Iowa Eases Feeder Pig Embargo Affects Mississippi Arkansas
Iowa lifts its feeder pig embargo on most states with a permit basis for pork imports. Mississippi and southern Arkansas are restricted. pigs must be individually identified and inspected within ten days of arrival.
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DES Amwines
Mississippi
Arkansas
Iawa
Jawa
Missouri
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Lews Hog Feeders
Senaton
Ark
Iowa
Inowa
First Tested Boar Sire Book Planned
The first directory of tested boars will be published March 1 1970 by the Iowa Purebred Swine Council. It will list sires on test with data on pens feed efficiency and test results. Breeders may participate by joining state and national breed associations and Town Pork Producers and arranging herd inspection with a local veterinarian.
Corn growers to learn county loan rates for 1969 crop
Washington AP reports county offices of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service will inform growers in a few days about 1969 corn loan rates. National average loan value remains $1.05 per bushel despite price supports, with adjustments to align loan value with cash rents and program payments.
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Washington
Lice
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Mai
States Told Step Up Meat Inspection
Washington AP The agriculture department urged state and federal meat inspectors to intensify supervision at about 140 plants where state officers hold federal licenses. The instruction also covers plants under state supervision where federal agents grade meat but inspectors handle wholesomeness and cleanliness.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Jstate
Food ‘Inspection Advisory Committee
Roy Lennartson
Consumer and Marketing Service
Birthplace of Polled Herefords Honored On Farm Site
A granite boulder and chrome plaque mark the Polled Hereford breed birthplace near St Marys Iowa. The dedication notes the first planned mating on the Warren Gammon farm in 1902 and recalls Berl Gammon, longtime APHA official, as guest of honor. The event highlights Polled Herefords growing to a global breed.
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ST. Mary's
Hugo Tack
Warren Gammon & Son
Les Moines
Truro
Warren County
Gammong Ia 101
Agriculure
Ford W. Hardin
Berl O G. Gamman
Bes
Gammon
Gammat
APHA
jAthariica
Meir
Warren Gammon
Sati | Berl
Add
Iowa
Corn Prices Could Boost Fed Wheat Demand
Washington AP reports a bearish world wheat outlook may drive U S wheat feeding in 1969 70 to equal or exceed the 176 million bushels fed in cattle bags and poultry. Higher corn prices could raise wheat use, while farmer attitudes toward wheat's potential also support continued heavy feeding.
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Washington
U.S
Seasor
Agriculture Department
Department
Drug May Make Pig Worming An Old Idea
At Purdue University the 61st annual meeting of the American Society of Animal Scientists heard Vaughn Speer report that adequate nutrition could reduce or eliminate worming in pigs if no other diseases are present. A drug like pyrantel hydrochloride showed effectiveness against young worms and liver lung damage was negligible, though growth differences with drug use were small. Further studies will test worm infection impact on other diseases and nutrition.
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Lafayette
Ind
Vaughn Speer
American Society of Animal Scientists
Purdue University
Speer
Agin
Georgia Called Into Feedlot Death Study
In La Porte City the University of Georgia at Athens joins Iowa State to investigate the deaths of 62 Hereford feeders at Wellman Farms Inc. Curt Wellman and his family own the feedlot. Fourteen animals died on July 22 and 48 died the next Thursday amid 132 calves, with five ill but recovering. Possible causes include hot weather feed mix errors or poisoning.
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LA Porte City
University of Georgia At Athens
Curt Wellman
iLa Porte City
Farm Bureau unit launches Dial-A-Yield crop formula
FS Services announces a computerized corn crop production program named Dial-A-Yield to aid growers in Illinois Wisconsin and Iowa. The system provides tailored yield estimates using farm data and needs validation in regional trials.
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Bloomington
Farm Bureau
Illinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
Jhas
Hardin Plans Long Term Acreage Retirement Program
Agriculture Secretary Clifford M. Hardin proposes a U S farm program that could retire about 50 million acres of cropland under five yearly installments of 10 million acres. Costs average about 24 per acre yearly, totaling roughly 1 2 billion annually after year five, with details still unsettled.
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Waskington
UPI
Clifford’ M. Hardin
Hardin
Nixon
Ifaem
House Agriculture Committee
Congressional
Iowans Picked for Soil Society Trip
Doyle H. Hampton 47 of Center ville Appanoose county ASCS office manager will represent Iowa at the Soil Conservation Society of America annual meeting in Fort Collins Colorado August 10 to 13 Frank H Mendell Des Moines will have an active role coordinating and organizing the meeting Mendell retired as state conservationist with Iowa Soil Conservation Service and is a past president of SC5A Paul Howard and Howard Hughes both of Des Moines will represent the Soil Conservation Service state office.
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Des Moines
Doyle H. Hampton
Centerville
Appanoose County
ASCS
Iowa
Soil Conservation Society of America
Fort Collins
Colorado
Hampton
Iowa Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Frank H. Mendell
Mendell
Iowa Soil Conservation Service
Sc5a
Paul Howard
Howard Hughes
Soil Conservation Service
Ellis Youngsters Visit Farms For Hands On Learning
Nine Cedar Rapids children from the Ellis and Oak Hill Jackson neighborhoods will tour eight Linn county and one Benton county farms next weekend. The trip, sponsored by the Linn county extension service and Hawkeye Area Community Action Program, runs August 15 to 16, following last summer’s visit by 29 youths to 25 farms. Tom McCormick, Linn county extension 4H and youth leader, arranged the program.
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Cedar Rapids
Ellis
Oak Hill-Jackson
Linn County
Benton County
Lin County Extension Service
Hawkeye Area
S Farms
Cedac Rapids
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