Wool winners at Amana Make It with Wool contest group photo
Eight winners pose for a group photo after the Make It with Wool contest in Amana. Kneeling from left are Kerri Krafka 13 Dysart and Brenda Luett 15 Maquoketa. Middle row includes Doreen Morris 13 Elberon Lois Grier 22 Montezuma Catherine Pietrzyk Iowa City and Donna Blythe 16 Williamsburg. Top row shows Lisa Netolicky 18 Amana and Larry Erickson Kalona.
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Amana
Kerri Krafka
Dysart
Brenda Luett
Maquoketa
Doreen Morris
Elberon
Lois Grier
Montezuma
Catherine Pietrzyk
Iowa City
Donna Blythe
Williamsburg
Andersen lauds Carter reserves in farm policy talk
Grange national master Ed Andersen praised the Carter era reserves as useful this year. He cited the program’s role in removing a record 1979 wheat and corn crop and aiding livestock producers and export commitments into 1981.
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Russia
Andersen
Anderson
Grange
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Neb
Omaha
Roundup highlights Iowa farming figures and officials
Dan Freese of Van Horne appointed Denver Record Stock man field representative for Nebraska and South Dakota. Dan Stadtmueller of Monticello reports 203.95 bushels per acre no till corn yield. Hinton indicted for improper corn sampling. Dean Donaldson charged with false swearing on railroad car samples bound for Tacoma. Davenport reports 203.23 bushels per acre in Scott County corn yield contest. soybean winner 68.45 bushels. Howard Mueller elected new Iowa Corn Promotion Board chair. new officers named, including Jack Parsons and Tom Gray. Three Eastern Iowans named to the American Angus Association: Greg and Vicki Neumeyer of Walker, Gerald W. Schmidt of Springville.
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Denver
Dan Freese
van Horne
Denver Record Stockman
Nebraska
South Dakota
Freese
Bernard Freese
U.S
Canada
Argentina
Monticello
Dan Stadtmueller
Hinton
Iowa
Dean L. Donaldson
U.S. District Court For
Northern District of
Farmers Cooperative Company
United Grain of
Tacoma
Wash
Davenport
Walt Dengler
Scott County
Lowell Gehris
Dixon
Des Moines
Iowa Corn Promotion Board
Howard Mueller
Waverly
Mueller
E. Thurman Gaskill
Corwith
Jack Parsons
Wapello
Tom Gray
Newell
Jerry Goldsmith
Clarence
Climate shifts shaped westward plains settlement
University of Iowa geologist Holmes Semken notes that post 1865 moister periods allowed sodbusters to farm the Great Plains, while earlier droughts would have halted expansion. He cites the Dust Bowl as the decisive 1930s climatic turning point and explains shifts seen in mammal remains at sites across the plains.
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Margy McCay
Iowa City
Great Plains
John C
Fremont
Plains
Holmes Semken
University of Iowa
Lemken
Kansas
Nebraska
Semken
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al Swegle
Carter
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Plains States
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