Grassley seeks tax relief for disaster payments to farmers
Senator Charles Grassley asks the IRS to let farmers count disaster payments against the crop year they relate to rather than the year they are received. He notes Iowa farmers get relief after January 1 due to drought damage and processing backlogs. The measure would align disaster payments with crop year income like bail insurance and federal crop insurance.
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Washington
Charles Grassley
Iowa
Internal Revenue Service
Grassley
Des Moines Beef Expo Caps Week with Top Sellers
The Des Moines Winter Beef Expo concluded with standout prices led by an Angus bull sold by Carrico Angus Farms Bedfield to Bill Doyle Baltic SC for 3500. The top Angus female from Robert Ernst Bedford went to Glenda Swanson Durant for 2675. Polled Hereford bulls and females sold for 1325 and 1759 respectively, Murray Grey bulls and females fetched 1325 and 1750, Red Angus female reached 2100 and top Red Angus bull 1225.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Carrico Angus Farms
Bedfield
Bill Doyle
Baltic
S.C
Robert Ernst
Bedford
Glenda Swanson
Durant
Safety probes target Galveston elevator blast firm
Washington The Farmers Export Co was accused of 11 willful safety violations at its Galveston Texas grain elevator after a late December explosion killed 18 workers and injured 2. OSHA proposed penalties totaling 116000 for the 11 willful violations and six potential inadvertent ones and said it was considering federal criminal action against the elevator owners.
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Washington
the Farmers Export Co
Galveston
Texas
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
the Safety Administration
Swine Expo carcass winners and live judging mixed results
At Swine Expo 78 the derby carcass champion came from Rick Hofer of DeWitt after a tie with Merle Keppy’s hog, while Clark Humker of Ames tied for grand carcass honors but placed only as derby live winner. Central test champion Randy Schmidt led with 237 pounds and .879 muscle per day of age. Other carcass winners and upcoming sales listing follow with date line on February 25 to March 3. ON THIS DATE in 1903 the United States acquired a naval station on Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay.
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Clark Humker
Ames
Rick Hofer
DeWitt
Hofer
Huinker
Merle Keppy
Bennett
Keppy
Randy Schmidt
Williamsburg
Chester-Hampshire
Dale Thompson
Riverside
Hampshire
Reserve Central
Ken Weber
Sigourney
Olson Spot Farms
Newhall
Jolene Keppy
Wilton
Glenn Keppy
Davenport
United States
Cuba
Guantanamo Bay
Ice slows Illinois River barge traffic during deep freeze
Ice clogged the Illinois River above Peoria halting most barge movement. Only one tow moved toward St. Louis in two days while ice up to 15 feet chokes the channel. Operators with grain salt steel cargoes pause, coal scarce due to miners strike and salt shortages hit Illinois towns. Federal Barge Lines halted shipments. others followed.
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Peoria
Ill
Illinois River
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
Illinois
Angelo Zerbonia
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Don Byczynski
Starved Rock
Chicago
St. Louis
Mississippi
Federal Barge Lines
Dave Carlton
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Begonia
Area Farm Auctions
Aliban Bieber
Center Point
Verna McCall
Sievers Memorial
Mechanicsville
Mach
Jim
Dan Bartlett
Solon
Jim Altenhofen
Kalona
Outer Space
Armstrong ’S
Armstrong
Cedar Rapids
Soic
Scimouste
The
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