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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1961
Page
2
Washington reports the Agriculture Department shows farm prices up 1 percent for the month ending Feb 15 reaching the highest since May 1959. Parity at 81% mid February, costs up 0.3%. Hog, soybean, orange prices rose, corn and chicken modestly up.
Kansas City UPI reports Chicago, once hailed as the livestock capital, fell to fourth place in 1960. Omaha remains the top live stock market as USDA preliminary figures show a total of 4,855,000 head cataloged, subject to minor adjustments.
Last year Omaha saw hogs and sheep traded with South St. Paul Minn second at 4 618 000 head East St. Louis Ill third at 4 221 000 head Chicago held 4 201 000 head for fourth Den ver led sheep with 1 076 729 head Chicago topped cattle with 2 094 000 head East St Louis led hogs at 3 058 000 head Denver was the top sheep market with 1 076 729 head
Tuesday estimates show 1960 production of shorn and pulled wool at 300 million pounds, up 2 percent from 1959 and 12 percent above the 1949 58 average. Shorn wool output is estimated at 267 million pounds, a 3 percent increase from 1959. Pulled wool figures are noted but not completed in the text.
The annual Winneshiek county Little Farm Institute is set for noon March 13 at the Decorah Methodist church. Eber Eldridge, extension economist, will lead the discussion.
Multiple farm sales announced with dates and items. Robert F. Eagle posts a sale 64 miles east of Solon on Monday at 1 p.m. Kenneth Bercken briter lists a sale 744 miles northeast of Shellsburg on Wednesday at 1 p.m. Ralph Garbers schedules a sale 14 miles northwest of Van Horne on Saturday at 12 30 p.m. Machinery, livestock, hay grain and poultry are among the listed items.
The National Beef Council announces a signature drive to fund a beef advertising program. President-elect Claude Olson of Ludlow South Dakota says the goal is 50 000 signatures from ranchers cattle feeders and dairymen. The 2 day Omaha convention drew about 100 members and projects officers including Harvey McDougal Ralph Halstrom W H Brandenburg and Edwin Karlen.
Keota FFA chapter held a parents banquet at the school with KEOTA Anton Hotle president of the school board and Francis Vittetoe honored as honorary FFA degrees. David Vittetoe was named chapter Star Farmer, as Eldon Bergstrom listed awards for Charles Vincent Don Appleget Dave Appleget David H otle Vernon Luers and Jim Flanders. More than 140 FFA members guests attended and a pictorial report on the exchange visit with Fowler in Colo was shown.
University of Illinois grain economist T A Hieronymus argues against raising the 1961 soybean support price to 2.30 dollars. He notes the 1954 policy kept prices low to guide production, allowing vast growth in soybean use from 278 million to about 570 million bushels.
A pair of Allamakee county soil and crop meetings are set for March 8. The Lansing city hall hosts the 11:30 a.m. session and the extension office hosts the 8 p.m. meeting. Extension agronomist Virgil Webster will speak.
Ames reports March is National Egg Month with a cooperative promotion across the egg industry. Leonard Graham of Princeton chairs the association's producer division and notes the theme Eggs for Go Power. Iowa produced 4.682 billion eggs last year, ranking second in the nation, with about 80 percent sold outside the state.
Ninety six Iowa farm women leave Des Moines for the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation tour to Washington D C arriving in the capital Monday. They tour Congress Tuesday attend a dinner with Iowa congressional delegation and visit Mt Vernon Arlington and other sites Wednesday. They tour the U S Department of Agriculture Thursday before returning to Iowa.
A closing out sale will begin Monday March 6 at 1:00 PM on a farm 6.4 miles east of Solon, northwest of Cedar Bluffs, or north of West Branch. It lists 28 head of cattle including Holstein and Guernsey cows, calves by side, and several springers, plus six bred to an Angus bull. Machinery includes three John Deere tractors, a 2-row culti vator, wagon, harrow, and a 11 ft Kewanee wheel harrow.
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