Farmer of the Week Charolais Cattle Thrive Here
James A. Taylor of Blooming Prairie since 1960 raises Charolais cattle a French breed gaining popularity nationwide. He expanded farming to 220 acres with oats wheat soybeans corn alfalfa hay plus hog production and a 100 head hog house with concrete slat floors. He and his wife Jane have four children and belong to several agricultural associations while optimistic about agriculture’s future with limited government intervention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Taylor
Corning
Taylor
Yorkshire
Hampshire
Farrow
Jane
Mike
Blooming Prairie Future Farmers of America
Barbara
Nancy
Sara
Blooming Prairie School
Mem
Mitchell County 4-H Clubs Report on November Meets
Mitchell County 4-H clubs gathered in November with groups including Mona Merrymakers Union Happy Hunters St Ansgar Sailors Otranto Jerseies Mitchell Trailblazers and Newburg Beavers. Officers were elected across clubs and plans for a Christmas party camera fund drive and gift exchanges were announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Ansgar
Iowa
Mitchell County
Mona Merrymakers
Union Happy Hunters
St. Ansgar Sailors
Otranto Jerseies
Mitchell Trailblazers
Newburg Beavers
Mary Nelson
Karen Roberts
Patty Nelson
Linda Johnson
Linda Roberts
Nancy Roberts
Susan Meyer
Union
Happy Hunters
LaDonna Patterson
Riceville Adult Farmer Class Opens Activities for Year
The Riceville adult farmers school met in the junior high agriculture building with topics including radication wills and estates farm safety and more. Planning committees were formed for a bowling party and yearlong activities while other clubs held meetings with officers elected and Christmas events scheduled.
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Riceville
Iowa
Riceville Adult Farmers School
Sig Bjerken
Minnesota
Glen Dillon
Blooming Prairie Youth Wins Outstanding Farm Boy Honor
Jerry Becker 19 of Blooming Prairie was chosen as Outstanding Farm Boy at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago after a field of five finalists. Becker, a Blooming Prairie FFA member and 4-H star, has farm plans with his father following college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blooming Prairie
Jerry Becker
Clinton Becker
Chicago
Austin Junior Chamber of Commerce
Becker
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Blooming Prairie Ffa
FFA
Salute to Youth Sandra Bergene
Sandra Bergene age 16 of Adams is a longtime Lucky Clovers Club member and junior leader. She has served as secretary and president of the club and county reporter in 4 H, with projects in health clothing food preparation and junior leadership. Her top 4 H feat was winning a radio speaking contest and she has traveled to the Minnesota State Fair three times and attended the state 4 H camp. She is active in church and school activities and hopes to attend college at Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandra Bergene
Virgil Bergene
Adams
Lucky Clovers Club
Sandra
Minnesota
Adams High School
Wallowa
Farm Calendar Highlights Local 4 H Events This Week
A series of 4 H meetings and poultry dairy contest are listed this week across LeRoy LeRoy High School Liebenstein Hall Hayfield High Dexerous Monitor School and Woodland Liebenstein. The schedule includes a Tuesday Woodson 4 H event and a Wednesday Round-the-Town club meeting with district poultry dairy products contest in Hayfield High.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Council
Nelson’s Grill
LeRoy
LeRoy High School
Sargeant
Sargeant School
Liebenstein Hall
Woodson
Hayfield High School
Membership Drive Report At Waltham Unit
The Waltham Sargeant Farm Bureau unit met at the Waltham School. Dottie Donahue reported 42 paid memberships with six new members turned in to Austin. Waltham showed 34 paid memberships with two new members. Ray Bartel announced an appreciation night for county membership workers at Brownsdale School on December 9. Walter Christian led games and an oyster stew supper was served.
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Sargeant, Minn
Waltham Sargeant Farm Bureau
Waltham School
Dottie Donahue
Austin
Waltham
Ray Bartel
Brownsdale
Walter Christian
Wool Marketing Year Ends Dec 31 With Change
Wool growers should keep detailed sales records for the wool incentive program. Lamb payments require unshorn lambs and proof of ownership for at least 30 days, with payments based on weight gain. Filing applications with the ASCS county office is advised, with final 1963 payment window opening after fall sales and a January 31 deadline for 1963 marketing year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker Goodsell
Mower Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee
Goodsell
ASCS
Kent Bergene Joins Holstein Association
Adams Minnesota report notes Kent Bergene, eldest son of Virgil and Mrs Bergene, accepted as a junior member of the Holstein Friesian Association of America Brattleboro Vermont. Junior members must be under 21, have one year of 4-H or vocational dairy project work, and own at least one registered Holstein. Since 1923 more than 36 000 youths have joined the program.
Waltham 4-H Club Initiates Members at Party
The Waltham Winner's 4-H club held a Tuesday initiation at Waltham School with many new members listed. A Christmas party followed with gifts exchanged and carols, while Robert Schlichting reported on achievement night. Demonstrations were given by Gene Christians Craig Folven and Clinton Becker. Next meeting is January 7 at the Waltham School.
