Farm Briefs Highlight Local FFA Honors and Projects
Dean Maier earned an FFA farm mechanics award after helping a stalled editor’s car near Alburnett. Ralph Atherton provided the correct belt. the editor reached his destination. Other items note Hawkeye Tech teams placing at a national contest, new FFA officers in Waukon, beef checkoff survey results, dam replacement petitions, and more county farm bureau activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alburnett
Dean Maier
Alburnett Future Farmers of America Farm Mechanics
David Maier
Dean
Ol’ Farm
Ralph Atherton
David
Lester
Linn County
Tax ruling at least two months away in Iowa
Iowa revenue director says a major tax equalization order may be needed after farmers and Farm Bureau disputes. Farm Bureau predicts 50 percent plus rises in agricultural valuations and 25 percent plus in residential values, with July to September timing floated. experts cite farm land price trends and a split method using five year averages for farm assessment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
IDPA
Gerald Barr
Iowa
Iowa Farm Bureau
Dean Kleckner
Farm Bureau
Bair
Revenue Department
Leo Waggoner
Waggoner
Grant Calls Repeal of Zero Pollution Rules
Allan Grant president of the American Farm Bureau Federation urged outright repeal of zero pollution requirements in the Clean Water Act and other environmental rules. He spoke at a Tuesday seminar in Atlanta arguing for shifting agricultural chemical regulation from the EPA to the Agriculture Department and criticized the act as overly rigid.
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Atlanta
Allan Grant
American Farm Bureau Federation
Grant
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Linn-Mar FFA banquet honors six area residents and eight chapter members
Six area residents receive honorary chapter farmer degrees for support to the Linn-Mar High School FFA while eleven students win specific production and service awards in agriculture at the Linn Co-Operative Lime Co. building. In Muscatine three 4-H members are named Davenport extension area nominees for state officer selection Sue Boeding Sue Conrad and Brian McCulloch after recent interviews in Donahue West Point and Camanche.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn-Mar High School
Future Farmers of America
Linn Co-Operative Qil Co
Ron Meythaler
Norman Nietert
Springville
Tom Collins
Lumir Dostal, Jr
Floyd Neal
Ken McMurray
Marion
Pat Collins
Joe Meythaler
Jeff Tipton
Faith Langhoff
Jeff Nietert
Peg Engbretson
Jon Sylvester
Jeff Engbretson
Muscatine
Davenport
Sue Boeding
Donahue
Sue Conrad
West Point
Brian McCulloch
Camanche
Miss Boeding
Raymond Boeding
Miss Conrad
Donald Conrad
McCulloh
Winton McCulloh
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Maryville
Hawkeye Institute of Technology
Waterloo
FFA
Waukon
Scott Iverson
Little Switzerland
Tom Ward
Dan Byrnes
Joel Kurtenbach
Tom Larkin
Dave Kruger
Beth Duffy
Mike Dayton
Star
Jeff Johnson
Philadelphia
Farm Journal
Beef Research and Information Act
Emmetsburg
Iowa Soybean — Assn
Congress
Alton
House Public Works Committee
FFA Awards
Elgin
Bruce Anderson
Castalia
Steve Amundson
Valley High School
Anderson
Alvin Anderson
Amundson
Morris Amundson
West Des Moines
Stanley Geiken
Vinton
Benton County Farm Bureau
State Farm Bureau
Leola
Center Square Road
Linn-Mar Ffa
Kubota
D & J Equipment CO
Mt, Vernon Rd
Heid
Opuilar Enone
NEW Outlooks Club
Outlooks Club
N.O.C
C.R. Area
First Trust and Savings Bank
First Ave. N.E
Dows ST
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