Farm Roundup Highlights Youth Essay Wins and Club News
An 18 year old high school senior from Marion won the Iowa Farm Bureau essay contest with Iowas Farm Exports Vital to All earning a $200 bond a plaque and an expense paid trip to a leadership conference in Missouri. Solon FFA chapter elected new officers with DeWayne Klouda as president. Northeast Iowa 4 H nominees for state and national awards listed by area. A new corn breeding station opens near Shelbyville Illinois. American Agri Fuels seeks to raise 1 3 million via public stock offering for a gasohol refinery. Kendrick Berg Osage elected president of Iowa Shorthorn Association. A June picnic set for Gary Thomson farm near Stanford. A photo feature of Mrs Ray Farrell Elkader with 11 foot tall sweetcorn to appear on a 1980 astrology calendar.
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West Des Moines
Iowa Farm Bureau
Sharon Scott
Jack Scott
Marion
Iowa
U.S
Bond
American Farm Bureau
Tan-Tar-A Lodge
Missouri
Scott
Linn- Mar High School
Kasnsas City
American Agri- Fuels Corp
Des Moines
Kendrick Berg
Osage
Iowa Shorthorn Association
Charles Duffy
Solon
Harriett Moore
Iowa Falls
Dennis Fuller
Independence
Gary Thomson
Stanford
Banvel Herbicide Registered as Overlay Corn Treatment
Velsicol Chemical Corp announces Banvel is registered as an overlay treatment for field and silage corn. The clearance allows application soon after planting on five inch corn up to one pint per acre, for corn previously treated with Lasso or Sutan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Velsicol Chemical Corp
Executives Enlist Speedreading to Boost Pace
The Conference Board reports speed reading courses are growing among firms. Executives read at 200 to 250 words per minute, below national average and under college level, despite spending about one third of work days reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy Carter
Joe Namath
Conference Board
Meinharts pay record $42,500 for Duroc boar
Myron and Wilbert Meinhart of Hudson paid a new world record price of $42,500 for a Duroc boar at the 23rd Southwestern Duroc Congress in Wichita Kansas. The boar was the grand champion of the Southwest Congress and was raised by Blaize Durocs of Stamford Texas. The sale shattered the prior record of $38,000 set in 1973 at the National Barrow Show in Austin Minnesota. The Meinharts also sold several high placing hogs and earned the reserve premier sire award at multiple shows while exporting hogs to Japan Korea and Taiwan. They operate a 570 acre farm with 60 Duroc and 60 Hampshire sows.
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Hudson
Myron
Wilbert Meinhart
Wichita
Kaw
Blaize Durocs
Stamford
Texas
Forker Farms
Horton
Austin
Minn
Sweetwater
Gray’s Hamps
Ada
Okla
Douglas
Hinds Farms
Willow Springs
David Brigman
Maypearl
Heger Farms
Jasper
Meinharts
Smithfield
N.C
W.F. Barnes
Norman
Bob Wattman
Tuttle
Freddie Deal
Georgia
Louisville Barrow
Louisville
Isler
Durocs
Duncan Duroc Farm
New Mexico
Louisville Barrow Show
Kan
Canada
Japan
Korea
Taiwan
Hampshire
Legislature debates solar rights proposal in Iowa House
Rep. Cooper Evans chairs the House Energy Committee as Iowa eyes a broad solar rights bill. The measure would grant permanent sunshine rights to residential and rural properties, allow buying sun shine rights from neighbors, and set procedures for recording, neighbor protests, and trimming obstructing trees.
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Des Moines
Iowa
House Energy Committee
Cooper Evans
Evans
R Grundy Center
County Recorder
Board of Adjustment
Iran's Revolution Sparked by Shared Human Dignity Principle
Andrew Young, U S ambassador to the United Nations, links Iran's revolution to the parallel rise of America's civil rights movement. He asserts that the most powerful force is the belief that all people are somebody, not a political ideology.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Young
U.S
United Nations
Iran
America
Area farmers await soil ready for late spring planting
Farmers in the area face a cold wet spring delaying corn oats and soybeans with ground temperatures just reaching 50 degrees and soil saturated. Extension officials warn planting waits until fields dry while warnings about germination and late oats overlaps with hope for a quick weather improvement.
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Richard Freeman
Fairfax
Linn County
Hall
Iowa State University
Iowa
Freeman
Gene Walter
Marion
Soil Conservationist
Walter
Jerry Gogan
Cedar Rapids
Also Mentioned on This Page
FFA Officers
DeWayne Klouda
FFA
Pat Smith
Linda Ross
Karen McFarland
Mitch Peters
Brent Wears
Sentinel
Glen Erenberger
Dan Erenberger
Dubuque
Northeast Iowa
Lisa Kehrli
Ryan
Chuck Cornelius
Andrew
Dan Vaassen
Janaan Larkin
Lansing
Sarah Levi
Arlington
Martha Kirpes
Trent Henkes
Luana
Kevin Eberling
Postville
New Pioneer Center
Shelbyville
Shelbyville, Ill
Pioneer Hi-Bred International
Berg
Eleader
Ray Farrell
Elkader
Llewellyn Publications
St. Paul, Minn
Duroc
Bill Lotz
Buchanan County
Rod Hamer
Manchester
Delaware
Hamer
Lotz
Ken Hall
Commercial Credit
Iown
City & State
Commercial Credit Commercial Credit Corporation
Jefferson Street
Burlington
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