Parizek shapes Linn County swine rules and pork education
Vesta Parizek 29 farms 200 acres near Center Point and markets 500 hogs yearly in a farrow to finish operation with 24 beef cows. He serves as Linn County Pork Producers treasurer and on the Linn County Fair 4 H rules committee for swine exhibitors. The fair touts advanced swine rules and a Sonaray carcass visualization measure to aid 4 H members. He discusses hog prices, break-even at 45 per hundredweight, weather impact on weight gains, and plans for a Linn County Pork Education Day at Marion plus a spring banquet in Prairieburg with Dave Dighton’s band. Parizek notes FFA funding concerns, rural addressing, and prospects for an Iowa Beef Processors plant at Stanwood.
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the Gazette
Vesta Parizek
Center Point
Vesta
Linn County Pork Producers
Farm Bureau
Linn Fair
Iowa
State Fairgrounds
Des Moines
Linn Pork
Long Branch
Marion
Linn County
Prairie Moon Ballroom
Prairieburg
Dave Dighton
Cedar Rapids
4-H
FFA
Reagan
Kirkwood Community College
Iowa Beef Processors
Stanwood
Jaycees to honor top young farmers in Iowa and state winners
Maquoketa’s David Dostal 31 and wife Kathryn will represent Iowa in the U.S. Jaycees Outstanding Young Farmer competition next month in Owensboro Kentucky. Four national winners will be chosen from 45 state winners during a three day congress with the final awards on February 20. Dostal, a purebred Limousin breeder and no till farmer, serves as Jackson County soil commissioner and member of local no till group and Corn Club alumni leader. He farms 900 acres with 37 Limousins and has appeared on soil conservation panels. he also participates in the Tri County Softball League Estate Cemetery Association Maquoketa Jaycees and the Eagles. Awards for Iowa winner will be announced February 6 at Des Moines during the Jaycees winter convention with final presentation at 8:30 p.m. at Airport Hilton Inn. Other Gazette area candidates include Dick Hahn Gary Kunde Delbert Smith Gary Peters Randy Beichley Ronald Kruse and area individuals Douglas Johnson Linda Maylone and Richard Young.
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Maquoketa
David Dostal
Kathryn
Iowa
U.S. Jaycees
Owensboro
Dostal
Jackson County
Jackson County Corn Club
Quoketa Jaycees
The
Eagles
Jaycees
Des Moines
Airport
Hilton Inn
Commuting farmers change Midwest rural life
In Walnut Illinois and similar Midwest towns, many farmers live far from their fields as farms consolidate and more renters operate large plots. Rail and road access, wife work off the farm, and fewer on farm workers drive rural dwellers to town. The pattern shifts with long distance cropping and improved tech enabling distant ground work.
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Walnut
Ill
Illinois
U.S
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agriculture
Bob Bergland
Terry Bacon
Charleston
Ulinois
Roberta
Bacon
Schoff
Midwest
California
Coup Seizes South Vietnam Government in 1964
On this date in 1964 General Nguyen Khanh seized control of the South Vietnamese government in a coup. The move shifted power amid ongoing conflict as military leaders contested leadership.
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Nouyen Khan
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Waterloo
Alva
Gazelle
al Sweglie
Soil Conservation Service
Tri- County Softball League
Estate Cemetery Association
Gazette Area
Dick Hahn
Walcott
Gary Kunde
Bellevue
Delbert Smith
Decorah
Gary Peters
Hampton
Randy Beichley
Gladbrook
Ronald Kruse
Dyersville
Ing Young Iowan
Douglas Johnson
Clinton
First National Bank
Linda Maylone
West Liberty
Richard Young
By Allison Engel
Pacific News Service
Ray Schoff
Jean
Delbert Carr
M. Feder
St. NE
Rinderknecht
Oberreuter Realtors & Auctioneers Office
Don
Livestock Sales CO
Coggon
Bud Smith
Kenny Hoge
Springville
Don Ward
Marlin
Ed Schott Farm
Kenny Hoge Owners & Operators
Stickle
Don Stickle
Anamosa
Iow
Iowa Welding & Suspension Service, Inc
J Street
Walker
C.W.T
Blairstown
Luzerne
Atkins Community Club
Ford
Hutchinson
Dayton
Forney
Elec
Carroll & Irma Wooten
Vernon Brecht
Tom Sandersfeld
John Whitworth’s
Scranton
New Idea
Artsway
John
Alene Whitworth
Benton County State Bank
Jerry Tubaugh
Sigourney, Ia
Sigourney, Iowa
Noble
Krause
Century
I.H. Combine
Amos Adams
BOB Mallinger & Associates
Sigourney
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