Cotton on Capitol Hill Drives Farm Payments and Policy
Cotton dominates agriculture committees on both chambers as lawmakers debate subsidies and price supports. The piece notes large payments to land diversions, Ellender's price-support amendment, and the distribution of benefits among producers, with regional stakes for the Southeast and Mississippi Delta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Capitol Hill
James Q. Eastland
Mississippi
Senate Agriculture Committee
House
Senate
Congress
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
Secretary of Agriculture
Shaw
Ellender
Freeman
House Committee On Agriculture
California
Eastland
Southeast
Mississippi Delta
Peace Corps Seeks 50 Experienced Farmers Next Spring
The Peace Corps invites at least 50 experienced farmers to serve next spring in Latin America Asia Africa and the Pacific. Projects include irrigation development wheat and rice production and beef cattle. Volunteers must be at least 20 years old 18 in Colombia with no upper age limit.
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Washington
Peace Corps
Latin America
Asia
Africa
Pacific Area
Colombia
USDA Advises Plant Cutbacks for Spring Veg and Watermelon
The agriculture department urges growers of 13 principal spring vegetables to plant about 2 percent fewer acres next year to balance supply and demand. It also recommends a 5 percent reduction in spring watermelon plantings while keeping cantaloupe planting unchanged.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Milk Order Hearing Put Off in Cedar Rapids
The USDA postponed the December 3 public hearing on merging and amending Cedar Rapids Iowa City Des Moines and North Central Iowa milk orders. A new date will be announced later. The delay came at the request of Mid-America Dairymen and Federated Milk Producers as farmers seek to resolve differences in their proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Des Moines
North Central Iowa
USDA
Consumer and Marketing Service
Mid-America Dairymen
Federated Milk Producers
North
Iowa
Farm Net Income May Sag a Bit
The agriculture department predicts farm net income in early 1969 will dip slightly from current levels but stay about the same as 1968. Economists cite higher livestock, larger grain carryover from harvests as factors pressuring prices. 1968 income seen around 15 billion dollars, up from 14.2 billion the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agriculture Department
Orville L. Freeman
Farm Auction Listings Run Through December Across Iowa
A dense notice lists multiple farm auctions and closing out sales across Iowa towns including Urleans Tiffin Keats Onslow Colgan Fair field Manchester Cedar Rapids Cedar Point Belle Plaine Swisher Center Point and Blairstown. Items feature livestock dairy cattle machinery grain hay and miscellaneous h.h goods with specific sale times and locations.
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H.h
Lester Raim
Walford
Delbert Andrews
Wayne H
Alien Estate
Tiffin
Leo Anderson
Keats
Elmer Fuess
Onslow
Linn Dohia
Colgan Sale
Ray Meston
Acre
Ray Heston
Fairfield
Harold Antons & Klink
Manchester
Glen C. Rathjen
Marengo
Stanley Nelson
Cedar Rapids
U.S
Robert Becicka
Frank C. Jindrich
Mary
Joe Rayman
C.R
David Pickers
Blairstown
Outlook Confab Postponed to February 1969
The USDA annual agricultural outlook conference, long held in fall, will be held February 17 to 19, 1969. The delay means two department reports Farm Cost Situation and Agricultural Finance Outlook will not be published this fall, with new publication dates to be announced next month.
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Washington
USDA
New Angus Member Elected in St. Joseph
Jerome J. Marek of Center Point Iowa has been elected to membership in the American Angus Association at St. Joseph Missouri joining a roster of ranchers and cattle producers seeking breed affiliation and industry ties.
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ST. Joseph
Jerome J. Marek
Center Point
Iowa
Wheat pasture conditions improve for winter grazing
USDA says wheat pasture in Kansas Oklahoma and Texas is mostly fair to good as of mid November the best in years. Movement of lighter cattle into winter wheat areas could boost feeder demand while strong cattle prices and ample feed boost overall gains for cattlemen through fall and winter grazing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Central City FFA Grain Show Set for December 4
Central City will host a hay and grain show on December 4 from 5 30 to 8 30 p m in the vocational agriculture shop at Central City high school The freshman class of green hands will be initiated Grover Miehe Monticello high school instructor will judge the event.
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Central City
FFA
Grover Miehe
Monticello
Central City High School
ISU Scientists Report Swine Nutrition Tests
ISU researchers report on how starter protein levels and fat inclusion affect growth and carcass traits in pigs. An 17 percent starter protein yielded best weight gain. 10 percent starter produced leaner carcasses by 50 pounds but more fat by 200 pounds. Fat supplements improved grower performance, while raw soybeans hinder baby pigs unless properly heated to deactivate toxins.
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Chicago
Iowa State University
Midwest
American Society of Animal Science
ISU
Iowa State
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Donald M. Rothberg
Associated Press
Boswell Company
Kings County
President's Commission On Rural Poverty
Department of Agriculture
United States
Atlantic Coast
M.P.O
Jay Partridge
Independence Buchanan
Buchanan County
Independence
Linda Catt
Carol Hardy
Dairy Foods
General Foods
Jim Peschong
Masonville
4-H
G.R
Gazette
Angus
Carl
Martin
Rex Foster
Belle Plaine
New Angus
Liberty
Maureen Murdoch
Illinois
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