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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1967
Page
3
The United States maintains sizable grain reserves despite shrinking surpluses. Exports rise with strong demand, while stocks are projected to fall to about 400 million bushels by harvest time, prompting debate over safe reserve levels amid global demand shifts.
January Iowa meat production reached 479,483,000 pounds up 18 percent from January 1966 and 1 percent higher than December. Cattle slaughter fell 4 percent but heavier weights boosted beef output by 2 percent. Hog slaughter surged 49 percent from January 1966 with heavier carcasses. Sheep and lamb slaughter dropped 45 percent to 45,000 head, total liveweight down 47 percent.
A 70 acre farm once owned by Creole Bailey, cousin of President Johnson, and her husband was bought by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sweeney for 62 500 through condemnation. The Sweeneys sold a 54 acre peach orchard near LBJ ranch and plan to rebuild their business at a new Pedernales river site three miles west of the former property.
A sequence of farm auctions and livestock sales runs through March in Iowa. Items include Hampshire boar and gilt sales, public auctions for livestock machinery grain hay straw and farm equipment, with dates from March 7 to March 13. Participants include Anna Sebrecht Ambrose McElligott Harold Larson Ronald Kirkpatrick Martin Dale Ranch and B. W. Woods.
James Kruger of Warren Ill has bought a 300 acre dairy farm on the south edge of Aurora from Joseph F Mateju of Cedar Rapids Iowa. Kruger and family moved to the farm and took possession Mateju a retired Cedar Rapids tailor shop owner operator He formerly ran a Grade A dairy operation in Buchanan County with tenant Alphonse Pasker The herd was dispersed in January and Pasker has moved to an acreage.
The Merlin Kreinbring family of Clarence will move this week to the Harry Meyer farm south of Oxford Junction which they have purchased.
Champion in the open class was a 200 pound Hampshire-Yorkshire crossbred shown by Dallas Kaestner of Newhall. Reserve champion was a 240 pound Hampshire cross exhibited by Weldon Towe of Norway. Kaestner also won the truck lot with six Hampsire-Yorkshire crosses averaging 198 pounds. John Boddicker of Newhall won both the junior division individual and ten-of-three. The 72 hogs were judged by Tom Rampy of Cedar Rapids.
Letts Orville Meeker and Sons of Letis sold two registered gilts to a Japanese swine breeding cooperative. The gilts are part of a 47 head lot selected by Japanese buyers across five Midwest states for shipment midmonth. The Meekers also arranged shipments of gilts to Okinawa.
The Agriculture Department said 97.6 percent of businessmen contacted for farm market reports provided the information. The 13,375 persons surveyed were part of the Federal State Market News Service. 337 failed to cooperate fully, and 165 of those had significant business volume.
Des Moines reports the February 15 index for all farm products at 239 percent of the 1910 to 1914 base, down from 263 percent on Jan 15 and 308 percent a year earlier. Livestock prices index at 268 percent, down 3 points from January and 19 percent below last year, while the crop index sits at 209 percent, lower than both January and last year.
Merle V. Lentz sold 60 acres of his farm 232 miles southeast of Shueyville to Mr. and Mrs. James E. Luhrs of Cedar Rapids for investment. Possession was given March 1 as Lentz moves to Swisher. Miller and Company and John Zacher Jr Inc. handled the Cedar Rapids transaction.
DeWitt Clinton county 4-H marks 44 clubs with 115 new members 35 girls and 80 boys. County total membership rises to 865.
Washington based American Dairy Association urges updating federal butter standards set in 1923 to reflect modern tastes and margarine competition. The proposal calls for studying creamed products and dairy fat based items to spur new milk fat products and widen marketing opportunities.
The National Live stock Feeders Assn. campaigns for lighter cattle at sale as USDA reports larger beef numbers. President Charles Phelps of Hastings Iowa urges voluntary cooperation to move cattle sooner and at lighter weights, warning against panic marketing and dumping. Executive secretary Don Magdanz stresses urgency and restraint.
Thirty seven cows averaged $335 apiece at a Holstein dispersal sale on Burdette C. Holthaus farm near Martelle. Canary, a registered five year old cow, topped the sale at $1300 sold to Robert W. Bell and his son Richard of Coggan. Robert Becker of Atkins bought a two year old for $530.
Irish farmers began a one week strike to protest government farm policies and the jailing of nearly 100 protesters. Cattle and fresh vegetables deliveries to markets dropped while meatbacks backlog reported by butchers.
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