Iowa Leads Nation In Farm Cash Income For 1942
Iowa farmers posted a total cash farm income of 1 297 972 000 including government payments and 1 237 590 000 excluding them the figures set by the department show Iowa led the nation with about one tenth of the total farm income for 1942 16 138 319 000 with payments and 15 441 571 000 without. California Texas and Illinois followed with strong yet smaller totals and the western north central states showed the greatest gains for the third straight year. Corn accounted for about 121 112 000 of Iowa 1942 crop income with feed grains and oil bearing crops contributing large shares.
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Ashington
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Iowa
California
West North Central
Minnesota
Missouri
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Rhode
Des Moines
Iowa Aaa
United States Department of Agriculture
A. J. Loveland
AAA
Governors Confront Farm Policy At Midwest Conference
Governors from Iowa South Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin and North Dakota gathered to discuss war time farm needs. They debated wheat surpluses for livestock feed, labor allocations, and the pace of farm machinery releases to meet expected bumper crops in 1943.
O Neal urges 15 point farm plan for war production
President Edward A. O Neal of the American Farm Bureau urges Congress to adopt a 15 point program to treat agriculture as a war industry. The plan calls for price policy parity labor deferment from the draft and streamlined administration plus measures to boost farm production and supply farm needs.
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Washington
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
O'Neal
Pemberton Heads to Washington for Hog Price Ceiling Hearing
Iowa Swine Producers secretary R. L. Pemberton travels to Washington to testify at an OPA price ceiling hearing on hog prices. He notes a suggested live hog ceiling near 14.50 to 15 per 100 pounds, while Chicago hogs recently sold around 16. He cites uncertainty over hog and corn values and aims to plan increased production without a price cut.
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Des Moines
R. L. Pemberton
Iowa Swine Producers Association
Washington
OPA
Chicago
Collectivized farming idea sparks Midwest skepticism
In a Washington hearing Col. Lewis Sanders proposed a county planned farming system to coordinate labor, equipment, and output under farmer control. The plan envisions county agents as general managers, pooling resources, arranging barter, credit, and transportation to run agriculture like a factory.
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America
United States
Washington
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Col
Lewis Sanders
Selective Service System
Col. Sanders
Sanders
County Organization of Agriculture
County Farmers’ Organization
Lets Talk It Over War Planning in Agriculture
A wartime column argues farmers are capable, warns against centralized planning by a few planners or government agencies. It contends thoughtful planning is essential but excess control risks peasantry and harm to food security, citing Japan and Germany as cautions.
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Iowa
Japan
Germany
Linn County Supervisors Approve Road Districts and Bids 1943
Linn County Iowa Board of Supervisors conducts January and March 1943 sessions approving minutes, adopting a tax exemption resolution for war veterans, establishing a Secondary Road District for Boulder Township, and advertising resurfacing bids. Contracts awarded to Concrete Materials and Construction and C B Dewees for trunk road works totaling $51 and $5,547.50 respectively. Meeting adjourns to March 16 1943.
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Linn
Cedar Rapids
Board of Supervisors
Petty
Beeson
Linn County
Towa
Techel. George
Tieeen County
V. A Holub
Towi
Boulder Township
Suvisor Petty
Ewell
Bowlder Township
Seevell
Coreon Monitor
Coggon
S. J. Lyttle
American Legion
Coston
J Lyttle
Darable
Association of War Veterans
Block & Carson
Aag
Anna Marsoun
Fero
Wis
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Treas
Bates Frank F
Bic
Sol Relief Shoes
Benesh Dr F
Biz Shoe
Brosh Mina
Boston
Chas L
Frank L
Biauis Sons Co John
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Bassey W
Blue Line Chemical Co
Baldwin Frank B. Eng
R & IC Ry Co
Cedar Rapids City of
Carberry Jos W. del
Cessford
Rose
Cornell
Kenneth E
Carneys Grocery
Challis Walter
Corselie Grocery
Central City Telephone Co
A E. Co
Dicks Coal Yard
Sol
Dolezal Joseph
Tan Dennison Eidon
Eisenbast O J
Insanity
Erskine and Prouty Drs
Edieman Harry
Elliott Jim
J W
Frank
Lulu
Gazette Co
Gerdner
Fred
Gravel Arthur
Oseer
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Hach Bros
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Holsinger Grocery
Haese Coal Co
Electric Light & Power Co
Electric Light
Tilinois Power Mfg Co
Jonas Stanley J. Probofe
Jones Food
Roniewmarsanley
Enumera Klipto Loose Leaf Co
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H. Fox
Kopecky
Sint Rose
Rit & Son Rprs
Kendall Howe Co
Kushner & Co
Hserors
Mars
Concrete Materials and Construction Company
B. Dewees
Mar GY
C. B. Dewees Meres
Elmer M. Seeveli
Limn Prente
Robt. M. Vesely
Iowa farm labor survey shows drop in farm workers during war
Dr. Charles E. Friley reports Iowa farm labor fell from 393 000 in 1940 to about 323 000 in 1943 with 64 250 farm youths among 175 000 in the armed forces. He outlines reserve labor groups including youths 12 to 17 and 14 to 17, retired farmers, city women for farm work, and a possible women's land army.
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Lane
Nebraska
Ohio
Kansas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Charles E. Friley
Iowa State College
Friley
Iowa
Finley
Women’s Land Army
Kalona farmer improvises dry calf pen floor
Harry L. Miller of Kalona uses sections of 1 by 4s nailed to 2 by 4s over a cement floor. A small crack remains between the boards but the method keeps the pen drier and cleaner, saving labor and bedding.
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The
Gazette
Kalona
Harry L. Miller
Crop Outlook Favorable for Iowa Agriculture in 1943
Iowa's 1943 outlook shows a record production path with large gains in soybeans flax corn spring and fall sowing and higher cattle and poultry counts. The Iowa AAA reports from 76 870 farmers indicate overall optimism despite labor and machinery shortages and note city women and youth labor will ease harvest and canning strains.
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Iowa
Loveland
Milk Cows At Webster Sale Bring High Prices
Milk cows at the C. G. Snakenberg closing out sale near Webster brought $85 to $145. Brood sows sold for $68 to $73. A tractor topped at $627 and a tractor cultivator at $155. Auctioneer Cleo Ferguson led the sale as Mr Snakenberg left for army service. The article notes a separate 1930s statistic: Americans 65 and older rose by 35 percent between 1930 and 1940.
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Webster
C. G. Snakenberg
Cleo Ferguson
Snakenberg
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