Danner Wins Grand Championship at International Livestock Expo
Ralph Danner 51 of Muscatine Iowa clinches the grand championship with 15 Angus cattle carload at the International Live Stock Exposition after 15 years of competition. Paul Freed and Son showed the reserve Hereford carload. Iowa families competing for the grand steer crown include the Goecke sisters Clemens Linda Pam and Mary Lou and Orville Berg of Osage. Iowa State and Illinois teams also earned top placement in live stock judging events.
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Chicago
Ralph Danner
Muscatine
Iowa
Danner
Ralph Danner & Sons
John
Myron
Ralph, Jr
Paul Freed
Paullina
Goecke
Clemens Linda
Pam
Mary Lou
Orville Berg
Osage
Iowa State
Pennsylvania State University
Bill Davidson
Waterloo
Illinois
Neighbors Harvest Big Corn Crop at Maynard Farm
A group of 17 men with six cornpickers and one corn combine harvested between 50 and 60 acres of corn at the farm of Maynard-Raymond Lan dry, half a mile south of Maynard, last Wednesday. Neighborhood women provided a noon meal. Lan dry is recovering at Mercy Hospital in Oelwein after a heart attack on November 15.
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Maynard
Raymond Landry
Landry
All Mercy Hospital
Oelwein
West Branch Sheep Meeting Scheduled
West Branch John son County Sheep and Wool Growers Assn will host a flock management meeting next Monday December 5 at 8 p.m. in West Branch High School. Don Pullin a Waterloo Hampshire breeder will be the speaker.
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West Branch
Johnson County Sheep and Wool Growers Assn
Don Pullin
Waterloo Hampshire
Farm Broadcasters elect new NAFB leaders in Chicago
Chicago convention names Bob Nance of WMT Cedar Rapids president and Keith Kirkpatrick of WHO Des Moines as vice president of the National Association of Farm Broadcasters. The officers were announced at the annual meeting.
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Chicago
Bob Nance
WMT
Cedar Rapids
Keith Kirkpatrick
WHO
Des Moines
National Assn. of
Feeder Cattle Shipments Rise in Corn Belt for July October
An Agriculture Department survey shows stocker and feeder cattle moving into the Midwestern Corn Belt rose 10 percent from July October 1965 to 3,353,000 head this year, with the October total at 1,424,000 up 13 percent. Iowa remained the major recipient. sheep and lamb shipments to the area fell 29 percent to 995,751 head.
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Washington Iap
Agriculture Department
Iowa
Paris Hilton Features U S Steaks Roasts
In PARIS the Western Steak house at the Paris Hilton hotel attracts diners with US imports of pre cut chilled steaks. One ton lots are air shipped weekly. Menu highlights include US boneless sirloin porterhouse and T bone steaks and roast prime ribs.
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Paris
Paris Hilton Hotel
U. S
Beef market whispers hint at price rise but gains lag
In the cattle market signs pointed to a possible rise in fed cattle prices, yet no advance has occurred. Feeders hold cattle hoping for better prices, keeping beef tonnage steady as heavier slaughter weights rise. Prime steer share at Chicago tops five years while Good steers shrink, reflecting marketing constraints and rising pork and poultry supplies. Postville Mary Brainard elected Cherry Valley 4-H club president with officers Tammy Foels and others.
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Con- Postville
Mary Brainard
Cherry Valley Chums
Tammy Foels
Marcee Sander
Brenda Turner
Sandy Duwe
Barbara Duwe
Sherry Zimmerman
State Soybean Meeting Slated
Four Iowa State University specialists will discuss ways to boost soybean yields at the Iowa Soybean Association annual meeting in Ames. The all-day event starts 9 30 a.m. in the Memorial Union Great Hall. Three directors will be elected at the business meeting. Irwin Johnson will speak on futures trading for soybean growers.
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Hudson
Iowa
Iowa State University
Iowa Soybean Association
Ames
Great Hall
Memorial Union
Iowa State
Irwin Johnson
Chicago Board of Trade
Ddiscuss
American Soybean Association
Iowa County Extension Election Results Told
Iowa County Extension Council elections are complete. New two year members include James Schmucker Marengo Merle Cronbaugh Belle Plaine and Norman Jordan Deep River. Re elected two year term Maynard Gates Marengo. Other recent appointees Marion Morse North English Roy Moser Amana Carter Atkinson Marengo Jerry Timm Victor.
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Marengo
Iowa County
Farm Credit School Set in Iowa County
Two Iowa State extension economists Herbert B. Howell from Ames and Leslie G. Kral from Cedar Rapids will conduct a one day farm credit school on December 14 at the Middle America restaurant two miles north of Williamsburg at the junction of highway 149 and Interstate 80. The Iowa county extension service sponsors and reservations are via the county extension office in Marengo.
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Marengo
Iowa State ‘Extension
Herbert B. Howell
Ames
Leslie G. Kral
Cedar Rapids
Middle America
Williamsburg
Highway 149
Interstate 80
Iowa County Extension Service
Persuasive Ability Test Prompts Reader’s Digest Challenge
December Reader's Digest offers a preview of a ten situation test to measure persuasive skill. The ad invites readers to buy the December issue now on sale.
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December Reader’s Digest
Corn Growers Ask Higher Feed Grain Loan Rate
The National Corn Growers Assn asks Agriculture Secretary Freeman to raise next season’s corn loan level by at least 10 cents per bushel above 1966, citing bigger production and need for price protection. Goeppinger urges adequate remuneration for higher U.S. and world corn supplies and supports a 25 cent differential on 8 percent of feed grain base acres.
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BOONE
APJ
National ‘Corn Growers Assn
iAgriculture
Orville ‘Freeman
Freeman
Walter Goeppinger
U.S
European Economic Community
Goeppinger
Iowans Win 4H National Awards
Four Iowa 4H members won national honors at the National 4H Club Congress in Chicago. Beverly Meyer of Sac City Linda Jensen of Massena Caroline McLaughlin of Shelby and Lloyd Bettis of Albia were celebrated at dinners and breakfasts. Jill Fischer of Pocahontas and adult Alice Van Wert of Hampton received recognition in dress, home economics, food and nutrition, and alumni categories.
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Chicago
Beverly Meyer
Sac City
Linda Jensen
Massena
Caroline McLaughlin
Shelby
Lloyd Bettis
Albia
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Towa
Winer
Jill Fischer
Pocahontas
Midwest Producing More of Corn Crop
Washington reports a major shift in American agriculture as corn production concentrates in the Midwest Corn Belt. Since 1950 the Midwest share rose from 47 percent to nearly 65 percent, shrinking output in the South East and Southwest fringe regions.
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Washington
Midwest
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