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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1977
Page
11
Third District congressman Charles Grassley says EPA proposals to regulate country elevators would require vacuum cleaner systems to suck up grain dust. Iowa elevator operators and the Iowa Grain and Feed Assn lead opposition, The Gazette reports.
Six cows in the Gazette circulation area surpassed 800 pounds butterfat in recent milk tests. Owners include Merlin Geadelman of Clarence Louis Holub and Sons of Monticello Donald Egeland and Sons of Ossian and Halvorson and Tollefsen of Decorah. Geadelman’s Brown Swiss registered cow produced 883 pounds fat and 813 pounds fat on the two cows. Holub and Sons Holsteins yielded 852 and 836 pounds fat. Egelands’ Holstein produced 859 pounds fat and the Halvorson Tol lesfson Holstein 803 pounds fat.
Iowa State University agriculture council seeks nominations for its annual Hall of Fame award honoring those who dedicate time to promoting Iowa agriculture. Nominations are due April 1, with the May 1 Spring Fling presentation. Past winners include Gilbert Stanek Dean Kleckner Roland Paul Herb Plambeck Kenneth Thatcher Don Muhm Grover Miehe and Thurman Gaskill.
The George M. Hansen family of Wyoming is honored by the Farmers Home Administration Tipton office as farm family of the year. The award recognizes a two generation operation with 600 acres and 160 sows and 80 stock cows. The loan will let Kenneth join the farm and expand by 320 acres. George has served on multiple local boards and Herta, born in Latvia, naturalized in 1952.
Iowa 4-H delegates John Krug and three peers will travel to Washington for the national 4-H conference April 23 to 29. Adults include Mrs. Rhea Klaus Earlville and Mrs. Meta Lage Sheffield and Ralph Manning Missouri Valley. Krug is active in Benton County and state 4-H councils and was a state office nominee.
Na kayuki Sakamoto, a Japanese pig producer, speaks at the American Pork Congress in Des Moines about livestock care and profitability. He notes Japan imports pork and poultry due to limited production, high costs, land scarcity, and strict pollution standards, while owning farms and importing animals and gear with his brother. Babock Industries sponsors his stay.
A sequence of farm auctions lists dates from March 8 to March 26 with times, locations, and sellers such as Terry Schneider, Jerry Hummel, Donald Archer, Harold Miller, Edward Cripps, Lloyd Kessler, Stanley Pflughaupt, Carl Schumacher, Dennis Kennedy, Jon Knight, John Coufal, Marcus Kehri, Harold Hilton, Vern Oliphant, Melvin Young, and the Creston event. The note closes with Don Jones of Creston named state president of the Iowa Angus Assn, succeeding Robert Schlutz, with Stanley Woodruff as vice president and George Pfander as secretary treasurer.
Ed Kinsey of Marengo plans pumpkin seed trade with Billy Carter of Plains but is refused. Carter peanuts cannot be mailed due to treatment and must be shipped in 40 000 pound lots by McCleskey Mills Americus. Kinsey continues farming 200 acres, producing pumpkins and gourds.
Donovan brothers of Zwingle led the Dubuqueland Angus sale with the $1,000 champion heifer sold to Terry Donahoe of Andover Illinois. Reiter bulls sold for $950 and $925 to Gaffney farms, Louis Fuess paid $700 for a champion bull, and the sale averaged $540 overall. Maquoketa Valley FFA topped the team judging contest with Diane Rickels the top individual.
A group of 4-H alumni will hold a family camp at the state 4-H camping center in Madrid during Labor Day weekend. Registration forms are available at county extension offices and the deadline is August 1.
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