USDA may buy grain direct from farmers if elevators resist
Agriculture Secretary Bergland warned that if grain elevators refuse realistic prices, USDA will buy wheat and corn directly from farmers at county offices. The plan could set posted county prices, with farmers selling to the government, as purchases continue to support higher prices and move dumped supplies from the market.
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Washington
Bob Bergland
Agriculture Department
Bergland
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Jack Keyser
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Carter
Soviet Union
Yearbook sparks protest over nitrite cancer claim
The Agriculture Department yearbook faces criticism from the meat industry for a passage on sodium nitrite preservatives. The AMI urged deletion of the nitrite statement and demanded a disclaimer in unreleased editions, while noting mixed evidence about cancer risk from nitrite.
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Agriculture Department
USDA
AMI
Iowa farmer records urged for herbicide use by attorney general
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller urged farmers to keep detailed records of herbicide applications, seed and soil notes, and conditions to support future claims. In other news, Maquoketa Valley FFA awarded star chapter farmer Deb Beitz and star greenhands Chuck Kramer and Sean McDonald, with Tom Trenkamp named star agribusinessman. Renee Hellers was elected president with a slate of new officers.
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UPI
Tom Miller
Iowa
Miller
Renee Hellers
Earlville
Tom Goldsmith
Mark Eike
Delhi
Dennis Russ
Hopkin
Laurie Engelken
Gary Sellner
Sentinel
Foley interview highlights farm price decline and grain policy
U S Representative Tom Foley of Washington comments on falling farm prices, rising interest rates, and efforts to aid farmers on Market to Market and IPBN. He, as House Agriculture Committee chair, notes government actions on grain purchases amid the Russian embargo. In Vinton the FFA marked its 50th anniversary with a history book and four charter members spoke. Dave Duello won Star Greenhand, Tom Wiese Star Chapter Farmer, Ray Wallace Star Agribusinessman and a $200 Paul M Shair scholarship was awarded by Brenton Bank.
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Tom Foley
D-Washington
Market
IPBN
Foley
House Agriculture Committee
Dave Duello
Brandon
Tom Wiese
Vinton
Ray Wallace
Wallace
Paul M. Shair
Brenton Bank and Trust Co
Telephone auctions to boost lamb sales in Midwest
The Sheep Producers Association and the Equity Cooperative Live stock Sales Association of Baraboo Wisconsin will run several lamch auctions by telephone later this year. Lowell Fagen of Earlham chairs the tele auction committee with Iowa and Wisconsin producers to join. He says the tele auctions will raise competition for lambs and return for producers. On this date in 1802 Dorothy Lynda Dix, a pioneer in prison reform, was born.
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UPI
Sheep Producers Association
Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association of
Baraboo
Wis
Lowell Fagen
Earlham
Iowa
Wisconsin
Dorothy Lynda Dix
Senate Approves War Resolution Against Germany
On this date in 1917 the Senate approved a war resolution against Germany by a vote of 81 to 6. The action marked the United States' entry into World War I.
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Germany
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