World Agricultural Output Trends and Farm Lending
A USDA report notes 1965 world agricultural production rose 1% while population grew about 2%. Western Hemisphere gains and record Western Europe output contrast with declines in Eastern Europe and India. In Omaha, the Intermediate Credit Bank reports a record year with $232 million in farm loans and growth in loan size and usage.
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Ashington
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Economic Research Service
Western Hemisphere
Europe
Soviet Union
Far East
India
West Asia
Iran
Israel
Turkey
Near East
Farm price level in 1965 strongest since mid-1950s
The year 1965 ended with farm prices at 80 percent of parity, up from 75 percent a year earlier, signaling a favorable trend in agricultural markets and a better year for farmers.
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Agriculture Department
Corn fertilization topic at Coggon adult farmer school
The Coggon community high school loag room hosts an adult farmer evening school Wednesday at 8 p.m. Garland M. Ashbacher of Manchester will speak on corn fertilization.
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Coggon
Adult Farmer
Lo-Ag
Coggon Community High
Garland
M. Ashbacher
Manchester
Iowa farm sales line up through January
A long list of upcoming closing out sales and public auctions across central Iowa. Buyers will find machinery grain hay livestock and miscellaneous farm goods at locations near Eldridge Mt Auburn Shellsburg Sigourney Williamsburg Williamsburg Clarence Garrison Mechanicsville Brandon Center Point Morley Oxford Blairs town Ely Marion Coggan Atkins Watkins Watkins and Hawkeye Downs with dates from Jan 4 to Jan 22 and various start times. Included are dairy cattle and household goods with several estate and public auctions led by local owners and managers.
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K. B. Christianson
Mt Auburn
Alpha T. Lampman
Shellsburg
John Vittatoe
Sigourney
Everett Joseph
Williamsburg
Alvin Pierce
Clarence
Henry Meyer
Garrison
Robert Simmermaker
Mechanicsville
Angus
N. van Skike
Brandon
Harry Lyons
Duane Whitney
Mic
Center Point
Amr
Paul Meineke
Morley
Leo Robert Hospodarsky
Oxford
Berkshire
Hawkeye Downs
Milo Welrab
Mt. Vernon
Hugo Lindahl
Rai
Vinton
Gien Svoboda
Albert Gearhold
Atkins
Mary Jane Wolfe
Coggan
Ttamr
Leonard Biderman
Ely
Iowa
George Caraway
Marion
Kenneth Feuerbach
Keystone
Leo Becker
Gilmore Schaubacher
Ralph and
Raymond Walters
Watkins
Bank Sets New Loan Mark At Year’s End
OMAHA The Federal Land Bank of Omaha reports 1965 long term farm loans totaling 138 million dollars, up 32 million from 1964 and the highest since 1935. President Thomas A. Maxwell Jr. announced loans to farmers in Nebraska and neighboring South Dakota and Wyoming.
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Far East
China
Asia
Japan
South Korea
Taiwan
Omaha
India
Intermediate Credit Bank
Australia
Dreath
Herman W. Fre
New Zealand
Federal Land Bank of
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wyoming
Thomas A. Maxwell, Jr
Maxwell
Electric Co op Power Cost at New Low Level
Washington AP reports 1965 wholesale and retail power costs for rural electric systems dipped to 0.65 cents per kilowatt hour, an average drop from 0.44 cents over 15 years. Rural electrification loans outstanding on Dec 31 stood at 570 million, with bank loan exposure near 62 million above the prior year. The Federal Land Bank notes loan activity easing, while private power cooperatives in four states serve over five million rural customers.
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Washington
Maxwell Forestric Systems
Federal Land Bank
Omaha
Thelfer Rural Power Cooperatives Bank and ‘Associations
Freeman Sees No Meat Import Quotas in 1966
Secretary Orville L. Freeman reports 1966 meat import estimates at about 700 million pounds. He says this level would not require presidential action to impose quotas this year under the 1964 act, with an adjusted base quota of 890.1 million pounds and a trigger at 110 percent.
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Washington
Orville L. Freeman
United States
Book Review of The Great American Forest by Rutherford and Platt
The reviewer praises The Great American Forest for its thorough look at North American timberlands. It covers paleolithic forests, soil science, photosynthesis, sap movement, and species adaptation with insights from preserved trunks and glacial-era evidence. The book invites careful reading and is recommended as a compelling story of the American forest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutherford, Platt
Prentice-Hall
Platt
Joseph Wood Crutch
American Forest
Women s Sessions Planned in Delaware
Two January homemaker extension workshops are set in Delaware county with a refinishing class on January 25 at 2 p.m. or 7 p.m. and a sewing machine clinic on January 27 28 at 9:45 a.m. Sessions meet in the Farm Bureau meeting room and require prior registration. Delaware County Swine Producers plan transport for members to the Iowa pork industry conference in Des Moines January 13.
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Manchester
Delaware County
Co. Sss. Cunncanae
Great North Woods
Farm Bureau
Delaware County Swine Producers Assn
Iowa Pork Industry Conference
Des Moines
Delaware
Manchester Legion Hall
Delaware County Artificial Breeding Assn
Carnation Breeding Service
Delaware County Dairy Herd Improvement Assn
U. S
Agriculture exports rise while ACP funds face cut
President May faces possible cuts to the Agricultural Conservation Program for fiscal 1967, with critics fearing a reduction from $250 million despite past support. Freeman hails record farm exports at $6.2 billion for 1965 and predicts continued growth in 1966, driven by soybeans, feed grains, and rice amid a favorable trade balance.
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Freeman
Congress
Johnson
Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
U. 5
Lambs Gain Well on Slotted Floors at Illinois Center
In a Dixon Springs center study, 64 early weaned lambs aged 65 to 144 days were confined to four to ten square feet per lamb on elevated slotted floors. No parasite or maggot issues occurred, manure stayed off floors, and all lambs gained about 0.5 pounds per day with no significant difference across spacings.
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Urbana
University of Illinois
Dixon Springs Agricultural Center
New Hampton Swine Test Station to hold four 1966 sales
The North east Iowa Swine Test Station will conduct four production-tested boar sales in 1966 at New Hampton. The dates are January 11, February 1, February 15 and March 1.
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New Hampton
Iowa
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