Pesticide registrations face loss without new tolerances
Washington officials warn many widely used pest controls may be dropped from the agriculture department list unless manufacturers secure new low level residue tolerances for foods. FDA plans to replace no residue listings with fixed tolerances, potentially cancelling about half current registrations by January 1, 1968, including some dairy and poultry uses.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Food and Drug Administration
S. C. Billings
Entomology Pesticides
FDA
Billings
Co-Op Creamery At Hopkinton Changes Name
Members at Hopkinton Cooperative Creamery Assn approved changing the name to All-Star Cooperative to reflect a broader business scope including commodities and farm supplies. The 1966 year posted sales of $4,636,880 with $171,182 in net savings and 16 cents per cwt patronage dividends. Patrons received about $88,000 in total dividends for 1957 and 1958, and year-end patron equity reached $716,739.
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Hopkinton
Hopkinton Cooperative Creamery Assn
All-Star Cooperative
Roman Welter
Week's Poult Hatch Totals 3.7 Million
DES MOINES The poult hatch for the week ended March 18 in the ten leading turkey states totaled 3,713,000 birds, per the Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service. The hatch was about the same as the prior year. The mix included 3,489,000 heavy breed poults and 230,000 light breed poults.
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Des Moines
Turkey
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
March farm sales and auctions schedule listing several events
A sequence of farm auctions and sales scheduled from Wednesday March 29 to Monday April 3. Items include machinery, dairy cattle, livestock, hay, straw, ponies, antiques, and a dairy dispersal by Hilltop Dairy Farms Inc. Locations span Rya, Waverly, Central City, Norway, Center Point, Ainsworth, Gelwein, and Mechanics. Several captains, organizers, and firms are named.
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Herman Doley
Rya
Arnold and Lorine Hexom
Waverly
Hay
Allen L. Hoerner
Central City
Henry
Schloeman
Norway
Pat L. McNiel
Center Point
Hampshire Boar
Stephens and Greene
Ainsworth
Hilltop Dairy Farms, Inc
Gelwein
Glen
Tim Kohl
Vitte
Dairy Imports Session At ISU Set For April Fifth
An Ames meeting to back national dairy import control legislation will be held Wednesday April 5 at 10 30 am in Memorial Union Iowa State University. Sponsored by the Iowa Dairy Products Assn and the National Milk Producers Federation. The speakers urge stronger import controls as quotas have grown since 1953 and call for federal legislation to secure dairy industry future.
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Ames
Memorial Union
Iowa State University
Iowa Dairy Products. Assn
National Milk Producers Federation
Federation Drafts Dairy Import Act of 1967
Federation officials announce a proposed Dairy Import Act of 1967 and Ote Reed of the federation staff will represent the organization at the Ames meeting to discuss the proposal.
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Federation
Ote Reed
Ames
Delayed Planting Lowers Corn Yield
Urbana Illinois University of Illinois tests show corn yields drop by about a bushel per acre for each day planting is delayed past the recommended date. As planting lagged, harvest showed increased corn height lodging and grain moisture content according to agronomist L V Boone.
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Urbana
Ill
University of Ilinois
L. V. Boone
Boone
Calf Crop in 1967 Seen Narrowing From 1966
Washington reports the U.S. 1967 calf crop will be about one percent smaller than 1966. Dairy calf crop is expected to fall about five percent, offsetting a small rise in beef calves.
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Welter
USDA
Gov
Washington
U.S
Laying Flock Returns Drop in February in Iowa Report
A February report from 27 flocks in collaboration with Iowa State University poultry specialists shows a sharp setback. The flocks averaged 2,882 birds with 17.1 eggs per layer and 39 cents receipts per bird, 30 cents of which funded production. Five high producers averaged 2,843 birds and 22.2 eggs per bird, with 49 cents receipts and 27 cents expenses per bird. Five low producers averaged 3,351 birds and 10.7 eggs per layer, with 30 cents receipts and 38 cents expenses per bird. Egg prices averaged 26 cents per dozen.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State University
Iowa Farmers Sign 1967 Feed Grain Plan Agreement
Des Moines reports 110,881 Iowa farmers or 60 percent of eligible farms have signed for the 1967 feed grain program. Diversions totaling 2,035,112 acres will shift from corn and grain sorghum to soil and wildlife grass cover. The base acreage constitutes 68 percent of total base, with 9,173,103 signed acres. measuring and staking of diverted acres will occur through planting time by ASCS township committees.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Fred McLain
ASCS
McLain
Hereford Evaluation Conference Planned Hereford Evaluation
Kansas City hosts the American Hereford Association beef cattle evaluation conference on June 15 and 16 to compare visual appraisal with breeding herd and carcass performance. The event, open to all interested, includes a tour of the Hereford association headquarters and the American Royal complex.
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Kansas City
American Hereford Assn
Paul Swaffar
Ford Association
Deciduous Fruit Trees Need Cold in Winter
University of California horticulturists note apples and pears require 1200 to 1500 chilling hours below 45 F, mainly in December and January, for normal bud development. In California insufficient chilling delays bloom and weakens growth, while in Iowa the risk is too low temperatures or late freezes that could harm buds.
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South
University of California
California
Iowa
Public health symposium on brugs in animal feeds
Washington The Nation s Research Council schedules a public symposium on the public health aspects of using brugs in animal feeds in Washington from June 5 to 9. Some 34 speakers from five countries will present papers.
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Washington
the Nations Research Council
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