Rural women's leader visits Iowa from the Netherlands
A world rural women's leader, Mrs. Ziny Westebring-Muller, visits Garrison Iowa to meet local farmers and National ACWW president Caroline Ingels. She notes rain can be welcome, highlights illiteracy and self help through education, and describes ACWW's global work with the United Nations.
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al Swegle Gazette
Garrison
World Rural Women
Netherlands
Iowa
Ziny Westebring-Muller
Associated Country Women of the World
Martyn Jorgensen
U.S
Caroline Ingels
Maynard
Reagan
Europe
Westebring-Muller
ACWW
Nyverdal
U.S. States
Caribbean
United Nations
New York City
Northern Ireland
Scotland
U.N
Netherland
Midwest crop futures move in narrow ranges
Market report lists June through new crop prices for soybeans with modest up or down changes. Notable values include Midwest June at 2.67 up 1 cent and July at 2.64 up 1 cent. Soybeans show declines after June 11 and stabilizing into fall with new crop near 2.38 to 3.00 for white soy.
Market report shows steady hens and uneven eggs prices
Des Moines market notes indicate live hens offered mostly steady with lower bids and some short supplies for the coming week. Farm eggs show mixed price movements with Grade A and small sizes mostly holding, large and medium prices near unchanged. Hog and beef trends slightly softer with moderate trade and varied weights, while regional grain details follow in the Iowa section.
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Federal State Market News Service
Livestock Thursday Market Report Summary
Hogs 5500 head with moderate trade. butchers 50 lower, sows 1.00 to 1.25 lower. No 1 2 butchers 200 to 260 pounds priced 58.50 to 59.25. No pee sows 350 to 500 pounds 51.50 to 51.75. 500 to 600 pounds at 52.50. Cattle insufficient for market test.
Livestock Thursday Hogs and Cattle Trade Report
Livestock Thursday shows hogs at 400 head with moderate demand and mixed price changes. Butchers mostly steady to 25 cents lower, sows down 1.00 to 1.25, and various weight ranges listed for No 1-3 and No 2-4 hogs. Cattle sales are insufficient to establish a market trend with hogs at 600 head noted as fair trade and barrows and gilts 25 to 75 cents lower.
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Cedar Rapids
Pente Rapids
Midwest
Aera
Iowa
Hogs and cattle market notes from Omaha Livestock
Thursday market shows hogs active with price declines of 25 to 50 cents. No 1-2 hogs 200-260 lb 59.25 to 59.75, No 1-3 250-280 lb around 57 to 58. Oscar type hogs near 57 to 58.25. 300-350 lb hogs 55 to 56. Cattle slaughter cows down 50 to 1.00 with limited testing. cows high cutter and utility 41 to 42, canner 37.50 to 41. Cattle and sheep activity described as steady to 25 cents lower. sheep not reported.
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Wilson Foods
Cedar Rapids
Wilson
Wilsons
Oscar Ib
New manager takes helm at West Liberty Fair
West Liberty. Bill Morrison 48, a show-ring veteran, becomes manager of the West Liberty Fair succeeding Ed Eichelberger who left to join the Iowa State Fair staff. Morrison, who rents land near West Liberty, will not make major changes. The 1852 fair runs July 21 25 with Eddie Rabbitt Mandrell Boxcar Willie stock car races a demolition derby and a tractor pull.
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West Liberty
Bill Morrison
Morrison
Ed Eichelberger
Eddie Rabbitt
Louise Mandrell
Willie
Calf Fed With Goat Milk At Brooklyn Farm
At the LeRoy Pattens farm in Brooklyn a calf without a mother began feeding on goat milk from a bottle. A former friend of the Pattens faced a similar issue with an Angus cow and sought help, leading to the calf receiving its meals firsthand.
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LeRoy Pattens
Brooklyn
Pattens
Iowa Beef struggles renewals for hog plant sites
Iowa Beef Pro cessors Inc. reports trouble renewing site options near Stanwood Iowa and Sheffield Illinois for a proposed world’s largest hog packing plant. Spokesman Charles Harness says options expired June 1 and landowners have raised asking prices. Public may contest water rights decision by June 14. Iowa Beef HQ is in Dakota City Nebraska.
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Iowa
Stanwood
Iowa Beef Processors Inc
Illinois
Iowa Beef
Charles Harness
Sheffield
Harness
The
Gazette
Wapsipinicon River
Olin
Farm Bureau delegates cool on farm crisis bill in Des Moines
Iowa Farm Bureau delegates at the Mid-Year Convention showed little enthusiasm for a farm crisis bill though some provisions align with recent proposals. They supported a 15 percent set-aside and diversion payments but warned against changing programs after planting began.
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Des Moines
Iowa Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
State Farm Bureau
Bob Joslin
Clarence
The
Gazette
Dairy group backs Reagan milk plan amid surplus
Washington based National Independent Dairy Foods Association endorses the Reagan administration milk program. Executive VP Donald Randal says base and quota proposals by the National Milk Producers Federation fail to cut long term government costs. He cites dairy cooperatives as the root of the surplus. the association represents independent creameries and dairymen.
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Washington
National Independent Dairy Foods Association
National Milk Producers Federation
Donald Randal
Association
Dairy Cow Strongholds Across Iowa Counties Revealed
The Gazette notes three counties Dubuque Clayton and Winneshiek hold about 34 000 31 000 and 32 000 dairy cows while Sioux County contains 13 100 and Louisa 100. Northeast Iowa contains half the state's dairy cows in seven counties.
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Ames
Gazette
Iowa
Sioux County
Don Voelker
Iowa State University
Dubuque
Clayton
Winneshiek
Delaware
Allamakee
Fayette
Jackson
Sioux
Louisa County
Dinsdale Elected VP at Swiss Valley Farms
Thomas Dinsdale of Traer is elected vice president of Swiss Valley Farms succeeding Earl Gehrke. Dinsdale has served on the Swiss Valley board since 1969 and runs a 100-Holstein farm spanning 800 acres with his brother Morris.
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Davenport
Thomas Dinsdale
Traer
Swiss Valley Farms, Co
Dinsdale
Swiss Valley Board
Earl Gehrke
Lancaster
Wis
Morris
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Pro Farmer Grain
Telephone
U.S. West North Central States
HOGS
Iowa Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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S.central
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Webster City
Joliet
Chicago
USDA
Omaha
Robert Lehman
Downy Lane
Agnes Stone
Iowa Natural Resources Council
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Neb
Joslin
Tom Harkin
Drowa
Federal Crop Insurance Corp
Federal Farm Credit
Office of Management and Budget
Iowa Supreme Court
Peoria
Ill
Hopkins Agricultural Chemical Co
Madison, Wis
Gazette Area 4-H
International Farm
Ronald Sersland
Decorah
Carribean
Susan Mealy
Belgium
Clay Center
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Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center
Agricultural Research Service
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