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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1978
Page
9
The crop report shows total 1978 wheat production at 1.8 billion bushels, an 11 percent drop from 2.03 billion. The average yield is 31.9 bushels per acre, up from 30.6. Oats 636 million, down 15 percent. barley 410 million, down 1 percent. rye 28.5 million, up 68 percent from last year.
The 1978 Allamakee County Fair in Waukon concluded with a horse show won by Shelly Roffman and a champion horse exhibited by Monica Roth. Fifteen exhibitors and 27 horses competed in the horse show. Tim White of Postville earned the top beef auction price for a 1,125 pound reserve champion Angus. Four County Agricultural Service paid $73.50 per hundred. Vicki Howe of Waukon took the high sheep bid for her 100 pound lamb at $92 per hundred, paid by Weymiller Marine of New Albia. Howe’s brother Kevin sold the champion lamb for a total of $98.80 at $76 per hundred for a 130 pound animal, bought by McClimen Produce of Waukon.
Eastern Iowa agricultural educators join a daylong for age and no-till training Tuesday from 9 15 a m to 3 p m starting at West Branch High School vocational agriculture building They will visit farms operated by Leland Waters Darrel Brown and Wayne Frederick all of West Branch.
Donald Reilly of Newton Township is selected for the 1978 Iowa Soil Conservation Award for Buchanan County by the County Soil Conservation District Commission. He practices strip cropping contour farming and rotates hay and oats with 57 acres of permanent pasture to preserve the land.
USDA projects higher market prices for wheat corn and soybeans if 1978 production holds and demand stays strong. The World Food and Agricultural Outlook report notes tighter carryovers, continued export demand, and a three year grain reserve that may keep supplies off the market.
Cedar Rapids area extension expert Gerald Gogan says grasshoppers are not expected to be a major problem here though small nymphs are in some fields. Western Iowa could see harm as dry conditions favor reproduction while army worms and corn borers have caused broader issues in the region.
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