Farm payment limits spark captiol hill debate
Lawmakers push to cap direct government payments to individual farms at 10000 to 17500 dollars with several proposals in both houses. Planes would reshaped aid under wheat feed grain cotton and wool programs, targeting giants while keeping help for small and medium growers.
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Ashington
UPI
Capitol Hill
House
Senate
Albert H. Quie
R-Minn
Nelson
Quie
Agriculture Department raises swine cholera indemnity for inbred hogs
Washington AP report says payments to farmers for destroying registered inbred and hybrid hogs due to swine cholera will match those for registered purebred hogs. Federal payment limits remain $40 per head for grade hogs and $50 for purebreds, with appraisal switching to the higher rate.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Hawkeye Downs Shorthorn Preview Winners Named
Sixty one steers and 42 heifers shown by junior exhibitors at Hawkeye Downs Shorthorn preview on the All-Iowa fairgrounds Cedar Rapids. Champion steer shown by Pam Haeussler. champion heifer by Dan Stoner. Stoner’s lightweight steer also reserve. Johnnie Hook took first in middleweight steer. Reserve heifer by Jeff Mizner. Blue ribbon winners noted Steve Gamble and Gary Eichelberger. Tom Reedy judged all junior steer events. Allan Johnson show manager. Harold Ewoldt presented trophies.
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Cedar Rapids
Pam Haeussler
William H. Haeussler, Jr
Ryan
Dan Stoner
Virgil Stoner
Mt. Vernon
Stoner
Johnnie Hook
Heifer
Jeff Mizner
Russell Mizner
LaPorte City
Steve Gamble
Gary Eichelberger
Tom Reedy
Interview with a farmer near Key stone on crops and cattle
Louis Kapucian, owner of 80 acres near Key stone, with 200 acres of pasture and 130 acres of corn, talks of cattle feeding, hogs, and his farming mix. He discusses his father’s retirement, land rentals, and plans, plus politics and daylight saving time. He notes 20 calves on the pasture and 56 with one pasture, feeds steers, raises hay, oats, corn, and seeks rootworm control. He leans Democratic but undecided, mentions Humphrey, McCarthy, Kennedy, and Franzenburg for governor.
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Louis Kapusian
Keystone
Tim
American Legion
The
Turners
John Kapucian
Asture
Wilbert Steen
Delaware Fair Entries at Manchester Run 600 Head
About 600 head of 4-H and FFA livestock have been entered for the Delaware County fair to be held July 24 through 26 in Manchester.
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Manchester
Iowa 1968 milk output 12 percent below average
Iowa June milk production totaled 517 million pounds, 4 percent below June 1967 and 14 percent under the 1962-66 average. Per cow output reached 880 pounds, while six month production was 2,882 million pounds, 12 percent below the prior year’s pace and average.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
U.S
Milk output dips in first half of 1968
Numbers show a trend toward lower seasonal peaks in production. Total U S milk production during the first half of 1968 was 1.7 percent less than a year earlier.
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U.S
Meredith McHone Crowned Ayrshire Princess in Iowa
Meredith McHone age 19 daughter of Mr and Mrs F L McHone Ames was crowned Iowa Ayrshire Princess at the Ayrshire Breeders Assn annual picnic held at the Louis Zumbach farm near Coggon. About 130 people attended the event with Leonard Malacek Ayrshire fieldman assisting with the program and judging contests.
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Coggon
Meredith McHone
F. L. McHone
Ames
Iowa
Flannagans Sell 80 Acre Drummy Farm Near Marion
Mr and Mrs Vin cent Drummy of Ryan sold their 80 acre Drummy Farm to Mr and Mrs Glenn C Flannagan of Marion. Possession is set for September 1. Earl Hennessey of Potter Real Estate, Marion, handled the sale.
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Ryan
Vincent Drummy
Glenn C. Flannagan
Marion
Earl Hennessey
Potter Real Estate
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