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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1966
Page
5
The USDA modifies the 1966 feed grain program to let participants plant soybeans on feed grain acreage and still receive price-support payments. The change applies to all permitted feed grain acreage without diverting acres and does not alter minimum 20 percent diversion requirements.
DES MOINES Iowa Hereford show and sale at the state fairgrounds crowned champion bull shown by Stanley and J Jean Koep Belle Plaine and reserve champion female by Lester Wiese and Sons Manning. Champion female sold for 2200 to Ralph Bank Bettendorf and reserve for 525 to Northern Pump Co Richmond Ill. Illinois firm also paid 1500 for a heifer from Herefords of Earlham. Bull sale slated for Tuesday.
The Commodity Credit Corporation will sell 31 500 bushels of corn in Linn County on a No 2 grade basis this Wednesday. Bids will be received at the ASC office with sampling and grading of each truckload. The sale totals 12 500 bushels at Center Point and 18 550 at Central City, with 116 200 bushels sold in Linn County so far this year and over 300 000 bushels remaining in county bins.
Washington AP reports higher government price supports for dairy farmers. The current manufacturing milk price is 3.24 per cwt with parity at last April 1. a new marketing-year level will be announced. If set at 75 percent of parity, 3.31 per cwt would result, and butter would similarly rise from 9.4 to about 61 cents per lb.
About 50 members attended the West Union Cooperative Creamery Co annual meeting. Merger with Cresco Farmers Cooperative Creamery Assn was approved. West Union’s butter output fell, but gross income reached 759 744 dollars with 4 342 dollars in patronage dividends. Cresco unit reported 6.4 million in business and 24 000 dollars net savings.
Multiple farm auction notices listed with dates and times across eastern Iowa. Livestock, Holstein cattle, hogs, machinery, grain and hay are specified for sales near Coggon, Monticello, Muscatine, Marengo, Ely, Shellsburg, Keystone, Mechanicstown, Winthrop and others, led by Ray and Frank Ross and numerous estates and bidders.
Two hundred ninety Linn county farms joined the 1966 feed grain program in the first two weeks of applications. They plan to divert 9,246 acres, about 60.2 percent of their corn bases, aided by small-farm provisions. ASC office manager Robert Wegmuller estimates about 1,305 farms will participate countywide. sign-up ends March aL.
On January 1 sheep on farms totaled 26.5 million, down 1 percent from 1964 and 14 percent below the 1960-64 average. Chickens on farms numbered 371.4 million, down 1 percent from last year but up 1 percent from the five year average. Turkeys reached seven million, up 9 percent from a year earlier and about 11 percent above the five year average.
Nominations for 1966 Master Lamb Producers in Iowa are open through May 1. Eligible producers must have at least 35 lambs produced and may include early or late lambing. Nominators can be self or others and should send entries to Dewey Jantz or Thomas Wickersham. Top ten will be chosen after record-keeping and flock visits. 1965 winners averaged 144 percent lamb crop, 139 pounds per ewe, and $42.66 per ewe gross.
Des Moines IA. H cholera eradication eases into 1966 with only three cases reported in January across Allamakee Carroll and Ringgold counties. Dr M E Pomeroy notes 558 swine involved, all native and unvaccinated, and urges universal vaccination and proper serum use to prevent outbreaks.
Washington AP reports the Agriculture Department Foreign Agricultural Service predicts U S farm exports to Western Europe will rise in the 1965 46 export year.
An Iowa spokesman for the National Dairy Cattle Congress states the Ohio invitation to hold breed shows at Columbus does not affect Waterloo. Maurice Telleen notes the Waterloo exposition remains the national show in some years and that moving the expo is "ridiculous." Gov Rhodes praised Ohio facilities but the Iowa congress stresses continuity in Waterloo.
Rep Neal Smith introduces legislation to create a soybean reserve and boost supply. He would authorize the Agriculture Secretary to grow soybeans on diverted feed grain land and buy output if the price falls below 2.80 dollars per bushel for July delivery in Chicago.
Virgil K. Webster, Iowa State extension agronomist from Manchester, will hold two soil testing meetings in Winneshiek County. The first at 1 15 p.m. in Decorah library building, the second at 8 p.m. in the South Winneshiek vocational agriculture room in Calmar.
Ames field secretary Thomas L. Lyon of the Iowa State Dairy Association will speak at the West Branch Dairy Herd Improvement Association annual meeting. The banquet starts at 7 0 pm at the Tipton Moose hall.
Agricultural sectors in the United States consume about four percent of national electricity, reflecting energy use in farming, processing, and farming-related industries across the nation.
The St Olaf Cooperative Company reported a 1965 business volume of 126 954 dollars with net savings of 3 378 dollars at its annual meeting in St Olaf. A 3 percent patronage dividend was declared with 20 percent paid in cash and the balance to be carried forward. Harvey Wickler of Farmersburg was named lead director with Alonzo Engelhardt and Kenneth Breitsprecher named to the board to succeed Vincent Mart, and Wickler operates a 450 acre farm two miles north of Farmersburg.
A House Republican agriculture task force urges simplifying outdated farm laws and eliminating confusing provisions. They highlight a 1954 repeal and a later footnote that misleads readers by treating corn as wheat in a marketing controls section.
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