Farm Roundup Promotes Passer To WMT Farm Director
WMT Station editor Jerry Passer, 35, named farm service director effective Sept 1, succeeding Johnnie Linn. Passer has led WMT farming coverage since June 1973 after duties at KQAQ Austin Minnesota. Linn returns to Phoenix Arizona.
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Phoenix
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Farmers Union convention set for Altoona weekend
Tony Dechant president of the National Farmers Union will speak at the state Farmers Union convention at the Adventureland Inn Altoona September 8 and 9. He will address the honors banquet Saturday night with a special panel on grain and livestock marketing featuring Rep Neal Smith and Robert G Lewis. Jerome Fitzgerald and Cy Carpenter will address the Friday banquet.
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Dlowa
Robert G. Lewis
Farmers Union
State fairs and ag events across Iowa and Nebraska
The notice lists events from the Nebraska State Fair in Lincoln September 1 to 10, and multiple Iowa fairs and meetings through early September. Highlights include the Golden Eagle Quality Park Show in Eagle Grove, Linn County Quality Park Show in Lisbon, and various tours, field days, and livestock gatherings across Cedar Rapids, Tama, Keyst one, Stanwood, and other locales.
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Wisconsin
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Iowa
Grant Wood
Sixth Street
Cedar Rapids
Roy Albers Farm
Keystone
Cedar County
Hi-Way Gardens
Stanwood
Wright County Fairground
Eagle Grove
Fran Callahan
Milford
Ill
Boone Valley Cooperative
Linn County
Lisbon
Linn County Park Producers Association
Linn County Rural Electric Cooperative
Teamsters Hall
J Street
Tama County
Toledo
Eastern Iowa Livestock Commission
Mike Dunphy
Hawkeye Institute of Technology
Waterloo
Wilson Foods
Dairy Cattle Congress
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Wessel steer tops Big Four Fair at Postville show
Teresa Wessel of Greeley exhibited the grand champion heavyweight steer at the Big Four Fair in Postville. Dawn Haasis of Strawberry Point earned reserve, Sherry Welsh of Waukon showed the lightweight steer, and Dan Byrnes of Waukon won supreme champion heifer and senior showmanship in beef. Dairy champions included Raush siblings of Fort Atkinson, with Danny 11 and Lori 16 capturing multiple titles. Others were Donald Lyons of Lansing, Kevin Eberling of Postville, and Pat Welsh of Waukon in showmanship. sheep honors went to Kevin Lansing and Mike Becker with Kevin Lansing pen of three as winner.
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Teresa Wessel
Greeley
Dawn Haasis
Strawberry Point
Sherry Welsh
Waukon
Ron Hefner
McGregor
Dan Byrnes
Tom Kosher
Fort Atkinson
Bill Suckow
Raush
Danny Raush
Lori
Dale
Ayrshire
Melvin Raush
Donald Lyons
Lansing
Kevin Eberling
Lyons
Eberling
John Krambeer
Karma Larson
Krambeer
Larson
Pat Welsh
Kevin Lansing
Decorah
Mike Becker
Mike Cornelius
Ridgeway
Beef checkoff vote passes, 70 percent favor for four years
The Des Moines referendum on the beef promotion checkoff secured 70.8 percent in favor with 2,901 yes and 1,191 no votes. The outcome extends the program for four years, credited to improved industry prices. Also notes Oliver Wendell Holmes birth on this date in 1809.
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