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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1966
Page
2
Government records show farmers received a record 2.45 billion dollars in 1965 for cooperating with price and income stabilization programs and production controls. Total farm payments rose 281 million from 1964 as payments shifted toward Midwest grain and Great Plains wheat growers.
Iowa county 4-H members had skating and sledding canceled by below zero conditions. The event is moved to Saturday from 1 30 to 4 p.m. at the beach area west of the new Iowa county lake eight miles south of Ladora. 4 H Honor club members will provide refreshments.
A dense listing of farm auctions and sales schedules from February 4 to February 24. It names sellers, auction times, and locations across Iowa towns such as Kalona Alburnett Shellsburg Bent on county sites Lyons Urbana Lisbon Adams Amana Maquoketa Monticello Belle Plaine Cedar Valley Vinton Mt. Vernon Ryan Coggan Central City Blairstown Marion Shellsburg Atkins Hawkeye Downs Winthrop Delbert Krug Patterson and others, with items including livestock machinery grain hay Holsteins dispersals and 125 acre farm sales.
Linn County Dairy Herd Improvement Association members voted to actively recruit new members as part of a state plan to double DHIA enrolled cows by 1970. The group met with about 60 attendees and approved a $1 per herd per month fee increase to cover rising supervisor costs.
The Elkader Production Credit Association will hold two annual meetings this year. The first on February 21 at Veterans hall in Elkader and the second on February 22 at St. Mary's school in Manchester, both starting with a noon dinner. Donald L. Hovendick of Omaha will be the principal speaker at Elkader.
DeWitt hosts the ninth Interstate Producers Livestock Association market in Iowa. The Farm Bureau affiliate runs 42 markets in Iowa and Illinois and operates Chicago Springfield and Peoria terminals. Bob Bowman named manager at DeWitt facility leasing from Corn Belt Cattle Co. others are Tipton Washington Grinnell Allison Ridgeway Maynard Waukon Elkader.
William C. Ritter of Elkader will visit the Fayette county ASC office in Fayette Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to help farmers with tree planting practices and woodlot management.
Waterloo Iowa hosts the National Dairy Cattle Congress premium list for 1966. Eleven classes cover females bulls and groups with three new awards premier sire breeder s get and supreme champion. Shows run Sept 24 to Oct 2 with inter breed competition returning.
Willamere Farms of Stanwood bought the reserve open class female for 600 dollars on the final day of the Iowa Angus Association show and sale. Welco Acres of Spencer sold the top futurity female for 3050 dollars to Freda Angus Farm of Hope Arkansas. Hawk eye Acres of Crawfordsville sold the reserve futurity female for 1400 dollars to Picket Fence Farm of Grayslake Illinois. 270 head of bulls and females averaged 625 dollars, up about 100 dollars from last year, with sales to buyers in 13 states and Canada.
The Scott County Beef Producers Association will hold its annual meeting on Monday February 14 at 6 30 p m in the Davenport Masonic temple setting.
The West Union Cooperative Creamery merges into the Farmers Cooperative Creamery Association of Cresco after a 95 percent member vote. West Union will still collect whole milk for Cresco. Tom Weston remains manager. An appraisal and final dividend decisions await current audit results.
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