Record Harvest Sets Seventh Consecutive Production Peak
American farmers reported a 1943 food production record for the seventh year running, with total output up 5 percent from 1942 and near 32 percent above the 1935-39 average. Wickard linked the surge to farmer skill and cooperation, while warning against postwar land inflation and urging controls on farm mortgage debt and land prices. The Iowa price index fell 3 points in mid January from December, led by eggs, with stable meat values and various commodity price shifts across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace M. Coats
Washington
INS
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
Wickard
Wewt York
Iowa
Central Atlantic
Gazette
EL Moines
Leslie M. Carl
Carl
Value of Iowa Falls Hemp Crop Placed at 382469
The total value of the hemp grown in the Iowa Falls area is 382469.68 dollars. E. C Wilds, manager of War Hemp Industries, Inc., in Iowa Falls said Saturday. Approximately 40 percent of the 9112 tons delivered at the mill is No 1 grade, about 25 percent No 2, 22 percent No 3 and 17 percent No 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Falls
INS
E. C Wilds
War Hemp Industries, Inc
Farm machinery meeting announced for Iowa City Feb 2
Emmett C Gardner county extension director announced a February 2 farm machinery meeting for farmers in Iowa City. A slide show on repair of machinery will be shown and a rental rate for machinery will be established.
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Spre'al
the Gazette
Iowa City
Emmett C Gardner
Iowa Livestock Exchange Auctions Across Cedar Rapids Area
A sequence of livestock auctions and gilt sales listed by date and location across Cedar Rapids Marion Lisbon and surrounding towns from Feb 1 to Feb 16. Entries name sellers like Harold C Timms Muscatine Emil Pidima and J M Kirkpatrick among others with sale types closing out gilt and breeding stock and distances from nearby towns.
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Tiowa Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
Harold C. Timm
Muscatine
Mike Hadrava
Emil Pidima
Fairfax
Rogers and Weaver
Alburnett
L. B. Davis
North Liberty
Ward Horn
Skipton
Floyd Hampton
Whittier
Helgens Bros
Poland
China
Amber
A. W. Martin and Sons
Marion
Rowley and Cabrnoch
Central City
Louis Dvorak
J. M. Kirkpatrick
Hans Knutsen
Mt. Vernon
Porter and Aupterle
Duroc
Lisbon
Jack Reyhons
1943 Butterfat Averages At Waukon
The Waukon Farmers Co op creamery annual meeting elected Roland Herman president John Schon vice president and George Hexom secretary. The plant produced 865656 pounds of butter in 1943 with an average butterfat price of 51 cents and an average price received per pound of 44.8 cents.
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Waukon
Roland Herman
Waukon Farmers Co-op Creamery
John Schon
George Hexom
Farm Woman Injured Rescuing Baby from Fire
Mrs. Nellie McDonald suffered burns to hands and face while saving her baby granddaughter Mary McDonald from a house fire ten miles southeast of Manchester. The Miles McDonald farm home, an $8,000 modern structure, was largely destroyed though neighbors saved part of the building. Insurance partially covered the loss. This followed earlier farm disasters including a silo and cattle barn blown down by wind last summer.
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Manchester
Nellie McDonald
Mary McDonald
Miles McDonald
McDonald
McDonald Farm
War Harvest Awards By Iowa Farm Bureau
Des Moines reports the 1943 War Harvest campaign honored at a banquet with $100 war bond prizes to Peter Staub of Paullina Kenneth Wright of Bouton and Paul Tonkinson of Yarmouth Town State College and Farm Bureau sponsored events led to the awards. Farm Bureau dividends across cooperatives totaled $396000, with Farm Mutual Insurance at $160000 and Serum and Farm Service company dividends around $236000.
