Dairy Leaders Fight Ending of Sire Plan
Dairy leaders oppose the Ford administration's move to end federal financing for a 1.5 million national dairy sire selection program. Meetings with officials aim to keep funding, but the USDA may shift control to private enterprise, risking higher cow costs and doubts about report objectivity. The dispute arises as hearings begin in February.
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Swegie
Ford Administration
DHIA
Dale Gerlach
Toledo
National
The
Gazette
Gerlach
Robert Bell
Coggan
USDA
Bell
Agriculture Department
Culgress
Farm Digest Plans February Farm Programs and Talks
Farm Digest outlines February topics in Des Moines with sessions on new grain marketing techniques including direct exporting, farm management and taxes with Neil Hari and Eileen Thomas, new soybean fertilization methods with discoverers and soybean association officials, and a palm oil controversy tied to US aid. Iowa Farm Digest airs Fridays at 8 p.m. on TEEN channel 12 and channel 2 in Waterloo. In New Hampton Ballou Farm, Inc. bought a Hampshire boar for $600 from Beryl Keet of LeGrand. the herd average was $356 for 31 head.
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Des Moines
Iowa Farm Digest
U.S
Lowa State University
Neil Hari
Eilen Thomas
Teen Channel 12
Waterloo
New Hampton
Lews
Ballou Farma, Inc
Montivella
Iowa
Hallow
Hampshire
Beryl Keet
LeGrand
Iowa Agriculture Board Sets State Meeting in Iowa City
Iowa Agriculture Promotion Board will hold its first regional meeting Wednesday afternoon February 8 at the Carousel in Iowa City. Board Chairman John W Megown of Cedar Rapids said the sessions offer an opportunity to exchange ideas with agriculturally oriented Iowans on promoting the state's largest industry.
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OWA City
Iowa Agriculture Promotion ‘Board Qapb
Iowa City
Iowa
John W. Megown
Cedar Rapids
Preconditioned Steers Top Sale At Marengo Auction
At Marengo Iowa County Cattlemen's Association sale bidders paid 40 per hundredweight for the top bellinus three steers and 34 for the top selling heifers. About 401 head were sold this week in a preconditioned feeder calf sale.
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Marengo
Ihs
Iowa County
Assiz
Auction notices scattered across several rural locales
Improvised OCR listing of multiple upcoming auctions across towns like Williamsburg Mon ticello Belle Plaine and Suthits Cedar bridge. Items include farm goods antiques machinery pools and livestock with varied times and locations per listing.
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Angus
Elite & Gem Menvon
Williamsburg
Lee Laka
Feu
George Burrleiter
Monticello
Joe Kriva
Belle Plaine
Soybean Farmers Seek Talk With State Officials
Washington report says soybean producers plan a face to face session with high state department officials to urge limits on using food as a diplomatic weapon. Sen. Dick Clark backs the idea after farmers from ten states outlined foreign policy moves costing export sales.
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Washington
State Department
Sen
Dick Clark
Lana
U.S
American
Soybean Assn
Tucison
Iowa
Clark
The
Gazette
Secretary of State
Senate Foreign Relations and Agriculture
Morris Greenley
Independence
Judd Seeley
Caraldeon
Eugene Lanig
Grindell
Congress
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Greenlay
Japan
Greenley
Greeniey
Senate Foreign Relations
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Farm Digest
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Smulekoff
Amana
Third Avenue
Cedar Far
Dorothy Willian
Towana
Charles Grassley
House Agriculture Committee
Midwest
Grassley
Africa
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