Farmer of the Week: Brands Grow Potatoes and Onions Near Maple Island
Herb Brand and son Herb Jr. run 215 acres near Maple Island in Minnesota’s peaty soil, focusing on potatoes and onions. They harvest 85,000 bushels of potatoes yearly, use a potato combine, and employ up to 12 migrant workers during peak season. The operation includes seed potatoes, a warehouse, and plans to expand while avoiding market controls.
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Herb Brand and Son
Hollandale
Minnesota
Red River Valley
Twin Cities
Brands
Maple Island
Hollandale Marketing Association
Irineo Ramos
San Juan
Tex
Brand
Herb
Farm Bureau
Southern Minnesota Vegetable Growers Association
Hollandale Labor Association
Herb Sr
Herb Jr
Mitchell Fair and IFYE Visits Highlight County 4-H
Mitchell County Fair was the August focus for 4-H clubs in Stacyville Osage and Mona Merry Makers. IFYE visitors Carlos Barretto Ramos of Brazil and Ana Mariea Monge of Costa Rica will visit farms near Riceville and Osage in September and October. Mitchell 4-H team placed third in state poultry judging at the Iowa State Fair. coaches included Goergen Barrick Rodemaker and Jensen.
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Osage
Iowa
Brazil
Mitchell County
Marion Smalley
Riceville
Carolos Barretto Ramos
Delaware County
Ramos
Smalley
IFYE
National 4-H Club Foundation
Cooperative Extension Service
State Department of the
United States
Ana Mariea Monge
Costa Rica
Central America
Lawrence Weinberger
Mitchell County Fair
Stacy Stars
Newbery Beavers
Mona Merry Makers
Linda Roberts
Colleen
Donna
Maryann Massey
Boone
Franklin
Mitchell
Elaine Blake
St. Ansgar
June Bissen
David Beland
Rosalie Pitzen
Stacyville
June
Elaine
David
Rosalie
Larry Goergen
Robert Barrick
Rolland Rodemaker
Don Jensen
National Barrow Show Opens With Returning Winners Competing
The National Barrow Show begins September 10 at the Mower County Fair grounds for a four day event. Former champions return to vie in three divisions carcasses and truckloads with judging contests for 4 H FFA and college teams opening at 9 a.m. and top sales set for 4 to 6 p.m. A banquet closes the first day with remarks by Rev. Charles H. Willey.
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Mower County Fairgrounds
FFA
Charles H. Willey
First Christian Church
Molinen
Soviet Union
Middle East
Europe
Bernard Ebbing
Rath Packing Co
Waterloo
Iowa
Hampshires
Jack Rodibaugh
Rennselaer
Ind
Chester
Chester White
Duroc
Carl Hirsch
Indianola
R. C. Hillier
Oklahoma State University
Harvey Richardson
Elmore City
Okla
Jones
Purdue
Berkshires
Beryl Keen
le Grand
William G. Zomlek
Iowa State University
Ames
Cow Testing Averages Named for Fillmore County Units
Fillmore County Dairy Herd Improvement Association released unit results for 1 3 and 5 with 599 627 and 598 cows tested. Unit 1 milk 944 BF 3.53 3.33 per cow high herd Brown Swiss owned by James and Murrell Jacobson Harmony tester Edgar Senn. Unit 3 milk 1101 BF 3.52 BF per cow 35.6 high Holsteins owned by Everett Junge Harmony tester Curtis Broadwater. Unit 5 milk 853 BF 3.59 BF per cow 30.7 high Holsteins owned by B J Witt Spring Valley tester Myron Henderson. Outstanding county averages led by Everett Junge Harmony and others. Saturday Aug 31 1963.
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Fillmore County
Everett Junge
Harmony
Curtis Broadwater
B. J. Witt
Spring Valley
Myron Henderson
High Herd and High Cow Awards From Fillmore Meet
The record lists top herds and cows from Fillmore No 3 with names B J Witt Spring Valley Fred Dennstedt Harmony and Vernon Scheevel Preston among high herd scores 36 to 37 points and high cow scores 73 to 82 points credited to Witt Dennstedt Nagel Scheevel and Miller Bros. Whalan among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. J. Witt
Spring Valley
Vernon Scheevel
Preston
Fred Dennstedt
Harmony
Wallace Grooters
Floyd Kuehnast
Lanesboro
Milo Nagel
Ostrander
Miller Bros
Whalan
Farm Calendar Highlights 4-H Meetings This Week
A schedule lists 4-H gatherings across communities. On Monday in Enterprise and Frankford at local centers plus Taopi Townhall, Tuesday features Pleasant View Liebenstein Hall Rangers Waltham 4-H groups, and Wednesday includes Woodbury Lyle K P Hall North Star William Show Home Windom Burr Oak Dexterous Monitor Ramsey Liebenstein among others.
