Monticello FFA members earn over $14k in 1974 program
Monticello Vocational agriculture FFA students reported an average labor income of 1268.2 dollars on their farming programs in 1974. Seventy students completed supervised farming for total receipts of 141263.21 dollars, with 84970.66 dollars in labor income and 41994.76 dollars from agricultural work experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
FFA
Monticello Community School
Grover C Miehe
State Department of Vocational Education
Vo-Ag-Ffa
Farm News Highlights Student Farm Projects and Outcomes
Farm News reports 54 students completed 82 improvement and practice projects across livestock, crops, and farm engineering. Projects ranged from swine to dairy, corn to truck crops, with labor income spanning losses to profits up to 14,920 dollars. Top earners reached 14,920, 7,995, and 3,218 dollars.
Four File Suit Against American Beef Officers
In Pottawattamie county district court a suit accuses American Beef Packers president Frank West, two others, and seven corporations of conspiring to defraud creditors. The plaintiffs seek setting aside transfers and asset payments, and an accounting to determine exact amounts owed to Collins, Nelson, Guttsch Feeding, and R. M. R. Ranch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
American Beef Packers
Frank West
ABP
Pottawattamie County
Woodrow Collins
Meadow Grove
Neb
Delmar Nelson
Peetz, Colo
Gottsch Feeding Corp
Elkhorn
R. M. R. Ranch, Inc
AAP
Collins
Nelson
Guttsch
R. M. R. Ranch
American Beef
Lutheran Farmers Seek International Food Reserve
WAVERLY reporters note that 150 farmers at a Lutheran food conference urged creating an international reserve system for food. They asked consumers not to cut meat intake and urged livestock producers to avoid unnecessary rain feeding during drought. They predicted U S farmers would sustain current production levels if good conditions continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Howard Cottam
Coming Farm Auctions Series Signals Broad Sale Events
A sequence of farm auctions spans March with multiple sales at Stanword, Ryan, Marion, Copan, Morrison and other areas. Featured buyers include Wal Pete Wood, Loyd Martin, Kenneth Franson, Orville Meeker, and Northern Minnesota Angus. The notices detail cattle types, timing, and sale locations along with general auction logistics. The piece also covers a World Hunger conference at Wartburg College discussing food reserves, distribution, and global planning.
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Mar
Much
Stanword
Nettorias
Poland
China
Hawkeye Downs
C.R
Wayne
Bahmen
Wyoming
Mach
Bernard
Paul Loecke
Ryan
Sal
Hampshire Sale
Loyd Martin
Sona
Marion
Clawe
Kenneth Franson
Copan Mon
Hamps
Durves
Orville Meeker
Mai
Lofts
Thurs
Angus Sale
County Fairground
Morrison, i
Delaware 4 H Club Receives Pioneer Grant
Delaware county 4 H club in Manchester is among Eastern Iowa groups to obtain a Pioneer Seed Co community improvement grant. The Cheerful Workers 4 H club will make tray favors for a hospital and community home, assist with garden work, and join roadside trash pickup. Leaders are Mrs Harold Childs and Mrs Robert Kaiser of Manchester with Shirley Oberbroeckling as project chairman. Earlier, two Jones county clubs and one Iowa county club also received grants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Delaware County
Iowa
Pioneer Seed Co
Des Moines
Cheerful Workers
Harold Childs
Robert Kaiser
Shirley Oberbroeckling
Culver Pays Tribute to Rex Conn Farm Editor Remembered
Sen. John Culver lauds Rex Conn, long time Gazette farm editor, for humanizing agricultural policy and teaching many through his work as a county agent, educator, and mentor. He noted Conn’s dedication to community, youth journalism, and the All Iowa Fair board, citing global agricultural outreach.
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Culver
Rex Conn
Washington
the Gazette
John C. Culver
Congressional Record
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Conn
Record
The
Gazette
al Swegle
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Monticello Ffa
Farm News
West
ABP Finance
Thomas J. Clark
James A. Taphorn
General Electric Credit Corp
New York
Continental Gener
al Insurance Co
Indian Creek Cattle Co
Best Refrigerated Express, Inc
Town Order Buyers
American Laboratories, Inc
Farmland Enterprises, Inc
Commercial and Industrial Services, Inc
Gazette Farm Pages
American Lutheran Church
Wartburg College
Delaware
Dorothy Williams
M Rgn
Ats
FRIEF
Yous Sina Ture
P.O
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