Tractor PTO Hazards Studied By Iowa Researchers
University of Iowa safety engineers study PTO accidents in Iowa over two years with 140 cases and eight deaths. Findings point to shaft projections and clothing catching on left side as major risk, especially in mud ice and rolling corn. Solutions include better shields and removals of protruding pins with new collar devices and a grapefruit style shield design underway.
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Owa
L. W. Knapp, Jr
University of Iowa Agricultural Safety
Institute of Agricultural Medicine
Knapp
Iowa
Larry Piercy
Institute
PTO
Gazette
Rex Conn
Toddville
Dee Bowers
Livestock Conservation to Hold Annual Meeting in Kansas City
CHICAGO The annual meeting of Livestock Conservation Inc. is set for February 22 to 24 in Kansas City. The organization promotes livestock health and safety and lists Keith Myers of Grundy Center Iowa as vice-president.
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Chicago
Livestock Conservation, Inc
Kansas City
LCI
Keith Myers
Grundy Center
Iowa
PTO safety concerns rise as farm mechanization grows
The article cites a University of Illinois professor noting that power take off systems must run during machine checks and operations on self unloading wagons and hammermills. As farms add more machinery, shutting off the PTO becomes impractical, increasing accident risk.
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Knapp
U of I
Chester White Show Plans Set
The fifteenth annual national Chester White Spotlight Congress is planned for January 2022 at Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids. Breeding classes changed to reflect farrowing trends for balance, with years and gilts shown from July to September. Judges include John Larick Austin Minnesota for breeding classes and Francis Callahan Milford for barrow and litter classes.
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Chester White Spotlight
Hawkeye Downs
Cedar Rapids
J. Marvin Garner
Chester White Swine Record Association
Rochester
Ind
John Larick
Austin, Minn
Francis Callahan
Milford
Predator Role in Wildlife Population Still a Puzzle
Madison Wis These pheasant counts hint at predator effects but data remain uncertain. University of Wisconsin wildlife specialist Robert McCabe notes predators like coyotes and foxes show varied, locally specific impacts on animal numbers, with deer and snowshoe hare trends resisting simple explanations.
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Adison
Wis
Wiscon
Wisconsin
Robert McCabe
University of Wisconsin
McCabe
University Arboretum
Coyote Seat
North Woods
MciCabe
Local farm auction notices list dozens of sales in January
A long column of farm auction notices schedules closing out sales and dispersals across central Iowa towns including Mechanicsville Brandon Garrison Morley Oxford Iowa City Marion Vinton Springville Coggon Luzerne Blairs Town Ely Keystone Williamsburg Atkins Atkins Marion and Hawkeye Downs. Items include livestock machinery grain hay dairy cattle and household goods with auctioneers names and locations.
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Robert Simrermaker
Mechanicsville
N. van Skike
Brandon
Harry Lyons
Garrison
Duane Whitney
Center Point
Paul Meineke
Morley
Corm
Hugo Lindahl
Vinton
Glen Svoboda
Clarence
Herb Williams
Simi
Iowa City
Dave Nietert
Marion
Don Meisgeier
Manchester
David Ward
Springville
Wilbert Gearhold
Lodge
Atkins
Mary Jane Wolfe
Coggon
Lowell Pat’ Kramer
Luzerne
Leonard Biderman
Ely
East
Iowa
Hawkeye Downs
George Caraway
Machinery
Kenneth Feuerbach
Keystone
Leo Becker
Fremont Huedepohl
Williamsburg
Gilmore Schaubacher
Cotton Tops CCC Inventory in 1965 Surplus Report
Government data show cotton valued at 1.98 billion dollars as of November 30 in CCC stocks, surpassing feed grains. Investments include 12.56 million upland and 128 thousand extra long bales, with meat imports and other grains also detailed in the monthly summary.
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Washington
UPI
Commodity Credit Corp
Agriculture Department
Department
Agticulture Department
Inetsma
CCC J
Higher prices spur greater trade movement abroad
In this report the phrase notes that elevated prices in the country encouraged a larger volume of trade activity and movement of goods.
Tobacco and dairy investments show declines in farm loans
Farmers hold loans and commodities with the tobacco investment totaling 833.964 million on November 30, the dairy investment down to 682 million, and the soybean investment at 106 million with only 4 thousand dollars in outright government ownership remaining.
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Nans
Farm Price Index Makes Sharp Gain in Iowa Markets
Des Moines reports show a dramatic rise in livestock and crop prices. The Dec 15 Iowa farm price index reached 300 percent of the 1910-14 base, up from 275 percent on Nov 15 and 223 percent a year earlier. The all-crop index was 192 percent, with hay and grains rising. U.S. all farm products index hit 259 percent.
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Des Moines
Iowa Crop and Livestock Resorting Service
Iowa
U.S
FHA Meeting Planned for Farm Home Admin Information Session
A Farmers Home Administration information meeting is set for Monday at 7 30 p m on the Linn County REC grounds in Manchester. Albert L Kimler Independence discusses changes in FHA lending policy and the two day extension landscape architecture program covering Linn Buchanan and Delaware counties.
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Farmers Home Administration
Linn County
Manchester
Marion
Albert Home Grounds Improvement
L. Kimler
Independence
Linn
Buchanan
Delaware
January Class I milk price unchanged at 4.40
The Cedar Rapids Iowa City market order keeps the January Class I price at 4.40 per cwt for 35 percent milk. Market Administrator E H McGuire announced amendments to federal orders. December January and February prices match November. Class II December is 3.45 per cwt with 7 cent adjustment per tenth percent variance.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
E. H. McGuire
Cedar Rapidstown
McGuire
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