Minnesota Study Finds Eggs Unaffected by DDT Fed Hens
University of Minnesota researchers fed laying hens 300 ppm DDT for a month and found no changes in egg weight or shell thickness. Chicks hatched normally. DDT appeared in hen tissues but did not significantly impact the birds. The study notes species differences and suggests rational risk versus benefit analysis for pesticide use.
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Minnesota
ST. Paul, Minn
University Ofl
George Speers
Paul Waibel
Gil Waibel
Speers
Environmental Issues Not Clear Cut Says Viasin Seminar
Michigan State educator Raymond Viasin warns against black and white views of pollution and environmental quality at an four state seminar in Cedar Rapids. He stresses gradations of quality and workable, choice based remedies requiring cost effective, legally possible action, with gaps between science and citizen understanding. Local and state groups discuss education, policy, and funding needs to curb sediment erosion and pollution control.
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Michigan State University
Raymond Viasin
Cedar
Viasin
League of Women Voters
Environmental
George Beal
Ames
Iowa State University
Minnesota
Harold Watson
St. Paul
State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Committee
Rural Environmental Assistance Program
Tever Trust
Wisconsin
Robert Arthur
LaCrosse
Ilinois
Samuel Aldrich
Urbana
Gross Will Step Down as Farmers Union President
OSCEOLA AP Sydney L. Gross age 58 of Osceola says he is stepping down as president of the Iowa Farmers Union after six years. He was elected in 1966 and is completing his third two year term. He told the board he would not seek re election at the Des Moines convention September 8-9.
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Osceola
Sydney L. Gross
Iowa Farmers Union
Gross
H. R. Gross
Iowa
Des Moines
Contract farms gain muscle in past decade
Washington AP reports that contract farming and vertical integration expanded U S farm production in the 1960s. About 19 percent of output in 1960 came from contract and integrated arrangements, rising to about 22 percent by 1970. Vertical integration defined as production from farm through processing and marketing rose from 4 percent in 1960 to 5 percent a decade later.
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Washington
U.S
USDA
Economic Research Service
Hog Show Winner Keith Hartkemeyer Named Junior Champion
Keith Hartkemeyer of Van Herne is pictured holding the winner’s plaque after taking first in the junior class at the South Tama County FFA carcass hog show. His second entry posted 75.54 percent with a 1.17 inch backfat and 6.1 square inch loin eye. the purebred Duroc measured 47.41 percent ham and loin.
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Keith Hartkemeyer
van Herne
Angus Cattle to Be Flown to Japan in Large Shipment
About 130 Aberdeem Angus bred cows and five bulls will be airlifted from Michigan to Takeya-j ma Farms in northern Japan in a 350000 dollar deal. The move is the vanguard of a 1500 head shipment planned by Mahogany Farms of Williamston, owned by Premier Corp.
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Japan
Williamston
Mich
Michigan
Aberdeen Angus
Takeya-j ‘Ma
Mahogany Farms
Premier Corp
Sale Notice Listings in Monticello and Urbana Auctions
Partial sale notice details auctions and closings including Monticello Urbana Gladbrook Mt. Vernon areas. References to Clark Grissman Roy Kline and Mur Thompson indicate local sellers near Urbana Gladbrook Mt. Vernon with machines and goods for auction on April 6 with outlying items 2a miles northeast of Gladbrook and 7 miles north of Mt. Vernon.
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Pam
Monticello
Clark Grissman
Urbana
Roy Kline
Gladbrook
Thompson
Mt. Vernon
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