Farm Machinery Race Looms As Ford Challenges Leaders
Ford plans a full line of tractors from Highland Park plant and a 500 engineer center to push into the farm machinery market. Ford seeks a larger share, challenging International Harvester Deere Allis-Chalmers and others with 125 major implements and 2800-strong dealer network. Industry-wide sales near 1.6 billion in 1954 expected to rise to 1.8 billion in 1955.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
Ent Roit
NEA
Ford Motor Company
Highland Park, Mich
Detroit
Wood Bros., Inc
Ford Manufacturing
Des Moines
Irving A. Duffy
International Harvester
Duffy
U. S. Department of Commerce
Deere and Company
Allis-Chalmers
Massey-Harris-Ferguson
Case, Oliver
Minneapolis-Moline
Department of Agriculture
Henry Ford II
Henry Ford Senior
Allis Chalmers
Above
Ford Ferguson Tractor
Ford Tractor
Dearborn
Wood Bros
Case
Oliver
McDeering
H.p
New Idea
Fairbanks Morse
Traer-A Cheese Smorgasbord At Tama County Meeting
The Tama County Co operative Breeding Association will feature a Traer-A cheese smorgasbord during its annual meeting on Friday evening at the Traer library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Traer
Tama County Cooperative Breeding Association
Chicago Keeps First Place as Livestock Market
Chicago remained the world’s largest livestock market in 1954 handling 5,837,169 head of cattle calves hogs and sheep. Cattle receipts totaled 2,271,315 and hog arrivals 2,979,370. The year saw the billionth animal received since 1865 and beef sales amounted to 2,444,900,000 pounds with dressed beef at 1,345,500,000 pounds valued around 531,350,000 dollars and total tall meat animal value near 708,360,000 dollars.
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Chicago
Union Stock Yards
Swine Meeting Set at West Liberty High School
A swine meeting for West Liberty adult night school farmers will be at West Liberty high school on Jan 12 at 8 p.m. The event covers live hog and carcass grading with live hogs and dressed carcasses on display. Led by Bill Zmolek of Iowa State College and Roy Ormond of Oscar Mayer and Company, the session is sponsored by the West Liberty vocational agriculture department, Muscatine county extension service, and Oscar Mayer.
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West Liberty
West Liberty High School
Bill Zmolek
Iowa State College
Roy Ormond
Oscar Mayer and Company
West Liberty Vocational Agriculture Department
Muscatine County Extension Service
Oscar Mayer Company
Federal milk orders under scrutiny by industry groups
The American Butter Institute and the National Creameries Association urge Congress to probe federal milk marketing orders arguing they favor surplus production and justify the equalization fee. They explain how Class I demand and Class II and III allocations drive payments into the producer settlement fund, and they warn the system may distort prices across markets while emphasizing the goal of orderly marketing and uniform minimum prices for producers.
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H. National Creameries Association
The
American Butter Institute
Congress
Usda Yearbook of Agriculture
National Creameries Association
Milk Price Mechanism Near Open Market Level
The passage notes that the two parties moved toward a central position without fully uniting and that the price of fluid milk could approach the open market level, even under the existing order. This suggests practical alignment despite theoretical separation.
South St. Paul Leads Hog Market in 1954
South St. Paul Stock yards finished 1954 as the nation’s top hog market and third in total livestock sales. Under President A L Olson the yard moved 2 401 000 hogs 1 171 000 cattle and calves 503 200 and 591 sheep selling for 326 194 000. Olson projected a ready market at attractive prices in 1955 with cattle prices steady hog prices likely to dip slightly due to a larger spring pig crop.
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South ST. Paul, Minn
South St. Paul
A. L. Olson
Olson
Western Lamb Show and Sale Set for Saturday
Thirty seven 4 H and FFA members will exhibit nine hundred sixty counted Western lambs at the twelfth annual Western Lamb Show and Sale Saturday at Hawkeye Downs. The event features medal awards for top grading market lamb pens and a carcass demonstration by Wilson and Co. Cedar Rapids.
