Garden and farming notices from Iowa community events
Iowa City extension office hires Jane Hadley as garden and food preservation aide. Linn County Soil Conservation District meets May 1 in Marion. Eastern Iowa Veterinary Medical Association hosts all day clinic May 10 at Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids. Shellsburg pasture improvement field day on Steve Anderson farm at 9 30 a m Friday. Linn County Porkettes give away ground pork samples and $5 certificates during Armstrong OshKosh sale days. Solon FFA member Malinda Dittberner to play clarinet in state FFA band in Waterloo.
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Iowa City
Jane Hadley
Johnson County
Fairground
Hadley
Eastern Iowa Veterinary Medical Association
Hawkeye Downs
Cedar Rapids
Shellsburg
Steve Anderson
Linn County Porkettes
Armstrong
Janet Spellerberg
Mount Vernon
Tainted pork isolated from Swift plants in Marshalltown and Omaha
The USDA said contaminated pork from a Marshalltown Iowa Swift plant shipped to its Omaha plant has been isolated and destroyed. About 500000 pounds reportedly reached the Omaha facility which cans and smokes meat. The pork is kept separate and sent to a rendering plant for inedible byproducts.
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Omaha
Swift and Co
Marshalltown
Iowa
Swift
Department of Agriculture
D.C. Breeder
USDA
Meat Quality Control Office
Noxious Kikuyu Grass Seed Seized in Oakland
Federal inspectors seized a one ton shipment of kikuyu grass seed in Oakland California for being a noxious weed. The seed ordered from New Hebrides in the southwest Pacific was sent to an Arizona seed company but entry was denied by the Agriculture Department inspectors.
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Washington
Oakland
Calif
New Hebrides
Southwest Pacific
Arizona
Agriculture Department
Diesel fuel shortages worry Midwest farmers and suppliers
Linn-Jones Farm Services and 14 Midwestern states report diesel shortages affecting agricultural supplies. Larry Kopecky warns one month of fuel remains for seven plants across two counties while officials seek federal help. Scarce diesel seen in Cedar Rapids area and regional concerns rise.
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Anamosa
Larry Kopecky
Linn-Jones Farm Services
Kopecky
Tom Tauke
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Red Carley
Linn Cooperative Oil
Marion
William J. Watt
Governors’ Conference
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Linn County Soil Conservation District
50Th St
Linn Parkettes
FFA Orchestra
SOLON
Malinda Dittberner
FFA
Waterloo
Pat
Ken Hutson
Carol Burnett
Charles Richter
Bruce Jay Friedman
Boston
Shasta
Shade Tree
Faumboefengy Nursery
Johnson Ave. NW
Hoover School
Watt
U.S. Energy
James Schlesinger
Indiana
Otis R. Bowen
Minnesota
Nebraska
Kansas
North Dakota
Oklahoma
MNB
Ular Sorees
Merchants National Bank
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