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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1975
Page
4
A 60 year old silo on Gordon Kerber’s farm southeast of Sigourney began to lean one morning two years ago. Mrs. Kerber observed the tilt from her kitchen window as it halted halfway to collapse. Kerber reportedly drives his tractor beneath the leaning structure, seemingly considering it safe.
A new USDA report shows farmers reducing hog breeding herds, signaling potential pressure on grain prices and boosting talk of voluntary crop cutbacks. Secretary Butz calls such rhetoric unsustained by facts as the survey notes breeding herd reductions across 14 states and 1.8 million sow births, a 21 percent drop from the previous winter.
At Elkader last week the Clayton County Dairy Herd Improvement Assn elected four new directors to two year terms: Grant Miller Farmersburg Jim Stoffel St Olaf Richard Troester Elkader and Evert Tuecke Jr Guttenberg. Dennis Christeleit Elkader was re elected. Officers named Howard Koehner Guttenberg president Dennis Christeleit Elkader vice president Jim Stoffel St Olaf secretary and Carl Amsden Elkport treasurer.
Meat Price Investigators of Jawa will hold two meetings Thursday at Anamosa and Maquoketa to outline policy to pursue legal remedies for alleged monopolistic pricing in the meat industry. Ralph Blackford of Marion, a member of the group’s steering committee, said the meetings will start at 2 PM in Maquoketa and 7:30 PM in Anamosa. The meetings are open to the public.
Iowa Farm Bureau president J Merrill Anderson urged farmers to boost production for global needs while emphasizing practical solutions. He backed an international food fund to buy surplus Iowa crops and warned against de-emphasizing animal agriculture as nations grow wealth.
In Des Moines area fifteen counties have until Thursday to file claims for production losses from last spring’s wet season. The USDA Farmers Home Administration offers emergency loans to cover production expenses, with deadlines by county and terms up to seven years for livestock losses.
Duane Walter of Luana Iowa won the carcass division at the Big River Barrow show in Prairie du Chien Wisconsin. His 235 pound crossbred entry topped 133 barrows from Clayton Allamakee Crawford and Grant counties with a muscle score of 68.3 length 30.4 backfat 1.01 and a loin area of 8.08 square inches. Other top five carcass placers included Hall Everman Postville Connie Walter Luana Glen Morovils Eastman Wis and a tied pair Douglas Straka Wauseke Wis Hall Everman Postville. The live champion was shown by Don Fisher Eastman Wis and the reserve live champion by Hall Everman Postville.
Northwest Leaders 4-H club won the senior division of the 4-H basketball tournament for the fifth straight year, beating Earlville Livestock 40 to 0 in the final. Earlville defeated Coffins Grove Livestock 47 to 23 in Class A. Class C peewee action saw Barlville Livestock topple Ilk Chargers 43 to 13 at Earlville gym.
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