Farmers Must List Employes Earnings
Farm employers report the wages of their employes once a year per Miss Leonora F Hise district manager of Social Security in Austin The farmer must report wages for anyone who worked 20 or more days or earned 150 or more in the year The report is due in January for the preceding year For Social Security information contact the Austin district office at 308 2nd St NW hours 830 am to 430 pm daily except Saturdays and holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonora F. Hise
Austin
2Nd St. NW
Rusk and Freeman to Address GTA Farmers Union Meet
More than 650 Northwest farm communities will be represented by delegates and cooperative leaders at the 26th annual Farmers Union GTA meeting in St Paul from Monday to Wednesday. Secretary of State Dean Rusk is expected Tuesday night and Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman will speak Tuesday afternoon, as lawmakers and governors from the Dakotas, Montana, and Minnesota attend. The gathering will discuss wheat price trends for 1964 and GTA’s ongoing growth including processing facilities expansion.
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Northwest
St. Paul
Farmers Union
GTA
M. W. Thatcher
Thatcher
Dean Rusk
Dakotas
Montana
Minnesota
Orville Freeman
Cattle and Hog Slaughter Rise in Early 1963 Ten Months
Minnesota commercial slaughter from January through October reports 1,199,000 cattle and 4,769,000 hogs, with calf and sheep totals also up or down versus 1962. October figures show cattle at 141,000 head and hogs at 542,000, with mix of weight data and monthly comparisons. Commercial red meat output across 48 states reached 2,783 million pounds, up from a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Minnesota and
U.S. Departments of Agriculture
4-H Members Demonstrate Projects at Moscow Club
4 H members Gary Kearns and Craig Ruble showcased an electrical and a shop project during a Moscow 4 H club meeting Monday night. Hosts Mrs Richard Bergstrom and Mrs Clarence King organized the Christmas pot luck luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary Kearns
Craig Ruble
Moscow
Beef tour highlights Mower County farms and 4-H events
Beef feeders toured Harvey Fijerstad Gale Leek James Taylor and Martin Bustad farms. Torgeron Brothers won grand Shorthorn honors at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. Future Farmers of America district 15 16 will compete at Hayfield High School. Two 4-H youths won college scholarships at the 1963 4-H Club Congress in Chicago.
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Harvey Fijerstad
Gale Leek
James Taylor
Martin Bustad
Bob Ja
Torgerson Brothers
Austin
International Amphitheatre
Chicago
Future Farmers of America
Hayfield High School
Minnesota
Terry Lorch
Rochester
Lance Sorensen
Welch
Purebred Lamb Win At Suffolk Sale Judging
Jerry Bergstrom of Oakland won a suffolk ewe lamb donated by Earl Subra of Austin at Crane Pavilion last Saturday. In Group I Bruce Baker of Walnut Grove was second and Jim Bergstrom third. In Group II Lynn Sabre of Adams first, Dave Morse of Austin Route 2 second, Gerald Denison of Austin Route 2 third. Over 60 head of Suffolk ewes from top seven flocks sold with cash awards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Bergstrom
Oakland
Earl Subra
Austin
Crane Pavilion
Bruce Baker
Walnut Grove
Jim Berg
Also Mentioned on This Page
Charolais
France
Nevers
North
South America
Jean Pugibet
Mexico
United States
Canada
S. D
Spring Mountain Ranch
Texas
Woodland
Minnesota Charolais Association
American International Charolais Association
Production Registry International
DHIA
Farm
Westminster Presbysterian Church
James Taylor OF
Pamela Johnson
Linda Jaspers
Mary Johnson
Linda Clausen
Linda Leecher
Kathy Hannam
Marcia Jaspers
David
Danny
Tom Warrington
Larry Kleckner
Tom Duenow
Mark Kleckner
George Lambaere
Ray Rhoades
Donald Hansen
Doug Kleckner
David Warrington
Otranto Jersettes
Tidemanson
Virginia Markham
Beth Markham
Dixie Wenger
Judy Koster
Carol Braum
Karen Gomez
Toni Gomez
Susan Braun
Debra Gomez
Mario Koster
Valerie Salton
Raymond Carlson
Carol Braun
Bruce Gast
Keith Halvorson
Bill Schmidt
Tom Rogers
Marc Shuster
Alan Lund
Newbury Beavers
Justin Collier
Andy Hartwig
Gene Steinberg
Randy Rosenberg
Roger Frank
Newbury Beaverettes
IFYE
Lester Madsen
Curtis Feldt
Mower County
District 14
Hampshires
Homemaker of America
Luther League
Little Cedar Church
Girls Athletic Association
Monitor
Ering Marketings
Kent Bergene
Holstein Association
Larly
Kennedy
Washington
Rusk
BY Darrel Koehler
4-H
Cobs
Don Hasbargen
Ron Seath
Twin Cities
4-H’ers
Ron
Vance Torgerson
Lynn Sabre
Mower County Fairgrounds
Waseca
Jim Kellogg
Mel Schneider
Allen Prescott
University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment — Station
Red River Valley
North Dakota
Hormel Pig
Hormel
Worner
S. W. Stephenson Elevator
Dexter
Siltz Grain & Coal
London, Minn
Toeterville
Coop Elevator
Lowa
Delcorae
Electric Motor Service
Tenth Street
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