Montana farmer-stockman. [volume], November 15, 1949, Page 3, Image 3

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Crystal Gamers
See Good Year
WASHINGTON, D. C.— U. S. de
partment of agriculture crystal ball
gazers—those men who work with
charts and figures in an attempt to
see what the future w T ill bring and
call themselves economists—expect
another comparatively good year
ahead for the nation's farmers.
They foresee demand for farm
products continuing at a high
level through 1950, but they also
predict that the present record
level of production will result
in a further reduction in prices
received for farm products.
The result wall be a decline in the
net income to farmers. Because the
economists also believe that the
prices farmers pay for goods and
services used in production will de
cline less than the prices they re
ceive.
In other words, the old squeeze—
farmers will take in less money,
but put out more.
Farm price adjustments from post
war inflation are expected to con
tinue unless interrupted by unusual
or abnormal developments such as
crops
tional developments—a polite phrase
for war.
The economists point out there al
ready have bee|i two sharp price
adjustments—so :iar as the farmer is
concerned—the first early in 1948
and the second in the spring of 1949.
Further downward adjustments
probably will continue for some
products through the next two
years.
And while prices that farmers
pay for goods and services have
turned downward, this trend has
been less great than the decline in
production costs.
Production costs, the economists
say, seem to adjust more lowly than
the declines in prices of farm prod
ucts. The economic thermometer
appears to strike farm prices first.
AS EXPERTS SEE IT
Here is the way the USDA ex
perts size up the 1950 agricul
tural outlook for some of the
major agricultural commodities:
Wheat —Thex-e is a possibility that
the 1950 wheat crop may be equal
in size to this year's record even
though farmers plant a smaller
acreage.
If farmers plant about 75,000,000
acres under government allotments,
yields will only have to come up to
the 15 bushels per acre average of
recent years to bring 1950 produc
tion to this year's level. Yields for
1949 were below the average.
Dairy products —Prices for dairy
products in 1950 will be somewhat
below levels of this year unless gov
ernment purchases are increased.
Domestic supplies will be greater
while demand in total probably will
be down.
Poultry and Eggs — Although
farmers are expected to raise some
what fewer chickens and turkeys in
1950 than the very large numbers
produced this year, production will
continue at levels not much differ
ent from the average of recent years.
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