First Golden Certified Sire Named for Charolais Beef
Walsh ranches of Fort Worth Texas own Amour A05 the senior herd sire named the first ever 100 percent golden certified meat sire by Performance Registry International on carcass data from 14 of his sons at a 140 day test at Aledo Feedlots. Measurements show an average daily gain 3.04 pounds and carcass weight 811 pounds with ribeye 2.85 square inches per 100 pounds. Four grandsons of A05 averaged 4.25 pounds per day gain while Tartarin 941 grandsons averaged 3.86 pounds per day. seven bulls fed across summer to winter tested for yield and fat cover.
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Houston
Texas
Walsh Ranches
Fort Worth
Amour
Performance Registry International
Aledo
Lewis H. Marsihaili
Marshall
Tartarin
Linn Electric Names Winner of Washington Trip
Laura Krouse a junior at Alburnett high school was named winner of Linn County Rural Electric Cooperative's Washington essay contest. She will join about 30 other youths June 11 for a week in Washington DC chartered flight from Des Moines. Activities include meeting senators and representatives touring the Capitol White House Smithsonian Arlington Cemetery Interior Bureau of Printing and Engraving State Department Kennedy Center and more.
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Laura Krouse
Alburnett High School
Linn County Rural Electric Cooperative
Washington
Laura
Roland Krouse
Marion
Rural Electric Cooperatives
Des Moines
D.C
Iowa growers urged not to rush to early corn hybrids
Iowa State extension agronomist Garren Benson and Pioneer agronomy manager Ivan Wikner say late spring planting due to rains makes switching to very early corn varieties risky. A three-year Johnston study found full season hybrids planted by May 25 still yield more grain on average than mid season, while mid season hybrids outproduced early ones when planted through May 25.
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Des Moines
Lowa
Iowa State University Extension Specialists
Pioneer Seed Co. Agronomists
Iowa
Garren Benson
Ames
Benson
Ivan Wikner
Pioneer Agronomy Service Department
Johnston
Culver Introduces Farm Legislation in House
Congressman John C. Culver moves to curb inequities in Iowa farming by a bill in the House to extend uniform price support guarantees to all farmers who signed the 1973 feed grain set aside program. The Option A set aside was cut from 25 percent to 10 percent after signup.
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Washington
John C. Culver
Iowa
House of Representatives
Secretary of Agriculture
USDA
Local Farm Program Workers Face Cuts in Iowa
In Des Moines the Iowa ASCS says about 100 farm workers will lose their jobs due to workload reductions. State Director Dale Awtry notes most are women and the cuts follow the end of the Rural Environmental Assistance Program and lower activity in grain storage. Reductions will be made locally, averaging one worker per county, by eliminating the least productive individuals from a pre-cut staffing level of about 660 in Iowa.
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ASCS
Iowa
Seed Prices Reach Record Highs Across Farm Seeds
Washington reports Agriculture Department survey shows April 15 seed prices up sharply from a year earlier. Forage crop seed sericea lespedza averaged 99.10 per 100 pounds, up from 44.70. Hybrid seed corn rose to 22.20 per bushel from 21.50, with other seeds showing gains across alfalfa, clover, sudangrass, potatoes, wheat, flax, peanuts, soybeans, and cottonseed.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
Mann Named Star Farmer of West Union FFA
West Union North Fayette FFA chapter president Tom Mann was named star chapter farmer at the annual banquet. Mann earned the state farmer degree at the state convention in Waterloo and won in record book class notebook and scholarship. Sharon McFarlane also won the livestock farming award for serving as secretary. Steve Alber led as new chapter president and won state poultry silver award, with Jeff Hanken as vice president and other officers named.
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West Union
North Fayette
Future Farmers of America
Tom Mann
Mann
FFA
Waterloo
Sharon McFarlane
Miss McFarlane
Includ
Steve Alber
Alber
Jeff Hanken
Dean Winter
Dave Strudthoff
Willis Burington
Sentinel
Dave Massman
Keokuk County Environmental Winners Named
Keokuk County Environmental Concerns Committee announced winners in a speech, essay, and conservation poster contest. Sue Peiffer of Keota high school won the soil conservation speech and advances to the regional contest in Ottumwa or Fairfield. Essay contest top picks came from Matthew Hahn and Mark Sheets of Keota-Harper Catholic. Grand prize poster winners include John Steinke Keswick and others from Sigourney, What Cheer, English Valley, and Pekin.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
Environmental Concerns Committee
Sue Peiffer
Keota High School
Sue
Richard Peiffer
Keota
Doug Bennett
Sigourney High School
Doug
Merlin Bennett
Peiffer
Ottumwa
Fairfield
Matthew Hahn
Keota-Harper Catholic
Mark Sheets
Keota-Harper
Tim Sieren
Tom Monaghan
Patrick Conrad
Keota Harper Catholic
Sally Simpson
John Steinke
Kerry Ragan
Pekin
Marion banker named Linn County soil district commissioner
Morris Neighbor of 1310 McGowan Boulevard Marion has been approved by the state soil conservation committee as a Linn county soil conservation district commissioner. Neighbor succeeds Jerry Maixner, who resigned for business reasons. Neighbor is president of Farmers State Bank in Marion.
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Marion
State Soil Conservation Committee
Linn County Soil Conservation District
Morris Neighbor
McGowan Blvd
Neighbor
Jerry Maixner
Farmers State Bank
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Julie Steere
Sellersville
Linn Electric
Culver
J. K. Baumgartner
Corn Belt Improv-All, Inc
Ashwood Dr
West Union Ffa Chapter
Star Greenhand
Gary McIntyre
Randy Lauer
Doug Guyer
SCS
Linn Soil
Siti
Douglas Firm Association
Black & Decker
Wickes
Anate
Our Lawn
Liberty
Tee
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