Disastrous Summer for Migrants arm Bureau's Proposed Triple A Would Phase Out Crop Control
Muscatine tomato growers including Heinz Corp hire far fewer migrants this summer due to a new Iowa labor camp law and fears of unions. Officials say 29 growers plan about 600 migrants versus 1,200 by 400 last year. Heinz moved housing to Illinois and did not open camps. Heinz declined comment. Migrant leaders call the law a farce and say enforcement is lax, with 90 day deadlines pushing beyond the season.
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Heinz Corp
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Margaret Murphy
Heinz
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Miss Murphy
Permits Sought for Migrant Camp Inspectors Face Funding Gaps
Health Department inspector notes about half migrant camp operators kept permit applications and a quarter have been inspected. Legislature funded only 20000 to enforce new toilet water lighting and waste controls, hampering enforcement. Growers resist day checks, state labor entry reports no violations. floods hit Mason City crops leaving migrants jobless.
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State Health Department
Michael Ditkowsky
Health Department
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Agriculture shifts aid as beef prices stay buoyant
Washington AP says higher livestock prices in early 1968 stemmed from consumer incomes high employment and continued demand for meat. The Agriculture Department forecasts meat demand to persist into 1969 with prices easing from summer highs but remaining above year-ago levels. Fed cattle prices rose to 34.25 per hundred pounds in June, up from January and well above last year. The Farm Bureau pressed for the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1989, proposing a five year transition with acreage controls phased out and new price support loans, plus a special program for low income farmers to ease the shift to a market system. House and Senate members backed gradual reform and retirement of cropland under the cropland adjustment plan.
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Four Delaware Herds Tie for Top Butterfat Production
Four Delaware county DHIA dairy herds shared top honors in June with butterfat averages of 56 lbs per cow. Owners include Andrew and Gerald Knipper of Earlylle, Jobin Ungs of New Vienna, I. L. Darey and Herb Hartman of Manchester. The article notes shifts in agricultural policy and concerns over import quotas.
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Delaware County
DHIA
Andrew and
Gerald Knipper
Earlyllie
Jobin Ungs
New Vienna
Darey
Herb Hartman
SCS Chairman Casey Re elected For Third Term
DES MOINES M Wayne Casey of Peterson has been re elected to a third term as chairman of the state soil conservation committee starting July 1 1969. Eastern Town members include Fred Cherry of Rowley and Donald Johnson of Fairfield.
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Des Moines
M. Wayne Casey
Peterson
State Soil Conservation Committee
Fred Cherry
Rowley
Donald Johnson
Fairfield
IFYE Delegates March to End World Hunger in Ames
About 200 IFYE participants and alumni walked 12 miles in Ames to protest hunger and raise 5001 dollars. Leonard Wolf of the American Freedom from Hunger Foundation led the trek urging youth across 38 countries to make elimination of hunger a top priority. Funds go to a Washington DC 4-H program and a Jamaica training center project.
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Slo Power
International Farm Youth Exchange
IFYE
Leonard Wolf
American Freedom From Hunger Foundation
America
Wall
U.S
Washington, D.C
Jamaica
Lisbon Pig Test Announcement for Fall Swine Trials
Lisbon Pigs will be accepted the week of September 18 for the fall-winter test at the Farmland swine testing station in Lisbon. Pigs fattened in August should be suitable for testing.
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