USDA Rehires Black Employee in Civil Rights Dispute
The Agriculture Department will reinstate Verius M. Stovall Jr. after firing him earlier this spring amid civil rights complaints, with back pay and a potential promotion promised. Edith Thomas, a top black nutritionist in the Extension Service, faces ongoing uncertainty as dismissal plans were halted and a hearing is pending.
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Washington Post
Washington
Agriculture Department
Extension Service
Veruis M. Stovall Jr
Animal Plant Health Inspection Service
APHIS
Edith Thomas
Thomas
Joseph D. Gebhardt
USDA
Congress
Stovall
Richard E. Lyng
Lyng
Peter C. Myers
Market Undertone Steady in Mixed Farm Prices Tuesday
The Federal and State Market News Service reports a generally quiet market with light offerings and steady to firm sentiment. Hog receipts in Iowa and Minnesota show 70,000 current week deliveries vs 97,000 last week, with steady to slow trade. cattle, eggs, and boxed beef also show subdued activity and price movements, with various weights and cuts adjusting modestly amid moderate demand.
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Iowa
Lowa
Minnesota
Sy S. T
U.S
Winterkill blamed for brown evergreens in July says experts
Garden expert Patty Peterson of Marion and nurseryman Dwight Hughes Jr. warn the worst winterkill since the 1930s left many evergreens brown by mid July. Dry fall and winter, Thanksgiving freeze, and delayed watering led to needle loss. replacing affected plants and fall watering with mulch are advised.
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Patty Peterson
Marion
Peterson
The
Gazette
Linn County
Dwight Hughes Jr
Cedar Rapids
Hughes
Ethanol Express Stops in Cedar Rapids for Minnesota Farmers
A Minnesota farm group tour bus stopped in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday evening as part of a publicity tour to promote ethanol ahead of the National Corn Growers Association convention in St Louis. Leonard Binstock of the Minnesota association said the journey aims to highlight new ethanol advances. The group toured Archer Daniels Midland's Cedar Rapids facility and dined at the Sheraton Inn with Jim Nichols, Minnesota agriculture commissioner, in attendance.
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Ethanol Express
Cedar Rapids
Minnesota
National Corn Growers Association
St. Louis
Leonard Binstock
Minnesota Corn Growers Association
Chicago
New York
Iowa
Archer Daniels Midland Corn Sweeteners
Sheraton Inn
Jim Nichols
Rain Damages Hit One Quarter of Iowa Corn Crop
Des Moines report says heavy rains damaged about 25 percent of this year's corn and twelve percent suffered moderate to extensive wind and hail damage. Silked at fifteen percent matches last year and above normal. corn quality rated 38 percent excellent, 57 percent good, 5 percent fair. Soybeans show thirty percent bloomed and ratings of 15 percent excellent, 66 percent good, 18 percent fair, 1 percent poor.
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Des Moines
Weekly Crop Report
Iowa Agricultural Statistics
Minnesota offers free tuition to farmers in need
Minnesota's Board of Regents adopts the Farm Family Scholarship plan to provide up to six tuition free credits per quarter for three quarters over two years to Minnesota farmers at risk of losing their farms. Applicants must show foreclosure, repossession, or debt restructuring. Classes taken on a space available basis at any campus. Most participants likely at Waseca or Crookston campuses.
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Minnesota
Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
University Board of Regents
Charles Casey
Casey
West Concord
University
Kenneth Keller
Waseca
Crookston
Iowa finalizes emergency rules to avert grain storage crisis
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Robert Lounsberry filed emergency rules to expand temporary storage for grain elevators ahead of a potential bumper harvest. New rules limit structures to 12 feet height with rigid walls and set area caps while raising temporary storage capacity to 30 percent and enforcing moisture and sensor requirements.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Robert Lounsberry
State Administrative Code Office
Lounsberry
Probate of Ethlyn P. Yates Will Appoints Executor
The Linn County District Court admitted Ethlyn P. Yates deceased on June 26 and on July 3 1986 named Anna Belle Yates Ocheltree as executor. Creditors must file claims with the district clerk within four months from second publication. actions to contest the will must be filed within that period.
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Lowe District Coy
Linn
Yates
Etune Yates
Ethlyn P. Yates
Anna Belle Yates Ocheltree
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
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Cedar Rapids Farmstead Foods
Farmstead Foods
Sy Zamastil
Fairfax Mid-America Sheep Company
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Fairfax
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Pueblo
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Pipestone
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Fischer Law Firm Attorney For Executor
Vinton, Iowa
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