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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1968
Page
4
President Johnson asks Congress to expand food stamp and school lunch programs as part of a $7.68 billion Agriculture Department budget for fiscal 1969. The plan includes increases for CCC, Food for Peace, and rural development while cutting several conservation programs.
A three day short course on farm management marketing and agricultural policy will be held February 5 12 and 19 at Nugents Chuck Wagon west of Coralville on highway 6 County Extension Director Clair E Hein announced Instructors include Herb Howell Marvin Skadberg from Ames extension farm economists and Les Kral Vivan Jennings from the Cedar Rapids area extension office.
A dense schedule lists multiple farm auctions across Iowa with dates from January to March. Entries name bidders and locations such as Bella Prairie, Cedar Rapids, London, Monticello, Iowa City, Wilton, Brandon, Lisbon, Conroy, Manchester, Springville, Center Point, Anamosa, Hopkinton, and Walker, detailing livestock, machinery, dairy cattle, hay, grain, and other farm goods to be sold.
Herman C. Raberg director of the American Farm Bureau Federation marketing research and commodity activities division will retire Thursday after 23 years overseeing the livestock program. Aaberg helped fund his education by farming in the Rio Grande Valley and later held positions in Iowa agriculture. He and his wife live in Glen Ellyn Illinois with two daughters.
Washington officials indicate the dairy price support program begun in 1967 will likely be extended for another year. The measures include higher minimum prices for fluid milk under federal orders and reduced dairy imports, aiming to keep producer receipts strong despite rising costs.
The department stated price boosting measures implemented last year slowed a long exodus of farmers from dairying, signaling policy impact after initial moves by the White House on July 1.
The USDA announced unchanged support prices for 1968 crops with soybeans at 2.50 per bushel cottonseed at 48 per ton and flax seed at 2.90 per bushel. Soybeans on feed grain acreage by cooperators will not be eligible for feed grain price support payments.
Des Moines buyers paid an average of 905 per head for 75 females on the final day of the Iowa Angus Assn show and sale. The state event grossed 667 average for 137 bulls and 76 females, with top female going for 1600 to Black Watch Farm and other notable bids including 1075 for Varley open-class champion and 800 for a scholarship fund heifer.
U S Department of Agriculture data show live cattle imports at 612 941 head for January 1967 through February 1967, down one third from the prior year. Mexico supplied 387 968 head, down 16 percent, while Canada accounted for 224 880 head, 53 percent below a year earlier. Dairy imports also reduced to about one fourth of pre quota levels.
Two Cedar Rapids veterinarians, Dr H Anthony and Dr M P Brimmer, were named to committees at the Iowa Veterinary Medical Association’s annual meeting in Des Moines. Anthony joined public health and hygiene and minimum practice standards committees while Brimmer joined the meat inspection committee.
DES MOINES The Farmers Grain Dealers Assn of Iowa said it purchased nearly 60 million bushels of grain in 1967. General Manager Charles W. Hanson announced at the FGDA’s 64th annual meeting, with Argie Hall noting rail purchases for the last four months of 1967 totaled 8 million bushels of corn and 3.1 million bushels of soybeans, up from 1966. Hanson set a goal of 150 million bushels per year, stressing the need to sustain local cooperatives.
Linn ASCS office manager Robert Wegmuller announces sign-up days for the 1968 feed grain program. Township committeemen will be in the county ASCS office east of Marion to receive applications on specific dates across February, listing multiple townships per day.
U S turkey growers plan a 14 percent cut in 1968 production after a record 126.4 million birds last year. Heavy breeds down 15 percent and light breeds reduced 10 percent, with the Ryan Cooperatives aiming for a 108 million crop, the Creamery meeting set for Feb. 6 at the school gym.
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