Banner Graphic, Volume 19, Number 14, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 September 1988 — Page 14

THE BANNERGRAPHIC September 21,1968

Tighter reins on dairy aid? By DON KENDALL AP Farm Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A national dairy promotion program financed by dairy farmers should be tightened to eliminate slipshod accounting methods, waste and unauthorized use of funds, an Agriculture Department audit says. THE REPORT BY the USDA’s office of inspector general criticized the Agricultural Marketing Service, which administers the program, for not providing adequate guidelines and controls over those sharing in the funds, and for submitting incomplete information to Congress. “AMS’s annual report to Congress did not include information relating to approximately 60 percent of the activities of the program,” the auditors said. “Congress had not been informed as to the accountability of approximately $374.4 million of $619.7 million of the Dairy Promotion Program assessments for the three-year period ending April 30, 1987.” The inspector general’s office said it was looking into at least one case of possible fraud. However, it declined to provide details and said only that a report on the investigation would be issued later. THE PROGRAM WAS created by Congress in a 1983 law that imposes a mandatory assessment of 15 cents for each 100 pounds of milk produced and marketed in the 48 contiguous states. Producers may assign up to 10 cents of the assessment to regional- or statequalified programs, or QP’s, that have similar promotional projects.

Market reports INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Estimated prices Monday at Indianapolis area elevators: Corn No. 2 yellow: $2.552.74, new $2.51-2.74, January $2.66-2.83. Oats No. 1 sound: $3.10. Soybeans No. 1 yellow: $8.03-8.16, new SB.OI-8.16, January $8.14-8.27. Wheat No. 2 soft red: $3.623.64. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Hogs 500. Barrows and gilts moderately active, weak to 25 cents lower. US 1-3 230-260 lbs 40.25- US 2-3 235-270 lbs 38.25- US 2-4 275-280 lbs 37.00-38.00. Sows: Moderately active, 50 cents to 1.00 lower. US 1-3 400700 lbs 30.00-33.50. Boars: Over 400 lbs at 31.00. Cattle: 650. Compared to last Tuesday: on light receipts, slaughter steers and heifers 50 cents to 1.00 higher. Compared to last week’s close: slaughter cows 1.00 higher, slaughter bulls steady. Supply: select and choice slaughter steers 30 percent heifers, 10 percent cows. Slaughter steers: Choice 2-4 900-1325 lbs 67.75-69.25. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - ndiana direct hog market at 70 yards and markets Tuesday. Barrows and gilts: Steady to 25 cents lower, demand moderate to good. US 1-2 220250 lbs 38.75-39.50, some 39.75, plant delivered to 40.00; 210-220 lbs 37.00-39.00. US 1-3 210-260 lbs 37.00-39.25. Sows: Steady. US 1-3 300500 lbs 29.00-30.50, some to 32.00; 500-650 lbs 29.00-31.00.

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Gesturing toward a production yield graph on an overhead projector, Purdue University agricultural economist Chris Hurt addresses a farm outlook breakfast meeting Tuesday at the Community Building on the Putnam County

Good management said key to overcoming drought’s effects

By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Editor In spite of drought and other unfavorable factors, the majority of farm families will make it, according to Dr. Chris Hurt, who was guest speaker at a farm outlook meeting at the Putnam County Fairgrounds Tuesday morning. The secret, according to the speaker, will be good management and efficient production, however, there will be variables which the farmer can’t control, the speaker said. Hurt characterized the severity of the drought by commenting that only three years of such droughts have occurred since days of the Civil War. WHILE EFFECTS of the 1988 droughts have been severe, the full extent of loss to the farmer will not be known until after harvest. Current reports indicate the com crop has been reduced by 37 percent, however, the gross income could be about the same as 1987. Hurt said that the state of Indiana has been the center of the drought which spread through Illinois to the west and to the northwest. Unless

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effect that soybean production in South America is not yet known. Due to the large carry-over of com little reduction in usage is anticipated. HURT NOTED THAT the decline in land values over the past years has shown a turn around and are expected to be up 13 percent by the end of the current year. He spoke at the breakfast meeting to some 150 people either in farming or related areas. His full report, carrying price information and other vital information, is available at the Putnam County Extension office in the courthouse.

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