Benson Starts Swing Through Drouth States
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson begins a seven state tour of the Dust Bowl area to seek ideas from drouth committees and farmers on long term relief. He warns the drouth is as serious as the 1930s and urges outside credit aid and policy changes to preserve the Eastern Plains economy.
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Ezra Taft Benson
Denver
INS
K. L. Scott
Federal Agricultural Credit Service
Paul Swisher
Colorado
Drewth
Plains
Swisher
Henry Christensen
Colorado State Grange
Christensen
Benson
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Drouth
Great Plains
Sigourney FFA members earn Iowa Farmer Degree at state convention
Duane Bunting Darrell Linder and Duane Steinhart of the Sigourney FFA chapter received the Iowa Farmer degree at the state Future Farmers of America convention in Council Bluffs last week. Thirteen local members and adviser George Swearingen attended the event.
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Sigourney
Duane Bunting
Darrell Linder
Duane Steinhart
Sigourney Ffa
Future Farmers of America
Council Bluffs
George Swearingen
Feeder Pig Sales Rise in Missouri Marketing Strategy
In Columbia Missouri cooperative feeder pig sales provide hog producers a direct no commission market. Pigs weighing 30 to 125 pounds are grouped by weight breed and condition under extension service supervision and sold by the pound. and buyers gain uniform large lots while swine producers lose a consignment fee if they fail to deliver.
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Columbia
South Missouri
Missouri
Missouri Agricultural Extension Service
Linn County Board Proceedings Approve Bids and Claims 1955
Linn County Iowa Board of Supervisors approves bids for courthouse pneumatic control upgrades and jail system changes, sets dates for road surface projects, authorizes tax sale certificate transfer, and adopts a settlement offer to Woodrow A. Wilson. Also approves maintenance contracts and authorizes destruction of old documents while listing extensive 1955 county expenditures and salaries.
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Board of Supervisors
Sutera
Wiley
Hood
Court House
M. Johnson Service Company
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Johnson Service Company
Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation
Linn County
Woodrow A. Wilson
Oakdale
Oskdale
Syneres
Ono
Apd
H. Smith
Arthur Axmear
Code of
Towit
Melchers
John
Springville
Jones County
Sespars
Richard
Toddville
Missouri
Omestead
Pigs to be sold in six May feeder sales across Missouri
Six feeder pig sales are planned in May with more than 10 000 head consigned. The schedule lists Ellington May 2 with 1700 pigs, Birch Tree May 3 with 1000, Houston May 4 with 1000, Alton May 16 with 2200, Doniphan May 17 with 2000, and Salem May 18 with 2500. Previously, Doniphan, Alton and Van Buren each hosted sales this year.
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Doniphan
Alton
van Buren
Ellington
Birch Tree
Houston
Salem
Drop in Fertilizer Sales Puts Industry on Edge
Washington report shows the National Fertilizer Association’s survey finds South sales five percent below last year and northern states 10 to 15 percent behind. Farmers say lower income, cash limits, and tighter credit curb purchases of plant food.
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Washington
INS
National Fertilizer Association
South
Agriculture Department
Fertilizer Association
Iowa Corn Supplies Hit 11-Year High for April 1
Iowa reports total corn stocks on April 1 at 565,036,000 bushels, up 1 percent from a year earlier and the largest for the date in 11 years. Farm holdings fell 10 percent, off‑farm storage rose 22 percent, and oats totals reached 108,165,000 bushels. Nationally, U.S. corn stocks stood at 2,115,000,000 bushels, a new April 1 record.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa i Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
United States
U.S
Commodity Credit Corporation
Texas Wins Fertile Soil in Dust Storms
Area Director H. P. Burleigh of the U S Reclamation Service says the recent nose clogging dust in Texas is a blessing. He notes the dust is fertile top soil and fertilizer from New Mexico Kansas Colorado Oklahoma the Texas Panhandle and Texas south plains. It consists of particles from the nation's finest soil.
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Austin, Texas
H. P. Burleigh
U.S. Reclamation Service
Texas
New Mexico
Kansas
Colorado
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
South Plains
Farm Sale Near Troy Mills Sees Ownership Change
Leo Stark sold his 160 acre well-improved farm situated 41 miles south of Troy Mills to George Gegenheimer of Oxford who recently moved onto the property.
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Troy Mills
Leo Stark
George Gegenheimer
Oxford
Heavy Rains Spark Flooding and Erosion in Sigourney Area
Last week heavy rains in Sigourney totaled 4.14 inches, damaging newly seeded oats and causing soil wash. The Skunk River overflowed bottom lands Monday, with Keokuk county to the north reporting heavier rainfall and creeks washing out water gaps unseen for years.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
Dairy Regulation Criticized by Illinois Professor
Dr Paul H Tracy of the University of Illinois tells the North Central regional Dairy Council conference in Detroit that dairy industry rules are over regulated. He argues federal state and city laws stifle innovation and that freedom of business is essential for democracy.
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Detroit
Univerisity of
Illinois
Paul H. Tracy
North Central
National Dairy Council
Tracy
Million Acres May Be Treated For Soil Insects
Iowa observers estimate about one million acres of corn will be protected this year from soil insect pests by soil-applied insecticides. Entomologists Harold Gunderson and John Lilly note 1951 as the first test plots and 1954 as 600000 acres treated. Five insecticides proved effective: aldrin heptachlor dieldrin gamma BHC and chlordane.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College
Harold Gunderson
John Lilly
Lilly
Chemicals curb soil pests boost corn rootworm control
Gunderson and Lilly cite college tests and field experience supporting a new practice for spraying soil insecticides. They stress safety for corn and handlers, noting no products carry skull and crossbones. Acreage treated grew from 25,000 in 1952 to 600,000 in 1954.
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Gunderson and
Lilly
Congress May Relax ACP Payment Rules
Congress may ease farm program rules by striking a 1954 provision that bans conservation payments to farmers who overplant acreage allotments. Removal of the rule would lessen regulation of farm production, a shift from early 1954 when the Eisenhower administration pursued cross compliance and strict measures.
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Washington
INS
Congress
Eisenhower
Cedar County Farm Bureau to Break Ground Thursday
Don Smith president of Stanwood announced that construction on the new Cedar County Farm Bureau building will begin at 8 a.m. Thursday.
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Tipton
Cedar County Farm Bureau
Don Smith
Stanwood
Chicago Slipping as Pork Center Evidence in Industry Speech
Chicago’s claim as hog butcher of the world is said to be slipping as diversification brings meat closer to market. National Independent Meat Packers Assn official Wilbur La Roe notes changes while Chicago remains active in hog processing through shipments from Iowa and Minnesota. The group meets through Wednesday to discuss independent packers amid shifting slaughter patterns.
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Chicago
Wilbur la Roe
National
Independent Meat Packers Assn
Monnday
la Roe
Washington, D. C
Swift and Company
Iowa
Minnesota
U. S. Department of Agriculture
St. Louis
St. Paul
Omaha
East St. Louis
Fink Beiner Re-elected NIMPA President at Convention
Chris Fink Beiner of Little Rock Arkansas was re elected president of the National Independent Meat Packers Association at the group s annual convention.
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Chicago
Chris Finkbeiner
Little Rock
Ark
National Independent Meat Packers Assn
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