Farm Bureau delegates urge continued farmland assessments
Iowa Farm Bureau voting delegates at the West Des Moines meeting called for continued productive capacity assessments on farmland after 1978 79. They urged using accepted appraisal methods for farm homes and buildings and cautioned against sales data misrepresenting market value. They supported flexible state land use for recreation, conservation, historical site protection, feedlot placement, industrial growth, and soil erosion controls. They urged a cap on school district budget increases and proposed a voluntary hog grading system. The Kirkwood Community College Christmas dinner with Orion Samuelson was announced for Dec 16 at Iowa Hall Cedar Rapids. contact 398 5652 by Dec 12. tickets $6.
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West Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Farm Bureau
Iowa
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Swine Producers and Packers
Kirkwood Community College
Iowa Hall
Kirkwood
Cedar Rapids
Orion Samuelson
WGN Radio and Television
Chicago
Bergland backs NFO bargaining and parity aims
In Omaha, Secretary of Agriculture Bergland voiced strong support for National Farmers Organization cost of production plus profit bargaining and Operation 30 to mobilize 30 percent of output. He warned about post Saturday actions while urging continued use of NFO tools and noted parity limits and funding options for 100 percent parity. Actor Broderick Crawford is noted as born in 1911.
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Omaha
Neb
U.S
Minnesota
NFO
America
NFC
Oren Lee Staley
Bergland
Department of Agriculture
Treasury
Winter weigh-ins for calves and wrestlers in county fairs
This column notes calf weigh-ins listed in the Gazette Farm Datebook with two events set for Friday in Delaware and Washington counties. It cautions youths to check with 4-H leaders or FFA advisers about possible cancellations due to stormy weather and reports a Washington County Cat tlemen's Association preconditioned calf sale had 70 calves consigned and a top price of 43.80 per hundredweight.
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Gazette Farm Page
Delaware
Washington
Future Farmers of America
Washington County Cattlemen’s Association
Federal meeting planned on sulfa in pork supply
Federal officials plan a mid January meeting in Washington with FDA and Agriculture Department to probe persistent sulfa drug residues in U S pork. The session aims to gather information and urge hog producers to tighten sulfa use as a feed additive.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
Agriculture Department
Auctions in multiple locations highlight December sales
Several auctions listed for Saturday December 10 including close out sales at 1 p.m. near Hiawatha and Clarence, and auctions at 10 11 a.m. near Monti Marion Dysart and C.R. airport with items such as machinery hens melons pigs antiques and general misc. A separate sale is planned for Tuesday January 24 at 10 30 a.m. near Atkins by Richard Wilhelmi. 30 YEARS AGO France faces a major labor mobilization with two million strikers urged to return to work by the communist dominated CGT.
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Mach
Bob
Don Deven
Hiawatha
William Mardorf
Monticello
Keith V. Clark
Marion
Emma Sturtz
Dysart
Raymond Hein
Clarence
Steven Cerveny
C.R
Richard Wilhelmi
Atkins
French General Confederation of Labor
France
Doubts on Farm Strike From National Forum Attendees
Farmers and wives at Kansas City conferences voiced support for action on low prices but many resisted the Dec 14 strike plan. Dairy and livestock producers said production holds due to perishability and market realities, with concerns about pouring milk and docking for overweight hogs.
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Kansas City
National Farm Women’s Forum
National Beef Congress
Mavis Bruns
Gibbon
Minn
Mrs. Bruns
Laverna Stutzman
Wellman
Iowa
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