Jones County pork producers elect directors at annual banquet
Glen Hein and Dave Lasley were elected directors of the Jones County Pork Producers Association at the annual meeting in Monticello. Christi Snyder was crowned Jones County pork queen and Marci Spahr the pork princess. Richard Ortgies and Mary Jane received the Distinguished Service Award. Cheryl Hall presented the Belle Ringer Award. memorial for Ed Helgens read. About 1100 windsor chops were served at the Youth Center. In Des Moines Jerry McCrory and Ronald Steffes were named Iowa Jaycees outstanding and most promising young farmers respectively. McCrory will attend the National Jaycee event in Topeka.
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Monticello
Glen Hein
Dave Lasley
Jones County Pork Producers Association
Hein
Ralph Manternach
Cascade
Lasley
Glen Tobiason
Christi Snyder
Jones County
Marci Spahr
Christi
Jerry Snyder
Marci
Joe Spahr
Richard Ortgies
Mary Jane
Warren
Cheryl) Hall
Porkettes
Ed Helgens
Des Moines
Jerry McCrory
Atlantic
Iowa Jaycees
Ronald Steffes
Iowa Jaycee
McCrory
Iowa
Topeka
Kan
Cook Industries Signs New Grain Deals With Taiwan Group
Memphis based Cook Industries Inc. announced additional grain sales to Taiwan Maize Importers' Joint Committee. Contracts call for 35,000 metric tons of No 2 yellow corn at 102.58 per ton shipping September and 25,000 metric tons of Iowa origin No 2 soybeans at 222.84 per ton shipping June.
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Memphis, Tenn
Cook Industries Inc
Nebraska
China
Chinese Information Service
New York
Cook
Taiwan Maize Importers’ Joint Committee
Iowa
Leach Says USDA Suffered Major Cut Amid Budget Skew
Representative Jim Leach of Iowa charges that the Carter administration reduced the Agriculture Department by 22 percent while the Commerce Department saw only a 3 percent cut. He argues USDA cuts hit farmer and farm programs hardest, amounting to about 5 billion dollars.
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Washington
Jim Leach
Iowa
Carter
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Commerce Department
USDA
Picketing Carter Members Rally at White House Demonstration
Farm strike movement members hold hands and demonstrate in front of the White House appealing for a face-to-face meeting with President Carter. They accuse the administration of telling them to go back home and starve.
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Farm Strike Movement
White House
Carter
Iowa pork industry hosts event as sulfa concerns drop
Dr. Eugene Lloyd reports sulfa drug residues in Iowa dogs cut to 2.5 percent in a recent sample, a sharp drop from six months prior. At the Iowa pork producers gathering, Kristy Miller was crowned Iowa pork queen, JoEllen Cizek named first runner up, and Keith Kuhn earned the Iowa Pork All American title. Several Eastern Iowans were named master pork producers, and Paul Queck resigns to join Wallaces Farmer as field editor.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Eugene Lloyd
Ames
Lloyd
Iowa Pork Producers Association
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Iowa State University
Kristy Miller
Schleswig
Iowa State
JoEllen Cizek
Traer
Keith F. Kuhn
Moville
Iowa Pork
Four honored for conservation by Keokuk County Soil District
Sigourney residents Dean Appleget and Steve Greiner joined G A Lineweaver of Ames and Keith Coffman of South English as Soil Conservation District awardees. Appleget won owner operator, Lineweaver owner, Coffman tenant, and Greiner won in the new cooperator division.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
Iowa crop value declines in 1977 reported
Iowa farm crop value totaled 3.9 million in 1977, down 10 percent from 1976. Lower season average prices for corn, wheat, sorghum grain, soybeans and oats drove the drop, with corn at 55 percent and soybeans at 34 percent of the state's total crop value.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Cedar hosts sought for 4-H group from Kansas
Cedar County seeks up to 35 host families to shelter 4-H members and adults from Russell County Kansas arriving next June The group will include 18 to 20 girls 10 to 14 boys and four adults Hosts needed for one week either June 5 to 11 or June 12 to 18 Applications are being sent to older 4-H members.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Russell County
Kansas
Farm Auction Schedule and Nearby Land Sales
Farmers auction calendar lists events from January 28 to February 9 including machinery antiques and estate sales near Monticello London Center Point and Coggan with specific times acres and proximity notes. The item also notes that on this date in 1964 Senator Margaret Smith announced her Republican presidential bid as the first woman to seek a major party nomination.
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Baumgartner
David Mackey
Center Point
John Hofmann
Ray Spaight
Winthrop
Merlyn McIllrath
Coggan
Maine
Margaret Smith
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Critic
UPI Photo
Queck
Jerry Weibel
Soil
Dale's Fruit Market
Center Point Road
Fancy Box
Idaho
John Chapman
Erhard Kroemer
London
Smulekoffs
Cedar Rapids
Lounsberry
Bob Lounsberry
Iowa Energy Policy Council
RCA
SelectaVision
Smulekoff
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