Outback Leaders Push Voluntary Crop Cutbacks Across Midwest
Vernon Fiderlick of Buffalo Center Iowa and Wayne Barnett of Shipman Illinois lead a Midwest drive for farmers to voluntarily reduce corn and soybean acreage 10 to 20 percent in 1968. They target 80 to 90 percent participation locally with state meetings, town gatherings, and pledges while urging fertilizer and machinery curbs to hold yields down amid falling prices.
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Vernon Fiderlick
Buffalo Center
Wayne Barnett
Shipman, Ill
Nebraska
Ohio
Iowa
Fiderlick
Illinois
Barnett
Earl Butz
Des Moines
Adventurern
Altoona
Winnebago
Gazette
Smithshire
Monmouth
Ill
Agriculture policy role questioned by Corwith official
Thurman Gaskill of Corwith, an Agriculture Council of America official, pressed the U S state department’s influence on food policy at Wartburg College. He warned that policy shifts affect world hunger, urging better markets, production efficiency, and farmer–consumer communication.
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Gaskill
U.S. State Department
Mideast
Robert Busche
Lutheran World Relief
American Lutheran Church
Peru
India
Resource Persons Busche outlines global relief and development efforts
Busche notes his organization operates in 28 countries aiding the very young and the aged with food clothing and medicine as immediate relief. He emphasizes deploying resource people for education training and administrative help to stimulate economic input. Development aims to raise justice levels for the very poor and new projects include food storage water distribution storage research and production tech to boost crop yields and seeds.
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Lutheran World Relief
Busche
Farm Bill Hearing Set Monday In Des Moines
A public hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday in Des Moines on HF 215, the proposed family farm bill that would ban certain types of corporate farms in Iowa. This session is the sole hearing before House debate on the measure.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Mississippi Valley Milk Protein Premiums Grow Record Year
Mississippi Valley Milk Producers Assn. reports record sales of 87.46 million dollars for last year and a protein premium paid to members near 200 thousand dollars. Three Eastern Iowans were elected to three year terms as directors at Monticello. The coop re-elected officers and outlined member allocations of 13.9 cents per hundredweight and 10.28 percent of ag service purchases. Equity retirement totaled 630 thousand dollars in the past year, for a cumulative 4.84 million since 1959, with net worth at 8.15 million.
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MT. Joy
Mississippi
Bram
Monticello
Vernon Becker
Hopkinton
Thomas Dinsdale
Traer
Fred Wessels
Earlville
Ag Services
Farm Auctions Saturday Maz Details and Names
Public and close out farm auctions listed with multiple locations and times. Items include machinery and antiques from estates of Elizabeth Shimon and other consignors. Names include John Dawson John Sehenickey Olid Jaycees George Marak with distances noted to towns like Parnell Hobins Salon Marion.
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Sat
Maz
Mach
John Dawson
Parnell
John Sehenickey
Hobins
Elizabeth Shimon
Salon
Sale
Math
Olid Jaycees
Olin
George Marak
Marion
Pesticide Antidote Plan Told
Iowa State University veterinarians unveiled an emergency pesticide antidote plan for livestock. Eight stockpiles would be placed across Iowa within a 90 minute drive of any location, aiming to prevent losses like 150 cattle killed near Breda last spring.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa State University
Allan Fure
Tom Garson
Iowa
Farr
Carson
Iowa Veterinary Medical Assn
Breda
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