Half of Ag Research Is By Industry
The Agriculture Department reports private industry conducts roughly half of the national agricultural research, focusing on commercial farming and engineering rather than basic science. Industry plans to boost total research by about 65 percent by 1975, emphasizing chemicals, foods, machinery, and forest products to improve farm efficiency and new product development. A line notes corn rows near cover will help pheasants survive winter.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Iowa Farm Bureau To Send 150 Delegates To National Meet
Des Moines reports more than 150 Iowa Farm Bureau members will attend the 49th annual American Farm Bureau Federation meeting December 10 to 14 in Chicago. Eight Iowa voting delegates and eight women’s official delegates will participate in resolutions, leadership votes, and sessions at the Conrad Hilton.
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Des Moines
Iowa Farm Bureau
American Farm Bureau Federation
Conrad Hilton
Chicago
Iowa
J. Merrill Anderson
Newton
IFBF
Dean Kleckner
Rudd
Paul Peterson
Holstein
Eugene Krohn
Council Bluffs
Eli Stakland
What Cheer
J. Eldon Airy
Marion
Kenneth Woody
Knoxville
Mark Bowman
Garber
Herbert Johnson
Charles City
Louis Peterson
Lawton
Francis Mapes
Earlham
Walter Heller
Princeton
Frederick Becker
McGregor
Dale Duffy
Iowa Falls
Elton Baker
Woodbine
Emil Lamparek
Cedar Rapids
Farm Auction Calendar roundup with multiple sites and dates
A detailed sequence of December farm auctions lists dates and locations for closing out sales and stock dispersals. Entries cover machinery cattle hogs grain hay straw livestock ponies dairy cattle rare breeds at numerous rural Iowa spots including Monticello Anamosa Van Horne North Liberty Center Point and Cedar Rapids with events from December 7 to December 28 1949 style notices.
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Paul Meier
Monticello
George Heiken
Anamosa
Leonard Pickering
van Horne
Harold Ehresman
Ray Ham
Earlville
Ed Sacy
Victor
Sh.h. Goods
Tom Parry
John Cain
Stanwood
Lumir J. Shebetka
North Liberty
Glenn and Dorest Hoglan
Center Point
Midwest Quality Club
Hawkeye Downs
Cedar Rapids
Auction Lunch on Grounds Farm Equipment Sale
Auctioneer A Hess of Worthington IA presides over a rural sale listing a tractor manure spreader hay baler plow mower wagon and junk machinery plus alfalfa oats straw and ear corn. Terms: cash or 25 percent down. balance over 6 8 10 17 or up to 18 months with 1 percent monthly finance and carrying charges. settlement day of sale. No property removed until cattle sold.
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Massey Sterris Pia
Massey Harris
N.I
A. Hess
Worthington
Iowa
Bill Stinghary
Sales & Service
Manchester
Albert H. Noble
Mineral Point
Wisconsin
Ken Morena
Central Ave
Dubuque
68 Soybean Rules Still To Be Made
Washington AP reports the Agriculture Department has yet to decide 1968 soybean support and planting on diverted feed grain land. The current soybean support is $2.50 per bushel and may continue at that level next year with restrictions on diverted land to avoid a surplus.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Argentina Hits Meat Import Ban
Argentina breeders vow to stop buying British thoroughbred horses in protest of the meat import ban. The Argentine Breeders' Association had planned to spend about a million dollars at Newmarket December sales. Britain’s agriculture minister cited foot and mouth disease as the reason for the embargo on meat imports from affected countries.
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London
Newmarket
Fred Peart
Argentina
Britain
Fayette Extension Council Names New Members
In Fayette County, new extension council members were elected at township meetings. Banks township Douglas Grahlman Cen ter James Swenka Dover Leslie Lauer Harlan John Ingels Scott Carl Becker Windsor Mrs Warren Frey Incumbents re elected to two year terms Fairfield township Alfred Turner Jefferson Donald Buxton Pleasant Valley Abe Habeger Union Arlo Mork
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Fayette
Fayette County
Maquoketa Valley Co op reports record sales and milk volume
Arlington firm Maquoketa Valley Cooperative posts a 1967 fiscal year record with total sales of 12,228,089 and 260,772,844 pounds of milk handled. Net savings reach 18,623.34 amid assets of 2,612,855.97 and member equity of 1,788,928.85. Officers include Art Dittmer president and Keith Kerr vice president. board members listed with advisers.
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Arlington
Maquoketa
Art Dittmer
Keith Kerr
Reynold Busse
Fred Klingman
Richie Kane
John Davis
George Basset
Ronald McAllister
Lyle Zieman
Wayland Frederick
Albert Carrothers
John Boss
Plant Propagators Award Honors Mahlstede
Dr. John Mahlstede associate director of the Iowa agricultural experiment station received the International Plant Propagators Society award of merit for outstanding horticulture research. The honor was given at the society convention in Mobile Alabama. Mahlstede former head of Iowa State University horticulture and author on plant propagation.
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Ames
John Mahlstede
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
International Plant Propagators’ Society
Mobile
Ala
Mahlistede
Iowa State University
December Class I Milk Price Steady at 5.11 in Cedar Rapids Area
The December Class I milk price remains at 5.11 per hundred pounds with 3.5 percent butterfat in the Cedar Rapids Iowa City market. Butterfat differential is 8 cents per hundredweight for each 0.1 percent above or below 3.5. November Class II price is 4.00, up two cents from October but 21 cents below October 1966. The minimum producer blend price for November deliveries will be announced later this week by the market administrator.
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Cedar Rapids-Ilowa
H. McGuire
Feed Grain Assn To Meet Next Week
Des Moines hosts the 68th Iowa Grain and Feed Association convention December 13 to 15. About 2000 grain feed fertilizer agricultural chemical and farm supply professionals from Iowa and nearby states attend. Twenty nationally known speakers present the theme Profit Patterns for 68 over two days with over 125 exhibits at Veterans Memorial auditorium.
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Feed, Grain Assn
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Grain and Feed Association
Veterans Memorial Auditorium
Farmers pay 11 percent more for LP gas this year
Farmers pay 11 percent more for liquid petroleum gas than a year ago with average home heating and cooking use. The average price per gallon is 14.5 cents and about 49 percent of farmers rely on this gas for household needs.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA to pilot cut flower market reporting
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will begin experimental daily reporting on five major cut flower crops. The pilot, funded by the Florists' Transworld Delivery Association, covers roses carnations gladioli standard chrysanthemums and pompons in San Francisco wholesale markets and central California production areas.
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Washington
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Florists
Transworld Delivery Association
San Francisco
California
Shucks Column: Belle Plaine Growers Pick Varieties For Timing
Belle Plaine farmer Lewis L. Falck of Funk Brothers explains seed corn buyers have sold late maturity corn under pressure. He urges choosing maturities that fit farming, noting early varieties let fields be plowed sooner and still earn good returns. Some Belle Plaine growers plant Funk GI7A to spread harvests and balance yield.
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Lewis L. Falck
Belle Plaine
Funk Brothers
Falck
Funk
Minnesota
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