USDA Aims to Shift Farm Policy to Local Control
Dr. Byron Shaw announced at Iowa State College in Ames that the Eisenhower administration will decentralize USDA functions and emphasize local participation in farm programs. He urged farmer involvement to build a stable, nationwide policy rather than separate commodity plans, warning against one-commodity programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MES
Eisenhower
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Byron Shaw
USDA
Agricultural Research Administration
Ames
American Country Life Association
Iowa State College
J. Earl Coke
Shaw
Department of Agriculture
One Million Walnuts Planned for Iowa State Lands
Iowa State Conservation Commission will plant one million walnuts on state lands this fall and next spring as part of a five year program begun in 1951. Past efforts included more than 900000 nuts planted by scouts and other groups, with a recent crop failure earlier limiting totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
INS
Iowa State Conservation Commission
Commission
Peoples Bank Cedar Rapids Newhall Center Point Notice
Open a checking account at Peoples Bank in Cedar Rapids or at one of its offices in Newhall and Center Point. Pay bills by check. Your cancelled check serves as receipt and your check stubs show how money is spent.
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Peoples Bank
Cedar Rapids
Les
Newhall
Center Point
Ss. Park
Local farm and livestock sales announced around the region
Oct 9 closing out sale for Mac H Stone 4% mi NE of Central City and Oct 10 Hawkeye Aberdeen Angus sale at Hawkeye Downs with 85 top bred heifers and 65 steer calves. A H Stuart New Hall sales manager. Oct 13 1:30 p.m. 185 acre farm public auction 44 mi NE of Traer Wm Howard owner. Oct 14 Poland China boat sale Helgens Bros 6 mi SE of Monticello. Public sale dairy cattle equipment C D Shaffer 7 mi NW of Alburnett.
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Mac H. Stone
Central City
Hawkeye Aberdeen- Angus Breeders Association
Hawkeye Downs
A. H. Stuart
Newhall
Walter Brennan
West Branch
Traer
Wm. Howard
Poland
Helgens Bros
Monticello
C. D. Shaffer
Alburnett
Treer
Highway 63
Pore Road
Inghem
Ing
Florida
Irv
Howard
Avuetts
Tony Schmitz & Son
van Horne
Iowa
Dairy Cattle Congress Names Grand Champions
Judging at the National Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo yielded top honors for the Ayrshire grand champion exhibited by West Unity Ayrshire Farms of Ohio and reserve to Howie Lang of Brooklyn Iowa. Lakewood Farms Mundelein Illinois took the grand champion female, while Shadel Farms Janesville Wisconsin won Jersey female grand honors. Estel, longtime congress secretary-manager, was honored by the Dairy Shrine club with his portrait unveiled. he serves 35 years as secretary-manager and is secretary-treasurer of the Iowa State Dairy Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
INS
National Dairy Cattle Congress
West Unity Ayrshire Farms
West Unity
Ohio
Howie Lang
Brooklyn
Iowa
Lakewood Farms
Mundelein
Shadel Farms
Janesville
Wis
Dairy Shrine Club
Estel
Congress
Iowa State Dairy Association
Iowa Red Clover Seed Output Falls 20 Percent in 1953
Iowa’s 1953 red clover seed crop is estimated at 10,340,000 pounds of clean seed, down 20 percent from 1952. About 220,000 acres were harvested at an average yield of 47 pounds per acre, with the ten year state average at 300,400 acres and 41 pounds. United States production falls 12 percent from last year to about 92 million pounds, with an average yield of 57 pounds per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
United States
Reporting Service
Stepaneks Buy 80 Acre Farm South of Kirksville
Mr and Mrs Vernon Stepanek purchase an eighty acre farm five miles south of Kirksville Missouri and plan to move there at the start of the new year.
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TRAER
Vernon Stepanek
Kirksville
Old Sale Bill Recalls Auction Of 50 Years Ago
Chelsea remembers a 50 year old closing out sale on Joseph Kupka s Chelsea farm as he planned to enter real estate. Hogs sold for 4.50 per hundredweight and cows for 35 a head with a 90 dollar short horn bull. Horses brought 125 to 150 each and corn 15 to 17 per acre. The lunch was a big draw in 1903. Kupka s son Otto remains on the farm with two daughters and a widower still active in daily mail hauling.
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William P. Kupka
Chelsea
Joseph Kupka
H. F. Novak
Frank W
Kupka
A. N. Claes
Cedar Rapids
Raymond Spotts
Waterloo
Frank Burrell to Speak at Sheep Meeting Tuesday
Ames Iowa rancher Frank Burrell and Dr E M Baldwin veterinarian with Corn States Serum Co will speak at the Feeders day program at Iowa State College Tuesday Topics include Sheep and Lamb Production on an Iowa Farm and Disease Most Prevalent in Iowa The program begins at 10 a m with lamb lot inspections and lab reports on roughage to grain ratios nitrogen supplements and rumen nutrition Speakers include C C Culbertson and other program participants.
