Govt Push to Boost Farm Output with 1966 Programs
Washington AP farmers urged to raise wheat corn barley sorghum and cotton output as agriculture department offers payments and price supports. sign up runs to march 3 or march 17 depending on area with potential 3 billion dollars in payments and risk of subsidy loss for not meeting goals. targets include 32 percent more wheat and 10-15 percent more corn barley sorghum and cotton. grain needs aim to replenish depleted surpluses while half of idle 30 million acres of feed grain cropland may be used.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Iowa Banks Aid 4H Foundations Stimulus from 56 banks
Iowa and National 4H Foundations received 4035 from 56 Iowa banks. The Iowa share funds development of the Madrid area 4-H camping center, serving 8000 members from 83 counties. The national share finances 4-H citizenship short courses in Washington with Iowa participants. A beef production school session will be held February 14 in Marengo Legion hall.
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Ames
Iowa
National 4H
G. A. Lineweaver
Jowd State Extension
Iowa Foundation
Lineweaver
Madrid
National Foundation
Washington
Marengo
Marengo Legion Hall
Auction Sale Schedule For Cattle Farm Equipment And Horses
A dense list details multiple auction events across Iowa with dates February 8 to February 22. Entries note sale types including cattle, machinery, grain, hay, and livestock, plus locations relative to towns such as Troy Mills Farley Anamosa Dysart Clinton Dysart Solon Dysart Mt. Vernon Monticello Hopkinton Manchester and Hawkeye Downs with organizers like Deimar Hocken John W. Lansing Melvin Tobiason Wessel Implement Jack Seerer Everett Jessen L. R. Farris Merlin Rupp Laverne Fullmer and J. Howard Heitrich. Times range from morning 11:30 a.m. to afternoon 3 p.m. and include closing out sales and private auctions.
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Deimar Hocken
Troy Mills
John W. Lansing
Farley
Melvin Tobiason &Sr
Anamosa
Tiffin
Hays E. W. Smykil
Harold Bair
Solon
Everett Jessen
Dysart
L. R. Farris
Mt. Vernon
Harry F. Hargens
Swisher Road
Merlin Rupp
Monticello
Jack
Clark Thompson
Hopkinton
Victor
Marchester Farms, Inc
Manchester
Hawkeye
Heraford
Hawkeye Downs
J. Howard Heitrich
Purebred dairies outperform grades in Iowa 1986 study
An Iowa State University extension analysis of 1986 Iowa Dairy Herd Improvement records shows registered herds outproducing and outearning grade herds across all breeds. Higher fat yields and profits reflect better breeding, feeding, and management, though some grade herds match top performances.
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Iowa
Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Iowa State
Karlton Eberling
Postville
Lee Allen Eberling
John Prestemon
Waukon
Ancient wheat shows early cultivation and origins
Archaeologists report carbonized wheat kernels about 6000 years old found in Swiss lake dwellings and in Turkey, highlighting early agricultural practices and the spread of grain cultivation by ancient peoples.
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Turkey
Tama-Toledo Jaycees Name Outstanding Young Farmer
Gerald W. Bernisse, 33, a dairy man turned beef cattle, crops, and Missouri feeder pigs entrepreneur, was named Outstanding Young Farmer by the Tama-Toledo Jaycees. He rents 3 1/2 acres northeast of Toledo and has built a 33 cow beef herd, 413 cattle on feed, and ships 1,100 feeder pigs yearly from Missouri. He started farming in 1958 with his father, bought out his father two years ago, and joined the Farm and Home Management program.
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Gazette Farm
Shoto
Tama-Toledo
Gerald W. Bernisse
Tama County
Tama-Toledo Jaycees
Bernisse
Missouri
Ledo
Toledo
Harold Bernisse
Tama-Toledo Oyf
Extension Service
Tama
Dhia
Tama County Extension Youth Committee
Fair Board, Methodist Church
Tama County Young Republicans
South Tama County Community High School
Howard Township
Anamosa
John E. Andreesen
Anamosa Jaycees
Fawn Creek Country Club
Anamosa High School
Andreesen
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Jones County
Janet Greenwald
Andreesens
Minish Bulls Win In Hereford Show
DES MOINES John Minish of Clio Morning exhibited both the grand champion and the reserve grand champions of the open bull classes at the Iowa Hereford show and sale at the state fairgrounds. Minish, a successful Hereford breeder, and his son Gary previously had the grand champion steer at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago in 1943, and his daughter Carole showed the grand champion 4H steer at the Iowa State Fair in 1960 and 1961. The event also included sale of the champion futurity female by Wiese and Sons of Manning for 1500 dollars and the reserve futurity female sold for 775 dollars to Joe Jefferson of Des Moines.
