Delhi Educator Named National Agribusiness Award Winner
Delhi resident Joe Townsend, a vocational agriculture instructor at Maquoketa Valley High School, has been selected as one of six national winners of the Agribusiness Career Exploration Award by the National Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association. Townsend will join ISU’s Agriculture Education Department in Ames on July 1.
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Delhi
Joe Townsend
National Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association
Townsend
Maquoketa Valley High School
Agriculture Education
Iowa State University
Ames
Beef groups urge defeat of beef referendum amendment
The presidents of the Iowa Farmers Union and the Iowa National Farmers Organization urge lawmakers to block a federal beef promotion act amendment. They oppose lowering the approval threshold from two thirds to a simple majority for the national beef referendum.
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Des Moines
Iowa Farmers Union
Iowa National Farmers Organization
Farmers Union
Lowell E. Gose
Jefferson
NFC
Richard Steffens
Dunkerton
Iowa
Agricultural science group objects to TV take on antibiotics in feeds
CAST based in Ames criticizes AMES ABC TV for a one sided segment on antibiotics in animal feeds. The group argues a public interest claim about affordable safe products and notes Britain’s ban on non prescription use did not reduce resistance. DES MOINES and other towns report regional agricultural events and dairy group leadership changes.
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Ames
Abc-Tv
Council For Agricultural Science and Technology
CAST
Great Britain
Britain
Hereford show crowns Krug and Schmitt champs
Della Krug of Atkins swept the Iowa Junior Polled Hereford Association preview show at Hawkeye Downs, winning the champion heifer and the reserve champion steer. Ron Schmitt of Nichols showed the champion steer, and Randy Seuftrer of Milo exhibited the reserve champion Keifer. About 250 attended the event dedicated to Mike Simpson for developing the state and national junior Hereford organizations. The show began with a barbecue and training discussion.
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Della Krug
Atkins
Iowa
Ames
Simpson
Dayton
Ohio
Mike Simpson
National Polled Hereford Association
Hawkeye Downs
Joslin warns of tampering with beef market
State Farm Bureau Vice President Robert Joslin of Clarence urged Iowa cattlemen to resist further tampering with the market system. He blamed Carter administration moves to raise meat imports for lowering fed cattle prices and warned producers to consider marketing carefully in coming weeks. Bill Schermer of Latimer of the Iowa Cattlemen's Association advised caution but not a holding action, citing 1973 lessons.
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Bismarck
N.C
Iowa
Bob Lounsberry
Midwest
Lounsberry
Internal Revenue Service
U.S
AMES
Washington
State Farm Bureau
Robert Joslin
Clarence
Bill Shermer
Latimer
Iowa Cattlemen's Association
ICA
Schermer
USDA reverses fee plan for livestock markets
Agriculture Secretary Bergland announced a shift from per head fees to a broader congressional approach allowing markets to charge by livestock value. The March 31 proposal would ease federal rate limits, permit charge changes after 30 days with public complaints, and keep USDA review power, while supporting Thorn ton’s bill to limit regulation.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
USDA
Rep
R.H. Thornton Jr
D-Ark
Thomas S. Foley
D-Wash
House Agriculture Committee
Agriculture
Bob Bergland
Thornton
Bergland
Foley
Linn County 4-H Meat and Livestock Workouts Set
Four livestock judging workouts are planned for Linn County 4-H members to prepare for upcoming events. Attendees should bring a spiral notebook no larger than a county fairbook and sign up with the county 4-H office at 377-9839. Schedule includes June 29 beef at Mt. Vernon, July 6 evaluation at Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids, July 10 beef swine sheep at Cedar Rapids, and July 20 beef and sheep at Marion. ON THIS DATE in 1549 the Netherlands provinces declared independence from the Holy Roman Empire.
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Linn County
4-H
Keith Kirkpatrick
Mt. Vernon
Hawkeye Downs
Cedar Rapids
Wilson Foods, Inc
Jack Scott Farm
Marion
Netherlands
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