Student group opposes bill to allow DES use
ISPIRG executive director Neubauer says DES poses a potential health danger to humans based on lab animal cancer links and vaginal cancer risk and notes 21 nations ban DES in animals. He argues the Delaney amendment should stand and predicts higher meat prices but safer meat.
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Des
Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Student Public Interest Research Group
Ispirg
Iowa
John Neubauer
Bill Scherle
R-I
Scherle
Neubauer
Federal Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Machinery Sales Rise as Farm Income Improves
The Agriculture Department reports improved farm income boosting agricultural machinery demand. Through May, sales of combines rose 18 percent in units, corn heads up one third, corn pickers over 10 percent, and tractors up more than 20 percent from a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Decorah Winneshiek fair beef show crowns grand champion
Julie Hovey of Decorah shows the grand champion market beef at Winneshiek county fair a 1134 pound crossbred steer with Bruce Hovey as reserve grand champion. The article lists multiple breed champions across Hereford Angus Shorthorn and other categories plus showmanship and hog awards.
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Earl Bardach
Delwein
Winneshiek County Fair
Linda Rausch
Ft. Atkinson
Lois Rausch
Linda
Alyn Buchelt
Decorah
Ayrshire
Cheryl Steffens
Jackie Schroeder
Castalia
Tim Hauber
Ridgeway
David Broghamer
Winneshiek County
Marsha Broghamer
David
Julie Hovey
Julie
Bruce
Hereford
Tom Hovey
Sue Christopherson
Mabel
Minn
Angus
Patty Suckow
Postville
Aileen Bakke
Tony Wennes
Susan Oxley
Ossian
Arleen Bakke
Cindy Helland
John Chipera
Craig Spilde
Corrine Spilde
Warren Clark
Calmar
Mike Humker
FFA
John Huinker
Wayne Huinker
South Winneshiek
Government Sets New Rules for Set-Aside Acres
The agriculture department announced 1973 changes to set-aside provisions for wheat, feed grain, and cotton programs. Payments will reflect set-aside land productivity, with comparable per acre deductions for cotton. Officials noted past incentives favored crop production on quality land, but overall impact should be limited to a few producers.
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Washington
UPS
Agriculture Department
Department
Linn Dairy Cows Post High Butterfat Records
Six cows in the Linn DHIA completed 305 day records over 600 pounds butterfat in July. The top record was 748 pounds butterfat and 19 580 pounds milk from a grade Holstein owned by Robert Bell of Coggon. Other top producers include Ted Becker Center Point 696 bf 18 250 milk and George Reyhons Mt Vernon 650 bf 17 910 milk.
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Linn Dairy Herd Improvement Association
DHIA
Wendell Donnelly
Central City
Robert Bell
Coggon
Ted Becker
Center Point
Georges Reyhons
Mt. Vernon
Galen Covington
Monticello
Bell
Becker
Normal $225 Million Grain Sale To Soviet Union Networks
E W Ned Cook of Cook Industries Memphis describes a straightforward, large commodity deal with Export Khleb of the Soviet Union. The $225 million sale, believed part of a potential $1 billion Soviet grain purchase, began with June negotiations and marks the largest single sale by the company.
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Memphis, Tenn
E. W
Ned Cook
Soviet Union
Cook
Cook Industries, Inc
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Export Khleb
U.S
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