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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1967
Page
9
Bi partisan grumbling over shrinking shipments of food under the Food for Peace program prompts questions. Agriculture officials defend the trend as explainable while warning against alarm.
Des Moines report shows Iowa farm price index rising from April 15 to May 15. Overall prices up to 278 percent of the 1910-14 average, livestock index at 291 with a 36 point month gain, crop prices at 218, up slightly from April and above the previous year.
Des Moines Wayne E. Swegle, managing editor of Successful Farming, was named chairman of the 30th National Farm Institute committee. The 1963 institute, held February 15 and 16, is sponsored by the Greater Des Moines Chamber of Commerce agricultural committee. Kenneth C. Thatcher, Iowa Farm Bureau Federation secretary, will be institute committee vice chairman. The 1968 institute theme is not yet decided, with a format expected to mirror past years.
About 25 members of the Future Farmers of America chapter at Alburnett community school will participate in a June 23-25 weekend camping tour to the Ozarks. They will visit Litton Charolais ranch near Chillicothe, Missouri. The adviser Clyde P. Anton reports plots of 15 oat varieties and 14 soybean varieties planted on local farms two miles east and northeast of Alburnett, with Central City addresses. Molasses is valued at about 75 percent of corn in dairy rations, per pound.
Ames notes nominations must be postmarked by July 1 for the Iowa Distinguished Dairyman Award. Tom Lyon of the Iowa State Dairy Association says forms are available through vocational agriculture teachers milk plants Dairy Herd Improvement Associations and county extension directors. Only 21 dairymen have won the award since its start three years ago. The Cedar Rapids Gazette Iowa State University extension service and the Iowa State Dairy Association sponsor the award to be presented at the American Dairy Association of Iowa and Iowa State Dairy Association annual meetings in Des Moines October 18.
Secretary Orville Freeman announced the food stamp plan now operates in 784 areas across 41 states and the District of Columbia. The program expanded to 60 new areas in 18 states during May, providing low income recipients access to food through stamps redeemable at regular stores, supplementing purchasing power.
The US Department of Agriculture awarded Penn State University a contract for 61,461 to develop lamb sausages and pre cooked frozen shish kabobs. The project aims to create other lamb products to bolster markets as lamb demand and prices have fallen, reducing production.
Washington (UPI) Chairman Wilbur D. Mills indicates the U S Tariff Commission should aid the dairy industry, with his Ways and Means Committee ready to draft legislation for a legal ceiling on dairy imports if the commission and President Johnson fail. Senator William Proxmire backs a congressional cap, while Mills notes potential GATT compliance and possible compensatory import allowances to offset hurt to other sectors.
The National Lamb show will open at Hawk Eye Downs Tuesday with 340 breeding sheep and market lamb entries reported by Show Manager Tom Rampy. The entries include 58 breeding sheep, 23 progeny test pens of five lambs each, and 167 carcass lambs as part of the event. World Cattle Numbers sale set for Thursday at 7:30 at All-town fairground. Washington reports U.S. and Canadian cattle trends with dairy cows down and beef cattle up slightly.
Agriculture department said farm exports last year reduced the nations payments deficit. Total imports exceeded exports by 1.42 billion dollars, while agricultural trade posted a favorable balance of 1.16 billion with imports by non agricultural goods outpacing exports by 2.68 billion.
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