USDA to Slash Spending by 213 Million by June 30
UPI reports US agriculture officials plan a roughly 213 million cut in new spending commitments for the 1967 68 fiscal year as part of a government wide 10 percent reduction. The plan targets FHA rural credit USDA soil and water, watershed projects and school lunch subsidies among others and would save about 123 million in actual outlays this year.
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Washington
UPI
Defense
Agriculture Department
Congressional Economy
Congress
Department
Farmers Home Administration
Soil and Water Development
FHA
Rural Electrification Administration
Soil Conservation Service
Blackbird Damage to Ohio Crops Widens Across State
Ohio's Wooster agricultural station says redwing blackbirds are a major pest, with corn losses in some counties from one to nineteen percent and an estimated fifteen million dollars in annual crop damage. Methods to curb them are limited by laws and practicality. a long term research program is urged.
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Coralville
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Wooster
Ohio
Canada
Mexico
Government buys whale hens to aid poultry producers
Washington reports the U S department of agriculture purchased 5 256 000 pounds of fresh frozen whale hens for 1 072 000 dollars to support poultry producers and will make weekly purchases going forward.
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Washington
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Iowa Vegetable Crop Valued at 2 268 000 in 1967
Des Moines reports Iowa sold 9 910 acres of commercial vegetables in 1967, up 9 percent from 1966, with sweet corn processing at 6 500 acres, two thirds of the total, and crop value reaching 2 268 000 dollars, 21 percent higher than 1966.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Iown
Delaware DHIC Sets Annual Meeting in Manchester
The Delaware county Dairy Herd Improvement Cooperative will meet Thursday January 11 at 9 30 a m in the Manchester Legion hall. Supervisors will report and officers will be elected. Extension dairyman Basil Eastwood will present DHIA testing results and lead a dairy herd management workshop.
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Manchester
Delaware County Dairy Herd Improvement Cooperative
Manchester Legion Hall
Extension
Basil Eastwood
District Holstein Meetings Planned Across Iowa
Iowa's 11 district Holstein associations announce annual meetings led by Holstein fieldman Robert D. Heilman. Meetings begin January 3 in Waterloo District 7 and run through January 17 in Postville District 1 with noon Dutch-treat lunches. Floyd Arnold and Maurice Sutton will participate, panel discusses breeding and merchandising for registered Holsteins, state association annual meeting January 23-24 in Charles City with speaker Robert Rumler.
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Iowa
Robert D. Heilman
Holstein Fieldman
Waterloo
Dale Gerlach
Toledo
Carousel
Iowa City
John Dane
Farm Bureau
Anamosa
William Schueller
Zwingle
REC
Postville
Alvin. Thoreson
Heilman
Floyd Arnold
Ames
Iowa Holstein Assn
Club Iowa
Charles City
Robert Rumler
Hollstein-Friesian Assn. of America
Brattleboro
U.S. Popcorn Crop Falls 14 Percent From Last Year
The USDA report shows U.S. popcorn production at 432 million pounds, down 14 percent year over year but 4 percent above the long-term average. Acreage planted dropped 17 percent to 181000 acres, with harvest at 163000 acres down 21 percent. Indiana led production at 9.5 million pounds, followed by Iowa at 95 million.
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Indiana
Iowa
Illinois Ohio and Kentucky follow in production order
Production in other states rose 8 percent year over year as Illinois Ohio and Kentucky trailed in the overall sequence.
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Illinois
Ohio
Kentucky
Farm Sale Near Sreskiva Auction of Machinery and Cattle
Farm sale held 32 miles northwest of Sreskiva features 806 diesel machinery line including a JD 720 and JOG, plus 50 Holstein and Guernsey cows and first cow heifers. Also selling silage 3500 bushels of corn in ear hay and straw.
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Guernsey
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Lawrence Caoperider
Marungo
SaJe
Aagreill Kimm
Prairieburg
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Belle Flame
Clyde
Pete
Mumady
Ladora
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Williamsburg
Leland i Reineke
Pearl Gate
Serngville
White
Springville
Claude
Kennadh Wingfield
Lina County
Cagnan
Edward Sliver
Prairipburg
Ohio Report
Gazette
Delaware
DHIC
U.S
Sreskiva
Doty and Frizzell Owners
Lady Sheds
Sheda
Chelsea
Lows
First Federal Savings & Loan Association
First Ave
Cedar Rapids
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