Worm Farm Plan Doused by Local Zoning Panel
Dolores and Cart Mathers seek a zoning change to buy sell and raise worms on their Polk County farm to fund legal fees for their adopted children. The family grows food, milks goats, and operates beehives while surviving on a tight grocery budget and face pressure from the zoning commission over farming worms commercially.
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Des Moiies
Dolores Mathers
Polk County Board of Supervisors
Mathers
Plan and Zoning Commission
Wold
Theft Farm
OSHA Rules May Cut Down On Ag-Related Accidents
A Cedar Rapids safety workshop, backed by university experts, discusses OSHA rules and their potential to reduce farm and industrial injuries. Speaker Dr. W. Knapp notes OSHA may lower serious incidents as farmers adopt safer practices even when not required to hire workers.
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OSHA
W. Knapp
Occupational Health and Safety Administration
Kinnip
The
Gazette
Waverly drafts and antiques sale runs into the night
Auction workers at the Waverly Sale Car began at 10 am Friday and continued into the early morning with a second crew arriving at 4 am to handle firms sales of antiques and equipment. Horses are planned for Saturday as buyers from the U S and Canada attend the annual event now in its 20th year. OSHA safety notes urge water on site for anhydrous ammonia work and to use rollbars on new tractors. A trauma workshop series by Iowa schools and colleges covers safety and eye protection. The date 1648 marks the Peace of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years War.
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Erley Sale
Canada
Waverly
OSHA
Farsr Ure
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Kirkwood Community College
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Valley Community College of
Marshalltown
Electronic bug may solve thefts in livestock tracing
Iowa City veterinrian Dr. B. A. Butler praises an electronic bug developed by the U S Department of Agriculture. A data bank stores ownership and coding data while JAISDA scientists test a compact sensor implanted in livestock. A handheld reader retrieves the identification, date and temperature to aid law enforcement and disease tracing.
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Iowa City
BE. A. Butler
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Butler
The
Gazette
Jaisda
Livestock industry device eyed to replace branding
Butter unveiled a heat free device for livestock management at a Livestock Conservation meeting in Kansas City and discussed at the Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association in Iowa City. The system may replace hot iron branding and help verify breeding stock genetics and detect disease threats. It could aid artificial insemination timing by measuring temperature during ovulation.
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Livestock Conservation, Inc
Kansas City
Eastern Iowa Veterinary Assq., Inc
Iowa City
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Aflatoxin confined to five Iowa counties says official
Secretary Robert Lounsberry stated the aflatoxin issue is limited to five southwestern Iowa counties Pottawatamie Cass Harrison Shelby and Montgomery where environmental conditions produced infected corn. Central Iowa samples tested Thursday showed no fungus. Human effects remain undetermined.
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Des Moines
Wn Agriculture
Robert Lounsberry
Iowa
Cri
Pottawattamie
Cass
Harrison
Shelby
Montgomery Counties
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