Beef shortage looms nationwide says industry leaders
United Press International reports an impending nationwide beef shortage by next week as Phase 4 freezes bite. Texas producers cut output while TSMA warns of price surges post September 12. Chicago meeting forms a committee to urge ending price ceilings. officials warn plants may close without relief. Khrushchev note marks a decade since the nuclear pact.
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Agriculture Department
Texas
Baxter Freese
Iowa Cattlemen's Assa
Chicago
Midwest
Freese
Nixon
Washington
Amarillo
Texas and Southwestern Meat Packers Assny
TSMA
UPI
Dallas
Houston
Brownwood
Alice
Hereford
San Antonio
Lamar Holley
Cost of Living Council
AMI
Herrell de Graff
White House
Conference Deliberates on Escalator Clause in Farm Bill
Washington AP Earl L. Butz and Senate House conferees resumed closed door talks on Capitol Hill on Thursday over the escalator feature in a proposed new income guarantee for cotton and grain farmers. Rep. Charles M. Teague said Butz would consider several suggestions, while the administration warns the escalator could push costs to about 12 billion dollars over four years.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Secretary of Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Senate-House
Charles M. Teague
Rcalif
Teague
Congress
Nixon Administration
Butz
Conference Committee
Senate
House
Scott County Sees Green Cloverworm Infestation in Soybeans
Don Olson of Scott County Extension warns green cloverworms now threaten local soybeans. One field treated July 24. If 15 to 20 worms per foot of row are found, spraying is advised, usually at pod fill. Yield impacts: 50 percent defoliation at bloom cuts yield by 9 percent. at pod fill, 18 percent. Farmers urged to monitor fields.
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Scott County
Don Olson
Olson
District Judging Event Held at Kirkwood College
Four FFA district officers helped staff a southeast Iowa district judging event at Kirkwood Community College with district adviser Linn Schultz and Kirkwood staff member Garland Ashbacher. Bloomfield won the team title with 1333 points, while Mediapolis and Marengo placed second and third. Individual high scorer was Brad Davis of Mediapolis with 481. top Kirkwood contest finisher was Kevin Koehn with 412.
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al Sweate
Iowa
Future Farmers of America
Kirkwood Community College
Cedar Rapids
Dan Behounek
Belle Plaine
Dean Dickel
Marengo
Julie McKusker
Gary Becker
Watkins
Linn Schultz
van Horne
Kirkwood
Garland Ashbacher
Swisher
Brad Davis
Mediapolis
Bloomfield Chapter
Bloomfield Ffa
Kevin Koehn
North English
John Schneider
Riverside
Pat Milder
West Branch
Don Pfeffer
Washington
Randy Groff
Yorkshire Boar Sets World Record Price at Sale
At a Yorkshire type conference in Springfield Illinois last week a second place December Yorkshire boar sold for a world record $17,500. Fred Haley farm Canton Georgia owned the boar which set a new global price for any boar. The sale totaled 50 boars bringing $96,200 averaging $1,920 per head.
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Springfield
Til
Fred Haley
Canton
Robert Lassler
Princeton
H. R. Jenkins
Murphysboro
FCHI
Ken Kunkle
Lacon
Ill
Morrissey Brothers
Wyoming
Don Michael
Yorkshire
Earl Meinhart
Wheeler, Ill
Randall Updike
Washington
Roger Hale
Michigan
Georgia
Conservation Education Workshops For Iowa Teachers
Howard Hughes, president of the Iowa Conservation Education Council, announces three teacher workshops in October. One will be at Camp Ewalu near Strawberry Point on October 5 and 6. The other two are on October 12 and 13 at the State 4-H Camp near Luther and at Camp Hitchcock about 15 miles north of Council Bluffs.
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Iowa
Howard Hughes
Iowa Conservation Education Council
Camp Ewalu
Strawberry Point
Luther
Camp Hitchcock
Council Bluffs
Half of U S wheat crop booked for export says government
The government said as of July 6 more than half of the expected U S wheat crop for this year had been booked for export, totaling 916 million bushels. For 1972 73 exports reached 1.2 billion bushels, with prices rising on a tight supply outlook.
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New York
Soviet Union
China
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Khrushchev
By Carl C. Craft
Gazette
Action
Tama
Winneshiek
Fayette
Clayton
Buchanan
Delaware
Linn
Keokuk
Johnson
Kirkwood College
By al Swegle
Kirkwood Farm
Wilson and Co
Dan Curtiss
DeWitt
Dwight Houghland
Bloomfield
Steve Altheide
Ran
Dy Sawyer
Randy Weiss
West Liberty
Dale Kinzenbaw
Ron Rubenbauer
le Grand
Gene Badtram
Bennett
Joan Dickel
North Scott
Muscatine
U.S
H. J. Maidenberg
New York Times News Service
Department of Agriculture
Chicago Board of Trade
Magic TV
Abra
Kadabra
Presto
Ali-kazam
Siscms
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