Yearbook of Agriculture Highlights Marketing System
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson announced the 1954 Yearbook of Agriculture titled Marketing. The 520 page volume, produced by 117 marketing specialists and edited by Alfred Stefferud, analyzes how farm products reach users and consumers. Copies cost $1.75 through the Government Printing Office with congressional distribution.
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Washington
Ezra Taft Benson
Department of Agriculture
Alfred Stefferud
Congress
Agriculture Department
Government
Benson
South Benton DHIA Averages 25.6 Lbs in September
South Benton DHIA reports September milk yields of 715.3 pounds and butterfat of 25.6 pounds. Jens V. Sorenson announced results from 435 cows across 21 herds. 94 cows were dry. Notable records include Franzenburg Keystone Holstein with 638 pounds fat in 305 days and Lensch Fairfax cow with 528 fat in 305 days. Wehrman Belle Plaine heifers posted 455 and 450 pounds fat.
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Blairstown
South Benton Dhia
Jens V. Sorenson
Art Franzenburg
Keystone
Charles Lensch
Fairfax
Harold Wehrman
Belle Plaine
Franzenburg
Ed Rinderknecht
Lensch
Lew Larson polled hereford sale nets strong cattle prices
In Mabel Minnesota fifty five lots of Polled Hereford cattle sold near Mable with sixty five head averaging 226 dollars. Bulls averaged 256 dollars and females 218 dollars. Top bull sold for 395 dollars and top female for 375 dollars.
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Mabel, Minn
Lew Larson
Mable
Farm Exports Rise Above 1953 Levels Despite July Dip
The Agriculture Department reported July exports at 213 million dollars, down from June but eight percent above July 1953. Cotton shipments reached 237000 bales, nearly double the 1953 level, while tobacco held steady and wheat remained low amid a global surplus. Western Europe saw the largest gain in cotton shipments as foreign mills operated at high levels. Wheat totaled about 21 million bushels, unchanged from June but five million below July of last year.
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Washington
INS
Agriculture Department
U.S
Department
Western
Europe
Livestock and Machinery Sales Across Iowa Listings
A series of closing out and livestock sales advertised across Iowa towns from Mt Vernon to Newhall and Monticello. Auctions include Duroc boat and sale by Greg F Vaske and Sons near Dyersville, Tamworth and Berkshire auctions at Hawkeye Downs, Poland China boars, and multiple hay grain and dairy sales with dates from Oct 5 to Oct 19.
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George Coster
Mt Vernon
Duroc
Greg F. Vaske
James B. Ridenour
Newhall
Tamworth
Iowa
Tamworth Breeders Association
Cedar County Fairground
Tipton
Poland
E. Hay
Morcy
Hawkeye Aberdeen-Angus Assn
Hawkeye Downs
Albert Stuart
Berkshire
Milo V. Wolrab
Mt. Vernon
Hampshire
H. L. Armstrong
Viola
Helgens Brothers
Monticello
John W. Millburn
Palo
Jim and
Howard Elliott
Schedule change for Lis bon adult class discussions
Lisbon announces a shift in meeting dates. The meat-type hogs and Wilson and Company packing plant topic moves from October 11 to November 22, per instructor Grover Miehe. Farm safety and electrification class now holds on October 11.
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Lisbon
Wilson and Company
Cedar Rapids
Grover Miehe
Miehe
Benson Sez Farmers Fared Better Between Two Wars
Agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson said farmers are better off now than in the peacetime years between World War I and II. He noted stable farm prices, argued price declines occurred under the previous administration, and cited postwar aid and Korea as factors shaping current agriculture. He described today’s farm economy as historically peacetime in activity with prices near parity.
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Benson
Ezra T Benson
Korea
Four H Winners Picked at Cattle Congress in Waterloo
Iowa reporters list 4-H dairy cattle champions at the National Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo. Winners by breed include Ayrshires, Brown Swiss, Jerseys, Guernseys, Holsteins and Milking Shorthorns with champions and showmen named alongside county group placements.
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Cattle Congress
Waterloo
Iowa
National Dairy Cattle Congress
Ayrshires
Donald L. Mackey
Olin
Larry Sears
Grinnell
Janice Campbell
Mackey
Black Hawk County
Herbert Zumbach
Ryan
Stanley Orskog
Callender
Lanny Wilcox
Guernsey
Karen Bright
Eldora
Zumbach
Webster County
Tommy Lyon
Toledo
James Tharp
Sutherland
Larry Skala
Tama
Tama County
Guernseys
Arliss Whisler
Donahue
Forrest Converse
Dike
LeRoy Woodruff
Indianola
Mary Vin Mahr
Converse
Warren County
Holsteins
USDA Reports Fewer Forest Fires in 1954
Washington reports eight months into 1954 forest fires total 7839, down from 7909 in 1953. Officials credit unusually wet conditions in lightning-prone areas, but warn fall fire season is far from over with drought in California and the South. East and Midwest face high danger as leaves fall and tinder fuels rise. Hunters picnickers campers and woods workers boost fire threat in fall.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
U.S. Forest Service
California
Midwest
FCA Reports Record Loans During 1954
The Farm Credit Administration said in Washington that in the first six months of this year farmers obtained more home mortgages from national farm loan associations than ever before. Officials noted 16 percent, about one in six, of all mortgage borrowers used a credit cooperative.
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Washington
INL
Farm Credit Administration
National Farm Loan Associations
Lot Prices at Wayne Olson Sale Near Cedar Rapids
Top cow sold for 300 dollars at the Wayne Olson sale south of Cedar Rapids. Feeder pigs around 130 pounds brought 33.25. open gifts averaged 38 per head. Pullets sold for 1.35 and hay at 0.80 per bale. Wesley Waterhouse was the pachinainodd and Keith Noll the icer.
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Wayne Olson
Cedar Rapids
Wesley Waterhouse
Keith Noll
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