The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-09-03
TALK OF FEEDING
GRAIN TO STOCK IS
HEARD LESS OFTEN
Fairly Liberal Rains In Many
Sections Have Proved Big
Help to Farmers
EARLY GRAINS HARVESTED
Northeastern Montana Shows
Good Returns; Improvement
Over August Forecast Seen
EARLY GRAINS HARVESTED

Talk of feeding wheat to livestock
IS quite ommon but feed crops in
Minnesota and the eastern half OF
North Dakota are turning out much
better than expected, so that feeding
of wheat is not expected to assume
large proportions except in the hard
est hit of the drouth areas for sone
time, the Farmers Union Terminal
association says in its weekly crop
report.
Fairly liberal rains in much of the
Dakotas and western Minnesota have
revived pastures to some extent and
improved the feed SITUATION" the re-
port says. "As a result, little actual
feeding Of wheat is likely until pas
lures are not longer available.
with harvesting Of early grains
completed and only 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 ma
chimes in northeastern Montana are
running far ahead of expectations.
Most Of the wheat in central eastern
Montana is turning out fair yields.
Central Montana and much of west
ern North Dakota, however, will show
little improvement Owe the August l
forecast.
Yields Coed In Stutsman
'Stutsman county, North Dakota,
reports wheat yields Of 8 to IL BUSH
els; oats 20 to SO bushels: and barley,
UP to "a. Wheat around Lisbon. En-
derlin, Sheldon and La Moure In Gen.
trail southern North Dakota Is rum
ming 20 to 80 bushels in places and
corn is good.
Summarizing the situation for all
crops. it would seem that estimated
production in the spring wheat area
for all crops except flax and possibly
corn, will have to be revised upward
in the next government crop report.
1.-THE recent rains, which halted
threshing. were welcome. but more
rain is needed for pastures in most
sections Of the state.
1.-THE purchasing power Of the grain
farmers of the Northwest has been
reduced by 40 to As per cent as a re-
,ult Of the decline in prices for wheat,
we and most other grains in the past
rear.
ION a cash basis from IS to IS cents
q bushel is being paid fer wheat in
the country compared with IS cents
to $1.05 q year ago. These prices are
based on terminal market prices
minus transportation and elevator
charges, as cash wheat is now ap-
proximately Is cents a bushel In the
Minnesota terminals.
New Basis Dishcartening
ION q loan basis, the decline is
even more dis~heartening to the grain
producer. Loans were being made q
year ago on the basis of about $1.0O to
$1.O5 q bushel. Prices which prevailed
Ia the terminals for wheat we're gen.
orally around or above the SIPS a
bushel level up to the time that the
pegged prices Of SLIPS a bushel was
fixed by the federal farm board.
"This year the loan value of wheat
has been reduced to 70 per cent OF the
net value Of the wheat at the point
It is located. Deducting transporta-
ton and elevator charges, this means
that the farmer is able to make loans
Of about 80 to As cents a bushel at his
station, depending on the distance Of
his farm from the terminal market.
A year ago the farmer under the
pegged price program, was guaran-
teed against loss on account Of price
declines and assured Of benefits
should prices advance.
EARLY threshing returns have been
somewhat larger than had been antic-
tpated. However, these reports are
coming from the Red river valley and
eastern North Dakota and Minnesota,
generally, and not from the territory
which was most greatly damaged by
the drouth. There appears to be lit
tie hope that yields in such territory
will run above the early estimates, as
they have in the more favorable
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