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Des Moines
John Minish
Clio
Alan
State Fairground
Minish
Gary
Chicago
Carole
Wiese and Sons
Manning
Ralph Bank
Bettendorf
Vernon Marcheson
Elkhorn
Joe Jefferson
Iowa County Farm Bureau Banquet Set in Williamsburg
Iowa County Farm Bureau members host a rural urban banquet on February 23 at Stahl Memorial Hall in the Farm Bureau building Williamsburg. J Merrill Anderson president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation will speak at the event.
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Iowa County
F.B
Williamsburg
Iowa County Farm Bureau
Stahl Memorial Hall
Farm Bureau
J. Merrill Anderson
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
REA Head Calls for New Financing for Rural Systems
Administrator Norman M. Clapp told Congress that rural power and telephone systems require a new financing pattern. He estimated $8 billion in new power financing over 15 years, $2 billion more than Congress has provided in the system's 31 years, and about $3 billion in new telephone capital, triple the amount authorized in the past 15 years. The Johnson administration tried but failed to back a government supervised banking plan to funnel private funds into these systems.
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Washington
Norman M. Clapp
Rural Electrification Administration
Congress
Clapp
Johnson County Wool Growers Meeting Set
The Johnson County Sheep and Wool Growers Association will hold its annual meeting and banquet Thursday at 6 30 p m in the Holiday Inn near highway 218 and Interstate 80 Iowa City Glen Ridout public relations rep for Kent Feeds Inc will speak All sheep producers in Johnson and surrounding counties are invited Tickets are available at the Johnson county extension and Farm Bureau offices
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Iowa City
Johnson County Sheep and Wool Growers Association
Holiday Inn
Highway 218
Interstate 80
Glen Ridout
Kent Feeds, Inc
Johnson
Johnson County
Farm Bureau
Topics for farmer classes pushed back a week
Snowstorm delays at Central City and Alburnett high schools shift Wednesday night sessions for the young farmer class taught by James G. Thomas and the adult class led by Clyde P. Antone, with topics postponed from last week.
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Central City
Alburnett High School
Vong
James G. Thomas
Clyde P. Antone
Farmers Mutual Cooperative Creamery posts big 1966 gains
Monticello reports nearly 50 percent rise in sales for 1966 with a record 2,259,656 dollars, cheese and butter output driving growth. Net savings reach 88,608 dollars as board members change and dairy patronage remains steady amid 1966 rural shifts.
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Monticello
Farmers Mutual: Cooperative Creamery Association
Harold Lindner
Ray Stange
Richard Mardorf
Robert Wahl
Board of
Directs
Farm Workers Hired in 1964 Labor Force Size
In 1964 the hired labor force included 1,864,000 workers who worked 25 days or more during the year and 1,264,000 casual workers who put in fewer than 25 days.
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Washington
Revised Turkey Report Issued
DES MOINES Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service issued a revised estimate of 1987 turkey production in Iowa and the United States Iowa growers plan to raise 7 387 000 turkeys this year If realized Iowa production would be 2 percent above 1966 but 11 percent below the 1961 65 average of 5 343 000 Heavy breed production in Iowa is expected at 7 million birds Light breed Iowa production at 387 000 about 18 percent above last year US growers intend an 8 percent output increase with 8 percent gain in heavy breeds and 9 percent in light breeds
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Des Moines
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Iowa
U.S
U. S
Iowa Hampshire Sale Set in Cedar Rapids
The Iowa Hampshire Breeders Association plans its spring show and sale of fall boars and gilts March 7 at Hawkeye Downs in Cedar Rapids. Judging starts 10 30 a.m. with the sale at 1 p.m. Entries due February 18 to Wayne McDonald in Clemons Iowa.
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Iowa Hampshire
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Hampshire Breeders Association
Hawkeye Downs
Wayne McDonald
Clemons
Towa
Milk Prices in Cedar Rapids Iowa Market Area Hold Steady
The February Class I milk price in the Cedar Rapids Iowa City federal market order area is $5.12 per cwt for 3.5 percent milk, unchanged from January. The butterfat differential remains eight cents per cwt per 0.1 percent above or below 3.5. Class II price for January is $4.06 per cwt, seven cents below December’s $4.13, based on averaged prices paid at several Midwestern condensaries designated in the order.
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Cedar Rapids-Iowa, City
E. H. McGuire
McGuire
Farm Bureau sets 1967 goal for 1224 members
Williamsburg March 1 target date set for reaching 1224 Iowa County Farm Bureau members for 1967. Stuart Blythe of Williamsburg chairs the membership committee and reports 1047 paid, 86 percent of the goal, by week end.
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Williamsburg
Ilowa County Farm Bureau
Stuart Blythe
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