Dairymen defend milk pricing amid Porter critique
The Agriculture Council of America invites Sylvia Porter to discuss dairy pricing as leaders defend the federal order system. Dairymen and consumer groups consider joint talks to shape milk market order policies and respond to Porter's charges of consumer overcharges.
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Sylvia Porter
the Gazette
Dale Hendricks
Bloomfield
Agriculture Council of America
Hendricks
Eileen Gorman
National Consumers Congress
Mid-America Dairymen, Inc
Gorman
Mid- America Dairymen
Agriculture
Earl Butz
Porter
Dairy cooperatives clash with marketing orders debate
Dairymen defend superpools that move milk from low cost to high demand areas and argue prices stabilize. Critics say marketing orders floor prices and raise costs, while industry officials cite parity gaps and beer price comparisons to question milk pricing.
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Healy
Robert Strain
Iowa State University
Porter
Strain
Borden's
Kraft
Hendricks
Justice Department
the Gazette
Century Farm honors reach 4998 Iowa holdings for 1976
Iowa will award Century Farm designation to 4,998 farms that have been owned by the same family for 100 years by July 4, 1976. Qualifications include at least 80 original acres and a lineal family ownership. certificates will be distributed in 1976 with county programs presenting awards to qualifying owners.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Century
Adair
Adams
Allamakee
Appanoose
Audubon
Benton
Black Hawk
Boone
Bremer
Buchanan
Buena Vista
Butler
Calhoun
Carroll
Cass
Cedar
Cerro Gordo
Cherokee
Chickasaw
Clarke
Clay
Clayton
Clinton
Crawford
Dallas
Davis
Decatur
Delaware
Dickinson
Dubuque
Emmet
Fayette
Floyd
Franklin
Fremont
Greene
Grundy
Guthrie
Hamilton
Hancock
Hardin
Harrison
Henry
Howard
Humboldt
Ida
Jackson
Jasper
Jefferson
Johnson
Jones
Keokuk
Kossuth
Lee
Linn
Louisa
Lucas
Lyon
Madison
Mahaska
Marion
Marshall
Mills
Mitchell
Monona
Monroe
Montagomery
Muscatine
O'Brien
Osceola
Page
Palo Alto
Plymouth
Pocahontas
Polk
Pottawattamie
Poweshiek
Ringgold
Sac
Scott
Shelby
Sioux
Story
Tama
Taylor
Union
van Buren
Wapello
Warren
Washington
Wayne
Webster
Winnebago
Winneshiek
Woodbury
Worth
Wright
Garner urges $3 million boost for swine research
National Pork Producers Council urged Congress to earmark at least 3 million dollars in the USDA budget for swine research. Executive Vice-president Marvin Garner pressed for annually directed funds in specific pork production topics including reproductive health, diseases, and environmental controls, noting pork output exceeded eight billion dollars in 1975.
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Washington
National Pork Producers Council
U.S. Congress
United States Department of Agriculture
Joint “Agriculture
Committee On Appropriations
J. “Marvin Garner
Garner
USDA
Soviets Harvest Same Acreage Despite Weather Losses
Soviet farmers expect to harvest about the same winter grain acreage as in recent years despite February cold and drought. The Foreign Agricultural Service reports 89 million acres planted, with about 72 million acres remaining for harvest, and notes weather damage but no change to the earlier 1976 winter wheat forecast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Foreign Agricultural Service
Mobil 1 Engine Lubricant Promises Gas Savings
Mobil 1 is presented as a revolutionary synthetic engine lubricant that cuts oil consumption, reduces engine drag, and saves gas. Tests claim up to 25 percent less oil use and up to 910 extra miles per tank, with better high and low temperature performance and longer engine life.
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Mobil 1
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