New Farm Bills Expected From Administration This Year
The administration plans to push a package of farm bills including surplus-control for feed grains a permanent food stamp plan and expansion of cropland to grass tree and recreation areas The approach favors voluntary compliance and staging proposals piece by piece to avoid last year’s clashes in Congress Names of key programs and potential expansions are outlined including cotton dairy potatoes food stamps and rural development measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
UPI
Congress
Administration
Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Freeman
Capitol
White House
Kennedy
Farmers Home Administration
Agriculture Department
Iowa Angus Tops Denver Steer Show
Dennis Gebert of Granville Iowa wins the National Western Stock Show grand steer championship for the second time in three years. His 1000 pound Angus Big Boy captured the grand championship of the junior show and sold for 4.10 dollars per pound. Gebert also raises Shorthorn Hereford and Angus cattle and plans to reinvest sale proceeds into calves for his Hereford herd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Denver
Dennis Gebert
Granville
James Hancock
New Franklin
The
American Angus Assn
Janet Bohlender
LaSalle
Colo
Colorado
Angus
Big Boy
Gebert
Young Gebert
Kalona Sales
Kalona
Iowa
Schnoebelen-Yates
Montana
Farrow
Iits
Clarence Co-Op Meeting Sees $1.425 Million In Business
About 480 people attended the Clarence Co-Op annual meeting at the Clarence community school gym. Managers Meier and Muesing reported $27,000 in dividends to farmer patrons, total business of $1,425,000 and net savings of $91,000. Glenn Pruess elected to replace Richard Dircks on the board. Dircks completed 18 years. Directors re-elected include Arnold Conrad and Herman Dethman. Bud Trafford of Fort Dodge gave the annual meeting speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubert W. Meier
Harold Muesing
Glenn Pruess
Association
Richard Dircks
Clarence
Arnold Conrad
Tipton
Herman Dethman
Bud Trafford
Fort Dodge
Felco Feeds
Milk Output Sets 1962 Record in Iowa
Des Moines report shows U S milk production in 1962 reached 126 509 million pounds based on preliminary estimates. Output is 1 percent above the 1961 record and 4 percent above the ten year average, with Iowa totals about 6 094 million pounds for the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
U.S
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Iowa
Wilson to Build Major Slaughter Plant at Cherokee
Wilson and Co. announced that a new cattle and hog slaughtering plant will rise in Cherokee starting late 1963. The 134000 square foot facility aims for 1964 completion and will employ 500 people, featuring automated equipment to boost beef and pork output and support livestock markets in northwest Iowa.
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Omaha
Wilson and Co
Cherokee
Wilson
Iowa
Egg Production in Iowa Down While U.S. Up
Iowa flocks laid 4 491 million eggs in 1962, down 5 percent from 1961 and 7 percent below the ten year average. U.S. egg production reached 62 772 million eggs, about 2 percent higher than 1961 and the greatest on record except for 1959.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
U.S
Linn County Swine Producers Set Annual Meeting Jan 31
The Linn County Swine Producers Association schedules its annual dinner meeting for January 31 at the Marion Presbyterian church. Vernon Dice of Palo presides as president. Bernard Ebbing of Bath Packing Company Waterloo will speak. Three directors to be elected. terms expiring include Dice Conley and Strother. A name change proposal to Linn County Pork Producers Association will be considered.
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Linn County Swine Producers Assn
Marion Presbyterian Church
Vernon Dice
Palo
Bernard Ebbing
Bath Packing Company
Waterloo
Dice
Kenneth Conley
Marion
Dale Strother
Mt. Ver
Harry Barnts
Central City
Irvin Scott
Melvin Conley
Mt. Vernon
Arthur Gray
Center Point
Robert Williams
Springville
Don Lefebvre
Fairfax
Linn County Pork Producers Association
Tractor maintenance meeting for 4-H boys in Blairstown
Benton county 4-H boys in Blairstown will attend a tractor maintenance project meeting Monday evening at the Thompson implement show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blairstown
Benton County
Thompson Implement Show
Scott County 4 H Plans Capital Tour
Davenport 4 H committees plan a bus trip to Washington for 35 Scott County 4 H youths. Tentative travel dates are June 22 to June 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott County
Plans Capital Tour
Davenport
Washington
Farm Auction Schedule listing multiple sales by date and location
A detailed sequence of upcoming farm auctions lists dates from Wednesday January 16 through Tuesday February 19. It notes closing out sales or public auctions for livestock machinery grain hay cattle and related items with locations near Coggan Keystone Monticello Belle Plaine Manchester Center Junction Garri son Amana Springville Ely Tipton Whittier Troy Millis Van Horne Newhall Solon Blairstown Alburnett and Hawkeye Downs. Organizers include Mrs John McGuire Clarence Olson John Monk Bob Holst Ivan German Arthur Wilcox Don Osterbeck Edna Miller Owen McMahon Est Lawrence Techay Ralph Merck Howard Peyton Eldo Waterman Malin DO Sturtz Vernon Erenberger Roy Ralston Leo Veries Milo Wolrab Otto Roseburg Hawkeye Polled Hereford Assn Delbert Krug secretary Atkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McGuire
Coggan
Clarence Olson
Keystone
John Monk
Monticello
Bob Holst
Belle Plaine
Ivan German
Manchester
Arthur Wilcox
Center Junction
Don Osterbeck
Central City
Jersey
Edna Miller
Amana
Owen McMahon
Springville
Adolph Nezerka, Jr
Ely
Lawrence
Techay
Tipton
Ralph Merck
Whittier
Howard Peyton
Troy Millis
Eldo Waterman
van Horne
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By Bernard Brenner
Gebert Steer
Iclarence Co-Op
Clarence Co-Op Company, Inc
Clarence Community School
ALL Industries
E. Cohn & Sons, Inc
L St
Linn. Swine Assn
Newhall
Malin D. Sturtz
Ong Eimer
Forleshs “Auctioneers
Peanuts
Lester Schuidt
Garrison
Joe Bevins
Malin DO
Sturtz
Vernon Erenberger
Solon
Roy
Pat) Ralston
Leo Veries
Alburnett
Berkshire
Hawkeye Downs
Milo V. Wolrab
Otto Roseburg
Hawkeye
Hereford Assn
Sale
Delbert Krug
Sec’y
Atkins
Leo
Art
Kenny
Kcrgradio
Jette
Eckert & Brecht
Benton County Savings Bank
Walford
Art Rankin
Kenny Hofer
Leo Greco
KCRG
Falcon
McDonald-Stevenson Ford
First Ave
40Th St
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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