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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1966
Page
19
President Johnson proposes a new system of food and fiber reserves to shield the public from unstable supplies and high prices. The plan seeks authority to set minimum reserve levels for major crops, with releases governed by existing laws and production plans.
Carl Oldenburg Jr., 29, of Hawkeye, named Outstanding Young Farmer of north Fayette by the West Union Jaycees at their annual awards banquet. He farms 410 acres with his father, managing milk, poultry, and crops, and serves on the county Farm Bureau.
The Petersburg Pepperettes a new Del aware county girls 4 H club was organized last week in Petersburg. Officers include Susan Weigel president Beverly Rausch vice president Glenda Willenberg secretary Debbie Rausch treasurer Gloria Deutmeyer historian and Nancy Domeyer reporter.
Two Iowa State University staff members will attend the Benton county swine clinic on February 22 from 9 45 a m to 2 p m in the meeting room at the Benton County Agricultural Center across from the fairground Dr William P Switzer professor of veterinary hygiene and national swine disease research specialist and Dr McElwyn D Whitaker extension swine specialist lead the program.
A sequence of closing out sales scheduled from Feb 15 to Feb 27 lists buyers and locations for livestock, machinery, grain, hay, straw, and Holstein cattle. Names include Realto Willie, Russell Humphrey, Lavern Doermann, Ray and Frank Ross, Wayne Henderson, Arlo Ireland, Delbert Arnold Est, Lyall Beishie, Bees and Reeve, Marion Schwartz, Marvin Timmerman, Paul Happel, Otto Mueller, Forrest Moffit, Wm. T. Dunn and Sons, Reginald Kenney Est, Leo Lawrence, and John W. Elgin with towns such as Ryan, Van Horne, Tipton, Coggan, Central City, Monticello, Muscatine, Hopkinton, Blairstown, Ely, Marion, Shellsburg, Keystone, Mechanicssville, Winthrop, Marengo, Prairieburg, and Center Point referenced.
The Greeley Farmers Cooperative Creamery reports 245,949 pounds of butter produced in 1965 with an average price of 61 cents per pound. The factory purchased 197,648 pounds of butterfat in cream and 4,747,762 pounds of milk containing 173,394 pounds of fat. Members attended the annual meeting held last week.
Washington reports January farm employment at 3.81 million, the smallest January figure in about 30 years. The week’s employment fell 10 percent from December and 6 percent from a year earlier, signaling a weaker agriculture labor market.
Newly elected Johnson County Dairy Herd Improvement Association officers are Daniel E. Yoder of Kalona president Russell E. Yoder of Riverside vice president and Monroe G. Miller of Kalona secretary treasurer Elman Bontrager of Wellman and Lewis Swantz of Kalona join the 1966 board of directors Owen Tiny Swartzendruber of Wellman remains testing supervisor
After 20 years the Iowa County Cooperative Breeding Association votes to dissolve. Wayne Tschopp of Williamsburg says the board will complete the dissolution. refunds of membership fees and distribution of remaining capital will follow by by-laws. Cedar Valley Farm Business Assn seeks new members to provide farm management and record keeping services with ISU computer-assisted analysis. Fieldmen George Brown and Burton Behrens, and officers Carroll Churchill and Chester Hagen are listed.
Washington D C The House Agriculture Committee opened a four week public hearing series on the world food problem and the U S response Witnesses include Dr Don Paarlberg Purdue University Irene Taeuber Princeton and Roger Revelle Harvard as experts on population and food needs in the coming sessions In Davenport Richard Belden will become work unit conservationist for the Scott County Soil Conservation District replacing Wallace H Cruikshank who retired in December
Allan B. Kline former Benton county Iowa farmer and longtime leader of the American Farm Bureau Federation has been named to a four member advisory committee on agriculture for the Central National Bank of Chicago. He has served as president of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers and is a director for several major firms with a portrait hung in the Livestockmen's Hall of Fame at the Saddle and Sirloin Club during the 1963 International Livestock Exposition in Chicago.
The annual meeting and banquet of the Town County Beef Producers Association is scheduled for April 143 at the Conroy elementary school gymnasium in Conroy.
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