Fall Survey Finds Ample Soil Moisture in Cedar Rapids Area
Extension crops specialist Jerry Gogan reports soil moisture in the Cedar Rapids region at 40 to 50 percent of needed for next year. Samples show top five feet hold 12.8 inches usable moisture, with corn generally using more moisture than soybeans. Other sites across eastern Iowa show similar ample moisture levels, including Durant, Columbus Junction, Donnellson, and Conroy.
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al Swegle
Jerry Gogan
Cedar Rapids
Gogan
Conroy
Don Schlapkohl
Durant
Columbus Junction
Donnellson
Iowa
Cedar Rapids Area
U S Farm Experts to Moscow for Joint Agriculture Talks
The United States will send a nine member team of farm experts to Moscow for the inaugural meeting of the U S Soviet joint committee on cooperation in agriculture. Led by Assistant Secretary Carroll G Brunthaver the group includes USDA specialists and private industry representatives. Sessions run November 14 to 16 under a pact signed June 19 aiming at cooperative programs in agricultural research information and technology development.
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Washington
United States
Moscow
Joint Committee On Cooperation In Agriculture
Agriculture Department
Carroll G. Brunthaver
Usda Agency
Department
Butz Pushes Market Oriented Farm Policy And Trade Liberalization
Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz urged replacing trade barriers to ease U S access to foreign markets during a World Soy Protein Conference stop in Munich He said US policy aims to be a dependable global supplier and called for liberal tariff treatment of soy proteins to meet rising protein demand while defending the growth of soybean marketings.
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Munich
Earl L. Butz
United States
Butz
Europe
Rome
United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization
Holsteins Top 800 Lb Fat Records In Linn County
In Linn County DHIA reports two dairymen have cows with 305 day butterfat records over 800 pounds. Robert Bell of Coggon shows a Holstein with 849 pounds fat and 19 850 pounds milk. George and Gary Reyhons of Ely report 802 fat and 19 300 milk. Other Bell and Reyhons cows, plus Liercke Center Point and Henderson Central City, have 600 to 700 fat in September and October.
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Central City
Linn County Dairy Herd Improvement Association
DHIA
Wendell Donnelly
DHLA
Robert Bell
Coggon
George
Gary Reyhons
Ely
Bell
Reyhons
Richard Liercke
Center Point
Wallace Henderson
Iowa Bank Loans Up 10 Percent in a Year
Des Moines AP report says Iowa farm loans topped 1.536 billion dollars, up 10 percent from a year earlier. RE Tool of Manchester, president of the Iowa Bankers Association, cites strong demand for farm credit and banks’ efforts to meet evolving farmer needs.
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Iowa
Des Moines
RE. Tool
Manchester
Iowa Bankers Assa
U S Wheat Exports to China Face Three Year Uncertainty
The USDA report shows the United States remains the largest supplier of wheat to China for the current fiscal year despite new long term deals by Canada and Australia for 1974 to 1976. It projects U S shipments of about 4.0 million tons to China in the 1973 74 year with less certainty beyond next summer due to China’s limited commitments.
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Don Kendall Washington
United States
Peoples Republic of China
Australia
Canada
Agriculture Department
U.S
China
Foreign Agricultural Service
U. S
USDA
Mt. Pleasant hosts Southeast Iowa Angus Association meeting
More than 70 Angus breeders and friends gathered in Mt. Pleasant for the annual meeting and banquet. Townsend Brown of Nichols was elected president, succeeding Stanley Woodruff of Milton, with Dwayne Mathews, Danville, as vice president and Steve Woodruff, Milton, as secretary-treasurer. Four new directors were chosen: Keith Kongable Winfield, David Scholl Fort Madison, Everett Howell Letts, and Harold Gilliand Ainsworth. Stanley Woodruff remains state director and past president.
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MT. Pleasant
Southeast
Iowa
Angus Association
Townsend Brown
Nichols
Stanley Woodruff
Milton
Dwayne Mathews
Danville
Steve Woodruff
Keith Kongable
Winfield
David Scholl
Fort Madison
Everett Howell
Letts
Harold Gilliand
Ainsworth
FFA Leadership Meeting Planned
AMANA Jim Hoyt of Ankeny a former state FFA president will speak Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Seven Village restaurant during a southeast Iowa district conference for chapter presidents and advisors.
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Amana
Jim Hoyt
Ankeny
Future Farmers of America
Seven Village
Iowa
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