Linn County Fair Ag Roundup Highlights Sheep Winners
Doug Nemec of Fairfax led with champion market lamb and market pen at Linn County Fair sheep show. Nemec’s Suffolk lambs won heavyweight market individual and heavyweight market pen. Beth Grabau showed champion purebred Suffolk ewe lamb. Other winners include Marven Flitsch, Jim O’Connell, Daniel Nemec, Allen Flint, Brett Shulista, Kristyn Van Note, Grant Severn, Nancy Bohlken, Sara Kendall, and Tracy Miers in various lamb, goat and grade champion classes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beth Grabau
Marion
Doug Nemec
Fairfax
Linn County
Central City
Grabau
Suffolk
Nemec
Marvin Flitsch
Alburnett
Sara Kendall
Cedar Rapids
Tracy Miers
Edgewood farmer Rowell joins USDA advisory board on price structure
Edgewood area farmer Willis Rowell, a 50 year veteran and former NFO adviser, was appointed to a USDA advisory panel on restructuring target prices loan rates and support prices. He expects a realistic cost-of-production formula and notes input from land grant colleges. In other notes, Kirkwood Community College hosted FFA livestock and meat judging contests with top honors for Terry Baltz and Ted Novak. Keokuk County Expo honors Wayne Frank with swine championship and first place light weight barrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgewood
Willis Rowell
U.S. Department of Agriculture Advisory
Rowell
National Farmers Organization
Land Grant Colleges
USDA
FFA
Kirkwood Community College
Terry Baltz
North Scott Ffa
Ted Novak
Belle Plaine
Sigourney
Wayne Frank
Keokuk County
Barrow
Farm Bureau results in Oelwein and Fayette contests
Doreen Hayek from Clutter won the Oelwein area Farm Bureau discussion meet on July 18 with Jim Dos of Waterloo finishing second. They advance to the state meet during the Iowa Farm Bureau annual meeting in Des Moines on November 30. In Fayette, Jane Glidden, 14, a Fayette Community School freshman, is among six state finalists in the frozen desserts for students division of the Milk Made Magic Contest sponsored by Midland Dairy Cooperatives and the Dairy Council.
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Oelwein
Doreen Hayek
Clutter
Iowa Farm Bureau
Jim Dos
Waterloo
Des Moines
Fayette
Jane Glidden
Fayette Community School
Midland Dairy Cooperatives
The
Dairy Council
Bakers Demand More Wheat Acreage For 1979 Crop
The Independent Bakers Association asks Agriculture Secretary Bergland to raise the national program acreage allotment for the 1979 wheat crop by 8 to 10 percent. They cite a total wheat stockpile near 1.17 billion bushels with a small free market supply and note ongoing government controls and international purchases affecting carryover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.S
Independent Bakers Association
Agriculture
Bob Bergland
Association
Agriculture Department
Bergland
Russia
China
USDA
Goats Rise in Linn County Fair 4-H Exhibits
Central City reports dairy goats as the fastest growing division at the Linn County Fair with 54 goats shown by 15 exhibitors in 1978. Leaders highlight goat traits and low start up costs while 4-H members learn care and showmanship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central City
Linn County
Eléanor Bohlken
Springville
Bohlken
Linn
Marlin Francksen
Center Point
Kristyn
Francksen
Pat Long
Marion
Long
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Farm Bureau Discussion
Norway
Robert B. Miller
Iowa
Gazette Farmer's Marketplace
DIAL
GALL
I Family Shoe Store
Men’s & Boys
Slumberland
Serta
Union Made Shoes ' Park & Shop
Postal Vendor Shoe Store
Third Ave
Siegel’s
BankAmericard
Dresher
King Koil
Flexstee
Flexsteel
Nyion
Atair
Roosevelt Royale Hotel
Cedar Falls
Black Hawk Village
Humane Society
4-H
Nancy Bohlken
Linn County Fair
Patti
Eleanor Bohlken
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