The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-09-04
RAINS REVIVE
N. D. FEED CROP

ST. PAUL-Talk of feedin,
wheat to livestock is quite com
mon, but feed crops in Minnesot;
and the eastern half of North Da
kota are turning cut much bette
than expected, so that feeding o
wheat Is not expected to assum,
large proportions except in tn,
hardest hit of the drouth areas fol
some time, the Farmers Union
Terminal Association says in its
weekly crop report.
Fairly liberal rains in much Of
the Dakotas and Western MINES.
ota have revived pastures TO some
extent and improved the feed sit.
ration,' the report says. CAS- q
result. little actual feeding OF
wheat is likely until pastures are
not longer available.
with harvesting of early grains
completed and small areas of grain
except corn and flax left uncut,
crop news soon will be a thing of
the past for the 1880 season.
Returns from the threshing
machines in northeastern Montana
are running far ahead of expect
ations. Most of the wheat in cen
ira. eastern Montana is turning
out fair yields. Central Montana
and much of western North Da-
kota, however, will show little i'm
provement over the August l fore
cast.
"stutsman county, North Ba-
kota, reports wheat yields of 8 to
1S bushels; oats 20 to so bushels;
and barley, up to "a. Wheat
around Lisbon, Enderein, Sheldon
and LaMoure in central southern
North Dakota is RUNNING 20 to 80
bushels in places and corn is good.
summarizing the situation for
all crops, it would seem that esti-
mated production in the spring
wheat area for all crops except
flax and possibly corn, viii have
to be revised upward in the next
government crop report.
The recent rains, which haltei
threshlng, were welcome, but more
rain is needed for pastures in most
sections of the state.
The purchasing power of the
grain Northwest farmers has
been reduced by 40 to As per cent
as result of the decline in prices
Tor wheat, rye and most other
Grains in the past year." NJ. W
Thatcher, general manager of the
Farmers Union Terminal assoca- |
ton said.
"0n cash basis from S. to G5
cents a bushel is being paid for
wheat IN the country compared |
with 30 cents to S1.05 & year ago."
ne said. "These prices are based
on terminal market prices minus
transportation and elevator
charges, as cash wheat is now an
proximately IS cents a bushel in
The Minnesota terminals.
ION a loan basis. the decline i
even more disheartening to the
grain producer. Loans were be-
ng made year ago on the basis
II about $1.00 OF $1O5 a busheg
'rlcos which prevailed in the ter
nlnals for wheat were generally
around or above the slips a bush
! level up to the time that the
begged prices of $1.25 a bushel
vas fixed by the Federal Farm
3oard.
: This year the loan value fl
wheat has been reduced to 70 perl
'ent of the net value of the wheat
1t the point it is located. Deduct
ng transportation and elevator
'harges, this means that the far
ner IS able to make loans of about
IS to 40 cents a bushel at his Local
tatlon, depending on the distance
Il MS farm from the terminal mar
'et. A year ago the farmer I'M
Ter the pegged price program, vas
Guaranteed against loss on account
Il price declines and assured Of
benefits should prices advance.
Early threshing returns have
'een somewhat larger than had
cen anticipated. However, these {
eports are coming from the Red {
river Valley and eastern North {
Dakota and Minnesota, generally, n
nd not from the territory which S
yas most greatly damaged by the I
routh. There appears to be little J
ope that yields in such territory {
ill run above the early estimates. I
S they have in the more favorable |
reas."