Dairy milk tax fight continues as 50 cent levy takes effect
Dairy leaders press legal challenge to the 50 cent per hundredweight milk tax as it begins today. Courts in Milwaukee Syracuse and Columbia hear arguments over whether the tax can be collected, with dairy groups arguing Congress rather than the secretary of agriculture imposes the levy. NFO attorney Ted McCarty says success requires one favorable ruling, while farmers expect no income cut until mid May.
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Market notes show hogs and crops mixed in early AP report
Chicago early price report from AP shows hogs quoted at 46 dollars for May crop and varied figures for July and April crops. Corn oats and soybeans move with steady to down notes while eggs and farm goods receive minor shifts.
Unclear fragmentary note from Sioux City weather report
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Block shifts loan funds in emergency move
Agriculture Secretary John Block said 400 million dollars would be redirected to the Farmers Home Administration operating loan program to ease a credit shortage affecting 20 states. He cited planting season pressure and directed FIHA to resume loan funding from other USDA programs.
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Marshall County Joins Pseudorabies Eradication Drive
Marshall County Iowa leads pilot pseudorabies eradication funding effort with 41 of 120 pork producers already enrolled. The plan aims to vaccinate and quarantine to reduce herd losses across 194000 pigs annually over a three year period with state and federal seed money and potential Illinois follow up.
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Rooster Barney to Lose Voice for Surgery in Fort Collins
Salt Lake City resident Hank Hathaway plans to have Barney the rooster undergo a delicate voice box removal at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. The operation aims to quiet the crowing that disturbed neighbors as Hathaway’s team, linked to the University of Utah baseball program, travels to the city.
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Supreme Court ruling on Great Lakes high seas claim
In 1893 the U S Supreme Court held that the Great Lakes and their connecting waters are high seas, a decision affecting jurisdiction and navigation rights across the region.
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