Storage Costs Dominate Farm Price Support Burden
Government storage costs for farm surpluses run about 120 million dollars a year with total investment near 4 billion. Officials estimate annual costs around 170 million including storage and interest on price support funds. The crop loan program shifts costs to farmers and banks as title to crops changes hands. The main challenge is preventing the surplus stockpile from growing further.
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Vincent J. Burke
Erro
Sam
Commodity Credit Corporation
Early Lamb Crop Up Two Percent From Last Year
The early lamb crop in principal producing states is estimated two percent larger than a year ago due to earlier lambing in the southeastern states and Missouri. Total lambs saved per 100 ewes are about the same as last year, with weights and grades of Texas lambs expected higher and Idaho lambs progressing well.
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Missouri
BAE
Virginia
Texas
Idaho
Standard Time adopted nation wide in 1884
Sixty six years ago on March 13 1884 the United States adopted Standard Time dividing the country into time zones. Before then communities set clocks by local sun reckoning or railroad time and many rural areas clung to old systems for years. The move enabled synchronized schedules in an era of growing rail travel and faster speeds.
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United States
Olin Fairfax Area Sale Notices Feature Three Auctions
March dates list public sales near Olin Fairfax and North Liberty. O. T. Furst announces a full line of machinery and a closing out sale at 1 percent mile southeast of Olin on March 14. Zack McArthur hosts a Hampshire hogs and farm machinery sale near Fairfax on March 15. Gordon W. Ellison promotes a purebred Tamworth bred sow sale at North Liberty near the 218 and 153 junction on March 16.
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O. T. Furst
Olin
Hampshire
Zack McArthur
Fairfax
Gordon W. Ellison
North Liberty
Range Called Good Save in Northern Area
Enver UP reports one of the mildest winters in years aided livestock in western states during Jan–Feb 1950. A March 7 blizzard affected North and South Dakota and Nebraska. otherwise cattle and sheep feed conditions ranged from good to very good from northern Nebraska and central Wyoming to the Mexican border, with dry pockets in eastern Colorado and parts of the Southwest. Cattle in most Great Plains states were in good winter condition, though Montana Idaho North Dakota and Oregon were poorer to fair. Texas sheep were at their best in 19 years and the overall sheep outlook was good except in Montana Washington Idaho and Oregon.
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ENVER
U. S. Department of Agriculture
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Dakota
Nebraska
Department
Wyoming
Mexico
Colorado
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Utah
Nevada
Montana
Dakotas
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Great Plains
North Dakota
Meat Demand Falls From Last Year Says USDA
The USDA reports weaker demand for meat versus last winter due to lower consumer incomes. Retail meat value relative to incomes is slightly down. First quarter meat production may dip below five billion pounds from the prior year. Prices of meat animals through February remained generally steady.
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Washington
INS
Agriculture Department
Bedell Harness Ponies Sell to Indiana Buyer
Frank and Bennet Bedell of Cedar Rapids sold harness show ponies Gracious Lady and Glamour Girl to J. J. McKenna of Elk Hart Indiana. McKenna will use the pair in a six pony hitch to advertise his product and plans to show them nationwide next year.
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Bennet Bedell
Cedar Heights Farm
Cedar Rapids
Gracious Lady
Glamour Girl
J. J. McKenna
Elkhart
Ind
McKenna
Bedells
Weishea
Iowa State College
Dewitt
Cedar Heights
Allamakee Clayton Cooperative Annual Meeting Held in Postville
The Allamakee Clayton Rural Electric Cooperative holds its annual meeting Saturday in the Postville high school auditorium. Kenneth Brown of Des Moines will discuss cooperative power developments. Three directors will be elected.
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Postville
Allamakee-Clayton Rural Electric Cooperative
Postville High School
Kenneth Brown
Des Moines
Pruning Demonstrations Planned in Buchanan County
Independence Iowa State College extension horticulturist Ed Cott will lead three pruning demonstrations this week. On Thursday he will meet at 1 p.m. at Mrs Rose Burns home in Winthrop and at 3 p.m. at the Walter Peyton farm near Quasqueton. Friday features a 1 p.m. session at Junio Brandt home in Bryantsburg.
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Independence
Ed Cott
Iowa State College Extension
Buchanan County
Mrs. Rose Burns
Winthrop
Walter Peyton
Quasqueton
Cott
Junio Brandt
Bryantsburg
Artificial breeding boosts Iowa dairy cows in 1949 totals
A statewide digest shows 132460 cows serviced in 1949, up 16186 from 1948. Daughters of bulls used in artificial breeding yielded 10565 pounds milk and 409.4 pounds butterfat in 289 days across 264 records, with notable gains in later dam line.
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Iowa
DHIA
Guernsey
Jersey
Renovating Iowa Bluegrass Pastures For Better Yields
Dr. C Y Cannon of Iowa State College explains that the gap between high and low producers shows management quality. He urges liming fertilizing and reseeding to improve about four million acres of permanent pastures in Iowa. Early spring work, contour plowing, and nurse crops with oats are recommended along with specific legume mixtures and grazing schedules to boost pasture quality and forage production.
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Lowa
C. Y. Cannon
Iowa State College
Jowa
Iowa
Farm Employment Declines From Last Year
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports farm employment about 50 000 workers lower than a year ago with 8 322 000 people on farms versus 8 370 000 last year. Family labor fell by one percent while hired help rose slightly.
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Washington
INS
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau
Timber Meeting Set at Cedar Valley Woods March 24
TIPTON The Carl J. Mitzner woods near Cedar Valley will host a woodland management meeting on March 24 afternoon starting at 1 30. Richard Campbell ISU extension forester will lead demonstrations on estimating and scaling timber selecting trees and estimating volume per acre plus talks on home produced woodland products and using hardwoods in farm construction.
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Tipton
Carl J. Mitzner Woods
Cedar Valley
Richard Campbell
Iowa State College
Campbell
Mitzner Woods
Wiegerts Move to 120 Acre McMillan Farm
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Wiegert relocate from near LaMotte to the 120 acre former McMillan farm recently purchased. The property has housed tenants for many years.
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Stanley
Karl Wiegert
LaMotte
McMillan Farm
District Tournament Basketball Game on KCRG-1600
Bob Brooks reports Davenport vs Clinton district basketball game airing at 8 45 Monday night on KCRG 1600.
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Bob Brooks
Davenport
Clinton
KCRG-1600
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