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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1966
Page
9
The Agriculture Department will pay storage fees on grain kept on farms tied to price support loans, extending loans for corn wheat sorghum oats and barley for another year. Storage rates average about a cent per bushel per month for main grains, with oats at three quarters of a cent and sorghum at about 1.8 cents per hundredweight.
Equine infectious anemia has caused concern but is not a major threat says Dr. John B. Herrick of Iowa State University. The virus may spread via needles and insects. diagnosis requires lab tests and reporting to veterinarians. Encephalomyelitis, common mid year, calls for vaccination as Iowa records several 1965 cases and horsemen prepare for insect season.
In Des Moines 25 Southdown rams from New Zealand stock sold Thursday at the Iowa State fair ground. The top animal brought 1500 dollars and was bought by Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Benjamin Huff of Chino California presided over consignments for the American Southdown Breeders Association.
The northeast Iowa Pork Appreciation day takes place in Maynard on June 22 as one of nine events statewide. Iowa Pork Producers Assn sponsors the meeting with groups, featuring Dr. Ed Wedman and Dr. Mae Whitaker as speakers. A district pork queen will be chosen for the state contest at the Iowa State fair on August 22.
Iowa April meat output reached 943 000 pounds or 39 percent higher than April 1965 while Cattle slaughter totaled 306 000 head. Total liveweight was 322 830 000 pounds versus 308 196 000 a year earlier. Hog slaughter 1 360 000 head and live weight 347 726 000 pounds, up from 319 970 000. Sheep and lamb slaughter 77 500 head, live weight 7 982 000 pounds.
A USDA Economic Research Service report shows farm products accounted for roughly one fifth to one quarter of U.S. export trade in 1965. Exports rose notably for feedgrains and oilseeds while animal products, cotton, and wheat fell. The agricultural trade surplus climbed about 40 percent to an estimated 691 million dollars.
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