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BY WALTER RUCKER County Agent
THE $l3O BILLION FOOD
ASSFMRLY LINE
Every year, about 1,500 po
unds of food per person roll
off the nation’s biggest assem
bly line the one that spans
from farmer to consumer. Its
total goods and service s are
valued at $l3O billion.
The assembly line runs
through processors, wholesa
lers, restaurants and super
markets. Its out turn includes
meat, poultry, seafood, vege
tables, fruit, cereals and dairy
products.
About 1.3 billion acres of
land, and the 4.3 million people
who work it, supply the raw
products.
In a single year, farmers and
ranchers furnish the assembly
line about 11 million sheep and
lambs . .. . 39 million beef
cattle and calves ... 94 mi
llion hogs . . . 120 million
turkeys ... 3 billion broil
ers ... 72 billion eggs . . .
and 115 billion pounds of milk.
In all, the nation’s farmers
market over SSO billion worth
of agricultural goods annually.
Some $35 billion is food pro
ducts for U.S. consumers. More
than $4 billion is shipped to
consumers overseas.
Behind this outpouringoffood
products stand some 3.3 mil
lion farm people and 1 mill
ion hired workers. Add to this
about 2 million other people
who work in industries that sup
ply goods and services to far
mers.
Farmers invest more than
S4O billion annually in mach
ines, fertilizers, chemicals,
animal feeds, petroleum pro
ducts, interest on loans, labor
and a host of other goods and
services.
These goods and services,
as well as better farming me
thods, new plant varieties and
improved livestock and poultry
breeds, have accelerated farm
production. Today, each farm
worker produces enough for
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Cruise control Rear Window
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A
nearly 50 people, compar'..
with about 28 just 10 years ago.
About 1 million firms that
grade, store, process, manuf
acture, package and distribute
foods await the farmers’ raw
products. Services provided by
this marketing system ulti
mately make up $2 of every $3
consumers spent for food.
First stop along the assembly
line is often a country grain el
evator, cold storage warehouse
or a stockyard. These business
es number about 10,000.
Most foods then travel th
rough one or more of the 23,000
food processing plants located
across the country. These firms
employ around 1.5 million peo
ple. Food processors, like far
mers, have become incre
asingly efficient.
Food brokers, wholesalers,
food stores and other buyers
transfer food products on to the
next point in the assembly line.
A massive network of farm-to
market roads, highways, rail
roads, waterways and air car
riers link the various stops
enroute to consumers.
At the end of the $l3O bi
llion food assembly line are ap
proximately 300,000 retail food
stores staffed by nearly 1.75
million employees. Large, mo
dern supermarkets stock hun
dreds of new products ev
ery year, and discontinue ot
hers when consumer appeal
wanes. Typical supermarkets
offer consumers nearly 8,000
items.
The assembly line also ends
at more than half a million
restaurants and other away
from-home eating places.
These are operated by some 3
million workers.
One in seven workers
including farmers, waiters,
processors, truckers and gro
cery clerks -- makes his living
on the food assembly line. With
13 millio n employees, the food
assembly line is the nation’s
biggest business,accountingfor
more than one-tenth of the total
value of goods and services
produced in the United States.
STORAGE STRUCTURE AND
DRYING EQUIPMENT LOAN
PROGRAM
TYPE LOANS AVAILABLE:
For erection of storage struc
ture, either bins or building
that will safely store grain or
similar commodities. The
equipment needed to handle or
condition the commodity can
be added in the cost of the
structure. Equipment may be
defined as perforated floors,
dryer units, transition assem
blies, ladders, augers andother
equipment. Dryers may be a
separate unit or included with
the loan for the storage struc
ture. bryers could be used for
corn or soybeans.
SECURITY REQUIRED: Wh
ere the loan is less than SIO,OOO
the producer will execute a
promissory note and chattel
mortgage and a financing st
atement. If there is a mort
gage on the land where the
facility will be located, a con
sent and subordination agree
ment is required.
If the loan is SIO,OOO or
more a mortgage on the faci
lity and a portion of the real
estate where the structure is
situated will be required, and
District Supervisors of the
Upper Chattahoochee River Soil
and Water Conservation Dist
rict held their August meeting
in Forsyth County Friday Aug.
18, 1972.
In addition to their business
meeting the group toured fields
of no-till corn of Roy Holtz
claw.
Ben Overstreet chairman of
the board showed the group
some of his corn that was mini
mum tillage. The corn patches
of Holtzclaw and Overstreet
showed no signs of dry weather
since planting date.
