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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1958
Page
10
The 1950s dairy program notes persistent milk surpluses since 1949 with CCC purchases and support levels ranging 15 to 90 percent of parity. For 1957 58 production neared record highs while per capita use of milkfat fell, solids-not-fat demand rose, and new production methods require larger scale farms.
The excerpt notes that demand declined more quickly for dairy products, despite their prices being lower than those for food on the whole. This suggests shifting consumer preferences or market pressures affecting dairy differently than other foods.
Des Moines reports ten Polk County and adjacent area farm families will host ten Russian university students July 17 through 22 as part of the U S Russia cultural exchange. The hosts, all farmers near Des Moines, will share American home and farm life under the Experiment in International Living sponsorship.
Five Delaware county 4-H boys named to the crops judging squad. They are Dave Eibey Bill Havertape Doug Voelker Florian Burbridge and Ambrose Vaske. Workout set for 1 30 pm July 12 with Extension Youth Assistant Ray Wagner. A four man team will be chosen to represent the county at the Iowa State fair on crops judging day.
Iowa State College economist Tom Rackham cautions that a surge in bunched marketings and hot weather could depress beef prices. He notes improving prime and choice grades, rising weights, abundant corn, and a likely shortage of home-produced cattle into late summer, especially on the West Coast.
Forty eight Keo County farm ponds in Sigourney were stocked last week with 3680 bass as part of a state fishery program.
About 200 attended the Milking Shorthorn breeders show at Irvin F. Meyer and Son farm west of McGregor. Paul Vaske won senior and grand championships with Wilder Farm Marksman. Meyer and Son swept most firsts with Gold Mine Roberta 10th named senior and grand champion female. Senior judging tied between Routh Mallicoat and R. E. Perkins. Nancy Willman led junior division.
About 200 Eastern Iowa swine producers attended a field day at the Farmers Hybrid farm near Center Point. Noon and 7:30 p.m. sessions featured inspection of breeding stock after production tests, a carcass demonstration of swine grades, and a live hog judging contest modeled on the carcass examples.
An $11,450,000 contract was signed in Elk River Minnesota for an atomic reactor power plant to serve the Rural Cooperative Power Association. The plant will power a 22 000 kilowatt turbo generator and is expected to begin operation by raid 1961.
Washington county 4 H members from North Carolina visited Haywood County this week and will return home July 17 according to Extension Director Thomas Robb. Last year Washington county participants joined similar activities in the region.
Tokyo reports the Communist New China News Agency that Peiping intends to harvest between 5 and 6 million tons of edible seaweed annually to supplement agricultural output.
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