Dairy Head Says Low Prices Cutting Output
D T Carlson president of the American Dairy association warns in Chicago that federal control of prices and production threatens world food supply. He cites a late 1945 milk output drop and cow slaughter, saying low prices drive farmers out and ex servicemen are slow to return to farming.
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Dairy Head
Hicago
INS
D. T. Carlson
Willmar, Minn
American Dairy Association
Association
America
Carlson
Dairy price talks likely to raise milk and butter costs
Washington officials from OPA and the agriculture department met to discuss improving supply and distribution of dairy products, principally milk and butter. A spokesman noted the discussions will probably lead to higher prices, though no amount was indicated, as officials agreed to handle the matter.
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Washington
OPA
Agriculture Department
Coming Farm Auctions This Week Across Several Iowa Towns
Dairy sale offerings and closing out sales announced for March 13 to March 21 in Newhall Prairieburg Springville Fairfax Mechanicsville Marion Swisher Cedar Rapids and Edgewood Dairy. Auctions include Franck and Boddicker C H Brunsmann A W McArthur Zack McArthur Wilbur Colby W J Leibe Louis and Charles Brosch Cedar Rapids.
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Franck and Boddicker
Newhall
C. H. Brunsmann
Prairieburg
A. W. McArthur
Springville
Zack McArthur
Fairfax
Wilbur Colby
Mechanicsville
W. J. Leibe
Marion
Louis and Charles Brosch
Swisher
Edgewood Dairy
Cedar Rapids
National dairy price and supply applications suspended
OPA said pending a decision on a general program, consideration of regional price and supply applications has been suspended due to the high volume of price increase requests from all parts of the country.
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OPA
Thousand Expected at Flying Farmers Meet
More than 1,000 Iowa flying farmers were expected to attend the first annual meeting sponsored by Iowa State College on March 18. Speakers include Art Boreman of Des Moines on farm flying prospects, Ralph Benson of Jefferson on the flying farmers organization, Forrest Watson of Oklahoma, and Harold Gunderson of Iowa State on experimental crop dusting with light aircraft.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College
Art Boreman
Des Moines
National Aeronautical Association
Boreman
Ralph Benson
Jefferson
Forrest Watson
Flying Farmers of Oklahoma
Harold Gunderson
Iowa State Extension
Boone Landowners Back Soil District Vote Clear Win
Boone county landowners vote 112 to 7 in favor of creating a soil conservation district, surpassing the 65 percent needed by law, officials said Monday.
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Boone Landowners Vote Soil District
Boone (Ap
Boone County
Early Lamb Crop Shrinks 13 Percent in Key States
The Agriculture Department reports the five year decline in the early spring lamb crop is 13 percent, the smallest in nearly two decades, due to fewer breeding ewes and lower lambing percentages. Weather and feed conditions through March 1 were generally less favorable, with California and Texas showing real limitations. Marketings may not fall before July 1 as subsidies encourage pushing lambs ahead, with Texas yearling lambs also affected.
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Gon
Department of Agriculture
Texas
California
North Pacific
Iowa February Egg Output Reaches Near Record
Iowa production in February is estimated at 403 million eggs, the second highest February figure on record. Leslie M. Carl, director of the Iowa crop and livestock reporting service, stated the estimate on Tuesday. The February 1944 figure was 414 million eggs.
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Des Moines
Leslie M. Carl
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Pictured discoverer of an aid to flu sufferers
A cryptic clue style entry lists: Dr as discoverer of an aid to flu sufferers with numbered positions and partial words across a grid. Clues include bordered exist descending sheltered mail and other terms leading to a crossword style solution.
California F B Hits Ending of Guayule Program
California Farm Bureau federation led by President Ray B. Wiser denounces the federal plan to abandon the 45 million dollar guayule rubber project in California. He calls it a waste of government property amid a national rubber shortage and urges Secretary Clinton Anderson to reverse the policy and return leased land with intact guayule shrubs to the owners.
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Berkley
Calif
INS
California
California Farm Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau
Ray B. Wiser
Wiser
Clinton Anderson
OPA Blamed For Eastern Feed Pinch
Washington officials hear that failure to raise corn prices deepens East’s cattle and poultry feed shortage. H. H. Rathbun of the Dairymen's League notes Midwest hog feeding worsens shortages. debate covers dairy prices and end of subsidies by year end. George M. Putnam warns New England poultry liquidation possible in 60 to 90 days without feed controls and asks for set-aside orders and CCC actions.
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Washington
House Food Committee
H. H. Rathbun
Dairymen’s League Cooperative Association
New York City
Rathbun
New York
George M. Putnam
Concord
N. H
New England
National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
Commodity Credit Corporation
Contour Corn Project Planned in Poweshiek
4-H members in Poweshiek County will grow five to 10 acres of contour corn in a new project announced by County Extension Director Loren Brown. The Poweshiek County Bankers' association funds prizes of 25, 15 and 10 dollars for contour line accuracy and plot care. Ten acre plots may enter the state corn yield contest.
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Brooklyn
Loren Brown
Poweshiek County Bankers’ Association
County
Bankers’ Association
Brown
FENCE DRIFT CAUGHT IN WOVEN WIRE BY R B C
A report recounts confusion in Iowa livestock policy testimony. Oscar Heline of Marcus, head of the Iowa Farmers Grain Dealers association, faced criticism from livestock leaders over alleged 75 gm cut versus a 25 percent reduction in livestock population. Washington dispatches note misstatements and a corrected base of 75 percent versus 25 percent, highlighting a dangerous ambiguity with grain shortages possible.
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House Food Committee
Oscar Heline
Marcus
Iowa Farmers Grain Dealers Association
Iowa
Washington Dispatches
Helmne
Iowa Boys 4 H Enrollment Rises 18 Percent in 1945
Ames Iowa enrollment in boys 4 H clubs rose 18 percent in 1945 over 1944 with total participation at 14 815 up from 12 539. Completion rates climbed 21 percent, active clubs grew from 805 to 876, and leaders increased by 196 to 1 378. Lineweaver forecasts further gains in 1946 as farm labor shifts free more boys for clubs.
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Ames
INS
Iowa
G. A. Lineweaver
Lineweaver
Eighty Pens Entered In Hog Show At Hawkeye Downs
A total of 80 entries for the Town State Spring Market Hogs show at Hawkeye Downs on March 23 have been received, with about equal numbers in adult and junior divisions. Late entries may push totals to 100 pens or more than 300 market hogs. Exhibitors will show one hog per class, with extra animals allowed. The Iowa Swine Producers association offers a grand champion trophy for pens and individual premiums for purebreds, with breed awards from Hampshire, Berkshire, Chester White, Duroc, Spotted Poland, and Poland-China groups. Swine clinic and live and carcass demonstrations are planned, led by E. L. Quaife, ISU extension swine specialist.
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Hawkeye Downs
J. Morris Christy
Christy
Iowa Swine Producers Association
Hampshire
Berkshire
Chester White
Duroc
Poland
Poland-China
E. L. Quaife
Iowa State College Extension
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