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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1969
Page
14
Des Moines reports a 3 percent decline in Iowa farms in 1968 with 143 000 farms total and land in farms steady at 34 5 million acres. The average Iowa farm size rises to 241 acres in 1969 from 235 in 1968 while farm real estate value reaches 12 4 billion, up 6 percent.
The 31st National Farm Institute will be held February 13 and 14 at the Fort Des Moines hotel in Des Moines. The program covers corporate farming and the family farm with talks on rural poverty national policy and the future of agriculture. Notable speakers include Dr C E Bishop Dr W G Murray Dr John Hopkin James D Keast and Dean Kleckner.
Iowa dairymen joined the Holstein Friesian Association of America with 28 new names in the latest board action. National membership surpasses 44 750 with major growth in New York Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Eastern Iowa newcomers include Curtis Anderson Dewein R J Brandt Decorah Melvin A Steven Bruce Buhr Sumner Esther Fox Federar Lyle Hartman and others.
DES MOINES Members of the state soil conservation committee are M Wayne Casey Peterson chairman George Annan Clarinda Fred Cherry Rowley Donald Johnson Fairfield and Byron Weberg Kiron Marvin Anderson dean of agriculture at Iowa State University and L B Liddy state secretary of agriculture are ex officio members and Wilson T Moon state SCS conservationist is an advisory member The state committee has general supervisory responsibilities for conservation programs and for local soil conservation districts in the state.
Auction notices publicize at 11 a.m. sale near London and 12:30 p.m. sale near Tipton. Items include feeder pigs live stock machinery grain hay straw and miscellaneous goods. Sellers L Dean Post and Edward Holtz located 5 4 miles SE of Tipton and 2 miles SE of London respectively.
Secretary of Agriculture designate Clifford M. Hardin says he will rely heavily on undersecretary J. Phil Campbell for guidance on tobacco cotton and peanuts as he decides southern crop policies. Campbell, Georgia agriculture commissioner since 1954, is praised by southern senators as highly qualified for the post.
Washington AP Neal Smith and co sponsor Thomas Foley introduce legislation to bar meat packers from owning feedlot livestock to sway prices. The bill would cap weekly slaughter at any site for packers owned cattle hogs and sheep over 20 days at 100 300 and 300 respectively. It allows limited supplies for logistics and holidays.
Sixty five Iowa people will leave Saturday for a ten day visit to Mexico sponsored by the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. The trip aims to meet leaders of farm organizations and farmers in Mexico. They will fly to Monterrey and travel by bus to Torreon Taxco Cuernavaca Toluca San Jose Pardo and Mexico City. They return Jan. 28.
Clinton County Pork Producers Assn elected officers at a DeWitt meeting. Paul Hofer was named president, Robert Schoop vice president, Ronald Brick secretary, and Donald Burmeister treasurer. Allen Petersen was re elected to the board along with Gilbert Schocker and Lawrence Schoening. Donna Stamp was chosen Clinton County Pork Queen.
Rex Corn discusses how prolonged ice weather forces wildlife like crows pheasants and quail to adapt. A wildlife expert warns feed near shelter to prevent exposure and suffocation as snow blankets countryside and allows predators like Brer Rabbit to thrive on tree bark and fallen fruit.
Iowa farm wages on January 1 rose compared with 1968. Reported farm laborers earned $265 monthly with board and room and $332 with housing, while day laborers earned $11.20 with board and room and $13.70 without. Hourly wages averaged $1.56 without board, up from $1.48. Nationwide farm wages were 8 percent higher than a year earlier.
Iowa December milk output fell 6 percent from a year earlier to 393 million pounds, with 1968 total at 5 371 million pounds down 4 percent from 1967. US December production stood at 9 220 million pounds, up slightly from a year earlier.
Melvin Sims of Liberty Illinois was elected president of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. Sims succeeds W D Milsop of Syracuse New York as the council's head.
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