USDA Says Bean Deal Legitimate By Gaylord P. Godwin
A UPI report notes the investigation into a February soybean trade after President Johnson announced in a Food for Freedom message that Freeman would push soybean production. Officials found no leak by department staff and concluded news media did not break the release, though one trader profited.
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USDA
Bean
Gaylord P. Godwin
Johnson
Food For Freedom
Congress
Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Agriculture Department
Office of Inspector-General
White House
Capitol Hill
Department
Farm costs surge in 1966 as inputs rise faster than returns
The piece notes farm production expenses climbing 56 percent since 1950, with 1966 showing a sharp rise. Higher prices for equipment and fertilizer drive costs while farmers buy more. interest rates and real estate debt climb, wages up, yet overall income may rise.
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Ueronge
Roby L. Sloan
Chicago Federal Reserve Bank
Sloan
Iowa
U.S
Farm Bureau Pushes Ownership Shares for REC Members
Washington AP The American Farm Bureau Federation urges Congress to require clear ownership of rural electric power systems valued at over five billion dollars now owned by farmer cooperatives. The plan would mandate each member's proportional ownership to qualify for loans from a proposed REA bank. President Charles B. Shuman spoke to the House Agriculture Committee about a new rural finance bank.
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Washington
American Farm Bureau Federation
Congress
REA Bank
Farm Bureau
Charles B. Shuman
House Agriculture Committee
Rural Electrification Administration
Johnson Administration
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
Young Iowans Tour Washington on REC Youth Trip
A two member Iowa delegation leaves Des Moines for the 1966 Rural Electric Cooperative Youth Tour of Washington. Eastern Iowa participants include eight from the Eastern Town Light and Power Cooperative area with Lela Norton Tipton Janet Hartwig Bennet Kathleen Gilroy Lost Nation Renae Best Stockton Barbara Drumm Long Grove Dianne Stange Muscatine Bill Card Camanche Larry Reif Sperry.
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Des Moines
Iowa
de Moines
Rural Electric Cooperative
Washington
Toddville Show Showcased 125 Horses in Cedar Valley Event
The 14th annual Toddville Trailriders club show drew 125 horses across 16 classes. Harlan Larson judged while hub Elder acted as ringmaster. top winners included Richard Peterson Dows in men's western pleasure and Judy Rathjen Marengo in clover-leaf race, among others.
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Toddville
Cedar Valley
Harlan Larson
Goldfield
iHub Elder
West Liberty
Richard Peterson
Dows
Dewey Floetchinger
New Hampton
Judy Rathjen
Marengo
Ralph Murray
Cedar Rapids
Cleo Peterson
Pat Smith
Sue ‘Rathjen
Tennessee Walking
Warren Eyre
Grundy Center
Lonnie Oliphant
Debbie Caspers
Anamosa
Jackie Gardner
Alburnett
Sue Rathjen
Debbie Mayerhofer
Durant
Earl
Dick Sparrow
Zearing
Ross Sparrow
Buchanan County DHIA Lists High Producers
Four Buchanan county DHIA herds posted 305 day lactation records with butterfat of 500 pounds plus. Top cow is a Fairbank Holstein owned by Edward Kleitsch producing 650 pounds fat from 17 690 pounds milk. Other high producers include Haines Walker Paisley and the Buchanan county scheme with fats from 503 to 588 pounds. Eighteen Delaware DHIA members to receive certificates for averages above 450 pounds fat at the June 14 dairy festival at the county fair grounds.
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Independence
Buchanan County Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Edward Kleitsch
Fairbank
Kleitsch
George W. Haines
Walker
Glenn Paisley
Buchanan County Sceme
Delaware
Manchester
Delaware Dhia
County
Earl Zumbach
Ryan
Andred Knipper
Earlville
Martin Bockenstedt
Dyersville
Carl Fensterman
James R. Shover
Delhi
John P. Ungs
New Vienna
LeRoy McQuillen
Minish Joins American Shorthorn Association
Kevin D. Minish of Springville Iowa has become a junior member of the American Shorthorn Association.
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Omaha
Kevin D. Minish
Springville
Iowa
A J Johnson Reelected Holstein Assn President
A J Johnson of Elkader Iowa was reelected to a second term as president of the Holstein Friesen Assn of America at the Wichita convention R DeWitt Mallory of Bradford WI was reelected vice Johnson president Three directors were reelected Clifford E Bailey William L Conlyngham Herbert W Fisk and Ivan Meeker named as new director The board approved advancing registry testing and a color marking proposal was referred to a committee In the national sale 37 animals sold for an average 3236 with a Pennsylvania bred bull selling for 25000 to American Breeders Service Madison Wisconsin
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Wichita
Kan
A. J. Johnson
Elkader
Iowa
Holstein - Friesian Assn. of America
R. DeWitt Mallory
Bradford
Jonnson
Clifford E. Bailey
Washington
William L. Conlyngham
Pennsylvania
Herbert W. Fisk
Minnesota
iNew
Fatal Farm Mishaps Down But Rate per 100 000 Up
The USDA ERS reports 1964 farm fatalities totaled 2 279, 13 percent below 1963 and 68 percent above the 1949 rate. While total deaths fell, the fatality rate per 100 000 farm people rose 2 percent from 1963, tied to a shrinking farm population from 24.2 million in 1949 to 12.9 million in 1964.
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Washington
U.S
Fowest
USDA
Pacific Region
Freeman Flags Wheat Shortage Risk And Indian Relief Plans
Secretary Freeman doubts U S wheat carryover will fall to 350 million bushels by July 1967 unless India relief shipments match 1965 levels. He suggests substituting U S sorghum for excess grain and hopes for a break in India’s drought. Exports may be rationed to protect domestic and export needs.
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Washington
UPS
Orville L Freeman
U. S
India
Agriculture Department
Department
Freeman
World Poultry Congress to Convene in Kiev
Washington announces the 13th World Poultry Congress will be held August 15 to 28 in Kiev, USSR. The United States will stage its first poultry exhibit in the Soviet Union with 15 American firms booked to exhibit pharmaceuticals feed concentrates farm photos and bilingual brochures on breeding raising and marketing.
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Washington
Kiev
Russia
U.S
Soviet Union
USDA
American Shorthorn Assn Reports Fiscal Gains
The American Shorthorn Assn reports for the second half of the 1965-66 fiscal year registrations rose 3 percent transfers increased 14 percent and membership up 3 percent from the prior year.
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American Shorthorn Assn
Omaha
Fayette 4-H Council installs new members
Fayette county 4-H council members elected at the rally night include Cathy Adams Vicki Becker Mary Nabholz Mary Clark Greg James David Rowland Jack Wenthe and Robert Adams.
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Fayette
New Fayette
County
4-H
Cathy Adams
Vicki Becker
Mary J. Nabholz
Mary Clark
Greg James
David Rowland
Jack Wenthe
Robert Adams
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