Winneshiek County Dairy Dignitaries Honored at Banquet
Ralph Haggs fifty year career as a Winneshiek dairyman highlighted a county dairy banquet in Decorah. Awards went to Haggs for top improving herd and to Newhouse and Newhouse family for princess honors. The Quass brothers topped county herds with 69 cows averaging 17,752 pounds milk and 617 pounds butterfat.
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Decorah
Ralph
Winneshiek
Alyn Buy
Cheir
Oscar Lembke
Duane
Jean Newhouse
de Engelhardt
Corah
Don McClintock
Redeshiek
McClintock
Atj
Luther College
Farmers Co-Op Creamery
Cresco
Hagg
Dhia, Holster Breeders
National Holstein Association
Artificial Insemination Board
County Farm Bureau
Washington Prairie Lutheran Church
David
Darwin
Town State University
Ames
Miss Newhouse
North Winneshiek Community
University of Town
Maynard Newhouse
Cheryl Sersland
Howard Sersland
Winneshirk County
Cathy
Fiana
David Fraha
Wayne
Dale Quass
O5sian
Wipneshiek County
Quass Brothers
Albin Massman
Ossian
Feed Grain Workshop To Be Held August 21
DES MOINES The Town Grain and Feed Association will hold a one day management workshop for owners and families of family owned grain feed fertilizer and farm supply businesses on Tuesday August 21 at the Holiday Inn of Amana Colonies in Amana. Dr Leon A Daneo will conduct the lectures titled Survival Profitable Growth and Successful Continuity in the Family Owned Business.
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Des Moines
Town Grain and Feed Association
Holiday Inn of
Amana
Leon A. Daneo
Student Lives With Sheep To Study Predators
University of Nevada Reno graduate student Kent McAdoo lives with the Elko county flock of Jess Goicoechea to evaluate predator losses. He checks daily at sunrise and sunset, determining if deaths are due to coyotes or other causes and conducts autopsies to separate poison, disease, or other factors. Dr. Donald Klebenow says findings will clarify predator impacts on livestock and rangeland prey.
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Donald Klebenow
Klebenaw
Clark Pleads for Soybean Trading Suspension
Washington AP reports Sen. Dick Clark urges a temporary halt to soybean futures trading. He backs USDA and the Commodity Exchange Authority review, calls the market out of touch with farmers and consumers, and asks for Chicago hearings to assess causes and remedies.
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Washington
Dick Clark
Lown
Chicago Board of ‘Ratte
Department of Agriculture
Senate Agriculture Committee
Chicago
Clark
USDA
Commodity Exchange Authority
Hampshire Junior Field Day Planned
CHURDAN The Hampshire Swine Breeders Assn will hold a junior field day at Harold Curtis farm a half mile west of Churdan on July 9 with registration at 12 30 p m and the judge workout starting all pan A grooming demonstration will be held in conjunction with the workout and a sonoray machine and technition will be on hand from the Hampshire Swine Registry to demonstrate the use of the sonoray machine in gathering data of five hogs concerning loin eye and back fat.
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Churdan
Iowa Hampshire Swine Breeders Assn
Harold Curtis Farm
Hampshire Swine Registry
Winneshiek Elects Foundation Officers
Winneshiek county 4-H foundation board re elected Chairman Bill Ohloff of Castalia for a second year. Ken Nordheim of Decorah is vice chairman, Dotin Rodecap secretary, B J Weigle treasurer. Sydney McClintock of Decorah hired as camp manager for the 1974 season.
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Decorah
Bill Ohloff
Castalia
Winneshiek County
Sydney McClintock
Texas Poultry Growers Destroying Chicks Over Price Freeze
Texas broiler farmers say they will destroy up to 200000 chicks and eggs this week as the Nixon administration price freeze fails to cover feed grains. Growers report $72000 losses last week while feed costs soar. Industry leaders warn of a potential severe shortage by fall.
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Sylvia Lee Dallas
Lexas Poultry ‘Growers
South
Texas
C. Moore
Home Foods
Nixon
Moore
Amarket
U.S
Bill Cawley
Texas A& M University Extension Service
Cawley
Gene Biddle
Rite-Care Poultry Co
Tena Ho
Biddle
Bob Pilgrims
Pittsburgh
Dallas-Fort Worth
Beef Cow Day To Be Held in Ames July 13
Ames hosts Beef Cow Day on July 13 at Iowa State University. Activities start 8 a.m. with a tour of the beef nutrition farm and demonstrations on therapy for scouring calves heat detection devices and identification. Registration at 10 a.m. in Stephens Auditorium. Jerry Litton will speak July 11 at 7 30 p.m. on beef industry politics and environment.
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Ames
Iowa State University
Dunes
Cal
Mitch Geasler
ISU
C.Y
Stephens
Auditoryumm
Geasler
Jerry Litton
Missouri
Wills
Stephens ‘Auditorium
Junior Angus Show Planned at Grinnell
Grinnell hosts the Poweshiek County Junior Angus Association for its fourth annual sleor and helfer show Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the fairground. Judge Bill Wiseman of Gilman will oversee all classes open to 4-H and junior Angus members. Cattle entry requires 1.6 billion bushels of records and 74 million acres may affect yields, with ribbons and prizes funded by the American Angus Association.
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Grinnell
Poweshick
Coty Junior Angus Association
Dh Fairground
Bill Wiseman
Gilman
Net Farm Income Hits Record 22 Billion Says Report
A Farm Outlook report from the Agriculture Department notes U S net farm income could top 22 billion this year as livestock feed costs rise and meat milk and poultry output hold near last year. Despite wet planting in 1979 farmers may expand acreage by about 29 million amid rising crop output and greater LP gas demand for heating.
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Washington
NBT
U. S
Jamal Geving
Corp
Thie
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Tuttle
Royal Tuttle
Norway
Richard Berger
Berger
Winneshick County
Dhia Association
Iowa
Carpetland
U.S.A
Hampshire
Faun News
Texas Poultry Growers
Canice
American Angus Association
Sears
Sears, Ruemuck and CO
FBI
Pam
Plaza
Cedar Rapids
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