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Farmers buying plant food from cooperatives paid 8 percent less per ton than those buying from other firms. On the average, farmers paid $361 per ton of nutrient from cooperatives in 1975, compared with the $392 they paid noncooperatives. This price differential of $31 a ton saved cooperative...
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Procedures are presented for casting 50-ft3/sec trapezoidal water measurement flumes in 2-foot bottom width lined and unlined ditches. Drawings and construction details for the concrete forms used are also presented. Flumes installed in concrete-lined ditches require about 13 man-hours and cost...
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Corn production uses over 25 percent of the Nation's cropland and more than 40 percent of the commercial fertilizer applied to crops. Thus, corn farmers' choices of soil, nutrient, and water management systems can have a major impact not only on their own profitability, but also on the...
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, nonfood uses, and prices. The net adjustment in crop acreage is projected to be relatively small, about 2 percent of total …
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indicators of production, supply and disapppearance, and prices and costs. Each section, except Other Chicken, contains … tables contain estimates of production, exports, shipments, consumption, and other uses; and prices and costs tables contain … estimates of prices paid and received, and costs of production. …
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acreage due to higher output per acre than other States. Grower and retail prices for fresh strawberries usually follow strong … seasonal patterns and are below average in April, May, and June. Retail prices for fresh strawberries have kept pace with … inflation since 1980, while grower prices have not. Americans are eating more strawberries grown in the United States, and per …
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Rising foreign production, falling prices, and shrinking volume pushed down U.S. agricultural exports 17 percent in … year earller. Unfavorable weather conditions and higher prices for fruits, fruit juices, arr.d vegetable oils boosted U …
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Increased world agricultural production and lower prices helped depress U.S. agricultural exports for the first 7 … fruit and vegetable crops, and higher prices pushed U.S. farm product imports to $11.8 billion during the first 7 months, a …
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weather, supplies reduced prices and U.S. export volumes. and higher prices in the United States boosted the value of U … crops worldwide will continue depressing prices in FY 1986 ... The high value of the dollar and large stocks, rising …
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