Bar on Dairy Imports May Be Repealed
Senate debate on fats and oils controls moves toward repealing import restrictions on cheese and butter. President Truman urged removal to avoid foreign retaliation. supporters argue the Defense Production Act blocks trade and harms foreign aid aims. Nine nations protested tariff concession changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E Ashington
LLP
Burnet R. Maybank
Senate Banking Committee
Senate
Truman
South Carolina
Democrat
Warren G. Magnuson
Ernest W. McFarland
Ariz
Dairy import controls extend to fats oils dairy products
Imports limited under a Defense Production Act amendment aim to shield U S dairy producers from foreign competition. Agriculture officials recently restricted Danish blue cheese imports as harming American makers. Fulbright notes most imports are high priced and not direct rivals to common American cheeses, citing sheep milk as a difference.
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Agriculture Department
Fulbright
Extension of World Wheat Pact Eyed to Combat Communism
The Truman administration backs extending the international wheat agreement to stabilize world supplies and prices and to curb Soviet influence in Eastern Europe. The pact, in force over two years, covers 42 importing and four exporting nations with the U.S. as the top exporter and subsidies totaling hundreds of millions due to price gaps. Plans for drafting a renewal will be prepared by an international council, with OFAR pamphlets arguing the program aids U.S. farmers and resists communism.
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U. S. Treasury
U. S
International Council
Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations
U.S
Europe
OFAR
Brooklyn 4 Head’s Heifer Wins Honor
A Brooklyn senior heifer calf owned by Clinton Smith received honorable mention in the 1951 junior All American awards of the Holstein Friesian Association of America. Mancryce Gallant Dixma was first in her class at the 1951 state 4 H dairy show at the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo. A two year old heifer owned by David Peterson of Callender, Breezeland Lady Star Comet, was grand champion Holstein at Waterloo.
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Brooklyn
Clinton Smith
Holstein - Friesian Association of America
Mancryce Gallant Dixma
Dairy Cattle Congress
Waterloo
David Peterson
Callender
Rex Conn Hour on KCRG Six to Seven Morning
The Rex Conn Hour airs Monday through Saturday on KCRG 1600 and runs from 6:00 to 7:00 a.m. The program provides a weekday morning feature on the station.
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Rex Conn
KCRG-1600
Closing Out Sales Listed Across Several Iowa Areas
A series of closing out sales is announced with dates and locations. Leonard Kress near Urbana offers livestock grain and hay on January 25 at 11 30 a.m. Lenard Waddle near Urbana lists a Guernsey dairy herd and dairy equipment on January 30. William Wachal near Walker conducts livestock machinery grain and hay sale on February 1. Darrell Gillmore near Marion posts live stock machinery grain and hay sale on February 1. Dell Van Note and Elmer Neff near Cedar Rapids set hay sale for February 14 at 10 30 a.m.
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Leonard Kress
Guernsey
Lenard Waddle
Urbana
William Wachal
Walker
Darrell Gillmore
Marion
Dell van Note
Elmer Neff
Cedar Rapids
Wheat agreement seen shaping world farm markets
The GFAR notes Western European countries rely less on Communist grain and credit the US Canada and Australia for wheat under the international agreement. Russia and Argentina are outside the pact, risking disrupted exports. The GFAR says the accord could pattern stabilizing world markets for cotton sugar tobacco wool rice and other farm goods with time.
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Europe
United States
Canada
Australia
Russia
Argentina
GFAR
Brayton to Speak at Buchanan County Electric Meeting
Arthur Brayton secretary of the Des Moines convention bureau will speak at the R E A annual meeting in Independence on February 21. He was slated to address the Buchanan County cooperative last year but could not attend because icy highways.
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Independence
Arthur Brayton
Des Moines Convention Bureau
Buchanan County Rural Electric Cooperative
Brayton
Buchanan
Iowa Hog Sales Tell December Dip From 1950 Levels
Iowa farmers marketed an estimated 2 107 000 hogs in December, two percent below December 1950. The average butcher hog age was 7.2 months, up from 6.9 in November. January hog marketings are pegged at 2 178 000 head, three percent above January 1951, while February is seen at 1 518 000, twelve percent above February 1951. Total two month marketings may run about one percent under a year ago. Cattle on Iowa farms totaled 209 000 head in December, up three percent from December 1950 but down eight percent from November.
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Iowa
150 New Farm Bureau Members In Delaware County
Manchester report notes 150 new members joined the Delaware County Farm Bureau in the first week of the 1952 campaign. Fieldman Harold Hartley cites rapid enrollment and growing local support for the farm organization.
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Manchester
Delaware County Farm Bureau
Harold Hartley
Gold Mine Stock Farm Milking Shorthorns Featured
Irvin Meyer of Gold Mine Stock Farm near McGregor hosts a famed herd of Milking Shorthorns. The Meyer family traces the name to a legend of buried gold from a 110 year old Ft. Crawford to Ft. Atkinson payroll raid. The farm’s cattle yield steady returns and are highlighted in the Milking Shorthorn Journal.
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Irvin F. Meyer
Irvin Meyer
Meyers
National Breed Publication
Most Fall Calves From Dairy Cows In Iowa Report
Des Moines based report notes that 72 percent of calves born in October came from dairy cows, reflecting the season's production mix as the Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service released figures for the last three months of the year.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Calf Mortality Rates Reported for Fall Months
The reporting service notes calf losses by month with 36 percent in October 34 percent in November and 30 percent in December. Overall stock remained at 70 percent for November and December. The figures cover calves born over the three month period.
Wolf named to American Hereford Association membership
Cedar Rapids Poultryman Paul M. Wolf has been named to membership in the American Hereford Association, the world’s largest purebred registry program. Wolf joins a roster of breeders and cattlemen in the association as it promotes Hereford cattle nationwide.
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Hereford Assn
Kansas City
Paul M. Wolf
Cedar Rapids
Ito
American Hereford Association
Ogrami
Forest Grove Farm Manager Named in Cedar Rapids Ownership
Wolf serves as manager of Forest Grove Farm, owned by Herbert Killian of Cedar Rapids, per the local agricultural records.
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Zation
Wolf
Forest Grove Farm
Herbert Killian
Cedar Rapids
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