Senators Divided on Price Supports in Farm Bill Battle
Senate agriculture committee split 8 to 7 on 90 percent price supports for basic crops Wheat cotton corn rice and peanuts. Administration backs flexible 75 to 90 percent supports and a soil bank to raise farm income and curb production.
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Ameneron
INS
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate
Sen. Clements
Democratic Senate
Ellender
Clements
Johnston
S.C
Humphrey
Minn
Scott
N.C
Young
Thye
Mundt
S.D
Aiken
Hickenlooper
Williams
Del
Schoeppe
Kan
Holland
Fla
Anderson
N.M
Eastland
Miss
Farm price supports faced delay in final vote
Lawmakers argued the bank would be late to aid farm income, with 90 percent supports set for 1956 and 1957 crops. Administration blamed high supports for farm surpluses worth eight billion dollars stored by the government. The committee pushed a final vote to Thursday to hear farm groups' criticisms of the tentative provisions.
Hopkinton Creamery Annual Meeting Reports 1955 Results
Hopkinton Co operative Creamery held its annual meeting with 200 members attending at the Hopkinton region hall. Secretary-manager Roman Welter announced 1955 business totaled 474 039 dollars. Butter output reached 391 401 pounds and cheese 262 321 pounds. Butterfat paid 66.82 cents per pound, and milk patrons received 3.10 dollars per hundredweight. Cheese equipment was installed in May. New directors for 1956 are Art Melchert Harold Wilson and William Beitz. Eugene Cross is the creamery operator.
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Hopkinton
Hopkinton Cooperative Creamery
Roman Welter
Art Melchert
Harold Wilson
William Beitz
Eugene Cross
Keokuk extension office moves to new five room suite
Sigourney reports the Keokuk county extension service office now occupies a five room suite in the Professional building. The space houses the offices of extension director Donald Shirk home economist Helen L Marsh and receptionist Beverly Denny along with a supply room and soil testing room.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
Farm Briefs and Meetings Across Iowa
In Olin a Holstein cow owned by George Slater and Son yielded 15230 pounds of milk and 608 pounds of fat in the last lactation. Oakdale reports 15524 pounds of milk and 590 pounds of fat. North English residents Mr and Mrs Woodrow Chittick moved to Ladora, buying a house. Waukon hosts weed and insect control meeting Feb 10 at 1 15 p.m. with ISU extension specialists E P Sylvester and Harold Gunderson. Allamakee dairymen gather Feb 16 at 1 15 p.m. in the county courthouse assembly room as Robert Fincham speaks on dairy herd management. Elkader schedules Clayton countyweed and insect control for 1 p.m. Feb 9 at the Farm Bureau building with E P Sylvester and Dr Harold Gunderson.
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Olin
George Slater
Waukon
E. P. Sylvester
Harold Gunderson
Iowa State College Extension Service
Allamakee
Court House
Robert Fincham
Elkader
Clayton
Farm Bureau
Iowa State College Extension
Farmers Use 11.5 Pct of Motor Fuel on Farms
Preliminary estimates show 8.8 billion gallons of liquid petroleum fuel were used on farms in 1953. This accounted for about 11.5 percent of the total U S motor fuel use that year, with roughly 90 percent gasoline and the rest split among diesel LP gas and other fuels.
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Washington
U. S
Sows and pigs perish in Masonville fire at Ferguson farm
A 3 a.m. blaze destroyed a portable hoghouse six sows and several pigs on Frank Ferguson farm near Masonville. Firemen saved other buildings. Ferguson plans to quit farming next week to enter business in Manchester.
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Masonville
Frank Ferguson
Ferguson
Manchester
Fayette DHIA No. 3 January Test Report
In January the Fayette county Dairy Herd Improvement Association No. 3 tested 668 cows with 102 dry, producing an average of 1 003 pounds of milk and 35 9 pounds of butterfat per cow. Four cows exceeded 400 pounds of fat and are owned by Howard W. Smith Ernest Miehe Maynard Dorsey Cannell Sumner and Werner Pooch of Westgate.
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Maynard
Fayette County
Two Allamakee DHIAs Make January Reports
In January Allamakee county DHIA No 1 herds averaged 975 pounds of milk and 38.2 pounds of fat while DHIA No 2 herds averaged 768.4 pounds of milk and 28.6 pounds of fat. There were 488 cows in milk with 90 dry in No 1 and 139 dry in No 2. Twenty heifers freshened in No 1 and 26 in No 2. K B Simmons had the highest producing cow for the month in No 1. Cows in No 2 producing over 400 pounds were owned by William Regan and Wayne Timmerman.
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William Regan
Wayne Timmerman
Farm Auctions Calendar of Iowa Sales Amid Winter Listings
A dense schedule lists farm auctions and public sales across Iowa from February 7 to February 23. It names buyers sellers locations for livestock hay grain machinery and 220 acre farms with times and reference points such as Cedar Rapids Marion and Quasqueton, detailing bidders and routes for each posted event. The long roster includes multiple closing out sales and a Hawkeye DownsPolled Hereford show with associated sales.
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Vince Goedken
Ryan
Thomas Griffen
Fairfax
Everett Spidle
Mt. Vernon
Cedar Rapids
Vernon Fisher
Walker
J. H. Wolfe
Merton Miller
Iowa City
Kenneth Wickman
Manchester
Raymond Hahn
Quasqueton
W. P. Livermore
Waubeek
Walter Leib and Son
Tipton
Iowa
Poland
China Breeders Association
Hawkeye Downs
Joe Rawson
Lafayette
Hampshire
Albert W. Martin and Sons
Marion
Vance McCray
Earl Domer
Joseph E. Kloubec
Kcrg-Tv
Highway 150
Marvin Knapp
the Hill Farm
Coggon
Lacey Hill
Hawkeye
Siemer and
Sinaiko
Cassel and Berends
Lee Romer
Anamosa
James R. Fernow
PCA Lending In 1955 Sets New Record
In 1955 farmers borrowed 1.4 billion dollars from 498 production credit associations to finance farm operations. Loans outstanding at year end reached 653 million, the largest since the system began in 1933 34. Average loan size rose to 3408 dollars from 3122. The rise reflects greater credit needs due to drought and higher costs, with associations serving nationwide under Farm Credit Administration.
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Washington
Harold A. Miles
Farm Credit Administration
Miles
Cooperative Farm Credit System
The
USDA Predicts World Corn Production Record 1955–56
The agriculture department said world corn production for 1955 56 is estimated at 6 190 million bushels a new record. It tops the 1948 record by 175 million bushels and the 1954 output by 650 million bushels.
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Washington
Benson Granted Time to Reply To Murrow Show
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson was offered 30 minutes of CBS TV time next Thursday to respond to Edward R. Murrow’s Farm Problem segment. A total of 30 minutes on Feb 16 will also be allocated for two Democratic senators to reply to Benson’s remarks. Benson sought the time to counter what he says was a distorted picture of farm conditions.
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New York
Ezra Taft Benson
CBS
Edward R. Murrow
Benson
Murrow
Probing Demonstration Planned in Louisa
The Columbus Junction high school vocational agriculture department with Louisa county swine producers will hold a probing demonstration February 13 at 1 p.m. at the high school. Back fat thickness on 28 hogs will be measured before they are shipped to Cedar Rapids for slaughter. A follow-up meeting and tour will be held February 15 at the Wilson and Company plant.
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Columbus Junction
Vocational Agriculture Department
Louisa County Swine Producers
Cedar Rapids
Wilson and Company
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