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Ames
Frank Burrell
Urbana
E. M. Baldwin
Corn States Serum Co
Omaha
Iowa State
Urrell
Handlin
C. C. Culbertson
Animal Husbandry
The
College
Burrell
Iowa
Frank Baldwin
Beech Avenue
Rumen Nutrition Laboratory
Two Are Honored At Country Life Assn Conference
An Iowa educator and an Indiana farm woman received the outstanding contribution awards at the Country Life Association conference dinner at Iowa State College. R K Bliss, retired extension director, and Ipins W Lew Otterbein were praised for leadership in rural life improvement.
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Country Life Assn
Ames
Iowa
Indiana
American Country Life Association
Iowa State College
R. K. Bliss
The
Coloi
Ipins W. Lew- Otterbein
Ind
Associated Women of the American Farm Bureau
Bliss
Iowa State
Joe Ackerman
Sewell
American Medical Association
Brig
University of Wisconsin
American Farm Bureau
Patton accuses administration of blind to cattle price woes
National Farmers Union president James G. Patton charges the Eisenhower administration ignores simple economic facts by refusing to use all resources to aid distressed cattle producers. He says Benson should implement price supports, while Benson defends current measures like buying processed beef as preferable to direct price supports.
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Denver
Colo
James G. Patton
The
National Farmers Union
Eisenhower
Ezra T. Benson
Patton
Farmers Union
Benson
Agriculture Secretary
USDA Predicts Milk Surplus For Next Year
Washington predicts a milk surplus in 1954 with total production seen at about 118 billion pounds, while carryover and dairy product stocks rise. Government storage could reach about eight and a half billion pounds, with prices tied to the 1954 price support level announced next March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
State Department
Agricu
Department
Prairie Farmer Editor Elected President of AC Life Assn
Paul C. Johnson editor of Prairie Farmer Chicago was elected president of the American Country Life Association at its annual conference at Iowa State College. He succeeds Mrs Haven Smith of Nebraska. Lois M Clark of Washington re elected secretary.
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Ames
Paul C. Johnson
Prairie Farmer
Chicago
American Country Life Association
Iowa State College
Johnson
Haven Smith
Chappell, Neb
Iy Farm Bureau Fed
Harry Be Varney
Univere Ae and Forestry
Lois M. Clark
Washington
National Educational Association
Reoes
Associaon
Davis Urges Dairy Industry to Embrace New Methods
Assistant Agriculture Secretary John H. Davis urged the dairy sector to abandon tradition and pursue new production, processing, and marketing paths. Speaking at the Dairymen's League Cooperative Association meeting in Syracuse, he called for incentives to reduce costs, improve quality, and expand distribution to raise per capita milk consumption.
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Ant
John H. Davis
Davis
Dairymen’s League Cooperas Association
Syracuse
Cerro Gordo PMA Head Fired by State Committee
Cerro Gordo county PMA chairman Elmer Krause of Nora Springs was removed after a Cerro Gordo meeting with 15 township delegates. J Monroe Ryburn of Rockwell was named to succeed him amid reports of missed reports and bin storage delays.
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Mason City
Cerro Gordo County
PMA
Elmer Krause
Nora Springs
Dwight Meyer
Odebolt
Robert Lott
Albia
J. Monroe Ryburn
Rockwell
Krause
Meyer
State Office
Reret
State Ofce
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Barryard Chatter
Dairy Cattle Congress
Missouri Farm
Sides Burrell
Baldwin
William H. Hale
Gerald van Nada
Iowa Packing Co
John Miller
Petersen Sheep and Cattle Co
Leroy Getting
Sanborn
L. M. Kyner
J. C. Petersen
Spencer
Eugene Francis
W. F. LaGrange
Wise Burroughs
Women's and
Cedar Rapids’ Shoe Center
Second Avenue
Country Life Post
Raytheon
Second Ave
Art
Standard Appliance CO
Coleman
MOET
Standard
Tenth Street
M. Feder & Sons Iron and Steel
F Avenue
Dial
New Angles
Ashington
Nutrona
Riverside
14Th Ave
E. Cohn & Sons, Inc
L Street
Cerro Gordo
Standing Rock
Fort Yates
N. D
Sioux City
Anamosa Livestock
Anamosa Livestock Auction
D. E. Brickley & Sons
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