December Inventory Shows 3 Percent More Pigs in Minnesota
Minnesota farm hogs and pigs on December 1 1966 totaled 2 942 000 a 3 percent rise from 1965 while the September November pig crop reached 1 009 000 pigs up 3 percent. U S fall crop totaled 2 296 000 pigs up 7 percent from 1965. Farrowing plans for 1967 spring show 402 000 sows up 3 percent from 1966 with December February farrowings near 5 percent above last year.
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Minnesota
U.S
United States
Excellent Year for Soil Conservation in Mower County
The Mower County Soil Conservation District reports 1966 was a peak year for soil conservation with terraces ponds and erosion control projects. New cooperators bring total to 616 covering 125 367 acres while tiling and ditching remain dominant due to heavy rainfall.
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Mower County Soil Conservation District
SCD
LCD
Edward Darmody
Racine
Haag Bros
Elkton
Ag Officials Predict Higher Corn Acreage Next Year
U S agriculture officials see farmers planting more corn than the 7 percent rise shown in a late 1960s survey across 25 states. They estimate feed grain plantings may rise 15 to 18 million acres above this year’s 95 million, with a signup education push planned for February and March. Soybeans also show a 4.5 million acre rise anticipated, though officials note no effort to shift land to soybean acreage.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Farm Calendar Highlights Local 4-H and Farm Bureau Events
The calendar lists weekly 4-H club meetings at Brownsdale Enterprise Hall Grand Mead School and other sites. It notes Ward counties including Brownsdale Wards with Tom Hasbargen and Don Hasbargen, plus Farm Bureau gatherings at Blooming Prairie and Clayton with dinners and potlucks scheduled across multiple days.
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Ramsey
Liebenstein Hall
Don Hasbargen
Adolpho Farm Bureau
Blooming Prairie Community Hall
Clayton Farm Bureau
John Munsor
Austin Windom Farm Bureau
Copper Kettle
Lyle
1966 Farming Year Review and 1967 Outlook
Farmers recall 1966 as an excellent crop year with higher livestock dairy and grain prices despite a slow spring. Prospects for 1967 show possible price weakening in livestock but good crop prices. a good year ahead with help from Mother Nature. Also notes planned new county fair judging barn and various county ag programs and events.
New Trends Noted in Dairy Farming
University of Minnesota economists S A Eugene and J V Brambenek say Minnesota dairy farming is consolidating. More cows per farm. Fewer farms with larger herds. Production per cow rising and concentrating in central and southeastern counties.
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Minnesota
University of Minnesota
S. A. Eugene
J. V. Brambenek
Hog cholera cases rise in Minnesota 1966 11 months
Hog cholera cases in Minnesota climbed to 38 in the first eleven months of 1966 after a four year decline to 27 in 1965. Extension veterinarian Dr. Raymond B Solac notes the increase delays entering Phase III of the national eradication program until at least January 1968.
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Minnesota
Raymond B. Solac
University of Minnesota
Brown County
Dodge
Sibley
Lincoln
Nicollet
Renville
Rice
Rock
Becker
Grant
Fillmore
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lyon
Martin
Meeker
Murray
Pipestone
Pope
Red Lake
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Canada
Lodi 4-H Club Holds Christmas Meeting With Santa Visit
The Lodi 4-H group met for a December Christmas party with Santa delivering apples and popcorn. Members discussed fund raising, held a potluck lunch, and welcomed new members Steven Greibrok Becky Lunde and Mark Petersen. The Junior Leaders plan a practice parliamentary procedure session.
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Santa Claus
Moscow 4-H Club
Steven Greibrok
Becky Lunde
Mark Petersen
Compass Termites Build Tall Slablike Nest in Australia
Zoologists report compass termites construct an 8 to 12 foot high slablike nest with narrow ends facing south and north. They orient facings east and west to maximize sunlight for drying their sand masonry.
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Australia
County Beef Tour Planned At Multiple Farms
The Mower County Beef Tour begins 9 30 a m Friday at the Dean Hamlin farm north of LeRoy with three other farms on the itinerary. The group returns to Lieb EINstein Hall for a noon lunch served by the Austin Chamber of Commerce agriculture committee. Robert Jacobs of the University of Minnesota extension animal husbandman speaks in the afternoon on beef feeding.
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Mower County
Dean Hamlin
LeRoy
Liebenstein Hall
Austin Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Committee
Robert Jacobs
University of Minnesota Extension
Salute to Youth Beef Star Olsen Reaches 4-H Heights
Arlie Olsen, 15, Blooming Prairie, member of Waltham Winners 4-H for four years and Junior Leader for two, held offices as vice president and president. He is vice president of Mower County Leaders Council, excels in beef cattle, shop, tractors, and leadership, and has earned grand champion beef heifer and top county contest placements. Olsen plans college after high school, aims to farm Polled Hereford cattle, and already owns six purebred Herefords with 24 steers on feed.
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Arlie Olsen
Olsen
Christy J. Olsen
Blooming Prairie
Waltham Winners
Waltham Club
Mower County Leaders Council
Mower County
St. Paul
Community Methodist Church
The
Methodist Youth Fellowship
FFA General Livestock Judg
Ing
Mabel - Canton
Freeborn County Holstein Assn to Hold Meeting
The Freeborn County Holstein Breeders Assn. meets at 10 30 a m Friday at the Kenneth Peterson farm three miles northwest of Albert Lea. George Buendorf president and Howard Hansen will demo the new descriptive type classification for the Holstein breed. Breeding feeding and management of the Peterson herd will be discussed. After the barn meeting the group will go to Skyline Cafe for a dutch lunch and annual meeting.
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Albert Lea
Minn
Freeborn County
Holstein Breeders Assn
Kenneth Peterson
George Buendorf
Howard Hansen
Peterson
Skyline Cafe
Importance of Agriculture Highlighted in Minnesota booklet
The University of Minnesota Institute of Agriculture released a booklet Facts About Minnesota Agriculture. It notes 504,000 people lived on farms in 1965, 13 percent of the population, with farming and related industries employing large portions of Minnesota’s workforce and contributing significant personal income.
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Minnesota
Institute of Agriculture, University of Minnesota
Busi
California's first layman wine grower plants 1783 yard
Governor Pedro Fages is recorded as California's first layman wine grower, planting a vineyard alongside his Monterey orchards in 1783.
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California
Pedro Fages
Monterey
Price support loans on 1966 crops show declines in several grains
USDA reports substantially fewer oats rye and wheat under price support loan in 1966 than 1965 with totals on Oct 31 at 90 078 ASCS. Soybeans dry beans and rice loans rose. Local ASC chair Henry Lauser notes November 30 loaned crops and stresses stabilizing effect of the program amid reduced market burdens.
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U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
ASCS
Henry Lauser
Mower Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
ASC
Army ants clear homes of unwanted insects study says
Encyclopaedia Britannica notes that army ants in the American tropics are highly efficient exterminators. A line of ants leaving a house is associated with the space becoming free from unwelcome insects.
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American Tropics
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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