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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1955
Page
10
The agriculture department reports farmer members of 121 Farm Production Credit Associations received 1.2 million dollars in dividends and refunds from earnings in 1954. This compares with 889 thousand dollars in 1953. Officials note many associations chose to build reserves rather than pay out dividends.
The American Farm Bureau Federation says a tariff rise of ten dollars per ton on potash is likely if the tariff commission approves and President Eisenhower signs. Hearings on the proposal begin this week. Key imports come from West Germany France and East Germany under Russian influence.
Iowa Farm Outlook notes cattle prices weakened by scarce finished cattle while hog slaughter rises driving relative declines in cattle value. A proposed uniform egg grading bill backed by major groups would license graders, require in presence grading, label retail eggs by grade, and refrigerate at or below 60 degrees to stabilize prices.
Senator Rourke B. Hickenlooper will speak at the opening of the four day international agricultural technical cooperation conference in Washington. The event, sponsored by the Department of Agriculture and Foreign Operations Administration, runs through Thursday and covers U S farm technician programs abroad and FDA sponsored land grant contracts. West Union Dairy Meeting Also: the West Union Cooperative Creamery holds its annual meeting Saturday at 1 PM with a free pound of butter for each member and refreshments after.
Linn County Board of Supervisors approves 1955 salaries for George Kohl EB J Weepie and John M Henderson at 2700 annually. Hearing on surfacing costs for roads 416 Monroe and 450 Putnam districts established. county auditor to place assessments. Assignment of funds from John Lorenc to Linn County Relief Department approved. lien possible if payments fall short. Amended resolutions designate county engineer for farm to market construction and authorize various settlement and maintenance expenditures. Board approves municipal and agency payments and adopts tax and aid measures. Local notices include board actions and an Ames Jersey cattle club winter meeting at Iowa State Memorial Union.
National Milk Producers Federation urged an amendment to extend the administration trade bill to preserve import quotas and prevent foreign pacts from bypassing Congress. Extension Secretary E M Norton testified that authority to control imports is vital while domestic support prices exceed world levels. He warned the bill could allow presidential ratification of unseen terms and flood U S markets with foreign dairy products, urging clear language for a stable policy.
A dense calendar lists numerous livestock machinery grain and hay auctions and public sales across eastern Iowa from Feb 8 to Feb 23. Names include Peter and August Laetare C A Doe Kenneth Dane Frank Fiala Leland Reiss Glenn G Healy Howard J Dodge James Woodworth and others with locations near Olin Coggon Williamsburg Urbana Davenport Marion Center Point Hawkeye Downs and Hopkinton.
The Iowa County Farm Service Company schedules its twenty fourth annual meeting for February 10 in the K P hall at Marengo.
Iowa county corn acreage allotments for 1955 were released, with totals higher than 1954. The state allotment is 19 636 620 acres, guiding county figures based on 1950 54 histories and adjustments for weather. Individual farm allotments will follow from county ASC offices, affecting price eligibility and cost sharing under the conservation program. Eastern counties list includes Allamakee Benton Buchanan Cedar Clayton Clinton Delaware Dubuque Fayette Iowa Jackson Johnson Jones Keokuk Linn Louisa Muscatine Poweshiek Scott Tama Washington Winneshiek.
Washington bill would bar the Interstate Commerce Commission from banning trip leasing of trucks. Farmers rely on trip based carriers to move agricultural produce. Major farm groups back the measure. a similar bill died in the prior session after House passage.
Manchester directors of a new Co-Op for Grade A milk sellers to Sanitary Farm Dairies approved incorporation. R A Barker and Dale Stentz were authorized to form the Eastern Iowa Grade A Milk Cooperative with 11 incorporators and plans to seek an individual handler pool for Sanitary under the Cedar Rapids Iowa City federal market order.
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