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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1975
Page
6
In Council Bluffs, the Pottawattamie County Cattle Feeders Assn. votes to boycott American Beef Packers until management changes at the Omaha firm. Members will withhold livestock and avoid selling to the plant, which has not reopened.
Cattle feeders refuse livestock shipments to American Beef until financial solvency and payment assurances are provided. They demand a depository bank arrangement in Iowa, a two day payment buffer, and a bond guaranteeing full payment. Don Applegate notes most of the 105 members have held bad checks since American Beef filed bankruptcy January seventh.
Washington congressman Charles Grassley urges a farm fuel rebate system to offset inequities from the oil import tax. He says rebates could use the existing gasoline tax method and would help both consumers and farmers as fuel costs rise. In Independence, the Buchanan county corn soybean contest banquet announced winners Leroy McClintock for corn 176.24 bushels per acre and Robert Herrick for soybean 52.01.
Auction listings repeat across Feb dates with multiple farmers offering machines, livestock, and feed. Entries include M-A. Rayburn near Manchester and George Hensing near Vinton, plus farms around Anamosa, Vinton, Mt. Vernon, Troy Mills, Fay ette, Hookdivtom, Keyatane, Newhall, Central City, Watkins, Sweingyville, Ryan.
A public hearing is scheduled for February 6 on the Johnson county extension service budget of 45 180 dollars for the coming fiscal year. The legal tax limit remains 40 000, with 4 100 to be drawn from the June 30 1975 balance. The hearing will be at pm in the extension office in the Federal Building Iowa City. Jim Stutsman was elected chairman of the Johnson county extension council with vice chairman Mrs Clyde Antone secretary Robert Wessel and treasurer Sam Miller.
DES MOINES A resolution prepared for introduction in the Iowa Senate seeks federal disaster relief loans for cattle feeders holding checks from the bankrupt American Beef Packers of Omaha. Sen Calvin Hultman says the measure mirrors aid given to northwest Iowa farmers after a blizzard and urges Congress to treat farmers with railroads.
Washington AP The Ford administration seeks smaller funding for soil and water conservation even as farmers return millions of acres to production boosting dust bowl risk in the Great Plains. USDA says about 0.7 million acres across 10 plains states could blow under right winds, up slightly from last year but up about 75 percent since crop restrictions eased. The budget also targets ending the Agricultural Conservation Program that has funded soil and water projects since the 1920s, with ACP halted for 1975 and $256.3 million to be returned to the treasury from a $190 million appropriation.
Northeast Iowa Experimental Association has received memberships and donations totaling 106 500. County director John Rodecap reported 3 650 raised in rural Winneshiek County. The group plans to buy at least 160 acres to lease to Iowa State University for agricultural research on crops soils varieties tillage practices and soil and water conservation.
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