Milk program legacy complicates Nixon budget plans
Washington AP report notes the Nixon administration must handle the Johnson era special milk program. The prior budget proposed drastic cuts and later integration into a broader child nutrition plan, creating a delayed action issue in agricultural policy and budget maneuvers. Secretary of Agriculture is referenced as part of the discussion.
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Illinois hog marketing plan seeks fewer markets
Merle LeSage of Chicago Order Buyers urged concentrating hogs in fewer Illinois markets to cut costs and shorten producer to processor travel. He noted 25 percent of an animal’s value is spent on marketing. He advocated a roundtable to reduce marketing slack and place hogs within 75 miles of a major market.
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Chicago
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Chicago Order Buyers
Iowa sale notices list multiple closings of farm equipment auctions
A running calendar of farm sale closings shows dates from Tuesday February 11 through March 4 with locations near Newhall Manchester Dysart Wellman Central City Quasaveton Alburnett Monticello Williams burg and more. Listings include machinery hay grain hogs livestock dairy equipment portable buildings and farm real estate as part of the Hawkeye Polled Hereford Assn show and sale at Hawkeye Downs with Delbert Krug as manager.
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Newhall
Donald Palmer
Manchester
Henry Hilmer
Dysart
Willard Marner
Wellman
Wayne Wilkenson
Central City
Hawkeye
Hereford Assn
Hawkeye Downs
Delbert Krug
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Hoffmeier Elected President of Lowden Creamery
Lowden Creamery Association re-elected three directors to three year terms and chose Gerhard Hoffmeier as president. Melvin Licht Edwin Wenndt and Wilbert Wenndt were re-elected directors with Wilbert Wenndt named vice president and Licht named secretary. Other board members include Edgar Scheeper and Don Boedeker.
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Lowden Creamery Association
Gerhard Hoffmeier
Melvin Licht
Edwin Wenndt
Wilbert Wenndt
Edgar Scheeper
Don Boedeker
Iowa Food Aid Reaches Nearly 56,000 in December
In December the U S Department of Agriculture issued food assistance to nearly 56,000 low income Iowans. The program aid targeted households across Iowa, reflecting federal support amid economic strain.
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Washington
Iowa
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Washington Home Economist Resigns From Extension
Mrs. Sally Whetstine, half time extension home economist for Washington county, submitted her resignation to the extension council. Her last day will be March 6. Employed since October 1963 after Iowa State University graduation, she will devote full time to homemaking on a Wellman area farm with husband Ed.
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Iowa
Sally Whetstine
Washington County
Extension Council
Bob Carter
Kalona
World Farm Production Increases
The agriculture department reports global farm output rose two to three percent last year with gradual per capita gains in developed nations and none in poorer countries. Over the decade Europe the Soviet Union Japan and Australia posted the largest per capita gains while wheat led 1968 69 production increases.
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Agriculture Department
Europe
Soviet Union
Japan
Australia
Hog and Fed Cattle Prices May Soften
Washington AP reports the agriculture department expects hogs and fed cattle prices to soften later this winter and spring. Feeder cattle and lamb prices should hold up, while 1968 demand driven by rising incomes and population growth had boosted prices. A slower income rise this year may ease meat demand growth.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Iowa Teen Among Four Attendees at Poultry Conference
Mike Rich aged 17 of Washington Iowa joins three other Iowa youths to attend the Junior Poultry Fact Finding Conference in Kansas City from February 13 to 16. It highlights youth involvement in agricultural research and industry education.
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Ames
Mike Rich
Washington
Iowa
Kansas City
Kenyon Builds New Confinement Farrowing House
Ronald Kenyon plans a new confinement farrowing facility with heated pens ventilation and a kitchenette. Manager Lyle Green says the operation will run like a business while Kenyon pursues pork production from a crossbred Duroc Hampshire herd.
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Farrowing
Duroc
Hampshire
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