U S Wheat Growers Eye World Markets
U S wheat growers expect a bumper crop this year around 1 155 715 000 bushels if spring wheat acreage holds near last year s. Exports may stay high through 1948, with the U S as a dominant exporter. Russia s potential as a rival looms, as FAO notes varying prospects for Soviet wheat output and productivity.
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Ashington
United States
Russia
Soviet Union
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
U. S
Machinery Loss in Buckingham Farm Fire
A fire near Buckingham destroyed a machine shed and lean to on the Charles Howard farm south of town. Cyril Curr and Edward Urhammer lost farm machinery and Curr's nine sows plus 30 piglets. Urhammer's car and two tractors were saved. Cause unknown though an upset electric pig brooder is suspected. Insurance partly covers the loss. Firefighters arrived too late as telephone lines were down from a recent storm.
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Buckingham
Charles Howard
Here
Cyril Curr
Edward Urhammer
Howard
Curr
Urhammer
Traer Fire Department
Vets Farm Course Set to Open at Central City High
A meeting precedes the opening of the veterans on the job training course at Central City High School on April 15. Vocational Instructor A. B. Evanson says Cecil Carstens of the Veterans Administration will attend to discuss individual problems. All veterans are invited.
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Central City
Veterans
A. B. Evanson
Cecil Carstens
Veterans Administration
Evanson
Veterinarians to Convene in Iowa City Thursday
The East Central Iowa Veterinary Medical Society holds its monthly dinner in the Jefferson hotel. Dr. C. H. Covault of Iowa State College will discuss general practice problems. Dr. I. P. Irwin of Iowa City will chair the discussion. Program arranged by Johnson County Veterinary Medical Society with Drs. Crow and Howe on the committee.
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Iowa City
Iowa Veterinary Medical Society
Jefferson Hotel
C. H. Covault
Iowa State College
I. P. Irwin
Johnson County
Farm Wage Hearing Set For Vinton Monday Evening
A public hearing to determine current farm wage levels will be held at the Farm Bureau office in Vinton next Monday evening. County extension home economist Miss Elizabeth Deihl announced the event.
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Vinton
Farm Bureau
Elizabeth Deihl
County Extension
Old Steamers May Move S D Corn by Water
Rep Mundt says Inland Waterways Corp studies using two old sternwheelers on the Missouri to ship about 150000 bushels of corn per trip to Yankton and beyond to reduce a grain surplus. Army aid may be available to support river movements if enough corn is guaranteed to Yankton within 30 to 40 days.
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S.D
Ashington
Missouri
Rep
Mundt
R-S.d
Inland Waterways Corporation
Federal
Midwest
Yankton
S. C
A. C. Ingersoll
St. Louis
South Dakota
Ingersoll
Nature
Doan
Horse Pulling Contests End at Illinois University
The University of Illinois will stop using its dynamometer for horse pulling contests this fall. H G Russell says draft horses are declining in farm power and the university cannot justify continuing the educational project. Other states Iowa Ohio Indiana and Wisconsin have similarly discontinued horse pulling tests.
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Urbana
Ill
University of Illinois College of Agriculture
Illinois
Russell
Iowa
Ohio
Indiana
Wisconsin
Brooklyn A plow adjustment demonstrates near Malcolm
County Extension Director L. D. Brown announced an April 19 morning demonstration at the Raymond Mc Clure farm two miles north of Malcolm. The event showcases plow adjustment and clean plowing techniques for local farmers.
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Brooklyn
Raymond McClure
Malcolm
L. D. Brown
Family farming debated as farm size grows
The piece analyzes how increasing farm size from mechanization and diversification changes rural life. It contrasts subsistence and family farming with profit driven operations and notes census data from 1944 showing income disparities among farms. It profiles Lord Ogilivy, a longtime Denver Post livestock writer, his Boer War service, and late-life illness.
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Colorado
Denver
Lord” Ogilivy
The
Denver Post
Ogilivy
U. S
South Africa
D.S.O
Ogilvvy
Denver University
Lyulph Gilchrist Stanley Ogilivy
World Hog Numbers Dip Below Year Ago
World hog numbers total about 237 million head, down 1.5 percent from a year earlier and 17 percent below the 1931 40 average. The drop is tied to grain demand for food, last summer droughts in southeastern Europe and the Soviet Union, feed shortages, and unstable hog prices. The 1947 world food outlook will influence feed grain availability to sustain hog populations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
USDA
Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations
Europe
Soviet Union
United States
Argentina
Strawberry Point Lions Host Dinner For Farmers
Strawberry Point Lions club hosted farmers at a Methodist church dinner. Rex Conn Gazette farm editor was the speaker at the Monday night gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strawberry Point
Lions Club
Rex Conn
Gazette Farm
Clean plowing demonstration set for April 15
Stanwood residents will host a clean plowing demonstration Tuesday afternoon April 15 at the William Davidson farm three miles southwest of town for farming officials and neighbors.
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Stanwood
William Davidson
Here
Kildee Calls for Wider 4-H Access Across Iowa
Iowa State College leaders urged broadening 4-H youth programs to all farm youths at the extension conference on campus. Dean H. H. Kildee cited a 1946 enrollment high, staff expansion plans, and strong soil conservation work while detailing multiple extension projects and 45 000 volunteers.
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Ames
Iowa
H. H. Kildee
Iowa State College
Kildee
Karl Knaus
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Extension Service
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