Iowa Has Place for More Beef Herds Says deBaca
Iowa extension beef specialist Robert deBaca urged soil district commissioners to measure beef production by per acre returns at Iowa State University. He noted top one third of cows outperform the rest by about 80 pounds of calf annually and predicted heavier calves as the next 15 years unfold through selective breeding better pastures and feeding efficiency.
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Lowa
Robert deBaca
Soil District
Iowa State University
DeBaca
Iowa
4 H Junior Cattle Feeder Projects and Milk Price Set
Independence action approves a new 4 H junior cattle feeder project with five steers per entrant and a minimum baby beeves weight of 800 pounds for the county fair. Cedar Rapids Iowa City milk market December price is 4 18 per cwt with 7 4 cent butterfat differential. County 4 H officers elected Ben Davis chaired boys H county committee and Mrs. Raymond Leary chaired girls.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Buchanan County
Ben Davis
Hazleton
Raymond Leary
Walker
Iowa County Half Swine Drive Reaches Quota Milestone
MARENGO The Iowa County Swine Producers Assn has reached half its $80,000 state campaign goal for swine research facilities at Iowa State University. The county quota is 36 market hogs or cash, per association president Robert Walker of Marengo. Total milk receipts in December averaged 506,310 pounds per day, 10 percent above November but 27 percent below December a year earlier, with 574 producers averaging 882 pounds daily.
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Marengo
Iowa County Swine Producers Assn
Iowa State University
Robert Walker
Swine Association
Pw Rane Nee Er Ewenenreny
Annual Meeting Set by Fayette County Soil District
The Fayette County Soil Conservation District will hold its annual meeting on March 28 at the Farm Bureau building in Fayette.
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West Union
Fayette County
Farm Auctions Listed Across Central Iowa in Gazette Pages
A sequence of public and closing out farm auctions is listed with dates from January 12 to February 22. Entries name buyers and locations including Atkins Coggon Luzerne North Liberty Hawkeye Downs Marion Centre Point and more, with items such as livestock machinery grain hay dairy dispersal and farm real estate.
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Wibert Gearhold
Edge
Atkins
Mary Jane Wolle
Coggon
Lowell
Pat’ Kramer
Wami
Luzerne
Ralph Furler
North Liberty
David J. Boddicker
Blairstown
Curtis Schutt
Dysart
David Mullin
Millersbore
Leonard Biderman
Ely
East
Iowa
Hareford Alan
Hawkeye Downs
George Caraway
Marlon
Kenneth Feuerbach
Keystone
Clifford Tisinger
B. E. Agne
Tipton
Fred Dever
Iowa City
Emil Lucas
Luxemburg
H. N. Dorrance
Keota
Kenneth L. Smith
Stanwood
Leo Becker
Fremont Huedepohi
Willamsburg
Frank Hudrilk
Mary Hudelik
Oxford Junction
Gllmore Schaubacher
Arnold Lorenz
Ralph and
Russell Walters
Watkins
John H. Helmrich
Center Point
Art van Weert
Marion
Gilbert Vernimont
Monticello
E. L. Herndon
C. Nagel
Miller and Gould
Cedar Valley
Winten
Wm. T. Dunn and Sons
Winthrap
Keotaan County
Waek
Wellman
John Deere
Ike
Kewange Vt
Steven Bearings
Harrow
Lindsey Cart
Barrow
Stan Holst
M-M
Kinross Catholic
Ed Chester
Forage Crops Can Pay Well Says Schaller
ISU extension agronomist Frank Schaller told a Tuesday Iowa soil district commission that top management can make forage production nearly as profitable as corn when forages fit the system and efficiently used by livestock. Few Iowa farmers yet have thick stands or apply enough fertilizer to boost forage yields.
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Schaller
Ames
Frank Schaller
Iowa State University Extension Agronomist
Iowa Soil District
Iowa
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Walter Wedin
Soils Commissioners
Wedin
Cooperative Creamery
R. C. Holcomb
Oelwein Legion
Wedding
Creamery
Ralph Jipson
Donald Hunt
Oelwein
Carl Rueber
Howard Cowell
Gerald E. Schmidt
Venice Rathe
Readlyn
R. 0. Holcomb
Susan Shirk
Debby Emery
Delwein High School
Rex Conn
Co-Op Creamery Board
R. O. Holcomb
Gerald £. Schmidt
Cedar Rapids
E. H. McGuire
McGuire
Iowa County
Gazette
Brice
Buick
Special
Keith Noll
Tedar Rapids, Iowa
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , Federal Reserve System
Delhi
Mrs
Laura Smith
Ed O'Brien
Osceola
Clarke County Feeder
Osceola Sale CO
Don Ramsey, Mer
Storm
Walter Haddy
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