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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1971
Page
9
The Chicago Union Stockyards received a six month reprieve after a federal judge issued a restraining order, delaying the planned closure that had been slated for Monday amid heavy operating deficits. The stay followed a request by three parties seeking to preserve the yards and their operations.
Congressman John Culver urged the secretary of agriculture to negotiate to keep Chicago stockyards open until August 1. He warned that closing February 1 would burden users and depress beef prices, as Joliet, Illinois, plans a new yard ready by August. A group of buyers and the Chicago livestock exchange ordered the stay, with a daily operating subsidy of 2000 dollars to cover expenses. The stockyards, once central to meatpacking, have faced decentralization trends.
DES MOINES The Iowa Hereford Association will hold its 34th annual show at the state fair grounds in Des Moines on Sunday Feb. 14. Secretary We Thompson said 40 Iowa breeders entered 100 bulls and 20 females to be judged by Ted Thomas of the Wyoming Hereford Ranch in Cheyenne.
DES MOINES UPD A bill to fund promotion of the state's turkey industry proposes a one half cent charge on each turkey delivered for processing for 10 pounds or more. Processors must vote in favor before it takes effect. funds go to the Iowa Turkey Federation and terminate July 1 194 unless renewed by referendum.
Listings of upcoming auctions across Iowa areas including Anamosa Amana Mt Vernon Tipton and Ceder Rapids detail auctions for Guernseys ewes machinery grain and livestock. Real estate and sow sales are noted with times and locations such as 4 miles SW of CR and 34 fields north of Troy Mills.
Canadian geese feeding on Maryland wheatfields in Talbot county threaten farmers. Nearly one third of 647 rural Tidlands farmers have stopped growing wheat as geese, aided by migration patterns, defy control measures. Agricultural agent Roscoe Brown Jr. notes the geese are winning the battle despite scare tactics and legal protections.
Frank Connolly, owner of a 400 acre Wye river farm, quits wheat farming to profit from goose hunting rights sold to a private club. At Camp Wapsie, 4-H members from Iowa counties plan leadership training to run future camps, under guidance of Carlton Callahan and Glen Thompson. The piece notes widespread farming and rural life context with a claim that 1 in 20 Americans lives on a farm.
DES MOINES An Alburnett beef producer Leo Palmer was elected president-elect of the Iowa Angus Association at the state meeting in Des Moines. James O'Neill of Logan was elected president to succeed Richard T. Bell of Osceola. The sale reported high bull and female averages with multiple top prices and consignors from Montgomery Farms Scranton Clapp Oxford Junction and Muscatine among others. Palmer's son Gary showed the champion junior female and Rebecca Schumaker of Cresco the reserve junior female. The futurity bull sold for 2109 to J C Holbert Bettendorf. High selling bull 2600 to Donnibrook farms Hlairstown. Second high selling bull 2500 to Wilkenson and Sons Marshalltown. Champion futurity female sold for 1100 to Danner Brothers Muscatine.
The agriculture department said 22 Chicago Mercantile Exchange pork belly futures traders admitted violating federal rules last year but no formal charges were filed. Each broker signed a stipulation of compliance promising not to repeat the practices. Identified brokers include Arnold A. Brin Walter E Cahill Gerald H.
Washington AP Agriculture department scientists tested ground newsprint as up to 24 percent of roughage in cattle rations. Steers on an 8 percent level gained more per day than at 16 or 24 percent, with no adverse effects reported.
The district Federal Crop Insurance Corporation office in Marion reported it sold the maximum corn crop coverage in Cedar Clinton Jackson and Scott counties and could not accept more applications in those counties. Coverage was maxed in Linn and Jones counties, with farmers still able to buy at the Marion office as those counties are not closed. Fieldmen continue seeking oats and soybean liability coverage as the 40 percent increase over last year has not been reached.
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