Oats Mixed With Barley Hit By Market Discount
Grain buyers report a widespread practice of sowing oats with barley causing 1 to 4 cent per bushel discounts. Barley mixed into oats lowers price, disrupts oat milling and feeds demand, while seed oats quality declines and feeder demand remains near zero in the corn belt. Movement of corn shifts by institutional owners and government purchases through FSRC influence market dynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Inspection Service
Cedar Rapids
Tennessee
Corn
Iowa
Federal Land Bank
Insurance Company
FSRC
Fence Drift and Beauty Winners in Iowa Country Schools
Bleak country schools are described as plain with one building and two telephone booths. The standout feature is the American flag atop the gable, as Norman Morris promotes a plan to beautify Iowa’s rural schools for lasting benefit and enjoyment.
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Norman Morris
Iowa
Iowa Farm Credit associations set up with $1.66 million
Seventeen Iowa production credit associations with total capitalization of 1,655,000 are organized by the Farm Credit administration and will begin business in two weeks. They cover all Iowa counties within the eighth district centered in Omaha. Each association can discount notes via the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank and borrow up to four or five times its capital for crops, cattle, dairy and other agricultural needs with loans from three months to three years at 542 percent interest.
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Washington, D. C
Iowa
Farm Credit Administration
Elkader
Davenport
Mason City
Cedar Rapids
Webster City
Newton
Clarinda
Waterloo
Albia
Creston
Perry
Emmetsburg
Sheldon
Harlan
Storm Lake
Sioux City
Towa
Eighth Farm Credit Administration
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wyoming
Omaha
Production Credit Corporation
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Omaha
Intermediate Credit Bank
Young Farmers Movement Gains Momentum in Iowa
Special to The Gazette. Iowa's young farmers movement gains momentum with ten active clubs and an eleventh organized in Cass county. George W. Godfrey, agricultural assistant to President R. M. Hughes at Iowa State College, predicts up to forty groups by year end as about 20 000 farm youth join the movement.
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Ames
Iowa
Cass County
Jane
George W. Godfrey
Pres. R. M. Hughes
Iowa State College
Tn Feet
Black Hawk
Fayette
Floyd
Cerro Gordo
Franklin
Howard
Elderly farmer signs corn hog program contract
Special to The Gazette. Joseph Deditz of Walker, 84, claims to be among the oldest farmers to sign the corn hog program. His farm sits one and a half miles east of Troy Mills and is operated by his son.
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Walker
Joseph Deditz
Troy Mills
Chinch Bugs Begin To Hatch Near Sigourney
County Agent Maurice Soulis reports chinch bugs moving north toward Sigourney Keokuk county crops suffered less damage last season but this year could worsen. A Bruns farm photo shows Mr Bruns and Mr Soults counting bugs hatched from sudan grass in a jar. They warn eggs from this brood will hatch and damage corn as it grows to ten inches high. Controls are ineffective now weather will shape the outbreak.
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Gazette
Sigourney
Maurice Soulis
Keokuk County
D. W
Sudan
Keokuk
Soults
Mr. Soults
Soybean Advisory Board Planned for Cedar Rapids
A Cedar Rapids group forms the Soybean Production Advisory board to push large scale processing and higher soybean acreage. Key local and statewide figures join chairman Zeller Mills, citing soybeans as a prime farm aid and noting over one million bushels harvested in Iowa last year.
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Iowa
Zeller
2.’ Mills
Tama County
Waterloo
Dairy Cattle Congress
Sam Augspurger
Pulaski
Paul B. Barger
Black Hawk County
E. S. Estes
Robert Bennett
Boone
R. B. Booth
George Dillon
Linn County
Mr. Mills
Cedar Rapids
Jay R. Canby
Mount Union
True Fuller
State Center
R. H. Gragy
Dysart
G. E Grunewald
Blairstown
Carl D. Haffner
Farmington
Carl Hoffman
Ida Grove
E. M. Holden
North English
Reuel O. McColm
Anamosa
Paul W. Mitchell
Reinbeck
Arthur Huntington
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
O. R. Sweeney
Ames
Chemical Engineering
Iowa State College
AAA
Washington
Amana appoints managers for hog and farm departments
Herbert Hardy is named manager of the hog department at Amana and Fred Wendler of South Amans is appointed farm manager at High.
