Farm prices seen improving after harvest in Iowa
Ames dispatch reports Iowa State University economist Bob Wisner sees farm prices rising after harvest due to expected price support loans, 1978 feed grain set asides, and possible Soviet purchases. Soybeans may rebound modestly with storage and imports. long term prices likely below last year. In Carroll, Roswell Garst stable after a heart attack at St Anthony Hospital.
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Cedar Rapids
Fri
AMES
Iowa State University Extension
Bob Wisner
Soviet Union
Wisner
U.S
Clod Buster sales request rejected by agriculture chief
DES MOINES AP A New Mexico firm's bid to market Clod Buster soil conditioner to Iowa farmers was denied by Secretary Robert Lounsberry who said the firm Farm Guard Products Co. failed to prove the product's claimed effects. An experimental use was approved. The powder reportedly promotes soil biological growth and affects humic acid, with proposed application about 400 pounds per acre at roughly 125 dollars per ton.
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DES Moines
New Mexico
Towa
Robert Lounsberry
Lounsberry
Farm Guard Products Co
Illinois farmers push for parity at Anna strike meeting
Illinois farmers, urged by Eugene Schroeder and Gerald Wright, call for withholding seeds until fair prices are paid. At Anna, 80 farmers and spouses hear that more than a quarter face liquidation this year and that bankruptcy looms, with speakers opposing subsidies and seeking market parity.
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Anna, Ill
Illinois
Eugene Schroeder
Campo
Colo
Gerald Wright
Hereford
Texas
Anna
Schroeder
Southern
Four farmers cited by Iowa Soil District honors given
Four farmers were cited by the Iowa County Soil Conservation District for land improvements. David McCartney of North English received the owner-operator award for 24 years of soil projects. Clyde Black and tenants Delmar and Larry Wetten of Marengo received a landlord-tenant citation. Sylvester Sherman, 91, won the Izaak Walton League windbreak award for a shelterbelt planted 41 years ago near Ladora. Mary Welsh of Williamsburg received the teacher's education award.
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South Amana
Iowa County Soil Conservation District
David McCartney
North English
Clyde Black
Delmar
Larry Wetten
Black and Wetten
Marengo
Sylvester Sherman
Ladora
Mary Welsh
Williamsburg
Harvest day and court sale listings for October and November
Listings announce a series of auctions and a courtroom sale across Iowa towns. Harvest events include United Church of Christ in Central City and various farm and household goods auctions near Prairieburg Hiawatha Toddville Keokuk County and Frytown. A courtroom sale of land from Hannah Corridan estate is set at Sigourney Keokuk County Courthouse.
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United Church of Christ
Central City
Mach
Leo Machart
Prairieburg
Hh. Goods
Walter Dicken
Hiawatha
Sun
Kenneth Mein
Toddville Road
Hannah Corridan
Keokuk County
Sigourney
Earl B. Weekes
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Kmart
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Tyn
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Nya
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