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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1967
Page
15
UPI reports Soybean Council of America warns that sharp policy changes are needed to preserve markets for soybeans amid rising foreign competition and slowing U.S. consumption growth. Officials debate lowering price supports and boosting per acre yields to sustain farmer returns while safeguarding export markets.
Iowa reports 1967 red clover seed output at 2,730,000 pounds from 35,000 acres, down 23 percent from 1966 and below the 1961-65 average. Nationally, U.S. production reaches 44,823,000 pounds, down 30 percent from 1966 and the lowest since 1937, with imports totaling 3,081,500 pounds.
Listings cover multiple sales including Guernsey milking cattle, Holstein dispersal, and closing out auctions for dairy caps cattle and machinery. Days span Oct 19 to Oct 28 with locations near Viola Strawberry Point Alburnett Coggon Center Point Oxford Fairfax and Norfolk area. Highlights include Hereford calf sales at Coggan and Hawkeye sale barns and the Cedar Valley Hereford Association managing the events.
The text laments the impact of Dutch elm disease on eastern Iowa elms near Marion. It notes few elms remain in woodlands and predicts only protected urban elms will survive at high cost, calling the disease the greatest tree destroyer since the American chestnut blight.
The U S department of agriculture will hold a public hearing in Des Moines Iowa on November 16 at 10 a m at the Fort Des Moines Hotel to test a proposed Packers and Stockyards Act regulation on grade and yield live stock marketing. The rule would base payments on actual hot carcass weights and exclude handling equipment weights as appropriate.
The American Farm Bureau Federation reports glum farm income despite high consumer income and prosperity. Higher costs and lower prices shrink real earnings, with projected income this year about 1 percent below last year. Inflation erodes dollar value, noting 1967 dollars are worth 4.18 times less than 1939.
Houston based Allis Chalmers farm equipment division shows eight month 1967 sales up 13 percent from 1966. L W Davis, general manager and VP, cites drought and low hog and beef prices as reasons for earlier lag but remains optimistic about long term farm economy, aided by worldwide food demand.
Washington AP notes that the United States bought 35 percent of world banana shipments. The USDA reports world trade at 11.28 billion pounds, with 3.95 billion pounds imported by the United States last year.
A 4-H meeting in southwest Delaware County outlines the new project group leader system. Leaders, with extension staff, will organize beef dairy swine sheep and horse projects and match six to twelve members per group to provide specialized training and counseling.
Sen. Frank Carlson says the cost price squeeze on farmers has turned into a bear hug as prices for what they sell fall while costs rise, leaving farmers struggling to survive. The remarks came in Wichita, Kansas, last week.
One hundred years of family ownership at the Ink farm a mile north of Mt. Vernon were celebrated Sunday with more than 200 invited guests at Grange Gables. The Ink family farm became famous for the Country Diary column by Jane and Jim Ink and traces the family from Morgan Ink born in 1825 to R P Ink. The event recalled long CT is shared about the brick barn and house built in 1883 and the farm pond used for ice and summer storage.
The text notes Mr. Ink as a longstanding figure in pranks and initiations, an operator of threshing machines in the steam era, and an early advocate of soil water and wildlife conservation.
Viking Rabbitry of Cedar Rapids took top awards at the American Rabbit Breeders Association national show in Syracuse. The firm earned best Palomino and best opposite sex Palomino, best Golden, best Lynx, plus six other class victories among 3,000 rabbits exhibited. William Hemmer and daughter Mrs. Dale Newport own the business. Newport chairs the Texas hurricane relief committee and seeks cash donations to transport donated rabbits to Kansas City for Texas breeders.
At the Ak-Sar-Ben livestock show in Omaha the top three carcasses were Angus. Champion 616 pound entry from Brad Ray Tekemah Neb had 15.1 square inches loin eye 0.79 inch fat and U S Prime. Second place went to Nancy McClure Dallas Center and third to Randy Mitchell Buckingham Iowa.
The annual meeting of the Allamakee County Farm Bureau was held at Waukon High School, not Postville as previously reported on the farm page. The correction clarifies the venue and redirects readers to the proper location for attendees and affiliates.
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