Open records fight over Dubuque Packing data refused
An Iowa open records dispute over revealing slaughter figures for Dubuque Packing Co. ended with Secretary of State Synhorst and Attorney General Turner ruling the data must remain public. The attorney claimed secrecy would hurt competitive interests, but officials said the law requires disclosure and protests were rejected.
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DES Moines
Dubuque Packing Co
Melvin Synhurst
Atty
Richard Turner
Synhorst
Clifford Less
Dubuque Parking
Des Moines Sunday Register
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Dubuque Packing
Leas
Turner
Robert Lounsberry
Iowa
Iowa corn crop outlook falls short of record
Iowa farmers expect to harvest 1 185 750 000 bushels of corn at 93 bushels per acre due to hot dry weather. USDA says July forecast for a record 1 326 billion bushels was reduced, leaving Iowa second to Illinois for the year.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Agriculture Department
USDA
Illinois
Lloyd Stuber
Illinois poised for top corn and soybean output in forecast
The August 1 crop forecast projects Illinois leading the nation in corn production for a second year with 1,194,800,000 bushels at 103 bushels per acre and a soybean harvest of 249,480,000. Iowa remains second. Soybean total sits at 1.244 billion bushels, down 12 percent from last year. Weather notes cite uneven rainfall, with some areas driest in 40 years. USDA says conditions have varied since Aug. 1, with some gains and shortfalls.
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Illinois
Iowa
Robert Lounsberry
Stuber
USDA
Northwest
Lowa
Top Selling Boar Fetches $1 000 At New Hampton
In New Hampton the second highest indexing boar at the Northeast Iowa Swine Test Station sale sold for 1000 dollars. The purebred Curve bast owned by Moore and Moore Cresco topped the sale purchased by Beryl Keen LeGrande. The boar posted a test index of 214 and led all boars in average daily gain. It carried one inch backfat and a 5.9 inch loin area. 56 tested boars sold with total receipts of 15530 dollars and average price about 400 dollars. The station will hold another sale on Aug 31 at 5 p.m.
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New Hampton
Iowa
Moore & Moore
Cresco
Beryl Keen
LeGrande
Moores
Sp.m
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Jones County Fair
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Ron Sterk
Paul Schrader
Hampshire
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Fairfield
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Selma
Marvin Hesse
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