County Ramblin’s
! letter of Ju ly 5, there are t h r *
though»
1 alternatives in operating the Fee*I
| Grain Legislation enacted in May. to divert
nan a mini»
j They are;
tx»w nect
'20 percent
By Sher hi an County Extension
1. To operate the Feed Grain his feed i
tion on adm inistrative alternativ
Agent/»
es under present legislation w ai | Program concurrently w ith the m ake sue
itutions
studied. Basic m aterials and back wheat program under a NO vote
Hudaoti Barley
Six grow ers are producing i w ) ground information was develop As wheat came into com petition
hundred tw enty acres of Hudson ed and »resented by economists with com as a feed grain, wheat Oregon Employment
Barley this year in Sherman coun from \\ ashington S tate U niver prices would tend to find support
sity, Oregon State U niversity and in the m arket place at or above Picture Brightens
ty-
Yield results are not available I n i\e rsity of Idaho in resjionse the com price support level.
The Oregon Stale Employment
2. Provide higher diversion pay-
at this w riting The barley looks to requests from Industry groups
| ment rates under the Feed Gram Service announced that ‘ total
and
county
agents.
A
special
good on shallower or drier
ground. On some of the deep soil mimeograph has l»een prepared I*rogram and require feed grain ' placem ents made in June were
areas the barley is up to five here in Oregon by Marion Thom farm ers with wheat acreage al up m ore than nine percent com
feet tall and certainly question as and Harold Hollands, Oregon lotments to stay w’ithin their pared to the number made In
able on deep, more m old heavier State University, A gricultural Ec wheat allotm ents to be eligible to ,*unc <i year ago. Placements made
onomists, relative to administra- participate in the Feed Grain Pro- in Ju n e 1963 totaled over 116.606
textured soils
Re.su) tr at the Sermau Experi '.’Vc a *ternaUves under present grain. (Cross compliance, this is compared to 106,700 in June 1962.
ment Station have shown good fe<ieial Rrain legislation. Copies virtually assured now ) The result ■ Non - agricultural placements
results for Hudson. Nine year.- ;.\re available to any Sherman being more feed grain producers for Ju n e 1963 were up 10 7 ¡»er-
would sign up for voluntary di cent compared to a year ago, the
test of Hudson up to
1960
uw icr
c r v g gave
a te a
a , ' 'ounty grow er or business peo-
rv rxnxx _
•
flirt
version of feed grain acreage.
Em ploym ent Service said and
2,226 pound per acre yield, com- ,m*'
3. If a grow er complied v.ith ag ticultutal placements were up
Among other things the meet
pared to 2 >5 for six year test of
Alpine. Test weight comparison ing covered the following points the provisions for voluntary feed more than nine percent.
Though initial claims for un
has been 50 pounds per bushel for regarding “substitution of wheat grain diversion as outlined In 2
above, he would be perm itted to I employment insurance benefits
on harlev acres.”
Hudson and 45 for Alpine.
grow feed grains on w’heat acres were up more than 28 percent for
1. Soil erosion losses in manv
The real advantage for shallow-
or wheat on feed grain acres. I t ' June, compared to a year ago, the
er and d rier soils may well be is I Parts (’f the Northwest are less
earlier m aturity. Heading date av- w i,h wheat than barley and there
erages show Hudson heading May ls less risk of w inter • killing.
21 and Alpine June 4. This proved
2. Substitution would give grow
true under field conditions on the I er!i g reater flexibility in choosing
six farm s growing Hudson thisj ,he grain best suited to conditions
year.
on each farm.
1961 yields of Hudson were ex-
3* Wheat, at anticipated loan
cellent on the Sherman Station inj rates, would return higher in-
com paiison to Alpine Yield for! eoines than harley, at least on
Hudson in this last season were farms w here w heat out - yields
2.420 pounds per acre with a 30 barley.
pound test weight while Alpine
4. The supply of local barley
was 1,700 pound yield with a 437 would be reduced to the possible
test v/eight. The ’62 station trials disadvantage of cattle and hog
were badly w inter damaged but feeders, especially If exports are
an off station trial in N orthern large.
Gilliam County showed a 1,000
5. The price of wheat might be
pound per acre advantage
for too high in relation to corn and
Hudson - 2,590 to
1,400 for A1 milo prices east of the Rockies
P^ne-
for local poultry and livestock
Observation of the six farm ers grain feeder; to compete with I
fields look good for Hudson as to feeders in those areas,
shattering. Only a very slight
g W heat supplies m ight be in
am ount of head shattering was oh- creased sufficiently to cause a
serveu. Some straw breaking on |)Uiid . up ¡n stocks.
fertile deep soils was noted.
7. Corn and milo might be sub
Some seed is available for addi
tional grow ers to test the var- stituted for w heat in the Midwest
in sufficient am ounts to cause
iety. It would certainly look like ■ .
,
,
,
1 price - depressing increase in sup
plies of these crops.
shallow soil In the County (three
The choices and decisions for
foot or less) and on the drier soils
East and North of Klondike, East 1964 are now
m ade- Accor-
of Grass Valley Canyon anil South j d ' n £b’. this is an apportune tim e
0f Nigger Ridge
for interested individuals and
'P. L. W atkins has sixty-seven I groups to study the alternatives
preferences
acres of Hudson Barley that has and make t h e i r
been field inspected for certifica- known as guides to ASCS com m it
tion. The Sherm an Experim ent j tees and adm inistrators who must
Station also has one acre of Foun form ulate and operate the pro
dation Hudson seed. O ther grow gram.
ers will have seed; none however!
.
. _____ _____
If anyone
has questions
about
was eligible o r passed field in I phases of the program, we. with
spection for certification. G ener-lbelp of our Oregon State Univer-
ally these fields are okay except sity specialists, will do our best to
for a percentage of wheat.
| help supply inform ation. Our job
in extension is to try and supply
Grain Program Alternatives
July 1st, a group of 30 repre inform ation, not to make adm in
sentatives of Oregon and W ash-| istrative or farm er decisions. The
ington grain producing and grain choices and decisions are the res
feeding industries met at Pendle ponsibility of the effected people,
ton and went on record unani in this case wheat farm ers, anil
mously in favor of requesting p e r the adm inistrators.
mission to su b stitute w heat on j USDA A lternatives
feed grain acres and feed grain ! The USDA currently sees no
on wheat acres in 1964. The rec- possibility for new’ wheat legisla-
ommendation is made providing tion for 1961. They are now con-
that the substituted wheat is p ri- centrating on the way to admin-
ced competitively w ith corn ami I ister the present law’ on the
milo in other m ajor grain oro books.
ducing and feeding areas.
According to the National As-
During this session inform!-! sociation of W heat Growers news
S ee us N ow /
Sherman County Journal, Moro, Orngon, Friday, July 19. 1963 Page 5
i and l i r i n v m
t ^
^
a-v l | i h,vu» h J,1" 1*' » •
claim» Average am ount <rf th e weekly
' 1 “ r , ' T ^ ° y m m ,l ,“ U' ^
W ire | h' nc' l‘ <hevk ,o r lhe 1963
I do" n 21 PePcentI num ber of bene
year was $34.01 compared to $34..
fit paym ents were dow n 11.2 per- 25 for
1962 fi-scal year,
cent and am ount paid out, (25.61
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om pared to J u n e a ve ,r
the
previe
iist*il
year
m illion) w as dow n 11.8 ,»ercent. I
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