Farmers: Neighbors you can count on
A Wallace’s Farmer poll of 588 farm people finds 55 percent view neighbors as friends and 85 percent had no serious disputes, while 9 percent disliked a neighbor. The piece notes fences as the main issue and traces historical township trustee roles in fence disputes. It also covers changing patterns of neighboring and advice on deed language.
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Gazette
Wallaces Farmer
Des Moines
Edna Gadient
Monticello
Terry Gadient
Hawkeye Downs
Cedar Rapids
Wallaces
David Hammond
Hammond
Iowa
Linn County
Extension Service
Farm Magazine
Ringgold County
Boone County
Surviving Iowa Winter on a Farm With Low Expectations
Editor Doris Engstrom from Woodbury County shares a blunt cold weather mindset. She describes farm life in January where heaters fail, hoses snap, and frozen machinery defies fixes. Her blunt rule is to expect nothing and you won’t be disappointed.
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Doris Engstrom
Woodbury County
Clayton County
Benton County
Hornick
Iowa
Tillage show opens this Tuesday in Cedar Rapids
Sixty five machinery and chemical firms will exhibit at the Eastern Iowa Conservation Tillage Show in Cedar Rapids at the Stouffer's Five Seasons Center. Over 4,000 eastern Iowa farmers are expected to attend the two day event Tuesday and Wednesday featuring talks on economics spraying systems insects weeds and erosion control tied to no till planting. Speakers include Duane Merken Wendell Saunders Gyles Randall Iowa State University extension experts and other regional agronomists. The event also notes the return of 52 American hostages from Iran.
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Iowa
Stouffer's
Five Seasons Center
Cedar Rapids
Minnesota
Duane Merken
Swisher
Cedar Valley Farm Business Association
Merken
Wendell Saunders
Des Moines
Saunders
Delavan Corp
Gyles Randall
Waseca
Minn
University of Minnesota
Iowa State University Extension
Richard Fawcett
Gerald Miller
Harold Stockdale
Ames
Ken Hall
Dubuque
Greg Brenneman
Miller
Fawcett
Stockdale
Hall
Brenneman
Melvin Argabright
Lincoln
Neb
Soil Conservation Service
Graydon “Hunk” Anderson
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Leslie Furuseth
ASCS
James B. Gulliford
Iowa Department of Soil Conservation
Russell Swens
Deere hitch mounted drill speeds soybean planting
Farm news from Moline notes John Deere introduces model 520 hitch mounted drill enabling soybeans in 7 or 10 inch rows. In Des Moines Larry Rus named director of producer affairs at the National Park Council effective April 15. Descriptions of other ag policy shifts and hog and egg market updates are included.
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Moline, Ill
John Deere
Clarion
Phill Thompson
Thompson
U.S
Barrow
Hormel
Fort Dodge
John Phillips
Austin, Minn
Des Moines
Larry Rus
Hampshire
Top Gaining Bull on Test at 140-Day Iowa Show
The leading bull was a Gellevieh owned by Larry Black of Cambridge and posted a daily gain of 4.5 pounds on the Iowa Beef Improvement Association 140 day test. Trauernicht Simmentals of Wymore Neb earned the second spot with a Simmental at 4.32 pounds per day.
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Grundy Center
Larry Black
Cambridge
Iowa Beef Improvement Association
Trauernicht Simmentals
Wymore
Neb
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Washington D.C
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