Senate approves farm exemption from OSHA rules
Washington reports the Senate passed an OSHA compromise exempting farms with five or fewer employees and under 1 percent of workers on a single day from federal safety coverage. The measure, a deal between OSHA and House and Senate versions, aims to fund health education welfare and labor for the next fiscal year.
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Maine
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Farm News OSHA rules propose broad exemptions
The proposal would exempt more than 45 percent of national farms and all small businesses for first offenses under OSITA rules. Family farms and firms would be exempted, while critics say the plan ignores major safety issues and breeds hostility toward compliance hampering enforcement.
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Nationa
Durkin-Abomrezk
Fies
OSITA
Conservation Air Tour at Conroy July 25 Preserved
The Conroy area conservation district sponsors an air tour at Ed Folkmann farm on July 18 from 9 AM to 4 PM with a 5. per person fee. Rain date set for July 25. Flights by Ed Folkmann Steiger Kinze Mfg. Inc. Attendance details reflect local event timing.
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Conservation Air Tour
Conroy
Iowa County Side Conservation District
Ed Folkmann
Ed Folkmann-Steiger Art Kinze Mfg., Inc
Extradition for Olson involves Iowa cattle fraud charges
Algie Olson, linked to a Towa cattle fraud ring, was freed on $2000 bonds after extradition papers were signed by Waupaca County Judge Zwickey. He faced two Iowa counts of obtaining money under false pretenses and a separate dispersal charge. Olson owed over $26,900 in child support and had estranged wife DiAnnie Lea Olson Smith as plaintiff.
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Waupiicn
Algie Olson
Waupaca
Zwickey
Wisconsin
Iowa
Olson
Waupaen District Court
DiAnnie Lea Olson Smith
Waupaen
Hereford Day Set by Nodaway Junior Association
Nodaway Hope Herefords hosts Towa Junior Hereford Assn field day Sunday with 2 pm registration and judging contest. Afternoon features include speakers entertainment workshops and awards. Bugne farm located eight miles south and four miles west of Cotaing.
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Hope Herefords of
Towa Junio Hereford Assn
Bugne
Cotaing
Iowa Dairy Herds Set Milk Records in May
May DHIA milk records show Iowa cows averaged 37.3 pounds per day, a new high, with May production per cow at $338 daily and income over feed costs reaching a record $1.89. Prices and costs rose, reflecting improved profitability for dairy farmers in the DHIA program.
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DHIA
Don Voelker
Iowa State University Extension Dairyman
Jie
Heavele
Voelker
Onla
Dhia Lords
Dita
Cosbe
Ant Rehime
Waion Poids
Vuviker Ules
Tostate Cooperative Research
Ace
Food Power Debate Divides World Food Aid Views
Conference speakers at the World Food Conference discuss food as a bargaining tool, with Dr. John Lewis and others arguing food power is limited by its essential nature. Optimists foresee self sufficiency this century through technology and investment, while critics favor developing local production over aid.
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Princeton University
AMES
Agriculture
Karl Bute
Princeton
Buthbves
John Lewis
Butz
U.S
Cnatiock
Lewis
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World Fond
Uns
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Glenn Burton
U.S. Aig Iission
India
Ford Administration
Congress
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