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Des Moines
Peter Staub
Paullina
Kenneth Wright
Bouton
Paul Tonkinson
Yarmough
Straub
Wright
Town State College
Farm Bureau
Tonkinson
B. Hamilton
Farm Bureau Cooperative
National Farm Bureau
Farm Mutual Insurance Company
Farm Service Company
Corn borers multiply across the United States in 1943
The U S Department of Agriculture reports that corn borers were nearly twice as abundant in 1943 as in 1942. Increases occurred in 18 of 20 infested states, with New Hampshire and Vermont as exceptions. The European corn borer spread westward and southward, reaching central Iowa, all eastern Iowa, and expanding into western Wisconsin, northeastern Missouri, northern and central Kentucky, northeastern Virginia and North Carolina, and Minnesota's Houston County.
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Washington, D. C
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Entomology and
State Experiment Stations
State Departments of Agriculture
New Hampshire
Vermont
Iowa
Wisconsin
Missouri
Mississippi River
St. Louis
Kentucky
Virginia
North Carolina
Minnesota
Houston
Farm Labor Costs Rise Across Iowa Findings
Iowa farm hands earn higher wages than the national average, per month with board 71 75 and without board 92, daily with board 3 90 and without board 4 80, against national norms of 63 01 and 70 06 per month, and 2 96 and 3 50 per day. A year earlier Iowa wages were 57 per month with board, 72 50 without, 3 15 and 3 95 per day respectively.
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Washington
Iowa
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Creamery officers named at Calhoun annual meeting
Fred Zimmerman reelected president of the Calhoun creamery company at the annual meeting held Saturday at Church. Joseph Weipert was elected vice-president and Ed Schultz secretary treasurer.
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Calhoun
Fred Zimmerman
Calhoun Creamery Company
Joseph Weipert
Ed Schultz
Berkshire Gilts Bring Strong Prices at Wehrman Auction
Forty-two head of bred Berkshire gilts averaged 211 dollars with top bids of 525 from Donald Jacobson of Menomonee Falls Wisconsin and 510 from Ridglydale Farms of Decatur Indiana. A litter of fall pigs sold four boars averaging 150 with top 225 paid to Kerkow Farms of Scribner Nebraska.
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Gazette
Belle Plaine
Berkshire
Harold Wehrman
Donald Jacobson
Menomonee Falls
Wis
Ridglydale Farms
Decatur
Wehrman
Kerkow Farms
Scribner
Butter quota cut to 12.1 pounds per capita
Washington AP reports civilians will receive 12.1 pounds per person for 1944 a half pound less than 1943. The 1944 figure sits below the 16.8 pound 1935-39 average and the 16 pounds allotted in 1941 and 1942 under War Food administration plans.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Retiring Official Attacks Land Bank Cooperative System
John Carmody secretary of the Omaha Federal Land Bank since 1924 says land bank control now comes from the top not the bottom and questions how it can be a farmers cooperative institution. He retired Monday under the civil service act while FCA district office directs activities across four states.
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OMAHA
John Carmody
Perry
Omaha Federal Land Bank
Land Bank Control
Farmers’ Cooperative
Iowan
Civil Service Retirement Act
Farm Credit Administration
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wyoming
FCA
Nelson Kraschel
Carmody
Secretary of Agriculture
National Farm Loan
Directors grip over land banks under fire
The speaker denounces the Washington office as a manager rather than a supervisor and says farm loan costs should not be born by farm associations. He argues associations lack control over central office expenses and personnel. He supports insurance companies and banks and urges buying war bonds.
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Washington
Congress
Four Ag Associations to Meet Ames Next Week
Four state agricultural groups plan meetings in Ames next week. The Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association convenes Feb. 7 afternoon, followed Feb. 8 afternoon by the Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers association with results from the Iowa corn yield test. Feb. 9 morning brings the Iowa Beef Producers and Iowa Swine Producers associations, and Feb. 12-13 host the Iowa Rural Young Peoples Assembly.
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Ames
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association
Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers Association
Iowa
Iowa Beef Producers Association
Iowa Swine Producers Association
Iowa Rural Young Peoples Assembly
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Vida-Ray
Harriet Hubbard Ayer
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