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Woodbury
Lyle K. P. Hall
North Star
William Show
Windom
Burr Oak School
Skyline Club Manager Fined in First Emmet Liquor Case
Ben Franklin, manager of the Skyline Club in Estherville, was fined 25 dollars in justice of the peace court for allowing liquor to be sold after 1 am. This marked Emmet County’s first prosecution under the new state liquor law.
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Estherville
Ben Franklin
Skyline Club
Emmet County
End of Minnesota State Fair season marked by frost hints
Outsiders impressions of Austin praise the town as progressive and friendly despite the fair season winding down. Farmers gain tips on dairy, pigs, and maple potential with notes on Hollandale crops and Minnesota wild rice, plus salt use in pig diets and safety cautions.
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Austin
Minnesota
New York Mills
Taylor Wins Beef Carcass Part of Show
The Mower County Junior Beef Feeding project results were announced at the Geo A Hormel Co plant. Roger Weness of the Adams FFA won the overall contest with six Holstein steers that gained 2.40 pounds per day, at a feed cost of 11.5 cents per pound, earning about 51 dollars per head over 258 days. Mike Taylor of Blooming Prairie FFA placed second overall. In the carcass contest Hormel sponsored, Taylor won first, Richard Cummings Austin second, Vernon Wood Blooming Prairie third. Participants may enter 5-10 cattle of any breed and keep complete feed records. Cummings had eight Herefords, Smith five Angus-Hereford crosses, Taylor five Charolais and Hereford crosses, Weness six Holsteins, Wood eight Hereford heifers.
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Vernon Wood
Blooming Prairie Ffa
First National Bank of Austin
Roger Weness
Adams Future Farmers of America
FFA
Roger
Mike Taylor
Blooming Prairie Ffa Chapter
Hormel Company
Taylor
Richard Cummings
Austin
Cummings
Smith
Weness
Wood
Hog Prices Seen Peaking, Then Steady Decline Likely
Washington the agriculture department reports hog prices probably have passed their peak for the year Barrows and gilts at eight major markets averaged 18 44 in July up 14 cents from July 1962 Prices may ease as hog supplies rise with only a modest seasonal dip expected into year end with fall prices near last year’s levels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
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Herb Brand
Sahara
Stacy
Blake Sisters
Jane Renner
Jane and
Karen Blake
Judy Krebsbach
Marian Smith
Joyce Bissen
Newbury Beavers
Larry Hanson
Roger Frank
Lester Madsen
Justin Collier
Darwin Feldt
Karen Roberts
Donna Massey
Renk Research
Conrad Stemnson
Rt. 1
Austin, Minn
Earl Subra
RENK
S&h
Renk Seed CO
Sun Prairie, Wis
Robert Smith
Adams
Angus - Hereford
Barrow
Poland
China
Hampshire
Berkshire
Yorkshires
Oscar Anderson
Leland Jlr
Milo Wolrach
Mount Vernon
Owa
Robert Green
Ainsworth
Robert Gadd
Geo. A. Hormel & Co
Fort Dodge
Francis Callahan
Milford
Ill
Richard Wahlstrom
South Dakota State College
Cecelia Neville
Lafayette
Ten _ packer
Carroll Plager
Geo. A. Hormes & Co
Plager
L. F. Dumann
Oscar Mayer & Co
J. J. Mitchell
John Morrell & Co
F.B. Johnson
Cudahy Packing Co
Gordon Rhodes
Swift & Co
J. P. Riley
Armour & Co
Harold Stone
Austin (Minn
Herald
Fillmore
Ralph & Herb Gunder- Bon
Parogl
Oh Cekick Cae
Merlyn Ray & Sons
Sks
Porter Broadwater & Sons
Lowell & Everett
James
Murrell Jacobson
Juan Tammel
Louise Runge
Byron Rosheim
Bruce Williams & Sons
Mabel
David Sikkink
Fay
Robert Hagen
Mabel Eee
Louise Runge & , Sons
Norman Eiken
Canton
James & Murrell
Jaccobson
Ralph
Herb Gunderee
Mabel Ralph
Herb Gunderson
Porter Broadwater, & Sons
Fillmore No
Enterprise
Frankford
Taopi
Pleasant View
Liebenstein Hall
Rangers
Waltham
Waltham School
Ramsey
BY Darrel Koehler
Dodge
Freeborn
Steele
Mower
Labor Day
Massachusetts
Larry Reynen
Purdue University
Mower County
Cos
Hormel
Oakland
Minn
Hayfield
Rose Creek
Dexter, Minn
Wning
Powerite
Powerite Electric Motor Service
Tenth Street
Austin, Minnesota
Powerite Electric
10Th Street
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