Farm groups oppose plan to raise mortgage costs
DES MOINES three Iowa farm organizations and the Iowa Property Taxpayers Association oppose a plan to lift the usury cap for large loans and let rates on loans under 100000 float above government bond rates. The Iowa Farmers Union the Iowa chapter of the National Farmers Organization and the Iowa Grange condemned the proposal.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Property Taxpayers Association
Ilowa
U.S
Iowa Farmers Union
The
National Farmers Organization
Iowa Grange
Washington County 4-H members plan Saskatchewan exchange
Washington County 4-H members schedule a return exchange to Saskatchewan Canada from August 4 to 13. A busload of 40 older 4-H members and several chaperones will travel through the Black Hills area en route there and return via Fargo and Minneapolis.
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Washington
Washington County
4-H
Saskatchewan
Canada
Black Hills
Fargo
Minneapolis
Iowa Promotes Dam 26 Reconstruction Vote
The Iowa Agriculture Promotion Board urges Senators Dick Clark and John Culver to support the House bill to reconstruct Locks and Dam 26 at Alton Illinois.
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Des Moines
Iowa Agriculture Promotion Board
Iowa
Dick Clark
John Culver
Alton
New Poweshiek Junior Angus Association Officers Named
Grinnell Poweshiek County Jun ior Angus Association announces new officers Grant Ferguson of New Sharon is president John Graham of Gilman is vice president and Stacey Gropper of Grinnell serves as secretary and treasurer.
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Grinnell
Poweshiek County
Junior Angus Association
Grant Ferguson
New Sharon
John Graham
Gilman
Stacey Gropper
Iowan Farm Bureau Honors Four Eastern Iowans as Scholars
Four Eastern Iowans were named scholarship winners by the Iowa Farm Bureau women’s organization. Each recipient will receive a $160 annual scholarship for two years. Winners in The Gazette area include Kathleen Farrell Strawberry Point Mary Hunziger Belle Plaine Kathryn D Mohr Tipton and Denis Wehr Sigourney.
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Des Moines
Lettuce Shortage Hits Salinas Field After Heavy Rains
Field worker Irineo Galinato clears a path for rainwater that flooded a 28 acre lettuce field near Salinas California this week. Rains cut production 25 percent and caused a nationwide lettuce shortage. Lettuce sells for 18 to 20 dollars per carton wholesale versus 1.75 a carton this time last year.
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Irineo Galinato
Salinas
Calif
Clean water pact signed
The Agriculture Department and the Environmental Protection Agency signed an agreement to enable farmers to enter long term federal aid contracts for lake and stream clean up. Congress funded up to 200 million for next year and 400 million for 1979 80. Practices include grassed waterways sediment basins erosion control and tighter pesticide and fertilizer use. ON THIS DATE in 1972 Apollo 16 returned three moon mission astronauts to Earth with a splashdown in the Pacific.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Environmental Protection Agency
Congress
M. Rupert Cutler
Earth
Pacific
Turner files cattle fraud action in Benton County
Iowa Attorney General Richard C. Turner filed suit in Benton County District Court alleging Adair County Livestock Market Center Inc. of Kirksville Missouri misrepresented feeder cattle as from Missouri when from West Virginia and that the cattle carried contagious diseases lacked health certificates and were not under two years old. The action seeks injunctive relief and restitution of funds to Iowa farmers and names Ken Frazier and Steven Frazier as defendants.
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Turner
Benton County
Des Moines
Iowa
Richard C. Turner
Missouri
Adair County Livestock Market Center Inc
Kirksville, Mo
West Virginia
Vinton
Adair County Livestock Marketing Center Inc
Kirksville
Ken Frazier
Steven Frazier
Bergland eyes July passage for all risk crop insurance
Agriculture Secretary Bergland says a new all risk crop insurance bill could clear Congress by July 1, covering 18 crops initially with future expansion to all farm products. The plan splits premium costs, offers 50 to 90 percent coverage, and would replace four existing programs at an estimated $542 million annually. Initial crops include wheat cotton corn barley rice soybeans tobacco and more.
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Washington
Bob Bergland
Congress
Bergland
Leach proposes tax credit for new farm buildings
Rep Jim Leach of Iowa introduced a bill to grant investment tax credit status to newly built farm structures such as silos barns and hog houses. He seeks to correct the 1971 tax reform act gap that currently limits credits to equipment, not buildings used for farming.
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Washington
Jim Leach
Iowa
Leach
Internal Revenue Service
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