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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1975
Page
5
Sprayer near Bonners Ferry, Idaho, defaced a state billboard by altering the phrase praising Idahoans and potatoes with spray paint. Authorities are reviewing footage and seeking a suspect.
Des Moines based ASCS tallies 13 057 cattle 14 808 hogs 1 395 sheep and 67 820 chickens lost in Western Iowa blizzard. Spirit Lake farmer Bernard Cohrs alone reports 750 cattle. county by county breakdown lists numerous cattle hogs sheep hay straw hay and farm building losses across Adair Audubon Buena Vista Calhoun Cass Cherokee Clay Crawford Dickinson Emmet Fremont Hancock Harrison Ida Kossuth Lyon Mills Mitchell Montgomery O Brien Osceola Palo Alto Plymouth Pocahontas Sac Shelby Sioux Webster Woodsbury.
Arthur T. Kirchoff longtime dairy and community leader receives the Keeling dairy leadership award at the Iowa State Dairy Association luncheon at the Savery hotel Des Moines. He is executive secretary of the Iowa Dairy Products Assn since 1961 and helped push brucellosis central program dairy room standards and legislation on milk investments. He also serves as secretary treasurer of the Iowa Butter and Cheese Processors Assn. and has represented Iowa dairy farmers in Washington. He farmed in Humboldt county from 1935 to 1980 and led the Humboldt FFA as president in 1938.
A fragmented farm auction listing shows multiple Saturday sales across Iowa counties near Norway West Branch Belle Plaine Tipton Center Junction Newhall Gorgon Hopkinton Central City Gentral City detailing close out auctions with machines beef cattle sheep Holsteins and miscellaneous goods. Vendors include Robert Becker Dale Maske Albin Clemens Norman King Vincent Hanavan Fred Zimmerman Russell Stoecker Earl Nietert Lexile Boyles Harold Ellera Delbert Albin and others.
Washington AP reports two agriculture experts say the Soviet Union has begun a sweeping poultry program aimed at eliminating preproduction bottlenecks for consumers. The plan centers on brailer chickens, with focus on feed concentrates and potential shifts in technology, possibly raising soybean imports. The piece notes limited feed-concentrate expansion and a push to increase output.
Senator Dick Clark says an informal hearing will be held at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs at 3 p.m. Saturday to address American Beef Packers Inc bankruptcy and credit lines. A federal investigation is sought and Clark will tour northwest Iowa hit by a blizzard before returning to Washington.
Edgewood Delaware county spring market hog show set for March 1 at the sale barn with two divisions adults and juniors. Entries open to Delaware county producers and nearby townships with up to two market hogs per farm. Junior entries may include one extra market hog. fee is 3 dollars unless first year exhibitors. Pre-entry blanks available after January 1 and due by February 27. The swine derby class runs with the show. Rath Packing Co. assists with carcass data.
Springville cooperative elevator posted a profit before taxes of 181000 on nearly 4 million dollars in sales at its annual meeting in Springville. Robert Williams and Keith Johnson were re elected to three year terms on the board as about 260 members attended at the high school.
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