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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1973
Page
11
Iowa farmers planted 46 percent of this year's 11.8 million corn acres in one week, a state record, narrowing the gap with last year but still below the five year average. Soybean and oat planting progress, moisture conditions, and regional variations are noted, with seven field days suitable for work and topsoil moisture mostly adequate.
Iowa revokes Interstate Seed Brokers of Omaha license to sell seed oats after a hearing found the firm offering inflated prices with no buy back bond. Farmers Gaylen Demarest and Wally Hamann testified they paid high prices for Kota seed oats with verbal buy back promises. They learned the firm was not bonded, prompting prompt actions and payment reversals where possible.
In Waukon a sale of about 1200 head at the Northeast Iowa Sales Commission used a new computer scale to display head count total weight and average weight as bidding closed. Owner Osmund Quandahl says the system speeds the sale and forthcoming upgrades include seating for buyers and a new restaurant overlooking the ring.
Iowa Farm Bureau President J Merrill Anderson announced staff changes and promotions. Glee Mulder 34 becomes director of market development in the commodity and marketing division around July 1 replacing Dennis Blankenship who resigns to join the American Soybean Association June 1. Mulder previously led Region 10 from 1965 guided Plymouth county work from 1961 65. Ron Bartlett rises from field representative to field manager with BIC aiding cattle movements and feeder cattle procurement in Iowa and supervising state BIC staff.
Dr. Lee Kolmer, dean of agriculture at Iowa State University, will attend an informal public meeting at Area I Vocational Technical School in Calmar at 8 p.m. on May 29 in the classroom building. The building is located to the immediate right as one enters the campus. The meeting is coordinated by Area I officials.
Test herds in Iowa Poweshiek county show April butterfat over 600 pounds. Daisy a six year old cow owned by Paul E M Yoder yielded 16 240 pounds milk and 620 pounds of 3 8 percent milk in 3 days. Rita a three year old cow owned by Daniel Yoder produced 16 350 pounds milk and 705 pounds of 4 3 percent butterfat in 305 days.
Grain Processing Corporation announces a major expansion of its corn wet milling and distillery complex in Muscatine. President J H Kent says the project will boost daily corn processing by 30 000 bushels, with initial phase due to finish by January 1974 and all phases by July 1974. The firm is a key producer of grain neutral spirits corn starch syrups and related by products.
Delaware county students attended assemblies to learn about a summer program in community resource development. Banks Doggett led presentations. over 500 signed interest slips for a June invitation. Meetings run mid June to mid August with a county rally at the end, led by ISU students Sue Shearer and Beverly Burns.
Ralph R. Snodgrass, former Cedar Rapids resident and senior veterinary student, received the G. G. Graham award at the ISU student chapter banquet. The honor recognizes outstanding achievement in small animal clinical medicine as he prepares to graduate in May from Iowa State College of Veterinary Medicine.
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