Finalists Named in Iowa Favorite Farmer's Daughter Contest
Three Iowa farm girls Tra cie Ammeter 20 of Central City Carolyn Doud 20 of Stuart and Connie Lehmeier 18 of New Providence were named finalists in the 19th annual Iowa's Favorite Farmer's Daughter Contest from ten semi finalists. The winner will be announced Sunday afternoon April 18 at 5 p.m. on a 30 minute television show on WMT.
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Iowa
Tracie
Richard Ammeter
Mt. Mercy College
Cedar Rapids
Carolyn
Wayne Doud
Stuart
Iowa State University
Ames
Connie
L. F. Lehmeier
Marshalltown Community College
WMT
Iowa Farm Auctions Frame Busy Weekend Schedule
Auctions Friday April 2 at 1 30 p m Hog sale A W Martin and Sons four miles five of Fayette. Saturday April 4 at 1 p m auction machinery house goods Everett Brown two hundred forty six miles west of Martelle. Auction at 12 machinery house goods Stace Corp Edge Cedar Rapids. Auction at 7 p m antiques house goods Kevin Nebergall Frank Sturdy seven miles south of Tipton Farm sale at 12 30 p m machinery house goods Verle McDowell one quarter mile southwest of Manchester. Close out sale pan machinery house goods Del Parker Walker.
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W. Martin and Sons
Fayette
Mach
Everett Brown
Martelle
Stace Corp
Eedge
Cedar Rapids
P.m. Antiques
Kevin Nebergall
Frank Sturdy
Tipton
Government Won't Solve Farm Problem Says Knnkwood Speaker
Nervous farmers heard Hiram Drache at Kirkwood Community College on a feedlot program about the limits of collective bargaining and the power of technology. He warned government can depress prices and noted only a fraction of farmers exploit tech fully while projecting rising farmer output through 2000. Drache, Concordia College history professor and North Dakota farmer, urged investments to cut costs and cited dramatic productivity gains since 1790.
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Knnkwood Community College
Hiram Drache
Kirkwood
Minnedota
Drache
America
Concordia College
Minnesota
North Dakota
Belgian mare gives birth to rare twin foals in New Wilmington
Three-week-old Belgian horses named for the bicentennial had their first outdoor experience with their mother Julia in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. The birth of twins to a Belgian mare is a rare biological event.
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George
Martha
Julia
New Wilmington
Hog Weigh-In Saturday for Washington Fair
Washington Iowa hosts hog weigh in and pig identification for the county fair. Entries open to adult swine producers in Washington and nearby counties with up to 10 pigs per farm unit. Pigs must be barrows under 60 pounds born after February and weighed between 9 30 a m and noon at Kalona and Washington fairgrounds.
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Washington
Iowa
Washington County
Jim Frier
Oscar Mayer
Kalona
Washington County Fairground
Washington County Pork Producers Assn
4-H
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