P L 480 showcase of eight year record gains and aid
A review of Public Law 480 details its eight year impact from 1954 to 1962. It notes 5.6 billion dollars of U S farm products shipped to underdeveloped nations in their currencies and 9.1 billion dollars in export outlets opened. The program funded emergency food grants long term credits and barter deals benefiting India Pakistan Yugoslavia Spain Poland and others while supporting Food for Peace efforts and global meals for over 35 million children.
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P.L. 480
U. S
United States
India
Pakistan
Yugoslavia
Spain
Poland
United Arab Republic
Turkey
Brazil
Indonesia
U.S
Flags and mirrors urged for tractors to cut injuries
The Iowa Farm Loss Prevention Institute urged tractor operators to fit warning flags and rear view mirrors as spring planting nears. It cited insurance records showing rear impacts on highways cause many serious injuries and said flags give drivers time to slow. mirrors help operators see traffic behind and assess trailing equipment.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Farm Loss Prevention Institute
Institute
Hampshire boars and gilts sold at Louisa County fair
At Columbus Junction Louisa County fairgrounds Orville Meeker of Letts sold 39 Hampshire boars averaging 135 dollars and 39 open gilts at 90 dollars. Off belt gilts, 43 head, averaged 60 dollars.
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Columbus Junction
Hampshire
Orville Meeker
Louisa County
Minnesota farm transfers rise with inheritance and loans
University of Minnesota economists surveyed 940 real estate professionals about farm real estate. In 1962 inheritance and gifts rose to 10.4 percent of transfers from 7.7 percent in 1961 while forced sales were at a 1954-low. About 49 percent of farms sold to buyers planning to operate them as units, over 40 percent to operating farmers with other farms, and investor buyers at roughly 11 percent. Credit financing occurred in 81 percent of sales with land contracts remaining the key credit method.
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Dale Solum
Philip Raup
University of Minnesota
Minnesota
Iowa
Closing out sales and livestock auctions listed for Iowa events
Saturday schedule includes a closing out sale of machinery hay and grain near Marion at 1 p.m. and a Poland China fall boar and gilt sale at Hawkeye Downs at 10 a.m. The sale near Palo at 1 p.m. features machinery and eating supplies. Monday schedule lists a noon closing out sale of livestock hay and eat near Iowa City and Palo area machinery sales.
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Mike McCann
Marion
Poland
China
Hawkeye Downs
Harley Burt
Palo
William Hahn
Iowa City
Farm Sales Geography and Cash Deals Report
The survey shows over half of Minnesota and Wisconsin farm sales and more than 40 percent in Iowa North Dakota and South Dakota. It also notes about 19 percent of Minnesota farm sales last year were outright cash deals.
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Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
North Dakota
South Dakota
New Boss Takes Over Soviet Virgin Lands
MOSCOW AP Grigory Melnik a veteran communist party functionary moves into the Kazakhstan virgin lands as chairman of the central committee bureau for agriculture. He faces reversing a five year decline in wheat harvests in the region.
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Moscow
Grigory Melnik
Communist Party
Soviet Union
Virgin Lands
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan Communist Party Central Committee
Bureau For Agriculture
Iowa Farmers Plan Record Corn and Soybeans Acreage in 1963
Iowa farmers expect to plant a record 10,862,000 acres of corn and 3,586,000 acres of soybeans in 1963, while oats acreage would be the smallest on record at 3,587,000 acres. Grain sorghums nearly disappear with only 25,000 acres planned.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
U.S
USDA
Tama youth chosen for Farm Bureau teaching scholarship
Tama county selects 17 year old scholar candidate Laverne Uchyftil son of Mr and Mrs Fred Uchytil Tama for a Farm Bureau scholarship aimed at prospective teachers.
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Tama
Laverne Uchyftil
Fred Uchytil
Tama County
Farm Bureau
White Suffers Broken Ankle In Farm Machinery Incident
Laurance S White sustained a broken left ankle when his clothing became entangled in a power take-off while grinding corn on his farm southwest of Koszta. He was hospitalized at Marengo Community Hospital.
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Marengo
Laurance S. White
Koszta
Marengo Community Hospital
Weed and Insect Control Meeting in Fayette
A weed and insect control meeting is set for next Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Farm Bureau building Fayette. Speakers include Extension Entomologist Harold Gunderson and Extension Botanist E P Sylvester of Ames.
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Fayette
Farm Bureau
Harold Gunderson
E. P. Sylvester
Ames
Farmers Target Hay Harvest Across Vast Acreage
The report states 1957 town land at 484000 acres. Farmers plan to harvest hay on 3505000 acres this year, a 2 percent drop from 1962 and the same percentage below the five year average.
Judging Conference Set for June 5 to 6 in Ames
The annual live stock judging conference at Iowa State will run June 5 and 6. The two day program targets men who will judge local shows later in the summer. The Iowa Livestock Judges Association will hold its annual meeting on the evening of June 5. About 75 judges are expected to register, says M. D. Whitaker, extension livestock specialist and secretary of the association.
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Ames
Iowa State
Iowa Livestock Judges Association
M. D. Whitaker
Judges Association
Aiken Backs Dairy Sanitation Demands at Hearing
Senator George D. Aiken told a Senate agriculture committee that dairy barns and equipment must meet sanitation standards as strict as hospitals. He read a list of requirements and quipped that the U.S. Capitol could not qualify to produce milk, noting the absence of cockroaches.
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Washington
George D. Aiken
RVI
Senate Agriculture Committee
U. S
Tubaugh Named to USDA Livestock Advisory Group
Belle Plaine auction market operator Russell B. Tubaugh is one of 23 livestock industry representatives named to a packers and stockyards live stock committee by Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman. He is the sole Iowan in the panel formed to advise USDA on livestock and meat marketing under the packers and stockyards act.
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Tubaugh
USDA
Belle Plaine
Russell B. Tubaugh
Secretary of
Orville L. Freeman
Hopkinton Girl Nominated for Iowa Farm Bureau Scholarship
Hopkinton resident Vicki Zimerman, 17, has been chosen as Delaware County’s candidate for one of 18 scholarships offered by the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation.
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Hopkinton
Vicki Zimmerman
Delaware County
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Listings Open For Iowa Master Swine Producers
Nomination time for the 1963 Iowa Master Pork Producer Project is open in Ames Iowa. Nominations must be sent by May 15 to county extension directors Whitaker or Curtiss Hall. Eligible producers must have five years of pig raising and have farrowed at least 15 sows this spring.
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Ames
Iowa
M.D. Whitaker
Whitaker
Curtiss Hall
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