Record corn yields rise in three eastern Iowa counties
The Iowa Corn Yield Study reports 1963 yields above 1962 in Keokuk, Linn, and Fayette counties. Keokuk's top site reached 154 bushels per acre on a Sigourney-area farm. Linn and Fayette topped at 151. Average plots ranged 90 to 154 bushels, with Fayette shows 111 bushels average on 19 plots amid dry conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Keokuk
Fayette
Linn
Soil Conservation Service
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Ames
Extension Service
Keokuk County
Sigourney
M. R. Greiner
Francis
Linn County
Frank Henik
Mt. Vernon
Leonard F
Roland Henik
Fayette County
J. C. Davis
Oelwein
Highway Three
Emory Wilson
George P. Thorburn
Mervin G. Danielson
Edwards
Prairieburg
Danielson
George Marak
Marion
Leland A. McCord
Howard F. Boyle
American Farm Bureau Adopts Policy Stands
The American Farm Bureau Federation finished its 45th annual convention with resolutions on peanut programs federal highway financing and other policy questions. Delegates urged gradual elimination of government crop controls while allowing transitional allotments and opposed federal compensatory payments and government operation of private business.
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American Farm Bureau
Chicago
APS
American Farm Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau
Youth Conservation Corps
U.S
U.S. Supreme Court
House
UN American Activities Committee
Senate
Internal ‘Security Subcommittee
Incoming Farm Auctions Across Iowa Listings
A sequence of farm auctions is announced with dates from December 13 to January 29. The notices list buyers and sellers including Ray and R. H. Helgens Frank Vorel Fay Bud Fisher Don and Hazel Davis Har old Edmonds John C. Tessman Jack Takes Est and Boyd Vandaner L. oO. Schirm and Son Charles H. Jansa Herrington and Johnson Arnold Bader Knepper and Moreland Louis Nacht man Edwards E. Forest and others. Auction items include Holstein cattle machinery feed grain hay straw livestock hogs pigeons hens and farm buildings along rural routes near Monticello Cedar Rapids Shellsburg Quasqueton Independence Coggon Swisher Hopkinton Ryan and Hopkinton.
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Frank Vorel
Cedar Rapids
Old Hwy
Fay “Bud” Fisher
Shellsburg
Don and
Hazel Davis
Quasqueton
Harold Edmonds
Coggan
John C. Tessman
Independence
Jack Takes
Boyd Vandaner
Coggon
Hay and Grain Show Scheduled at Alburnett School
The Future Farmers of America chapter at Alburnett Community School will host the annual hay and grain show next Thursday at 7 30 p m in the vocational agriculture room. Entries are open to FFA and open class exhibitors. The event accompanies the first adult farmer evening class session for 1963 64 with a crop and soils presentation by an agronomy specialist and topics on fertilizer, soil testing, animal diseases, and face flies.
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Alburnett
Future Farmers of America
Alburnett Community School
Melvin R. Essex
FFA
Essex
Scab Inspection Begins for Keokuk County Sheep
Inspection of Keokuk county sheep flocks for scabies starts Monday and will be finished by March 1, according to Dr K R Hook federal veterinarian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sigourney
Keokuk County
K. R. Hook
Food Donations Dip in July-September USDA reports
The agriculture department announced July to September food donations totaled 403.2 million pounds, down 4 percent from a year earlier. Feed recipients in the needy family category fell from 6.1 to 5.2 million in September, while schools received 105.4 million pounds, up 10 percent due to higher enrollments and federal-state lunch programs in low income areas.
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Washington
UPS
Agriculture Department
Department
Turkey industry warned of consolidation and decline
Nebraska processor Verne Jones told the Iowa Turkey Fed ration convention that Iowa turkey farmers may fall 25 percent in three to five years unless growers hatcherymen feed companies and processors join forces. Wallace Ross urged orderly expansion to boost competition. Burdette Weaver was elected federation president with Ed Saylor and Clarence Debner as vice presidents and Donald Barkema as secretary treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilowa
Nebraska
Verne Jones
Ocoma Foods
Nebraska City
Neb
Iowa
Jones
Wallace Ross
Ames
Ross
Burdette Weaver
Moville
Ed Saylor
Osceola
Clarence Debner
Cedar Falls
Donald Barkema
Jewell
Johnson County Angus Sale Averages $309
KALONA The Johnson County Angus Breeders Assn sale averaged $309 on 62 lots. Bulls averaged $438 and females $298 while steer and heifer calves averaged $152. Top bull, consigned by Schnoebelen and Yates and W D Shellady, sold for $600 to Paul Eckrich. top female brought $535 to Wesley Mack.
