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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1969
Page
7
The U S Agriculture Department announced shorn wool payments at 65.4 percent of grower returns for 1968 and mohair payments at 71.2 percent. Deductions for advertising reduce totals. payments begin in April and promote wool quality and marketing.
The notice compiles auctions scheduled for Saturday and Friday including machinery hay sleighs and farm equipment from Raven Kortum Tiplin Mund Mund area and nearby towns. It also mentions antique auctions, dairy equipment and estate sales with locations such as Quasaudon Callie Cone Waterloo Manchester and West Liberty.
A 1960s USDA ERS report shows total agricultural production rose in most Western Hemisphere nations from 1959 to 1968, with Canada up over a third and South America over 25 percent, while Caribbean islands declined as a group. Per capita output rose in nine nations, with gains varying by country.
Rex Com explains hedging as a risk management move for feeders with cattle headed for summer and fall markets. With high current prices, open futures contracts reach record levels, and August futures around 20 dollars offer a way to lock profits or offset declines. Hedging is common in grain and growing in livestock markets as a protective strategy.
Four Charolais cattle sold for a total of 13300 at the Iowa Charolais Breeders show and sale in Adel. Alfred W. Hansen & Sons displayed champion Charolais female and reserve champion bull with other cattle also selling to buyers in Saskatchewan Canada Osceola Iowa Topeka Kan and Newall on La. Leading animal topped 4100. Overall sale saw 82 head bring 108000 with average 1323. Bulls averaged 1142 cows 1389.
Mrs Mary Jane Leuenberger resigns as Winneshiek county home economist effective May 1 to become a full time homemaker. She has guided extension work in Allamakee Winneshiek and Waterloo areas and supported 4-H leaders.
A MadisonWisconsin bulletin notes corn borer populations likely high this spring across the Corn Belt with Minnesota and South Dakota exempt. The Iowa survey reports 171 larvae per hundred plants three times 1967 fall levels, with the heaviest infestation in southwestern Iowa and central areas showing 101-400 borers per hundred plants.
Seventeen cows on test in Linn DHIA posted 405 day lactation totals above 1000 pounds of butterfat during March. Six records surpassed 600 pounds fat. top cow a six year old Holstein owned by Robert W. Bell of Coggon with 21 020 pounds milk and 764 pounds fat. Other high producers include Albert Martin and Sons Marion 21 750 pounds milk 699 fat, Witwer Simonsen Marion 665 fat and 603 fat, Terra Knapp Mangold Coggon 625 fat, and Wallace Mills Coggon 606 fat. Average herd size was 4.9 cows, daily per cow production 31.6 pounds milk and 12 pounds fat, with 83 cents per day income over feed cost.
Secretary Hardin will open a seven city series hearing at the University of Nebraska Campus to solicit views on agriculture and rural economy. The session in Lincoln will feature Dr. E F Frank as moderator and will address farm policy conservation and food safety issues.
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