The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-05-02
Little Wheat Is Moving
Here For Overseas

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Bluffton dealers. Altho there was
no definite announcement, most farm
ers assumed this was a permanent
ceiling and there would be no
advantage in holding the grain on
their farms.
Price Up SO Cents
AS a result they sold grain direct
" from the thresher at the then
ceiling price. In March, the farmers
ceiling was raised three cents to
S1.74 a bushel, but under the new
program announced last week, wheat
sold for overseas relief commands a
ceiling of SLIT per bushel plus 30
cents a bushel bonus making the
selling price $2.07.
The stepped-up price hasn't produc-
ed any appreciable quantity of wheat
because of its scarcity on farms and
because what supplies remain on
hand are needed for feeding pur-
poses.
However, a present ceiling 80
cents over the price paid last sum-
mer finds many farmers dissatisfied
with government Juggling of the
market.
Those selling wheat last harvest
are critical of new developments, be-
cause they have no marketable wheat
on their farms, and farmers who
held the grain are in a similar mood
because the government restriction
on corn means they must keep their
wheat as a feeding supplement.
No Corn Moving
No movement of corn is reported
at any price in the Blutfton area at
present, either at ceiling or on black
market, because the grain is worth
more than money. The farmer who
has corn will not sell, and the fact
that corn is unobtainable has virtual
ly frozen all existing farm stocks of
wheat.
With livestock and poultry to feed,
no farmer can afford to sell either
corn or wheat, for he knows there is
no way to replenish his feeding sup
plies should they be exhausted.
Freezing of the two major farm
he
fusion presents an incongruous
picture in comparison with the
bumper crops produced last year.
Nationally, there was a tremend-
Gus 1916 volume of farm output, in
Guiding a 3,000,000,0 0,000-b -bushel corr
crop, billion -bushel wheat crop; the
second largest oat and soy bear
crops in history; the largest hay
| crop in 90 years, and the second
largest potato crop.
Plenty For All
Farmers studying Department Of
Agriculture figures insist there is &
plentiful supply of food to meet
this country's commitments II
starving nations and also feed The
United States 10 per cent better
than ever before.
However, they feel government
controls, directives and marke
manipulation have brought tn,
present impasse. In effect, refusals
to sell wheat or corn under existing
conditions represent a challenge tt
the government to make good it!
promise to lift all price control!
when any commodity is in ample
supply. They insist that condition
exists today with respect to grain
contrary to government procedure
otherwise.
| Their challenge also is represent
ed in the fact that livestock is no
moving to market in sufficient supply
to provide meat requirements fol-
this country alone, altho potential!
there is plenty available.
Farmers want and eventually car
force complete removal of price ant
food controls because they hold tn,
key to the situation in whether OF
not they see fit to put their product!
on the market under present cir
cumstances.