Block Says Farm Policy Favors Transition to Market Support
Agriculture Secretary John Block argued that current farm policy is a loser and urged farmers to endure hard times without expecting government bailouts. He outlined a long term farm bill to reduce government market influence, cap spending, and keep price support loans while bolstering a strict trade section amid Capitol Hill criticism from farm groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John Block
Block
U.S
Secretary of Agriculture
Congress
Farmers Home Administration
Rural atlas publisher under probe in Iowa
Iowa consumers in four counties face missing county atlas orders from Prairie States Publications Inc now in bankruptcy. Subscribers paid 65 to 72.60, with investigators noting 70 complaints about payments. Officials expect return of photographs but money refunds are uncertain.
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Iowa
Teresa Abbott
Iowa Attorney General’s
Consumer Protection Division
Abbott
Attorney General’s
Linn County
Prairie States
Iowa Attorney General
East
Walnut
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids grain market shows mixed corn soybeans and prices
Cedar Rapids traders reported mixed results on corn soybeans with cash bids at 2.70 to 3.70 for Jan Feb and new crops around 3.30. Oats beans and hogs quoted with prices from Pro Farmer Grain and Federal State Market News Service, including hogs at 48.50 to 50.50 a hundredweight and beef and pork cut values noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Pro Farmer Grain
U.S. West North Central States
Federal-State Market News Service
Federal State Market News Service
Lowa
Minnesota
U.S
Devere
Iowa
Iowa Department of Agriculture
N.central
Northeast
Southwest
Southeast
Omaha market notes Thursday prices and egg trade
Butter and egg trade reports show steady to firm activity. Prices listed include butter ranges and egg sizes with delivered sales to volume buyers.
Block ends partnership with Curry amid wind down of farming interests
Agriculture Secretary John Block says he is dissolving ties with his troubled partner John Curry as he winds down his Illinois farming operation. Curry faces bankruptcy and receivership in Iowa after loan troubles and mounting debts, while lawmakers urge action to ease credit for farmers nationwide.
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Washington
John Block
John Curry
Illinois
Block
Curry
Iowa
Bloomfield
Farmers Home Administration
Minnesota
Peoria
Ill
Iowa and
Missouri
Grassley seeks farm relief talks with Reagan
Iowa Senator Grassley says he and other farm state lawmakers will meet President Reagan next week to press for farm relief. He also proposes a tax reform strategy session with the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee, part of the Iowa Plan calling for expanding federal aid from 650 million to 3 billion.
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Washington
Charles Grassley
Iowa
Reagan
Grassley
Senate
House
Ways and Means Committee
Leave corporate farm ban intact says Iowa secretary
Iowa Agriculture Secretary Robert Lounsberry urged keeping the corporate ownership ban on farmland. He warned easing the rule would trigger fire sale bargains as outsiders flood in, arguing many farmers would be priced out. He noted under 4 percent of farms are nonfamily owned and called for federal aid or an emergency state fund instead.
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Block
Reagan
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
DES Moines
Iowa
Iowa Agriculture
Robert Lounsberry
Lounsberry
Iowa Bankers Association
Public real estate sale under writ of execution
Under a special execution issued by the Linn County Iowa District Court a judgment from December 21 1984 in favor of Perpetual Savings and Loan Association and against several defendants is satisfied by selling the northeast sixty feet of the northwest one hundred thirty one feet of lot 7 fractional block 21 Greene and College Addition Cedar Rapids. The sale is at public auction for cash on February 8 1985 at 9 30 a m in front of the courthouse door Linn County Iowa. The Sheriff Dennis H Blome will conduct the sale with deputy Lt Leland Schoon and attorney Inda M Kirsch handling the notice.
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Iowa District Court
Linn County
Iowa
Perpetual Savings and Loan Association
John R. Kolden
Marilyn J. Kolden
Thorp Credit, Inc
and Associates
Psychiatry P.C
Linnpouahe Lowa
Greene and College
Cedar Rapids
Court House
Dennis H. Blome
Leland Schoon
Inda M. Kirsch
Probate notices appoint executor for Sylvester McGrane estate
Probate in Linn County Iowa grants Elizabeth Ann McGrane as executor for Sylvester Ambrose McGrane who died December 12 1984. Creditors must file claims within four months from second publication and debtors must pay promptly. Second probate notice also issued for Cordelia C Theiss estate with Wilmer Theiss as executor dated January 14 1985.
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Iowa
Linn County
Sylvester Ambrose McGrane
Elizabeth Ann McGrane
Cedar Rapids
Cordelia C. Theiss
Wilmer Theiss
District Court
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National Farmers Union
Cy Carpenter
Rural Atlas
Probe
Dan Miller
Midwest Markets
E.I. Livestock
Butch
Farmstead Foods
Ray Zamastil
America
Russ von de
Fairfax. Slaughter Wes
C.R. Grain
Kalona
Joliet
Chicago
Per Dushe
Fay Ulep Bec
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Ignae Ibs
Omaha
Sioux City
Los
Sons
Davis County
James Jenkins
Ottumwa Bank
Community Bank
Galesburg
Barry Barash
Barash
New York
Keith Bennett
West Bloomfield
Rochester
GOP
Stephen B. Jackson
Acutor of
Estate Kins
W. Howard Smith
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