Nature Gives Teachers Soil Conservation Lesson
Two Cedar Rapids teachers Rita Schmid and Kurt Gundacker attend a three week Town Teachers Conservation Camp in Colorado and Iowa to develop practical outdoor conservation education for seventh graders at Harding. The program, run by University of Northern Iowa specialists and local groups, blends field work with lectures to localize soil and forest conservation lessons.
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Iowa
Dave McCalley
UNI
Rita Schmid
Kurt Gundacker
Harding Junior High
Cedar Rapids
Belle Plaine High School
Ine Baker
Julie Bright
North Linn High School
Mother Nature
Kurt
Gingbacker
Colorado Rockies
Pintoon Ridge Park
Consal City
Matsell Bridge
Clausen
Titha
Noel
Sendra Drewsy
Yong
Wellsburg
Sandra
Schmid and Gundacker
Harding
College Community School
SPU
County Park Fiersonnel
Tenchurs
Rural conservation course aids teachers statewide
Julie Bright, biology teacher at North Linn, joins a program run by the Walton League and Federated Garden Clubs of Iowa to strengthen conservation teaching. Leaders note the camp moves across sites to connect classroom lessons with real places, from Indian Creek to local parks, aiming to make learning practical and local.
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Sectasion Distry Bank Walton League
Federated Garden Clubs of Iowa
Julie Bright
North Linn
Gundacker
Clausen
USDA Seeks to Seat Pack PR Firms Crackdown Pileup
Washington UPI reports that USDA officials urge Congress to block large cattle and hog-raising by packers and supermarkets. NFU secretary Robert G. Lewis says the department backs no immediate action but will alert Congress on Smith bill options.
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Demord Breiner
Agriculture Department
Johnson
Nixon
Lewis Sald
NFT
Earl L. Butz
Smith
Department
Lop ‘Evel
Muebirtg
Smith's Breadly
I Panam Fap
Bane Baer
Congress
Lewis
NFA
Soybean Herbicide Tour Near Mt Vernon Demonstration
A Monday tour at the George Patrick farm 144 miles west of Mt Vernon and one mile north will study soybean herbicides on 7 14 and 30 inch plots. Agronomists Garren Benson and Jarry Gogan of Iowa State and Brayton Chemical reps will discuss Basagran and other treatments. Sponsored by ISU extension Petrick Implement and Brayton Chemical, the event invites bean producers per Linn County extension director Dick Freeman.
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MT. Vernon
George Patrick
Garren Benson
Jarry Gogan
Towa State University Agronomists
Brayton Chemical
ISU Extension Service
Petrick Implement
Brayton Chemical Co
Dick Freeman
Linn County Extension Direc
Three Swine Operations on Delaware Tour
Manchester Delaware county residents may join the annual swine tour by reserving at the county extension office by June 23. The June 26 trip visits Patterson and Sons Inn Washington Keith Fischer West Chester and Bob Greece Cor Jatibus Junction with bus departures at 7 am from Delhi Park and 7 15 am extension office Manchester.
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Manchester
Delaware
Patterson & Sons
Inn
Washington
Keith Fischer
West Chester
Bob Greece
Cor Jatibus Junction
Fischer
White House urged to back grain inspection reform
Washington sources say the Agriculture Department seeks White House permission to back a major reform shifting grain inspection from designated state and private agencies to public employees. Currently 23 state agencies and 88 private firms supervise inspections with fees paid by grain handlers and exporters.
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Washington
WEL
Agriculture Department
White House
Wanko
Clayton County 4-1 Group Heads to Wyoming Exchange
A 43 member Clayton County 4-1 group will participate in a two year exchange program with Sublette County Wyoming this July. They depart July 6 and return July 14 with chaperones Mr. Vernon Walter and Mr. Howard Koehner. Sublette County, a sparsely populated western Wyoming area, has 3,800 residents and 2.21 million acres of land.
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Eleader
Clayton County 4-11
Sublette County
Wyoming
Guttenberg
Vernon Walter
Howard Koehner
Sublette
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University of Northern Sosia
Kidtergarten
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Farm News
Indian Creek Nature Center
Springbuok
USDA
Moon Soi
Sunbeam Bread
Clayton County
Albany
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