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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1977
Page
20
Ames-Soybean growers report triazine injury as low winter rainfall slowed chemical breakdown. Iowa State extension weed specialist Vivar Jennings advises replanting after tillage if stand survival averages five to six plants per foot, noting leaf color changes signal severity.
Iowa State University official notes Iowa leads Midwestern states in private pesticide applicator certificates. Nearly 70,000 Iowa farmers are certified private applicators, about 75 percent of the state's 90,000 farmers, with around 40,000 certified at 400 first quarter meetings. The training aims to ensure safe handling as requirements to buy or use restricted pesticides take effect after October 21.
Parade magazine previews Labor Secretary Ray Marshall's policy goals and actions aimed at boosting employment across the United States. The feature outlines proposed programs, potential impacts on workers, and the administration's approach to job creation.
After five months of talks officials announced a nationally sanctioned tractor pull will headline the Fayette county fair this year. Pullers from across the country are expected Thursday afternoon and evening August 18 to compete for a 6000 dollar purse and advancement points, the largest in fair history. The event is sanctioned by the National Tractor Pullers Assn and the Iowa Tractor Pullers Assn.
Independence area soil conservationist Dennis Reger says herbicides are less effective on minimum tilled fields this year. He advises adapting the cultivator to work in trashy fields by adding disk killers or using a rolling cultivator as a backup weed control plan.
Sue Fix 17 of Vinton and Brian Lubben 18 of Delhi lead a field of 16 candidates for eight state 4 H posts at the Iowa State University conference next week. Delegates will vote by machine. The slate includes eight girls and eight boys from Gazette-area communities with diverse county and city ties.
Two U S grain study teams will visit the Soviet Union this summer for on the spot assessments of 1977 Russian grain prospects under a Soviet American agricultural cooperation pact. The winter team travels June 6 to 25 through Ukraine and the Russian Federation north of the Caucasus, and the spring team from July 11 to 30 with itineraries set before departure.
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