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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1976
Page
5
The National Weather Service expects a week of frigid air across the Upper Midwest with persistent below normal temperatures and dry, light precipitation. Forecasters anticipate unusually cold highs and potential wind chill impacts driven by advancing Arctic air over the region.
In Manchester Delaware county 4 H cora champion A Hoh Beswick 17 of Greeley claimed the 461 project champion title with a 134 43 bushel per acre yield. Brian Burns 17 of Manchester placed second with 134 34 bushel per acre. Weather aided yields, rainfall ran 9.2 inches April to September, far below normal. The winning field was planted April 29 with 22 800 plants per acre and harvested mid October.
Washington AP reports that U.S. farm numbers continue to decline but at a slower rate than a decade ago. Preliminary 1977 figures show about 2,783,000 farms operating Jan 1, 1977, down from 2,809,000 a year earlier and a decade drop from 3,287,000 in 1968. Texas remains the leader with 202,000 farms. Alaska has the fewest with three.
Agriculture expert Ray Halley notes 1976 in Iowa was the driest June through November on record. Corn yields were the bright spot, with production over one billion bushels, while overall receipts rose about two percent from 1975 and soybean yields averaged 31 bushels per acre. The year featured grain inspection changes, a new beef grading system, and World Food Conference events at Iowa State University during the Bicentennial.
Gaskill of Corwith was rejected to the board of directors of the Agriculture Council of America at the group’s Florida meeting earlier this month. He represents the Iowa Corn Growers on the council’s board. Farm Auctions lean 2. Cline out sale, p20, ja mach, Jerry Casey, 244 ah, NW of Pals, fal, lan. & land auction, say, 270 ates, and Ciuyer estate, 1 3/4 wi. SE of Lost Nation.
Ames report says Jim Falvey, 23, of Cambridge, has been named a field manager with the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association, serving southern Iowa. Falvey is an 1873 animal science graduate of Iowa State University and has worked with an artificial breeding service.
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