Dairy consumption and milk output rise amid USDA prompts
A USDA report highlights growth in per person fluid milk intake to 352 pounds, aided by a $50 million school lunch program. Butter and margarine use rise while dry milk products decline. Milk cows total about 24.4 million, with production per cow increasing, offsetting fewer cows. A Michigan study finds soil fertility does not alter milk composition and that fertilized forage supports more animals.
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USDA
Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station
Michigan
Hawkeye Polled Hereford Show and Sale Schedule
Hawkeye Downs hosts a multiday livestock event from Feb 21 to Feb 25 featuring shows sales and public auctions. The roster lists breeders managers and sale times across multiple farms near Ryan Tipton Hopkinton and Central City with land and equipment auctions at Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas.
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Hawkeye
Hawkeye Downs
B. O. Gammon
Des Moines
Thirteenth Annual Polled Shorthorn Show and Sale at Hawkeye Downs
The notice lists multiple events around Hawkeye Downs including hay sales near Whittier and Central City, a Tamworth bred sow sale by J. H. Jones Ainsworth, closing out sales of hay and machinery by W. E. Smith and Paul Kortson, and the main Polled Shorthorn show at 9:30 a.m. with sale at 12:45 p.m.
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Ivan Rold
Hopkinton
Gale Cooper
Central City
Anton Horsky
Ely
W. L. Hoskins
Independence
Clarence Ehlis
Whittier
Tamworth
J. H. Jones Ainsworth
W. E. Smith
Paul Kortson
Marion
Hawkeye Downs
Clarence Cooperative elects directors and officers at annual meeting
At the Dayton Creamery and Locker Company annual meeting William Gendelmann won a three year director term to replace Melvin Hasselbusch while George Ibsen was reelected. Board reorganization named Edwin Decker president, Ibsen vice president, Harry Meyer secretary, and Herbert Freese treasurer. Donald Bachman arranged year’s buttermilk at one cent per gallon.
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Clarence
Dayton Creamery and Locker Company
William Gendelmann
Melvin Hasselbusch
George Ibsen
Edwin Decker
Ibsen
Harry Meyer
Herbert Freese
Donald Bachman
Cooley urges parity supports with mild controls
Washington House Agriculture Committee Chairman Harold D. Cooley says the farmer cannot exist under normal supply and demand, backing a push to restore 90 percent parity price supports with mild production controls.
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Washington
INS
House Agriculture Committee
Harold D. Cooley
D-N. C
Cooley
Farm Chemicals Group To Meet In St. Louis
About 300 representatives from the 400 million dollar agricultural chemicals industry will gather in St. Louis March 7 for a three day session. Under Secretary True D Morse will speak as the group discusses Miller bill implications and FDA enforcement. The group cites high production costs and pest damage estimates while exploring soil insecticides to control underground pests.
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Farm Chemicals Group
St. Louis
Washington
INL
True D. Morse
Association
Agriculture Department
Department
Ezra Taft Benson
Milk output per cow expected to continue upward
Washington experts expect dairy production per cow to rise as feeding shifts lift protein and nutrient supply. The report notes improved cropping practices, more grasses and legumes, increased alfalfa hay use, and rising grass silage per cow, with yearly milk output likely flat versus 1954.
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Washington
Mns
Agriculture Department
Rowley Farm Sold Near Quasqueton
The 110 acre George Suckera farm near Rowley was sold to William Stuartz of Van Horne. Bill Harris, the Quasqueton real estate agent, handled the transaction.
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Quasqueton
George Suckera
Rowley
William Stuartz
van Horne
Bill Harris
Quasqueton Real Estate
Fayette Dairy Day Set for March 11 in Maynard
The Fayette County Holstein Breeders' Association sponsors Fayette Dairy Day in Maynard on March 11. A cheese cake contest offers $10 and $5 prizes in baked and no-bake divisions with entries due by 11 am at the Community building. A noon dairy smorgasbord follows, and Elizabeth Cragg will lead a dairy cooking school in the afternoon.
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Maynard
Iowa
Fayette
Elizabeth Cragg
Iowa State Dairy Industry Commission
Iowa State College
Farm Bureau opposes potash import duties
The American Farm Bureau Federation warns that new import duties on potash from Germany and France could raise farmers costs by about 20 million dollars annually. AFBF faults Russia and East Germany for large reserves and urges conservation. tariff commission hearings proceed with a recommendation to President Eisenhower imminent.
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Washington
INS
American Farm Bureau Federation
Germany
France
Tariff Commission
AFEF
Russia
East Germany
Eisenhower
West Liberty to Host 4-H Tractor Maintenance School
A 4-H tractor maintenance school will be held at 7 30 p m Wednesday at West Liberty High School vocational ag shop.
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West Liberty
West Liberty High School
Vo Ag
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Marion J. Himes
Erwin Butterbrodt
Cedar Rapids
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Charles Gray
Center Junction
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Henry Hoh
M. W. McCann
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Robert H. Futrelle
Mount Olive
N. C
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William D. Gunter
Live Oak
Fla
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Lowell Gisselbeck
Watertown
S. C
Central
Charles W
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Holland Patent
N. Y
North Atlantic
Clarence Cooperative
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
National Agricultural Chemicals Association
Federal Food and Drug Admin
Rowley Farm
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