderson
noted
“Texas ranks first in sales of cat-
tle and calves, sheep and wool, goats
and mohair, cotton, cabbage,
spinach, value ol farm real estate,
number ol farms and ranches and
farm and ranch land,” Anderson
said
The economist noted that farm
assets in Texas, including land,
buildings, livestock, machinery,
crops and livestock on hand, and
farm financial assets, have dropped
from $98 billion two years ago to
about $74 billion The state had
IGO.tMM) farms averaging 838 acres
with a value of land and building
averaging $552 per acre, he added
There were 187.000 farms in 1984
Estimated 1986 cash receipts from
livestock include: beef cattle. $4 1
billion, poultry. $652 million, dairy,
$565 million; sheep. $88 million,
hogs. $80 million; wool and mohair,
$51 million; goats. $23 million
Estimated cash receipts from
crops include: cotton, $772 million,
wholesale nursery industry, $416
million; feed grains, including corn,
oats, barley, hay and ensilage, $416
or two nuts to complete the Ide
cycle
The I’M overwinters as a par
tially grown larva in a silken co-
coon usually attached to the base
of a bud In the spring, larvae
teed lor a short time on buds and
burrow into shoots Pupation
may iK'cur in these shoots or in
rough bark of larger limbs
Moths emerge from the over-
wintering generation in late
April, predicted for Victoria
beginning on April 29
Two to three days after adult
COLLEGE STATION - Texas’
estimated 1986 farm receipts from
marketings tumbled slightly to a
projected $9 3 billion that statistic
includes the agriculturally related
activities ol hunting and fishing
leases, horses tor recreation and
land bast’d recreation
This figure compares with about
$9.9 billion in 1985
But lower production costs and
large government payments helped
support the cash income situation,
according to Economist Carl Ander
son of the Texas Agricultural Exlen
sion Service, The Texas A&M
University System
Anderson said declines in crop
sales resulted from low prices,
fewer acres and a small cotton crop
The declines more than offset a
slight rise in livestock receipts
Poultry, dairy and nursery sales
made strong gains, but income from
hunting leases and horses declined
Texas is expected Io rank third
among states in 1986 cash receipts,
behind California and Iowa With a
diversified livestock and crop
agriculture, farming and ranching
in Texas continues favorable com
Now is the time to begin
monitoring pecan trees tor the
pecan nut casebearer, as the
casebearer preventative spray
will need to be applied soon
The latest predictions for our
area put the first significant nut
entry at May 9 in Corpus Christi,
and May 11 in Victoria The an-
ticipated spray date would be th*’
same as the first significant nut
entry
The pecan nut casebearer
causes damage to pecan nutlets
in the larval stage which feeds on
small pecan clusters The first
generation is the most damaging
due to the larvae feeding on all ol
the pecans in a cluster Bits ol
trass and webbing can be seen
projecting from injured nuts
these will eventually drop from
the trees
A second generation usually
follows the first by 42-45 days, but
damage is less noticeable due to
the casehearer needing only one
Protect pecan trees from
damaging springtime pests
AUSTIN A "Country Crafted
Texas" program has been developed
by the Texas Department of
Agriculture. according to
Agriculture Commissioner Jim
Hightower, to identify and market
rural Texas crafts.
"Oneway many rural families can
earn extra income is by taking ad-
vantage of their own craltmaking
talents from quilt-making to w hit
tling. from pottery-making to weav
mg." Hightower said
The program, he said, is being
held to better identify and to help
market rural crafts
TDA and Earm Crisis Hotline are
sponsoring the program jointly
In late summer. TDA and Earm
Crisis will publish a promotional
directory listing the names, ad-
dresses and phone numbers of the
different artisans and the types ol
crafts they produce The directories
will then t>e distributed among the
news media, specialty buyers, craft
dealers and consumers
The program is open to rural ar
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million all vegetables. $355 million
grain sorghum. $331 million wheat
$267 million; timber production. $250
million; rice, $160 million outdoor
recreation income. $147 million
humnting lease receipts, $146
million, peanuts. $106 million
horses. $102 million, fruit and nut
crops. $59 million soybeans, $24
million; sunflowers and other oil
seed plants, $3 million
"Texas agriculture remains
strong." said Anderson Major
research and educational program
efforts conducted by The Texas
A&M University System support
development ol the states
agricultural industry to its greatest
potential
Also, the states agriculture
benefits from a relatively warm
climate, productive soils and ex
cellent export and transportation
facilities. Anderson noted Cash
receipts are income in 1987 are pro
jected to increase moderately,
mainly because ot higher beef and
cotton prices and large government
payments The drop in land prices
already appears to have slowed
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Surber, Chester C. & Fulghum, Gary. Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 197, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1987, newspaper, April 30, 1987; Port Lavaca, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1280582/m1/3/?q=lumber+does+its+stuff: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Calhoun County Public Library.