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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1967
Page
3
Dr. Robert C. deBaca predicts 1980 beef production shifts to crossbreeding and performance testing. Calves will target 600 pounds at seven months with a total 1100 pounds in 14 months. Yearling calves decline as land and labor pressures grow, boosting efficiency.
Ames Iowa July 13 14 swine focused livestock evaluation conference announced by Dr Nelson Gay extension beef specialist at Iowa State University campus. Vocational agriculture instructors youth assistants and adult 4H project leaders targeted with emphasis on carcass evaluation techniques live selection and carcass contest basics. Small registration fee contact Nelson Gay 109 Kildee Hall Ames Iowa 50010.
The Iowa County 4H honor club will welcome its new members at a picnic on June 14 at 7 30 p.m. at Iowa County lake.
The agriculture department recommended a technical change to the Quad Cities DuBuque federal milk marketing order. It would alter pooling standards for distributing plants to have milk pooled and priced under the order. The proposal follows a public hearing prompted by the Mississippi Valley Milk Producers Association.
Two Linn county 4-H members named to the state conservation workshop at the Madrid camping center near Madrid. Colleen Henderson 16 of Central City and Gayle Wallace 17 of Mt. Vernon will train in soils insects plants and forests and their uses as part of the 100 delegate group.
Agricultural engineers develop a giant bale machine to form and move one ton hay bales weighing up to 790 pounds. The device integrates baling and handling, promising lower overall equipment needs though further design tweaks are planned to reach 2,000 pound bales.
Linn DHIA reports for April show Cowson test: average 32.2 pounds of milk and 1.2 pounds butterfat per cow per day across 37 herds. Average 42 cows per herd. feed cost 83 cents per cow daily. Twenty five cows hit 305 day lactation above 500 pounds butterfat. Prominent cows include Coggan and Becker herds with 18 200 and 18 700 pounds milk respectively and 674 and 672 pounds butterfat. two Witwer grade Holsteins reached 617 and 600 pounds butterfat. Inoculation of soybeans noted as cheap insurance.
The House voted 357 to 38 to halt a cropland adjustment program paying farmers to divert land for five or ten year terms. The bill funds the Agriculture Department for next year at 4.7 billion, with $80 million to honor earlier contracts and no extension for the third year. The panel also cut 167 million from Johnson’s 1.7 billion foreign aid Food for Peace request amid warnings of dwindling food stocks to meet Vietnam and Asia needs.
The article notes that wartime strains may push U.S. farm output to record levels with ample food stocks. Wheat and feed grain production are expected to hit records as meat, dairy, and poultry output runs high. Prolonged conflict could raise prices and spur further production. fat shortages are not an issue, and soybeans are anticipated to produce a record crop.
A delegation of 36 Linn county 4-H members and four adult chaperones will depart by chartered bus from the Spartan store parking lot in Cedar Rapids for a one week 4-H citizenship short course in Washington. The accompanying adults are Mrs Loyd D. Martin Mrs James D Jordan both of Marion Paul R Atherton of Alburnett and Thomas K McCormick county extension 4 H and youth leader.
Winneshiek county Farm Bureau women will host a June Dairy Day at 2 p.m. Friday in the Decorah county fairground Community building. Mary Regan of Des Moines, food artist for the American Dairy Association of Iowa, will demonstrate and the countywide dairy recipe contest will be judged.
Fayette County tops Iowa for DHIA herds averaging over 450 pounds butterfat per cow in the year ending April 30. Fifty-three herds across three units qualify for honor roll at the June 24 dairy festival in West Union, with two top-ten state placements and several over 600 pounds butterfat per cow.
Des Moines’s Iowa Packing Company plant, affiliated with Swift and Company, closed after its last slaughter day on Wednesday. The site’s first packing plant dated to 1870, with Swift acquiring it in 1915, and the facility had annually slaughtered about 700,000 hogs and cattle valued at $65 million.
About 100 junior 4 H members will attend the Linn county camp this weekend at Camp Wapsie Y along the Wapsipinicon river. Karla Henderson of Coggon will serve as camp coordinator. Classes will be taught by Mrs. John T. Anderson Jr of Cedar Rapids Mrs. David Goodlove of Central City and Mrs. William Novak and Mrs. Milo Andrle of Ely.
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