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A 16% drop from last year in frozen stocks as of March 1 indicates more demand from that area, reversing the situation of last year when heavy stocks helped depress prices.
PEACHES The peach crop this year faces the best conditions since 1945, and the second best in about 35 yea is. However/"the bloom is 2 to -4 weeks later than usual in the nine major southern states, and Virginia has the latest bloom in a quarter of a century.
Farm Housing Loan
Program Expanded
An expanded farm housing loan program designed to speed up farm building construction and improvement as well as act as an additional anti-recession measure was announced today by Howard W. Hawks, Farmers Home Administration county supervisor. . ■ . Now an owner of a farm m l agricultural production and on which the operation plans to produce at least $400 worth of farm commodities for sale or home use
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