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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1952
Page
10
The drop in hog prices since early August has paralleled the decline in wholesale pork prices. Chicago wholesale pork, lard, and hog products fell sharply while pork output rose and stocks increased, with supply shifts and beef rise contributing to the price changes.
The Western Grain Dealers Association elected Joe McNally of Tama Real Grain Company as president. E M Waldron of Lanesboro was named vice president, E L Dutcher of Ankeny treasurer, and Mark Thornburg of Des Moines secretary.
Rex Conn presents the latest agricultural updates each morning at 6 45 a m on KCRG 1600 providing market trends weather notes and crop information for area farmers.
Charles B. Shuman of the Illinois Agricultural Association urged a standby federal farm program at the Western Grain and Feed Association meeting in Des Moines. He said it would prevent price collapse, replace fixed subsidies, and give farmers more freedom from government controls while allowing occasional soil conservation integration.
The Center Point annual poultry show will run December 4 5 and 6 at the Lan ning garage on Main street. Premiums honor all APA recognized breeds and other worthy varieties. Special awards by Linn county hatcheries target market birds New Hamphires White Rocks and White Leghorns. Judging by E D Manilaw Cedar Rapids. Entries accepted Thursday with judging Friday. Premium lists available from secretary Mrs Anna Mae Bush.
A registered iGuc cow in the C. L. Knight and Sons herd at Springville completed an HIR test yielding 11,493 pounds of milk and 572 pounds of butterfat in 291 days as a senior 4-year-old.
Des Moines Monday 11 rural women choruses from Linn Johnson and Poweshiek counties won blue ribbons in a statewide contest held as the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation opened its thirty fourth annual meeting. Allan Kline of the American Farm Bureau Federation was to give the main address as more than 4000 attendees were expected.
Forty-two head of purebred Jerseys averaged $402 at the Howard Dodge Jersey sale half a mile south of Center Point. Top cow was Standard Ambassador Leni sold for $850 to Harold Kruger of Sibley Iowa. The top sire was Tristram Basil Promoter bought by Jensen Brothers for $2,000. Buyers came from multiple Midwest states and Dodge plans a small herd hereafter.
West Union reports four Fayette county farmers selected by the county seed distribution committee will certify their 1953 Clintafe oat production to support increased supply. The growers are C. K. Johnson of Aurora, A. H. Treptow of Maynard, Keith James of Stanley, and Leonard Blong of Waucoma.
Iowa State livestock specialist Rex Beresford warned Linn County bankers that cattle prices are likely to fall for two to four years as numbers rise to an estimated 93 million head. He noted record feeder shipments and cautioned margins will shrink, urging feeders to match feed use to markets and emphasize efficient feeding.
Soil conservation leaders from eleven eastern Iowa counties plan a December 18 meeting at the Montrose hotel in Cedar Rapids. Attendees include soils district commissioners SCS technicians extension workers and PMA committeemen from Jones Jackson Delaware Dubuque Clinton Scott Cedar Johnson Benton Buchanan and Linn counties. The Cedar Rapids session is one of nine meetings arranged by the state soil conservation committee and the Iowa Association of Soil District Commissioners.
The Gazette lists upcoming auctions including 200 acres near Olin, multiple closing out sales of livestock grain hay and machinery across Iowa towns such as Coggon Fairfax Prairieburg Olin Shueyville Palo Key stone Springville Center Point and Center Point with bidders Henry Jurgensen Hermond Madery Charles Pospisil Harvey Jerome O T Furst Tom Svo boda John Holub Roy Daimond Dallas Meyer John Lensch Ralph Nash Forest Primrose and B. C. Fleming among organizers and locations and times from November 28 to December 3.
President elect Eisenhower taps Ezra T. Benson to lead Agriculture, signaling a policy shift toward expanding markets at home and abroad. Benson, a marketing expert, urges farmer self help and local extension services, with selective price supports continuing under Republican aims.
In Oelwein the Parade of Bulls Holstein show and sale featured the Wallace Bash herd of Wellman selling the top cow to Leon Bockes of Grundy Center for 900 dollars. A Carl Miehe and Son bull from Maynard went to Lowell Turks of Remsen for 600 dollars. Ninety head of cattle sold with buyers from Tennessee Illinois Missouri Wisconsin and Iowa present.
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