Old-timer Emmet Shaffer recalls farm life and era politics
The 89-year-old Troy Mills farmer Emmet Shaffer discusses his 185 acre operation with 225 chickens and six Belgian horses. He recalls early farming days, schooling, band life, seed corn selling, and views on Hoover Nixon Carter and Reagan.
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the Gazette
Emmet Shaffer
Troy Mills
Kenneth
Bernice
Philip Hand
Center Point
Linn County Board of Education
Telephone Company
Minnesota
Shaffer Farm
John Deere B
Roy Rosencrans
Rowley
Hiland Creamery
Egypt
Howard Smith
Hugh Champlin
Ernie Nietert
Hoover
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Harry Truman
Carter
Ronald Reagan
Farmer objects to chemicals drift in Iowa fields
Merlyn Steer a Butler County farmer near Greene complains his land is contaminated by herbicide drift from neighboring farms. He says chemicals smell irritate eyes and throat and he was driven off his farm. Myron Van Cleave of the Agriculture Department says an investigator will look into the case.
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Des Moines
Butler County
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Merlyn Steer
Greene
Steer
Myron van Cleave
Agriculture Department
van Cleave
Dale Thorenson
Butler County Extension Office
Less cropland in farm program
The Agriculture Department reports 22.1 million acres of cropland to be taken from production under this year’s acreage set aside for wheat and feed grains, six percent less than last year. Wheat 10,612,473 acres. feed grains 6,186,488. corn 3,444,936. sorghum 673,554.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Ray Fitzgerald
Department
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
One Man's Tax Revolt Parade Preview
A brief note references Sunday's PARADE with mention of a tax revolt man.
Team checks diesel fuel bottlenecks for farmers
A federal task force stopped in Kansas City to ease diesel fuel access for farmers. Paul Burke, task force chief, said the group aims to identify and unclog bottlenecks. Washington will decide the task force’s future, with plans to base operations in Kansas City under Mary O’Halloran.
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Kansas City
Midwest
Paul Burke
Burke
Department of Energy
Washington
Mary O’halloran
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Heart OF America
Sutherland
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Elemay
C.F.M
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Blairs Ferry Road
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