Marion Progress

RESTRICTION LIFTED
ON FEED SHIPMENTS

North Carolina livestock and poultry feeders and feed processors should be able to obtain larger supplies of soybean meal from western producing areas as a result of revocation of shipment restrictions by the War Food Administration, according to H. A. Patten, State AAA Executive Assistant.

The shipment restrictions were embodied in Oilseed Orders 4 and 5 which were issued last winter and which provided that no soybean oil meal could be sold for shipment from the Corn Belt into designated areas without specific authorization of the Commodity Credit Corporation. This order, however, did not affect movement of soybean meal produced in processing plants located within these areas. North Carolina was included in the are of the Southeastern states. The orders were issued in order to make more meal produced in the Corn Belt available in that area and in the Pacific Northwest during the heavy feeding season, and to facilitate the use of soybean meal produced in eastern and southern mills in markets near these mills.

"Many of the mills in this area soon will complete crushing of soybeans for the season, and it will be necessary for western mills to distribute their meal over wider areas" Patten said. "While feeder demand is seasonally smaller now than during the winter months, many North Carolina feeders are in urgent need of supplies."

It is expected that only a small quantity of western soybean meal will be carried over into the 1943-44 season. Patten declared, and this situation emphasizes the need for maximum production of soybeans this year.