Three Holsteins Bring Top Prices at Heiferama Sale
Waterloo hosted the Hawkeye Holstein Heiferama with top bids: a two year old cow owned by Elite Holsteins of Waterloo sold for 2250 to Misty Mead farm of Brooklyn. A bred heifer from Bud Janssen and son of Wellsburg and William Jungling of Parkersburg went for 2025 to Charles Erickson of Westby Wisconsin. A high selling bull from John Puff of Oelwein went for 1200 to Elbert Schmidt of Newton.
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Waterloo
John Hagar
Elite Holsteins
Max Hall
Misty Mead Farm
Brooklyn
Bud Janssen
Wellsburg
William Jungling
Parkersburg
Charles Erickson
Westby
Wis
John Puff
Oelwein
Elbert Schmidt
Newton
Farm groups promote Agriculture Day events
Multiple FFA chapters organize activities for American Agriculture Day. South Tama FFA hosts a breakfast in Tama Toledo area for local businessmen. Maquoketa Valley FFA sends Delhi students to Marion to speak to elementary classes. Mid Prairie FFA in Wellman distributes Food for America kits to fifth graders and plans a farm tour on April 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Tama Ffa
Tama-Toledo
Maquoketa Valley
FFA
Delhi
Marion
Mentzer
Bowman Woods
Mid-Prairie
Wellman
800 Pounders Butterfat Records Lead Dairy Tests
In the Gazette area a Holstein herd shows high butterfat output with Clair Askelson Torgrim of Decorah reporting 838 pounds of butterfat from one cow and 22 600 pounds of milk. Lawrence Elsbernd of Calmar and another Elsbernd cow also exceed 700 pounds butterfat. Linn and Winne-Shiek DHIA tests record multiple cows above 600 pounds and several farms post strong results. In Washington, Rep James Leach Iowa calls for Iowa field hearings on the forthcoming agriculture census to run alongside Washington sessions. The 1978 census will be shorter and less time consuming, per Census Associate Director Shirley Kallek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clair Askelson
Torgrim
Decorah
Lawrence Elsbernd
Calmar
Winneshiek Dairy Herd Improvement Assn
DHIA
Louis Holub
Washington
UPI
James Leach
Iowa
Leach
Census Bureau
Shirley Kallek
Minnesota
Lincoln High Students End Trail Ride Minicourse
Mini course two of Lincoln high school’s trail ride program ends with 14 year old Sandy Taylor and Regina Dickey unloading gear in Stanwood. Vocational agriculture instructor Larry Massom and his wife assist unloading from Massom’s pickup as part of the week of minicourses exploring unfamiliar areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln High School
Rochester
Cedar County
Sandy Taylor
Regina Dickey
Larry Massom
Massom
Stanwood
Soybean group rejects international price floor plan
A UPI report notes ASA President Gerald Michaelson opposing international price floor pacts for soybeans. Seymour Johnson says assurances of no export embargo exist despite tight supplies and high prices, while mentions a potential dairy and auction schedule and possible soybean support changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Bob Bergland
Canada
Soybean Assn
ASA
Gerald Michaelson
Michaelson
Seymour Johnson
Indianola
Miss
Johnson
Europe’s Levy Criticized in U.S. Trade Remarks
Washington AP reports the U S agriculture department explains how Europe’s Common Market uses a variable levy to block some U S farm products. David L Hume notes the levy forces higher prices, complicating wheat trade and GATT discussions with export subsidies and preferential pacts adding friction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
U.S
David L. Hume
Department
Foreign Agricultural Service
Hume
George White
Rotterdam
Kansas
Corn-planting fever grips Stanwood area farmers
Eldon Fisher is pictured plowing the first field of spring a mile west of Stanwood as farmers embrace the annual corn-planting fever after a long winter.
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Eldon Fisher
Stanwood
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