Butz criticizes government export marketing expertise
Washington report quotes Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz asserting the government lacks the expertise and managerial capacity to market grain abroad. He favors private marketers and questions a proposed federal agency. The discussion cites 1972 Russia sales and a possible 10 million ton wheat sale this year, with Continental Grain and Canada’s marketing board cited as comparisons. Brooklyn rural electric cooperative to hold annual meeting Friday at junior high school.
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Washington
UPD
Earl
Butz
James Weaver
Dore
Buzz
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Russia
Clarence D. Palmby
Big Continental Grain Co
Canada
Canadian Wheat Board
U.S
Brooklyn
T.).p. Rural Electric Cooperative
Farm Auction Notices Sweep Through Iowa Districts
A string of farm auction notices lists sales across Iowa counties and towns including Johnson, Linn, and Cedar counties. Items include machines, antiques, guns, livestock such as Holsteins, and real estate. multiple estates and dispersal events are scheduled from September 1 to September 20 with times from morning to evening and locations including Fairgrounds Central City and nearby towns.
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Gotteb Keebler
Ryan
Straw
Dale Kohlen Tate
Mechanicsville
Clite
Gunds
Emil Basta
Shueyville
Duroc
Parsons Berry-Reyman
Johnson County Fairground
Iowa City
Dan Kane
Cesnaie
Fri
Austique
Blanche Swindell
Linn County
Thurground
Central City
Sat
Sollien Cow Tops Winneshiek Milk Test Record
A registered Holstein owned by Everett Sollien of Mabel Minnesota led Winneshiek county in a 305 day lactation with a butterfat yield of 745 pounds during June and July. Other notable producers included Albert Ashbacher of Postville with 737 pounds and the Miller and Bjergum herd of Mabel with 710 pounds.
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Decorah
Everett Sollien
Mabel
Minn
Winneshiek County
Albert Ashbacher
Postville
Miller
Egg Production Down Nine Percent in July
Iowa July egg production totaled 187 million, nine percent below 1974. Layers on hand were 7.65 million, down 13 percent from a year earlier, while eggs per bird rose to 20.5 from 19.7. On this date in 1968, IT people were killed and 25 injured in a bus drain collision in Turkey.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Turkey
Red Meat Output Dips From Last Year, Pork Falls Sharply
U S agriculture data show July red meat production at about 2.2 billion pounds with beef 1.9 billion and pork 817 million. Pork output dropped 20 percent from July 1974 to July 1973 levels, while veal jumped to 77 million pounds and lamb and mutton fell 11 percent from a year earlier. Prices for meat and produce surged earlier in the year amid price controls and consumer boycott pressures.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
Cattle and beef price spreads update for mid August
The cattle bill in July totalled 3,399,800 head, 10 percent above last year, but live weight per animal was 68 pounds less than 1974. ERS data show choice beef retail at 1.56 per pound the week of Aug 16, down 1.1 cents. farm value 96.1 cents and carcass value 1.11, with retailers and meatpackers adjusting shares. Pork retail rose from 1.47 to 1.49 per pound, farm value up 2.9 cents to 1.03, wholesale up 7.8 cents to 1.20. week of Aug 23 beef values edged up, pork slid.
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Economic Research Service
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Fergus Falls
Peggy
Minnesota
St. Paul
Sollien
Bishops Buffet
Lindale Plaza
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Peoples Bank and Trust Company
Torousi
Port Everglades, Florida
Cruise
Agafford
Ted Welch
Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
Willemstad
Curacao LA Guaira
Venezuela
Bridgetown
Barbados
Castries
St. Lucia
Pointe-A-Pitre
Guadeloupe
ST. Thomas, Virgin Islands
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Peoples Bank
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