Critical Stage Of Iowa Corn Crop Is Over
Iowa's record corn crop is now past the critical stage with high yield likely as August and September temperatures normalize. Moisture relief in western Iowa ended deterioration. about 25 percent of corn reached the roasting ear stage, with 40 percent of stalks setting more than one ear, signaling a potential boost to average yields. Soybeans show progress with 59 percent pods. small grain harvest nearly complete. Feed supplies improve as livestock marketing and oats availability ease the feed shortfall.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Leslie Car
Carl
Sioux City Man Calls Decontrol on Grain and Livestock
Sioux City livestock official Don Cunningham urged the decontrol board to end price controls after August 20. He described black market activity in corn hogs and cattle, said OPA controls are unenforceable, and cited how some buyers paid compliance prices then offered extra cash. Cunningham, secretary of the Sioux City Livestock Exchange, spoke as an unscheduled witness.
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Ashington
Don ‘Y Cunningham
Sioux City
OPA
Cunningham
Iowa
Sioux City Livestock Exchange
Roy L. Thompson
Joe Read
A. Straka
Lumer Mucky
Milo Riddle
Elmer Hearther
James Bartosh
A. J. Taube
Pete Wilhelmi
Ed Johnston
W. F. Podnsky
Emil Wotrobeck
Frank Koutny
Peter Pernicka
R. S. Lingle
Ivan Laurance
John McDonald
Bull
Roy Stoneking
Louis Brehm
Glen Blaine
Chas. E. Lehr
Earl Tatge
Ray Scott
Clarence Hopker
Robert Gehring
Allen Koster
Iowa Livestock Exchange
Soybean Stocks Are Smallest in 3 Years
Washington reports on July 1 soybean stocks totaling 3644 million bushels across on farm and off farm holdings. About 7 million on farms, 3% million in interior mills and warehouses, 3% million as commercial stocks at terminals, and nearly 23 million at processing plants. Total stocks last year were 46 million bushels.
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the Gazette
Washington
Bureau of Agriculture Economics
Hogs Raised on Alfalfa due to Corn Shortage
Brooklyn farmer Kenneth Dieterich sold 30 March pigs averaging 190 pounds at 22.50 per hundredweight. The 80 spring pigs raised this year were fed on alfalfa pasture with limited corn and oats and 500 pounds of protein supplement due to corn shortages.
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Brooklyn
Kenneth Dieterich
Here
Dieterich
Buckingham Farm Sold For 200 Per Acre
Roy Cooper of Traer bought a 200 acre well improved farm owned by Alice and Nellie Trainor of Waterloo for 200 dollars per acre. The farm lies three miles north of here on highway 63 and possession is to be given March 1, 1947.
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Buckingham
Roy Cooper
Traer
Alice
Nellie Trainor
Waterloo
Here
Highway
More War Vets Have Found Way Back to Farms
Chicago based AP report notes wartime veterans and urban residents moving to farms as farm population shows a partial reversal of prewar declines. On July 1 this year about 11.586 million people worked on U S farms, including nearly one million discharged veterans, with factors like housing and fuel access driving the shift. The bureau cautions that moving to farms does not automatically raise farm employment overall, and wartime declines in agricultural work persisted.
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Chicago
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau
United States
Farm labor force grows during war years
The text notes an average annual increase of about 150,000 workers between 1940 and 1945, far above the 45,000 yearly rise from 1910-14 to 1935-39. Veterans reportedly replaced some 300,000 other farm workers, strengthening the overall working force.
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Bureau
Oklahomans To Harvest Corn at Monticello
Fifty five Oklahoma farm workers are certified to arrive at Monticello on August 23 to help harvest 1200 acres of sweet corn in Jones County. The move responds to a shortage as mechanical pickers cannot be delivered in time. The cost is paid by the federal extension service.
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Ames
Oklahoma
Monticello
Jones County
Iowa State College Farm Labor Office
Federal Extension Service
Clayton Veterans to Learn of Farm Training Program
Clayton county veterans will hear about agricultural training at a meeting in the courthouse on Wednesday evening Aug 22. John Davis, chairman of the county program, announced. Speaker will be W A Young supervisor for 15 northeast Iowa counties.
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Clayton Veterans To Learn
Eleader
Ning
John Davis
Clayton County Veterans Agricultural Training Program
W. A. Young
Iowa
Alla County 4-H Girls Ment Day Held Here
The annual Alla County 4-H Girls achievement day will be held Friday in Waukon. Exhibits for the state fair will be chosen from the displays and projects presented.
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Waukon
Allamakee County
Wallace Says Cabinet Backs World Granary Plan
Washington AP Secretary of Commerce Wallace said the president's cabinet endorsed the general idea of an international ever normal granary as in Sir John Orr's world food plan. He warned that without action, farmers worldwide would face worse conditions than 1921 or 1932, and noted a world food board would have powers to buy and sell commodities.
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Washington
Wallace
John Orr
Food and Agricultural Organization
World Food Board
Bice Brown Swiss Makes High Production Record
An eight year old purebred Brown Swiss cow Pride's Charming June owned by Martin Bice of Cedar Rapids completed a 305 day production record.
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Martin Bice
Cedar Rapids
Beloit Swiss Association reports milk and butterfat totals
The Beloit based Swiss association records show a twice daily milk intake totaling 15 785 pounds of milk and 687 61 pounds of butterfat for the herd test.
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Swiss Association of
Beloit
Four-County Contour Plowing Meet Planned
Soil district commissioners from Allamakee Clayton Fayette and Winneshiek counties met to finalize plans for a four-county contour plowing match set for September 17. Each county may enter three contestants and the contest site is to be announced.
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Postville—Soil District
Allamakee
Clayton
Fayette
Winneshiek
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