Farmers rally at ISU echo calls to Stockman amid debt fears
On the Iowa State University campus 15 000 farmers gathered for a National Crisis Action Rally near Hilton Coliseum. Coffins with nails and a Stockman coffin sign drew crowds as speakers urged debt relief, farmloans, and immediate aid while plans for Washington demonstrations circulated.
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Mike Williams
Ames
Hilton Coliseum
National Crisis Action
Iowa State University
David Stockman
Washington
Stockman
Prairie Fire
Taylor County
Jan Burkhard
Gravity
Keith O’dell
New Market
Dean Goldsmith
Prescott
Washington, D.C
John Murphy
Des Moines
United Rubber Workers
Murphy
Monroe County
Jean
Midwest Markets Dairy Lambs and Grain Prices Reported
Farmstead Foods quotes 90 115 pound choice lambs at 64 to 65 dollars and shorn lambs at 65 to 67. Mid America Lamb Processing bids 115 pound choice at 64 to 66 and wool lambs at 62 to 64. Grain prices for delivery to Cedar Rapids processors at 2 30 p m Wednesday. Includes corn soybeans oats and hog market notes with bids from Pro Farmer Cedar Rapids.
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Farmstead Foods
Ray Zamastil
Mid-America
Russ Olson
Fairfax
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Northwest
N.central
Northeast
Southwest
Central
Southeast
Chicago Produce Butter and Egg Market Report
Butter prices remained unchanged with AA at 1.4150 to 1.4325 and A at 1.3925 to 1.4325. Eggs showed a fully steady trade sentiment with sales to volume buyers higher. extra large 57 to 60, large 55 to 58, mediums 49 to 52.
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Federal State Market News Service
U.S
Trading opens on corn futures options at CBOT
Varel Bailey of the National Corn Growers Association watches as Robert Goldberg, former exchange chairman, taps the ceremonial bell to start trading options on corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade. The CBOT is the sole U S exchange offering the new options, a spokesman says.
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Varel Bailey
National Corn Growers Association
Robert Goldberg
Chicago Board of Trade
CBOT
March 1 deadline shifts as farm credit hopes rise
Farmers face March 1 deadlines for sign up in the federal feed grain program and for prepayment of seed fertilizer and chemicals. Many can’t secure operating loans yet, prompting calls for credit relief while bankers note most lines are arranged earlier. Experts say moving day faded since 1970s law changed lease renegotiation timing.
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the Gazette
Des Moines
Washington, D.C
Kathy Beery
Rural Concern
The
Gazette
Dennis Earhart
Merchants National Bank
Cedar Rapids
Earhart
MNB
Iowa
Mary Waterhouse
Manchester
Waterhouse
Gary McCool
Hertz Farm Management
Mount Vernon
McCool
van Horne
Blairstown
Iowa senators debate minimum price bill on crops
Iowa senators spent an hour debating a bill to declare conditions for minimum prices on agricultural products. The chamber rejected a meat inclusion amendment 21 to 26, aiming to control grain prices. Critics warned the measure could cost Iowa billions in economic impact and hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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Iowa
Ken Sullivan
Tazette
Des Moines
Iowa State University
Ames
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Senate
Sen. C.W. Hutchins
Audubon
Hutchins
William H. Meyers
Drake
Public legislative offices listed in Washington DC
A brief notice lists Senator John Doe at the Senate Office Building and Representative John Doe at the House Office Building in Washington DC with their respective addresses. The entry provides basic contact points for Senate and House offices in the capital.
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John Doe
Senate
Washington, D.C
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