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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1978
Page
9
Chris Maier of Eagle Grove Iowa earned the grand champion steer at the Illinois State Fair for the second year in a row, a 1 185 pound Simmenta Red Angus cross. The steer will be auctioned Tuesday with hopes of exceeding last year's $16500 sale. She plans to use the money for college.
The 31st American Angus Breeders Futurity crowned a March yearling heifer from Glenkirk Farms Maysville Missouri as supreme female. Iowa exhibitors included Darla Dick Douds and Doran Bollman Pulaski with Dick winning the heifer calf champion and Bollman the reserve bull calf champion.
The Great Jones County Fair wrapped with a beef show 4-H beef auction and Prime Steer Show. Chris Deeb of Anamosa won grand and lightweight market beef titles. Owen Domer Morley topped the 4-H auction at 65 per hundredweight. Jim Jameson Anamosa won the Prime Steer Show. The Angus steer sold for 59 per hundred. A Cedar Rapids Police grievance panel protested promotions from 30 years ago.
Iowa country elevators held steady despite a U S Agriculture Department report predicting a record corn crop of about 6 5 billion bushels, surpassing last year's 6 37 billion. Corn futures fell early but recovered, with weekly corn prices down 5 to 8 1 2 cents. No 2 yellow corn ranged 1 76 to 1 83 per bushel, soybeans rose 3 to 6 cents, hogs up 50 cents, steers and lambs weaker, and eggs down 3 cents for the week.
The Iowa Public Broadcasting Network says Farm Digest will air more often and reach about 20 new stations across Iowa and neighboring states. The program features agricultural leaders, market segments, and consumer information with potential satellite broadcasts expanding its reach. Governor Ray praises the expanding, respected show.
The Foreign Agriculture magazine notes a possible Soviet push to grow more soybeans to ease a protein deficit, though it says current Russian output lags far behind the United States. It cites Ukraine plantings and the use of soy for forage as factors shaping potential progress.
Decorah participants dominate sheep awards with Jan Becker taking champion market lamb, purebred ewe lamb, and purebred ram lamb. In beef, Denise Dickman’s grand champion market beef led at $120 per hundredweight. Don Dreath earned top swine price at $80, as 56 cattle and 108 swine averaged $62 and $58 per cwt respectively.
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