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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1966
Page
7
A National Academy of Sciences panel led by Kenneth V. Thimann calls for a decade of heightened plant science funding. The plan seeks 1.5 billion dollars for basic biology, graduate training, and new facilities to boost crop yields and prepare for future food demands.
Four dairy breeds showcased at the Fayette County fairgrounds in West Union with 54 Guernsey entries. Winners advance to the All Iowa state fair in Cedar Rapids August 15 to 18. Dan Walther of Waverly earned the Guernsey grand champion as Frank Livesend and others placed top in Jersey Ayrshire and Milking Shorthorn divisions.
Secretary Freeman offers emergency conservation assistance in six Iowa counties hit by flooding in May and June. Counties Iowa Jasper Keokuk Mahaska Poweshiek Washington designated for cost sharing through 150000 emergency funds allocated to the State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation committee. Funds administered via the 1967 ACP by state and county committees. Measures include debris removal from farmlands grading eroded areas restoring vegetative waterways terraces and other damaged conservation structures.
Exports of Charolais breeding cattle from the United States surged 91 percent in 1965, totaling 1,949 head including 544 bulls and 1,405 females. Canada was the top importer with 58 percent or 1,142 head, and Charolais made up 39 percent of Canada’s beef breeding exports for the year.
The eight judges from the meat packing industry were named by Carroll Plager to judge truckloads of market hogs for the 1966 National Barrow Show in Austin Minnesota September 12 to 15. Plager to chair. judging begins September 14 at 8 a.m. Entries close September 3.
A UPI report notes Western nations supplied 725 million bushels of wheat to communist countries in the 1963 66 period, up 57 percent from the prior year and a new record. Soviet and Chinese crop reductions helped lift imports as Moscow loosened state policy to reward output gains.
The agriculture department notes 326 million bushels shipped to the bloc with Canada supplying 95 year old tree farm system. US shipments to Yugoslavia and other hard currency markets rise while trade with Red China and Russia remains blocked by policy and high shipping costs.
The Agriculture Department awarded a $37,380 contract to the University of Georgia to study eliminating the pesticide DDT from eggs and chicken tissues. The work will look at how additives in food and restrictive feeding may reduce residues and how accidental feeding of contaminated feed could cause residues in poultry products.
Ames warning from Ane Epstein former extension plant pathologist at Iowa State University about con artists selling bogus Dutch elm disease cures. He notes real treatments exist though costs vary. states to report suspects to authorities and avoid unproven products.
Secretary Freeman faces a decision on next year’s wheat acreage after President Johnson’s 15 percent increase in allowable plantings for 1967. Open market prices may stay above the $1.25 support, while government stocks dwindle and farmers store more, shifting price influence toward producers and free market forces.
The text notes Freeman arguing farmers must earn a decent living or face mass abandonment of farming, calling it a national catastrophe. It mentions plans to support the Johnson administration's agricultural record and cites The Gazette editorial stance after Freeman's Iowa trip.
Washington reports indicate Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey will shift the farm policy message. He plans a different approach from Secretary Freeman as farmers, upset by inflation blamed on the administration, hear a new stance on farm price controls.
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