Rural Iowa Manufacturing Plants Which Closed From 1965 to 1975

Manufacturing plants leave rural areas. About 4000 jobs were lost each year from 1965 to 1975 in rural areas of Iowa due to outmigration or failure of plants employing over 20 workers. Thus over 100 plants employ ing 40 workers needed to open each year in rural areas of Iowa just to maintain the volume of manufacturing employment

RESTORING PROFITABILITY TO AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Finance,

Mainstreeters Eye Farm Changes

Spending in rural towns in closely tied to the volume and value of farm output and net farm income. Merchants know that local spending changes as agriculture adjusts through farm consolidation and land retirement

Development of subsidiary sow-farrowing firms in Iowa

The pork industry has been modified by a series of innovations in production technologies and now may be modified by changes in the organizational form of ownership. Changes in technology have resulted in a movement of pork production from an uncontrolled to a controlled environment. Confinement structures are rapidly being adopted to house much of Iowa’s livestock, especially hogs.https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/specialreports/1079/thumbnail.jp

Can Payments-in-King Solve the Surplus Problem?

Does this approach offer a genuine opportunity both to reduce our surplus stocks and the cost of carrying them and also to adjust our farm production to improve farm prices and incomes? Let\u27s look more closely

Output Management for Agriculture?

Could agriculture learn to manage its output from some other industries? Some industries have experience in managing excess capacity. Agriculture might want to look at the alternative methods and their consequences

Storage and Supports Have Worked, But...

Storage and supports have worked, but what would have happened without them in the 1952-58 period? Farm p rices and incomes would have dropped, say these authors. Withholding grain did have the effect of raising prices and incomes in this period. But is it possible we\u27ve only borrowed this increase from the future