Breed Groups Back Swine Test Station at Kirkwood
Eight major swine breed groups support building a swine test station at Kirkwood Community College. The planned facility costs 180000 dollars and would host nine testing units with twenty pens, aiming for a national center for breeding stock testing. Breeders show overwhelming interest and expect a two-test annual program totaling about two thousand hours capacity.
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Kirkwood
Kirkwood Community College
Richard Jubs
Kirkwood weighs cattle breeding center at campus
Juhi and administrators discuss a proposed farm center modeled after Iowa State with eight breed associations funding and a five year use period. Estimated cost 160000 to 180000 dollars. Semi annual payments of about 180000 would cover a full-time manager and operations. Location at Kirkwood aligns with Iowa’s status as a top hog producer.
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Juhi
Kirkwood
Uimpus
Juhl
Iowa State University
B.A. Jensen
Iowa
USDA Reconsiders Beef Grading Plan
Washington AP The agriculture department rethinks beef grading changes after a flood of consumer letters. Proposal would shift some younger cattle from Good to Choice to align with breeding and feeding advances.
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USDA
Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Meat, Industry
John C. Pierce
Agricultural Marketing Service
Nancy Harvey Stearts
National Agricultural Outlook
Butz proposes Food Academy to aid poor farmers
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz proposed new teaching methods to help farmers in poor countries raise more food and suggested a Food for Peace academy could be set up. He warned that too often the trained elites return home to offices far from the plowman.
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Washington
Earl. Buls
Butz
Jackson says export controls hurt soybean farmers profits
Ralph T. Jackson of the American Soybean Association told the Senate Agriculture Committee that U S export controls dampen demand and keep prices unprofitable. He warned increased production depends on favorable selling prices versus corn and cotton and criticized aid via an AID loan to Paraguay, urging funding for soybean research instead.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Ralph T. Jackson
Hudson, Lewd
The
American Soybean Assn
ASA
Jackson
USA
U. S
Agency For International Development (Aid
Paraguay
Cedar County tops corn and soy yields in county contest
Agne Bros. and Conrad of Tipton lead with 177.06 bushels per acre in corn and Jeff Licht of London wins soybeans at 47.04 bushels per acre. Average corn yield across 25 contestants is 145.4 while soybeans average 42.95. County officials note washed-out fields and variable weather, including wet spring and early frost, skew results.
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Agne Bros
Aenokd Conrad
Tipton
Cedar County
Jeff Licht
London
Licht
Conrad
DeKalb
Ken Mutler
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