Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 40, DeMotte, Jasper County, 3 September 1948 — ACP Chairman Announces Grain Storage Plans [ARTICLE]

ACP Chairman Announces Grain Storage Plans

Elmer Brown Outlines Steps To Be Taken In Cribbing Steps to be taken to meet the grain storage emergency were outlined here today by Elmer Brown, chairman of the Jasper County Agricultural Conservation Committee, who returned this week from attending a district meeting on grain storage and price supports held at Monticello on August 24. > Mr. Brown said that aetion will have to be taken at once to provide storage for the 1948 record grain crop if loss of all farmers and others who have an interest in saving grain in doing all they can to help provide storage for the record crop. He said that at the district meeting it was pointed out that the 1948 national grain crop—wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, soybean and grain sorghum will total somewhere around 6% billion bushels, which leaves the country 900 million to 1 billion bushels short of enough storage space fr the crop. Estimates were given at the meeting that the state will need additinal storage for 92 million bushels of corn. All of the grains will be competing for the limited storage available but the major problem in Jasper County will be to find storage for our com and soybean crop. One of the first steps to be taken in Jasper County to meet the grain storage emergency will be to call a meeting of farmers and building supply people. This meeting will be held at the Jasper County Courthouse about Sept. 12. Loans and purchase agreements will be available to support prices to farmers but the effectiveness of these programs will depend to a great extent on getting the grain into proper storage. Details of these support programs are available at the county ACP office located at the Courthouse. Other steps to be taken are a survey to determine how much of what kind of storage is needed, then to do all that can be done to obtain materials for additinal storage. Temporary storage appears to be part of the answer to protecting this year’s crop. Action will be taken to obtain materials for this. “We are going to have to take care of storing our grain right here in Jasper County for the most part,” Mr. Brown said. “We cannot depend on country and terminal elevaters taking care of our grain. And most of that storage will have to be taken care of right out of the farm where the grain was produced.”