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FFA
Hawkeye Downs
West Branch
Mechanicsville
Wilton Junction
Columbus Junction
Linn
Benton
Jones
Cedar
Johnson
Muscatine
Louisa Counties
Howard Hamilton Tipton
Joe van Nice
Montpelier
Ronald Madsen
Bob Pearson
Max Thumma
Keith Smith
Stanwood
Arlo Becker, Jr
Watkins
Delbert Hodgsden
Oxford Junction
G. L. Horton
David Mitchell
Wilson and Co
Cedar Rapids
Mechanicsville Ffa
Tom Wickersham
Iowa State College
Hamilton
Silage Tour Set for Keokuk County Farmers
Keokuk County farmers will tour several farms Friday starting 1 p.m. at the Dave Noller farm near Sigourney on highway 92. Stops include Noller, Shaull, Orr farms with silos and a self feeding pit. ISU extension engineer Dale Hull will discuss silage making and silo costs.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
Don Shirk
Dave Noller
Highway 92
Don Noller
Bruce Shaull
Thornburg
Andrew Orr
Shaull
Dale Hull
Iowa State College Extension
Shirk
REA Grants $15,000 Loan to Albia Coop
The Rural Electrification Administration approved a 15000 dollar loan to the Chariton Valley Electric Cooperative at Albia to finance members wiring plumbing and electrical equipment. Howard Vincent serves as president and E. E. Agans as manager.
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Albia
Rural Electrification Administration
Chariton Valley Electric Cooperative
Howard Vincent
E. E. Agans
Chicago Grain Futures Trade Shows Decline
Chicago Board of Trade grain futures volume fell in 1954 while other principal commodities rose. Soybean futures surged 71 percent, offsetting drops in wheat 13.5 percent, corn 28 percent, oats 56 percent and rye 22 percent. Cash receipts totaled 191,727,000 bushels. Corn led cash receipts with 102,344,000 bushels, about 53 percent of the total.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Exchange
Robert C. Liebenow
Liebenow
Waterloo Lamb Day and Junior Show Scheduled
Waterloo hosts the joint Waterloo Junior Lamb Feeding Show and Lamb Feeders Day on Saturday January 22. Northeast Town 4 H and FFA members will show 16 lambs at Rath s Hilltop yards at 8am with a 9 45am grand champion and 10 15am auction. Packing firms from Iowa attend the sale while a 12 30pm lamb feeders program discusses feeds costs vaccination and slaughter data for 10 lots.
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Waterloo
Northeast Town
FFA
Rath
Hilltop
Iowa
C. C. Culbertson
Iowa State College Animal Husbandryman
Culbertson
Iowa State College Experiment Station
William Hale
A. E. Adams
Lamb Feeders Association
Mission
Kan
State 4-H Club Department
State Vocational Agriculture Department
Iowa State College
Iowa State Sheep Association
The
Bath Packing Company
January Egg Month Drive Launched Amid Surplus
Washington reports a government industry campaign to boost egg consumption as production climbs and prices fall. Officials forecast a five percent January jump to a record high, with 270 million more eggs than last year, and a plan to remove 72 million eggs from the market.
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Washington
Ezra T. Benson
Agriculture Department
German Earthworms Boost German Farm Profits
Berlin reports earthworm breeding for agriculture has become a profitable occupation for a German farmer inspired by California projects. Darwin estimated humus yield at about 400 pounds per acre annually, improving flood land quickly. Germany's first worm farm sells earthworms at 36 cents per hundred, cheaper by the thousand as spawn.
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Berlin
California
Darwin
Germany
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Alma Toerber
Olin
Anker Severinsen
Marion
Francis J. Sheely
Walker
Daisy Ashby
Coggon
Don Dreibelbis
Truman Stanton
Center Jet
Louis Mottet
Solon
Gerhard Werndt
Clarence
Don Smith
Hopkinton
Harold Hartman
Anamosa
Charles Chaloupka
Fairfax
Willis Lehrer
Marengo
Everett Hettinger
Palo
Robert Milder
Roy Glant
Howard Dodge
Center Point
Mie
Sip
America
Herbel CO
the Builders Department Store
Center Point Road
Dial
Livestock
A. B.C
Secretary of Agriculture
Iowa City
Thurs
Jan
McCormick- Deering
Carl Lundeen
Mitchell & Smith
Auet
First National Bank
Keokuk Farmers
Rea
Sioux City
Mason City
Tracr
Arnold Brandt
Geneseo
Cedar Rapids Loan CO
Merchants Bank
Beltsville
Frozen Food Center
Second Street
Beegentine Farm
Westinghouse
Hampshire
Dee
Missouri
Clinton
Ickens and Poultry
Lux
Leghorn
Donald L. Smith
Bob Drumbarger
E. W. Mussmann
Citizens State Bank
Gary von
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