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University Dally Kansan, November 4. 1982
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Huge reserves of grain depress wheat market
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD Staff Reporter
A bountiful harvest has left Kansas with more than a year's worth of wheat in storage, and has driven grain prices to rock bottom, a Douglas County extension agent said yesterday.
Earl Van Meter, the agent, said that farmers face an almost desperate situation.
"Farmers can't make any money," he said. "We've either got to get exports rolling pretty quick or cut production."
VAN METER SAID that before farmers could afford to cut production, a program in which the government would pay farmers for not planting would have to be approved.
If such a program is not adopted, the wheat carry-over will continue tc grow and prices will stay low, he said.
Robert Vossen, crop statistician for the Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service, said the wheat carry-over as of Oct. 1 was about 520 million bushels, which was 100 million bushels more than the carry-over at the same time last year.
VOSSEN SAID THE wheat crop was exceptionally large, but was still not as large as the wheat carry-over, only totalling about 460 tons of grain. But it was extremely unusual for the carry-over to exceed the harvest.
David Fry, president of the Kansas Wheat Commission, said that when wheat production was up, the prices came down.
"What we've got is a dynamic situation," he said. "If you have large crops, you've got to have large sales. We've got a very depressed
market in wheat right now. The price in 1948 wasn't very far off what some farmers are getting this year."
FRY SAY the wheat prices in 1948 were about $$ a bushel. Tuesday, in Colby, wheat was selling for $3.00 a bushel, he said.
Wheat, like any commodity, sells on a supply and demand basis, he said.
BUT EXPORTS have not kept up with production. Fry said.
in ramsas wheat prices are low," he said. "But with the strength of the dollar most developing countries will invest in ramsas for wheat than they did last year."
He said Mexico was a good example, because the value of the peso has decreased much more than the dollar in wheat prices since last year.
AN OFFER BY by President Reagan to sell up to 23 million metric tons of wheat to the Soviet Union, Mr. Reagan said he much relief to the market. Frv said.
"The offer stated that the Russians had to buy the wheat by Nov. 30." he said. "You don't usually dictate terms to a friendly buyer."
He also said that the Soviets could handle only 46 million metric tons of imported wheat this year, and that they would have to import even other countries for much of that.
VAN METER SAID the price of wheat would not find immediate relief, but it could not get much worse.
"Prices can't go anywhere but up," he said. "But if I had grain, I would just sell it and take my money. I couldn't afford the storage costs."
By STEVE CUSICK Staff Reporter
Workers tally election early
It was quick, but it wasn't easy.
The vote totals came like machine-gun fire after the first abstract arrived at the Douglas County Courthouse about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Forty-five precincts later, at 10:10 p.m., the ritual was complete — the election workers had ended another election in what may have been record time.
Every election year, whether midterm or presidential, the courthouse becomes the place to be for reporters and candidates who want to get the paw first.
AT TIMES TUESDAY night, more than 100 people packed the courthouse to watch workers write the latest totals for the day. The staff calls as "Slattery 289, Kav 154."
The election workers, comprised of workers in the county clerk's office and people who shed their regular titles for one night to become election helpers,
Delbert Mathia, an election night veteran and former county clerk, said
were prepared to stay late, but they got to go home early.
"It was smooth, yes, very good," said Mathia, who worked his first election night in the 1940s.
She said that much of the credit goes to the poll workers, who must count the votes and put the totals on an abstract form submitting the results to the court.
PATTY JAIMES, county clerk, said of the early finish, "I bet this is a record achievement."
There are 46 precincts in Douglas County and each pelling place submits an abstract to the courthouse after the polls close at 7 a.m. James said.
AFTER THE results hit the courthouse, they are read aloud and written on a chalkboard for the press and public to see.
Although the time was short, the pace was fast Tuesday night.
Carol Nulfer, one of those reading the totals said. "I couldn't believe it. It was
terrible for a while, they came in so fast."
But she enjoys the work.
"It is fun, it is exciting, it just really gets you going," she said.
It's that element of excitement and a sense of itty bits that hurries Barbara Coppie to the bottom of the room.
"This is where it's at," said Cople, who has been working election nights since the mid-1960s.
COPPLE IS A legal secretary — except on election night — and she said she sees her fellow election workers two or three times a year.
In 1980, all the totals weren't in until about 2 a.m., but that wasn't the longest evening she has spent in the courthouse on election night, she said.
She went home as the sun came up, in 1968, she said.
"I met my husband going to work." The 65-year-old Mathia said the separate elections blend into one another with the passage of time, obscuring the finer points of this or that election.
The Douglas County courthouse was a hectic place Tuesday evening, as people gathered to watch local election results being posted.
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