Farmers to Harvest Paper Grain Under Parity Plan
Striking farmers aim to push grain prices to 100 percent parity by buying crops through Chicago and Kansas City boards. Organizers say production costs will justify growing again once prices hit parity, as about 500 strike offices mobilize nationwide and meetings set for Washington and Kansas City.
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Great Plains Wind Erosion Warms but Still Threatens Some States
The Agriculture Department notes some Great Plains areas are better able to withstand wind erosion this winter, while Colorado New Mexico Oklahoma and Texas remain dry and vulnerable. Preliminary findings indicate improvement from last year when the worst damage in 20 years occurred.
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Great Plains
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Dideriksen
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New Mexico
Oklahoma
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Negotiations resume for Iowa Beef strike in Dakota City
Negotiators from Iowa Beef Processors and Local 222 of the AMCBMW union, with federal mediators, will meet in Lincoln Tuesday to restart talks after a 10 month strike that idle 1,800 workers and halted the Dakota City plant. The firm reopened in December with non union staff triggering confrontations.
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New tattoo test rules for swine across state lines
Washington says starting March 23 breeding swine over six months must bear tattoos or tags for interstate shipping to slaughter plants. Boars and sows shipped for breeding must be tested for brucellosis. Indemnities were approved for farmers, up to 25 dollars per head for purebreds and 10 dollars for other breeding swine. Brucellosis is contagious to livestock. meat remains safe.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Scientists study chicken arthritis at University of Connecticut
Scientists at the University of Connecticut, funded by a $60,000 federal grant from the Agriculture Department, pursue a vaccine for infectious tenosynovitis to protect poultry. The disease disables walking and reduces egg or meat production in flocks, causing costly losses to producers.
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University of Connecticut
Agriculture Department
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Auctions Scheduled for January in Iowa Listings
Auction on Tuesday January 24 at 10 30 a m Richard Wilhelmi 13 miles northwest of Atkins. Thursday January 26 dairy dispersal at 11 a m 186 Holsteins Wayside Farms Corp 3 miles north of Marion. Sunday January 29 land auction at 2 p m 144 miles northwest of Center Point.
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Wayside Farms Corp
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Farm Bureau president urges farming over strikes at Houston
Allan Grant said farmers join the Farm Bureau not a farm strike to raise income. He noted 80 percent of farmers in farm organizations belong to the Farm Bureau and that the group produces about 80 percent of the nation s commercial crops. Grant warned striking farmers not to use food as a weapon and said a strike is impractical for agriculture. The 59th annual convention runs through Thursday at Houston s Convention Center with U S Agriculture Secretary Bergland and Anita Bryant on the program. An Iowa attendance breakfast is set for Tuesday at the Albert Thomas Center. The Farm Bureau reports 2.8 million member families, a record high.
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