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Kalona
Johnson County
Angus Breeders Assn
Schnoebelen
Yates
W. D. Shellady
Riverside
Paul Eckrich
Oxford
Wesley Mack
Fairfield
Newsom Elected by World Farm Group
National Grange Master Herschel D. Newsom is elected president of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers at a December 5 Rome meeting. He succeeds B. W. Biesheuval who resigned in August to become Netherlands minister of agriculture.
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Washington
Herschel D. Newsom
International Federation of Agricultural Producers
Newsom
IFAP
Rome
B. W. Biesheuval
Netherlands
Growth of Maquoketa Valley Co op Marks Ten Year Span
The Maquoketa Valley Cooperative formed from Arlington and Strawberry Point creameries shows rapid growth. Sales rose from 2.12 million to 7.17 million dollars and milk volume increased from 55.45 million to 192.59 million pounds. The Arlington plant on Highway 3, opened three years ago, carries a book value of 983 thousand. The cooperative borrowed 376 thousand from the Omaha Bank for Cooperatives for construction. all but 30 thousand has been repaid. Members’ equity stood at 1.25 million as of Sept 30. Net income last year was 46.57 thousand, with 37.70 thousand patronage dividends. Taxes set aside 2.85 thousand and 6.02 thousand remained in the operating fund. The company processed 53.71 million pounds Grade A milk, 62.03 million bulk manufacturing milk, 76.84 million can manufacturing milk, and 0.67 million pounds of cream averaging 31.2% butterfat.
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Arlington
Maquoketa Valley
Strawberry Point
Highway 3
Omaha Bank For Cooperatives
Yearly dairy figures and improvement fund checks noted
The report cites 722 460 pounds of butter and 11 219 000 pounds of milk powder produced during the year. Patrons now receive the improvement fund check-off withheld in October 1958, totaling 112 513 dollars.
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Improvement Fund
Pig Crop Report Set for Dec 20
Washington reports the December pig crop report will be issued by the Crop Reporting Board on December 20 at noon EST. The release includes Dec 1 inventories for all states, the size of the 1963 pig crop, and sow farrowings for December through May. State area and national totals will be shown with extra data for the 10 Corn Belt states.
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Washington
Crop Reporting Board
Corn Assn Officials to Attend Washington Meetings
Four directors of the National Corn Growers Association travel to Washington for meetings of the secretary of agriculture feed grain advisory committee next Monday and Tuesday. Walter W. Goeppinger of Boone serves as president, Fred Ludwig of Laurens is vice president, with Charles Hearst of Cedar Falls and Ralph Cole of Lincoln, Neb., also on the delegation.
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Boone
National Corn Growers Association
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Walter W. Goeppinger
Fred Ludwig
Laurens
Charles ‘Hearst
Cedar Falls
Ralph Cole
Lincoln, Neb
Soils Cooperators Add Luther College and Local Firms
WAUKON new cooperators with Allamakee county soil conservation district include Luther College Decorah Roger Freese Kurth Brothers and Verdine Berns. This increases the district total to 913 cooperators.
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Waukon
Allamakee ‘County
Expanded Markets Won't Solve the Surplus
At the field crops convention in Chicago O B Jesness former Minnesota professor said surplus exists from over allocation of resources and not from expansion markets. He warned Russia wheat demand may be temporary and urged shifting resources out of farming to less intensive uses.
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Jesness
Chicago
UPI
American Farm Bureau Federation
O. B. Jesness
University of Minnesota
Russia
U. S
Iowa Reports Thirty Cholera Outbreaks in November
DES MOINES Thirty hog cholera outbreaks in twenty three counties were quarantined in Iowa during November. Dr. M E Pomeroy state veterinarian said the month’s total is the highest so far this year with 31 outbreaks in April as a comparison. He attributed the rise to increased feeder pig movement and noted a dealer who shipped infected herds into Iowa has been restricted to handling pigs from northern states.
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Des Moines
Iowa
M. E. Pomeroy
Pomeroy
Towa
Wellman Banker Heads Credit School Group
Wellman Savings Bank president S. R. Barber named chairman of the agricultural credit school committee by Iowa Bankers Association president Charles H. Walsh. The program, run by Iowa State University with the association, began in 1946 and has offered two to three week sessions for Iowa bankers each year since.
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Wellman
S. R. Barber
Wellman Savings Bank
Agricultural Credit School Committee
Charles H. Walsh
Iowa Bankers Association
Agricultural
Iowa State University
Iowa
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Bud) Fischer
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Soils Cooperators
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Dale’s Fruit Mets
Dale's Market Center Point
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AFBF
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Aaberg
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