The corn of Holtzclaw was
planted in a sod of eight year
old alfalfa and fescue. Over
street planted his corn in a
two year old weed patch. Over
street is expecting to obtain a
yield of approximately 140 bu
shels per acre. In other
words one can plant his corn
QUALITY USED CARS AND TRUCKS
OUR GOAL— To sell cars and trucks that won’t I
come back to customers who will.
We have our own full time mechanic, Mr. Marvin “Red”
Barret, who repairs any mechanical troubles and road
tests each car before it is released to the customer.
“Red” is also available to the public for tune-ups and
minor mechanical repairs. He has had 40 years of
experience as a mechanic.
ACROSS FROM GUMMING WATER WORKS
a financing statement.
PERIOD OF LOAN: The loan
is repayable in four equal in
stallments over a five year per
iod. The first installment will
become due 12 months from
the disbursement date of the
loan. Payments on the loan can
be deferred for a short time or
extended for a year at a time
due to certain conditions or cir
cumstances.
RATE OF INTEREST: 46
cents per SIOO or fraction th
ereof for each calendar month
or fraction. Interest is always
calculated on the outstanding
balance. (Equal to 5.52
per cent).
AMOUNT OF LOAN: 85 per
cent of the net cost subject to
maximum outstanding balance
of $35,000.
APPROVAL OF LOANS: Co
unty ASC Committees for loans
less than $10,000; State ASC
Committee for loans of SIO,OOO
or more.
WHERE TO OBTAIN LOAN:
County ASCS Office where farm
records maintained.
ELIGIBLE BORROWER: Any
person who as landowner, land
lord, tenant or sharecropper
producers one ormorecommo
SCS News
By J.T. Coots
in a sodded field and expect to
make over 100 bushels per acre
and never put a plow in the
field.
H.L. Meyer west of Cum
in ing has a dam under constr
uction that will impound app
roximately one acre of water.
Meyer will use the lake for
fishing and recreational pur
poses. Barnes Construction Co
mpany is the contractor. Local
Soil Consrvation Service tec
hnicians are assisting Meyer
with the engineering.
This is to remind you that
T. Kenneth Orr will receive
your blueberry order through
Aug. 31, 1972. The Upper Ch
attahoochee River Soil and Wa
ter Conservation District is sp
onsoring the North Georgia Bl
ueberry Growers Association
plant orders as well as your
local association of blueberry
growers.
1969 CHEV. IMPALA -4 Dr. Air
Cond. P. steering, P. brakes -
NEW REBUILT ENGINE £1.195.
1969 CAMARO Z-28
NICE $1695.
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
HIGHWAY 19 MOTORS
i ASCS News
By Edsel Martin
dlty eligible for loan. Commo
dities are corn, oats, barley,
grain sorghum, wheat, rye, soy
beans and peanuts. Corn, grain
sorghum, barley and wheat must
To The Voters of Forsyth County
I am Herman L. Hamby seeking to be elected to serve as Post 4 Commissioner. I would like
to thank each of you for giving me the highest vote countywide for this board. I would also like
to thank the fine gentlemen who were in this race with me for a good clean race and I ask your
support in this run-off and if elected your advice. I am sure all the voters in Forsyth County are
interested in electing the man most able to fill this position and do the job as it needs to be done,
I guess like all of us you did not know each person running in other districts, as well as you wo
uld like to . I believe we have something now you can depend on. lam going to pass on to you
something that was given to me by the people of my and my opponent’s district which is district
4. My opponent and myself have lived all our lives within one half mile of each other in district
4. In the race that was just completed, district 4 cast 312 votes for me and 177 for my oppnent al
most 2 to 1 for me. From the people that knows each one of our abilities best. I feel this is more
than I could tell you about my opponent or myself. I believe you would be doing yourselves and
your county a favor to consider this I humbly and with humility thank the voters in district 4
for this vote of reccome'ndation and all Forsyth County voters for the highest vote. I would
say again I am independent in this race no obligation except to you as a citizen of Forsyth Co
unty.
Please go out and vote Aug. 29th.
Thank you very much.
Herman L. Hamby for District 4 Commissioner
Thank you very much,
HERMAN L. HAMBY
for DISTRICT 4 COMMISSIONER
be produced on farm participat
ing In set-aside program.
For additional informati
on; Contact local county ASCS
office.
1970 MONTE CARLO
LOADED - Beautiful Green
- ONLY 23,000 miles
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1969 MC MIDGET -NEW Tires, j
Radio, Heater, A-1 CONDITION,
ONLY 31,000 Miles *IOSO.
GEORGE DANIEL
THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-THURSDAY AUGUST 24, 1972-
ELECT
Larry D. Watson
FORSYTH COUNTY COMMISSION POST 5
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