Lush and Porter Honored by Dairy Shrine Club
Lush, a famed dairy cattle expert, and Arthur R. J. Porter, ISU animal science professor, were recognized at the Dairy Shrine Club meeting in Madison for lifelong contributions. Porter was elected club president for 1970, reflecting ISU leadership in dairy science and industry.
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Lush, Porter
Dairy Shrine Club
Ames
Yay
U. Lush
Lush
Iowa State
Dairy Shrine
Academy of Sciences
Histexclub
Arthur R.J Porter
Madison
Wis
Town State
Porter
ISU
University At
Minnesota
Pally
Iowana Farms
Davenport
Black Hatwk County Dairy Herd Improvement
American Dairy Science Assn
Towa State University
H. H. Kildee
Jamey H. Hilton
Kildee
IL Honat
Small Yield Advantage for Plowing Seen
Ames yields from a Joe O Hara farm minimum tillage demo near Shenandoah matched conventional tillage with 127 bushels per acre on 87 acres. Yields ranged from 5 to 185 bushels per acre due to crop history, slope, and erosion. Plowed plots averaged 132 bu/acre. nonplowed 125 bu/acre. Wind and water erosion risk lowers with no plowing. early planting possible with fewer tillage steps.
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AMES
Joe O'Hara
Shenandoah
Harvey Himing
Lows State University
Ida Grove
Elect Jr Holstein Association Officers
Roger Miller of Clarion was elected president of the Iowa Junior Holstein Breeders Association at a recent meeting. The group selects officers to lead activities and promote dairy cattle standards.
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Jr. Holstein Association
Ames—Roger Miller
Clarjan
The
Lowa
Senate Drafts Broader Hobby Farm Tax Bill Key Changes
Senate Finance Committee proposes a liberalized tax reform affecting hobby farms to curb nonfarm losses. It lets some nonfarm income earners deduct up to half of farm losses above 25,000, tightening limits for nonprofit operations and expanding holding periods for livestock gains to two years for cattle and horses.
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Margaret A. Kilgore Washington
UPI
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Time To Train Poor Nations Rapidly, Rockefeller Executive Says
Washington AP reports Rockefeller Foundation vice president Dr. Will M. Myers told the Agricultural Research Institute meeting that technology and trained labor uplift farming, but developing nations face running out time. He urged a shortcut system to maximize use of currently available skilled people.
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Washington
Rockefeller Foundation
Will M. Myers
Foundation
Agricultural Research Institute
Terraces Outdated Lack Funds Says Pollution Committee
Des Moines AP report notes a senator and Willis Greiner of the Soil Conservation Committee warning that federal aid for farm terraces has fallen from 70 percent to 50 percent. In Dinlon County farms, costs remain a burden as efforts to control erosion lag. A proposed conservancy district bill would fund soil structures via a one mill levy.
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William I. Eberline
DES Moines
Ben
James
Baa
Schubén
Wort
Willis Greiner
State Soil Conservation Committee
Greiner
Iowa
Dale
Cochran
Eagle Grove
Conservancy District Boards
Ullires
Soil Conservation Committee
Cecil Wadley
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Hull
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Standard Oil
Standard
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Cedar Rapids
Norway
Williamsburg
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