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Amana
Herbert Hardy
Fred Wendler
South Amans
High
Dairymen In Fayette And Benton To Meet Saturday
Fayette county dairymen convene at West Union on Saturday at 2 p m to discuss a dairy program under the AAA. W S Rothlisberger, chairman, says a state delegate will be chosen to attend Des Moines on March 26 for a production control plan draft.
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Fayette
Fayette County
West Union
AAA
S. Rothlisberger
Des Moines
12 Hour Days Reported For Township Check-Up
The Auburn township corn-hog committee Carl Bodensteiner J W Kuennen and Joseph Schaufenbuel finished contracted acres and appraisals after 9½ twelve hour days and are now verifying supporting evidence Oran township followed and about half the townships are due to finish this week in Fayette county reports The Gazette.
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Lucas
Auburn Township
Carl Bodensteiner
J. W. Kuennen
Joseph Schaufenbuel
Fayette County
Oran Township
Hinkhouse Heads 4 H Clubs In Cedar County
Fred Hinkhouse of West Liberty was elected county chairman of the boys 4 H clubs at a Cedar County meeting. Seven townships were represented with State Club Agent John Quist of Ames and John Ingels present. Plans for the year include inspecting baby beeves on feed.
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Tipton
Fred Hinkhouse
West Liberty
John Quist
Ames
John Ingels
Cedar and Jones
Butter Control Board Established In Des Moines
A new state butter control board is formed to implement the butter bill. Members include the president of the Iowa State Dairy Association, the Iowa State Creamery Operators Association president, the dean of agriculture at Town State College, the head of the dairy department, and the state secretary of agriculture. The board ensures butter sold under the Iowa Butter Trademark comes from cream with acidity not over 0.2 percent and pasteurized, and that creameries seek Iowa Trademark Creamery status. Ownership of the Iowa Butter patents is vested in the board.
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Des Moines
State
Towa
Iowa
T B Retest Started In Iowa County Herds
For the third time Iowa county cattle are undergoing tuberculin tests with Dr. F F Meade of Oskaloosa in charge. Testing is expected to continue until about July 1 conducted by A H Kraus J F McCabe R B Con away C B Hornbeck and J O Wilson Iowa county veterinarians.
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Marengo
Iowa County
F. F. Meade
Oskaloosa
A. H. Kraus
J. F. McCabe
R. B. Conaway
C. B. Hornbeck
J. O. Wilson
G O P Candidate for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture
William J. Campbell of Buchanan County announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Iowa state secretary of agriculture. Campbell, president of the Iowa Jersey Cattle Club, is a prominent Jersey breeder and active in Third and Fourth district Republican circles. He has ties to Jesup creamery and was a local merchant, now farming Jersey cattle.
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Jesup
William J. Campbell
Buchanan County
Iowa
Campbell
Iowa Jersey Cattle Club
Middle West
Jesup Creamery
Dairymen in Benton County Convene At Vinton Saturday
Dairymen of Benton county will meet in Vinton Saturday at 1 p.m. to elect a delegate for the state meeting in Des Moines on March 26. Drafting of a new plan for production control will be discussed at the Des Moines meeting on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinton
Benton County
Des Moines
Co op Elevator Leaders Seek FCA Credit in Omaha
Farmers Grain Dealers association of Iowa discussed with Omaha bank officials the FCA bank for co operatives to secure loans for about 325 elevators. About 40 000 Iowa farmers are stockholders. some operators lack funds for operating costs amid financing difficulties. Fort Dodge serves as association headquarters as talks continue with J K Mason and bank officers.
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OMAHA
Oscar Helmne
W. H. Thompson
Farmers Grain Dealers Association of Iowa
Omaha Bank For Co-Operatives
FCA
Iowa
Association
Fort Dodge
Bank For Co-Operatives
Thompson
Heline
J. K. Mason
Bank
Harold Hedges
H. C. Peterson
Independence dairy producers plan AAA program meeting
A Buchanan county dairy producers meeting called by Frank Bantz will be held Friday at 2 p.m. in Independence to discuss and formulate a dairy program under the AAA. A delegate will be chosen to attend the state meeting in Des Moines on March 26.
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Independence
Buchanan County
Frank Bantz
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