Foley Promises House To Look at Grain Bills
DeKalb Illinois Rep Thomas Foley says the House agriculture committee will seriously study Mezvinskys federalization proposal for grain inspections but cautions delaying action 60 to 90 days to allow justice and agriculture departments to complete their investigations and prosecutions. He stresses credibility of American agricultural exports and avoiding foreign s hipment concerns.
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Foley
House
Dekalb, Ill
UPI
House Agriculture Committee
Thomas S. Foley
New Orleans
Houston
de Kalb County Farm Bureau
Mezvinsky
Grain export gap hints at illegal activity in 1973 74
New Orleans Board of Trade figures cited by the Kansas City Star show two export houses under board supervision shipped at least 115 million more bushels of grain than they received in 1973 and 1974. A federal official suggested it was reasonable to infer skimming the difference.
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Kanas City
UPI
New Orleans
Farms advance soybean planting amid favorable conditions
Iowa farmers have planted 85 percent of their soybean crop, ahead of the five year average of 67 percent for early June, with 87 percent of corn merged and near full stands. Cutworms, herbicide issues from prior dryness, and alfalfa weevil outbreaks affect fields as farmers plan post emergence herbicides and spraying while topsoil moisture remains largely adequate.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
State Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Tive
Copenhavers Named District FmHA Winners
INDEPENDENCE The Paul Copenhaver family of Independence has been named the east central Iowa district Farmers Home Administration farm family of the year and will advance to statewide competition. Paul, a past president of the Buchanan County Pork Producers, also received the Iowa Master Pork Producer award last year.
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Independence
Paul Copenhaver
East Central Iowa District Farmers Home Administration
Fmha
Copenhavers
Paul
Buchanan County Pork Producers
Iowa
Artificial Insemination School at Kirkwood
Kirkwood Community College offers a four day artificial insemination AI school for beef and dairy breeders June 9 to 12 with an optional June 13 class on herd management. Classes run 9 am to 3 pm. registration opens the first day. Kirkwood students pay 25 while others pay 75.
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Kirkwood Community College
Kent Carrothers
Kirkwood
Heffernan To Speak on Chamber Farm Bus Tour
Keith Heffernan an Iowa Development Commission official will speak at a Cedar Rapids Marion chamber agricultural bus tour picnic luncheon on June 19. The tour visits Raymond Keiper Pal-O farm Don Krug Atkins and Grunewald brothers Blairstown with farm visits and implements at Schwitter’s in Cedar Rapids. Reservations through Cedar Rapids Marion Chamber.
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Iowa Development Commission
Keith Heffernan
Cedar Rapids-Marion Area
Chamber of Commerce
Agricultural Bureau
Heffernan
The
Development Commission
Schwitter
Cedar Rapids
Russ Blom
Raymond Keiper
Pal- 0
Don Krug
Atkins
Henry and
John Grunewald
Blairstown
Keiper
Linn County
Krug
Benton County Pork Producers
Grunewald Brothers
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