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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1969
Page
18
Hudson area soybean leaders predict planting near one million more acres in 1969 if the $2.50 per bushel loan rate continues, a 2.4 percent production rise. Lowering to $2.25 could trim national production by about 3.5 percent, with the Midwest and Iowa showing varied responses.
Eastern Iowa farmers were named to six commodity advisory committees serving beef swine sheep field crops dairy and poultry for policy work. Members include Don Nelson Danville Don Sheetz Washington Roy Keppy Davenport Marlin Schminke Van Horne Don Pullin Waterloo Fred Holsteen West Point Dale McCubbin Marshalltown Harold Timm Muscatine Ken Qualley Ridgeway Wayne Parsons Richland John Dane Iowa City Avery Tucker Aurora Mervin Hunter Jesup Warren Fritz Burlington and Richard Burt Marshalltown.
Three directors were elected to the Linn County Pork Producers Association board at the 13th annual meeting in the Knights of Columbus hall Cedar Rapids. Benny Pospisil Mt. Vernon Loyd Martin Marion and Richard Zabokitsky Center Point were chosen. President Don Lefabvre reported 48 000 hogs enrolled in the Linn county nickels for profit program and noted participation in the Spring Market Hog Show.
Des Moines Iowa Congressman John Culver will address the National Farm Institute on Friday February 14. He has proposed a 15000 dollar ceiling on tax write offs for nonfarmers. Dr Ross B Talbott of Iowa State University also joins the program replacing Senator Gaylord Nelson. Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin will speak briefly February 13 at 430 PM not expected to outline major policy.
Four farm employees at the Anamosa Reformatory were honored last week. Rolland Brown the farm superintendent received a 20 year award Elmer Bickness farm foreman was honored for ten years service Louie Dusanek from Wyoming and Jim Pickering farm foreman from Anamosa were honored for five years service
The Anamosa Community Schools adult farmer class will join a welding clinic at the junior high school at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Des Moines AP reports Iowa has gone three months with no hog cholera cases marking the longest modern period free of the disease in the state. Dr. E A Butler notes the last case was Nov 5 in Hancock County and stresses vigilance as national eradication targets approach.
MANCHESTER The Delaware county ASCS committee will share costs on 13 ACP practices during 1969. The state agency will cover 50 percent of most practices and 80 percent for tree planting and woodland improvements, according to Donald C. Eibey, chairman.
Ralph Wardius of Cedar Falls was elected president of the Cedar Valley Farm Business association at a board meeting in Williamsburg. Other officers include vice president Ed Shima secretary treasurer Chester Hagan and Agri Business Corp directors Wayne Chamberlain and Robert Walker. The group serves former members in Benton Grundy Iowa Jasper Jones Linn Mahaska Marion Marshall Poweshiek and Tama counties.
Iowa swine specialists report fewer producers but larger herds as liquid feeding and other advances reshape production. Emmett Stevermer cites rate gains of 4-5 percent with liquid rations, plus 7 percent more feed per pound of gain, while automation and SPF and AI trends shape the breeding and marketing side.
Iowa City noon Friday ceremony at the Elk's Club honors all entrants in the Johnson county Master Corn Growers contest hosted by the Chamber of Commerce.
District Forester William C. Ritter will be at the Soil Conservation Service office in Waukon all day February 11 and during the morning of February 12.
A sequence of farm auctions advertised in The Gazette Farm Pages shows sales from Feb 7 to March 4 near Van Horne Norway Traer Shellsburg Lisbon Williamsburg and Central City with items including machinery livestock hay grain and Angus and Holstein dispersals. Notable organizers include Wallace Boddicker Nelson Zobeck Richard Kubik Vern Dieckhoff Kenneth Siggins Dale Swartzencruber Rolland Brecht Donald Palmer Wayne Wilkens on Blake Pringle and Hawkeye Polled Hereford Assn with Hawkeye Downs show and sale led by Delbert Krug.
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