USDA Pushes Farm Exports On Long Term Credit
UPI reports administration officials plan a New York meeting on October 17 to outline a program that would help private American exporters sell farm surpluses abroad on long term credit. The plan, approved by Congress last year, limits sales to friendly countries and excludes the Soviet Union Cuba and Communist China. No sales have been authorized yet, but officials hope to launch the program soon.
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Ashington
UPI
Agriculture Department
New York
Congress
Soviet Union
Cuba
China
Iowa entomologist defends pesticides amid Silent Spring debate
Des Moines AP says Dr. Harold Gunderson of Iowa State University argues pesticides used properly aid humans and hurt insects while addressing Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. He notes a new Iowa law licensing commercial pesticide applicators after testing competence and cites credit programs moving U.S. agricultural surpluses abroad.
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DES Moines
Iowa State University
Harold Gunderson
Iowa Seed Dealers Association
America
Far East
Tvity
Gunderson
Congress
U.S
Neighbors Shell 150 Acres For Mrs Paton Relief
Friends and neighbors picked and shelled 150 acres of corn for Mrs Dorothy Paton on Monday and Tuesday. Women from the neighborhood prepared meals for the workers both days. Mr Paton died last summer after a heart attack.
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Hudson
Dorothy Paton
Paton
Evening Class Opens at WAUKON High School
The first of six sessions of the adult farmer evening school will be held Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the WAUKON high school. Norbert Duffy, vocational agriculture instructor, will lead the session.
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Waukon
Adult Farmer
Norbert Duffy
Public Auction Notes Across Iowa Listings
A sequence of farm sales and breed auctions scheduled in Iowa with times and locations. Guernseys pigs sheep dairy cattle and farm equipment are offered at sites near Walker Manchester Cedar Rapids Keystone Winthrop Fairfax and Hawkeye Downs. Auctions include DHIA fall production sale and Hereford 4-H calf sale coordinated by various farm and breed associations.
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Fred Schenk
Walker
Bill Mane
Manchester
Delaware County
DHIC
Iowa
Poland
China Breeders Assn
Hawkeye Downs
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Third In Volume Of Angus Records
Iowa Angus breeders registered 27 262 animals and transferred 22 035 registered cattle in the last fiscal year of the American Angus Assn. Secretary Frank Richards reported Iowa ranks behind Missouri and Texas in registrations and transfers but leads Oklahoma. Across the year the association recorded 345 576 purebred registrations and 270 524 transfers.
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ST. Joseph
Iowa
American Angus Assn
Frank Richards
Richards
Missouri
Texas
Oklahoma
Shuman to Speak at Muscatine County Farm Bureau Meeting
Charles B. Shuman of Sullivan NL president of the American Farm Bureau Federation will address Muscatine County Farm Bureau at an annual meeting October 22. The program starts with a 6:30 p.m. CST banquet in the Elks auditorium.
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Muscatine
Charles B. Shuman
Sullivan, NL
American Farm Bureau Federation
Muscatine County Farm Bureau
Elks Auditorium
Dairy Groups Schedule Joint Annual Meeting
Four Iowa dairy associations plan a two day joint convention October 23 and 24 at the Hanford hotel in Mason City. Separate sessions include the milk producers group on October 23 afternoon and the Creameries Association on October 23 evening. Presidents named are Arthur C. Horn Adolph Elvers T. J. Andersen and Craig W. Morrison.
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Rex Conn
W. M. Lynch
Cedar Rapids
Eastern Iowa Veterinary Assn
Sheraton Diaries
Lynch
Pitman-Moore
Dow Chemical Co
Donald F. Mossman
Lone Tree
C. C. Tucker
Edward Speer
Stanwood
Earl L. Wahl
Anamosa
D. L. Brinkmeyer
New London
Russell H. Anthony
J. G. Irwin
Iowa City
Mason City
Iowa Dairy Associations
Hanford
Iowa Creamery Operators Association
Iowa Creameries Association
Iowa Milk Diners Association
Iowa Milk Producers Federation
Milk Producers Group
Arthur C. Horn
Colesburg
Adolph Elvers
Elkader
T. J. Andersen
Cedar Falls
Milk Idriers Group
Craig W. Morrison
Cresco
Feed Grain Stocks Below 1962 Levels on Iowa Farms
Iowa farmers held less oats barley old crop corn and old crop sorghum on Oct 1 than a year earlier and than the 1957-61 average. Old corn on farms totaled 141,165,000 bushels, 15% below the prior year but 10% above the 1957-61 average. Oat stocks were 99,978,000 bushels, the lowest for Oct 1 since 1934, with farm-stored oats 5% below 1962 and one third under the five-year average. Soybeans carryover was 919,000 bushels, 1% of 1962 production, after large July–Sept disappearances.
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Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Linn County Farmers Institute Dates Announced
WHITTIER The 76th Linn County Farmers Institute will be held November 21 and 22 in the Whittier Community hall. Institute officials announced the move from January to late November to secure better weather and fewer conflicts with other events.
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Whittier
Linn County Farmers Institute
Whittier Comunity Hall
Hereford Sale Set for October 19 at Iowa State Fairgrounds
DES MOINES Iowa October 19 sale by the Iowa Junior Hereford Association begins at 11 a.m. at the Iowa State fairground featuring breeder stock and show animals.
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Des Moines
Iowa Junior Hereford Association
Iowa State Fairground
Farm Bureau Officers Named in Allamakee County
Allamakee County Farm Bureau announces new officers with Maurice Simmonds as president and Ralph Jenkins as vice president. Frank Winnenberger serves as secretary and Kenneth Flage as treasurer. Women’s officers include Mrs Kenneth Kennet as chairman and Mrs John Berg as vice chairwoman.
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Waukon
Allamakee County Farm Bureau
Maurice Simmonds
Ralph Jenkins
Frank Winnenberger
Kenneth Flage
Kenneth Kennet
John Berg
Nathan Hager
Senate Passes Proxmire Bill to Cut Dairy Production
The Senate approved 45 to 33 a two price dairy bill aimed at reducing milk output. Backed by the Kennedy administration, the measure moves to the House where prospects are uncertain. Proxmire says farmers favor such legislation to cut the dairy surplus and lower milk price support costs.
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Washington
Senate
Kennedy
House
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Iowa Hereford registrations total 14 633
Iowa breeders registered 14 633 Hereford animals to rank four teen among states in total registrations. Paul Swaffer, secretary, noted Carl H. Goeken of Atlantic registered 297 calves and J A Johnson of Greenfield 244. Total year registrations reached 513 076, up 12 percent, transfers 296 195, association membership 47 862.
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Kansas City
Iowa
American Hereford Assn
Paul Swaffer
Carl H. Goeken
Atlantic
J. A. Johnson
Greenfield
Swaffer
Waukon Farm Bureau Women to Meet Tuesday
Waukon Allamakee County Farm Bureau women plan a meeting on Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Farm Bureau building in Waukon.
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Waukon
Allamakee County
Farm Bureau
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