Big River Barrow Show crowns top champions
Prairie Du Chien reports Orville Bak kum of Waukon Iowa as overall champion in the eighth annual Big River Barrow Show. David Straka of Waureka Wisconsin placed second overall with a 230 pound barrow that posted a 60.7 percent muscling score. Duha Farm Eastman Wisconsin captured the rate of gain title at 2.237 pounds per day. Roger Champlin Ferryville Wisconsin showed the live champion.
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Prairie DU Chien
Iowa
Orville Bakkum
Waukon
Big River
Wisconsin
David Straka
Waureka
Strakan
Duha Farm
Eastman
Wis
Roger Champlin
Ferryville
Soil tests rise in Iowa three-year span
Ames reports soil testing up about 60 percent with 3.2 million samples last year versus 2 million three years ago per ISU extension agronomist Regis Voss. Des Moines notes three Eastern Iowans won youth program honors. Luann Timm Marion Tom Wall Iowa City Kathy Halstead West Union named to represent Iowa at the American Farm Bureau Youth Leadership Conference April 12-15 at Tan-Tar-A Lodge Missouri.
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Ames
Regis Voss
Iowa State University Extension Agronomist
Des Moines
Luann Timm
Marion
Tom Wall
Iowa City
Kathy Halstead
West Union
Iowa
American Farm Bureau
Tan-Tar-A
Lake of the Ozarks
Nebraska troopers swarm Dakota City area for AmMovide tractorcade
Nebraska State Patrol has deployed more officers to Dakota City to maintain order as the American Agriculture Movement plans a 10 a.m. Sioux City news conference and a 1:30 p.m. tractorcade toward the Iowa Beef Processors plant. The plant, the nation’s largest, has faced a year-long strike by Local 222 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and has seen violence after reopening with nonunion workers.
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Dakota City
Neb
Nebraska
American Agriculture Movement
C.P. Karthauser
Sioux City
Iowa
Iowa Beef Processors Inc
United States
Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of
North America
Demand for Angus Breeding Cattle Soars in Early Fiscal Year
In the first four months October to January demand for Angus breeding cattle rose sharply in St. Joseph. Auction sales moved 11 560 head at 151 auctions for an average of 754 dollars per head, up 109 dollars from last year when 12 752 head averaged 645. Production sales report 2 472 bulls at an average of 1 023 dollars, up from 865 dollars for 2 956 bulls a year earlier.
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ST. Joseph
ISU Dairy Science Club Honors Two Individuals
The Iowa State University Dairy Science Club awarded honors to two people. Harry Lorenz of Le Claire was named an honorary member. E. C. Gene Meyer, managing editor of Heard's Dairyman, received the club's distinguished graduate award.
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Ames
Iowa State University
Dairy Science Club
Harry Lorenz
le Claire
E.C
Gene) Meyer
Heard’s
Dairyman Magazine
Crop Insurance Deadlines Direct Farmers to Apply
Des Moines AP reports that federal crop insurance deadlines approach. Thomas Hawks, area director, notes the USDA program covers all risks and helps protect crops from natural hazards. Corn deadlines are April 25 in Iowa and Missouri. May 10 for soybeans in Iowa. April 30 for Missouri soybeans.
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Des Moines
Thomas Hawks
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Hawks
Iowa
Missouri
Iowan Lloyd Reid Returns From Tokyo Soybean Post
Lloyd Reid, former Far East director for the American Soybean Association, returned home after a four year tenure overseeing eight Japanese staff in Tokyo. He notes U S embargo worries eased and Japan increasingly depends on the United States for soybeans, with 88 to 95 percent of its needs met by U S exports. Reid plans to retire on his family farm in West Virginia.
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Hudson
Lloyd Reid
Tokyo
Far East
American Soybean Association
Reid
Soybean
U.S
Brazil
Japan
Fort Dodge
West Virginia
Farm aid bill faces criticism from food industry leaders
WASHINGTON new criticism of the emergency farm aid bill was voiced by the Food Marketing Institute as a House Senate conference committee resumes work. They warn double digit food price inflation if enacted as written while farm spokesmen call such warnings scare talk amid broader consumer concerns and a looming veto threat from Vice President Mondale.
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Washington
House- Senate
Robert Aders
Food Marketing Institute
Consumer Federation of America
Walter Mondale
Tony Dechant
National Farmers Union
Senate
Senate Agriculture Committee
Herman Talmadge
D-Ga
Robert Dole
R-Kan
National 4-H poster eye design contest under way
County fairs host poster design contests for the 4-H program with winners to be exhibited at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines in August. Three state fair posters advance to the National 4-H Congress in Chicago in November. The national winner will appear on the 1979 81 poster. Contact local extension offices or 4 H leaders for details.
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Des Moines
Chicago
Paralyzed farmer works from tractor on 500 acres
Harold Barley, paralyzed from chest down since 1970, manages 500 acres, raises hay corn and tobacco, 175 steers, and 1,000 hogs with help from neighbors and family. He uses a motorized harness to enter his tractor and plans daylong tasks, staying on the job despite his disability.
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Millersville, Pa
Harold Barley
Barley
Bailey
Don Hershey
Manheim
Hershey
Wheat buying delay raises costs for World Reserve
Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland delayed purchasing wheat for an international food reserve last summer. The price in Kansas City rose from $2.31 per bushel in August to $3.20 per bushel by late March, about 40 percent higher.
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Washington
Bob Bergland
Bergland
Kansas City
Farm Bureau backs bridge repair bill in Congress
Iowa Farm Bureau urges Congress to boost federal funding for bridge repair and replacement. The proposal would raise the program from 180 million to 600 million annually with at least 15 percent for county bridges. Dean Kleckner cites rural road costs and grain movements to markets.
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Farm Bureau
West Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Farm Bureau
Congress
Senate Public Works Subcommittee
Washington, D.C
Dean Kleckner
Iowa
Kleckner
Retail beef prices rise to multi year high
USDA records show February retail beef averaged over 1.51 per pound, the highest since October 1975, with January 1.48 and a year ago 1.35. Pork followed a similar uptrend at 1.38 per pound in February, the highest since July 1976, up from 1.34 in January and 1.21 a year earlier. On this date in 1973 Thieu and Nixon held talks in San Clemente with aid commitments.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
Nguyen van Thieu
South Vietnam
San Clemente
Calif
Richard Nixon
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