Warmth Needed To Mature Iowa Corn Early Dough Stage
The Iowa crop and livestock reporting service reported 88 percent of Iowa corn has reached roasting ear or early dough stage. Higher temperatures and air movement over the next two weeks are needed to accelerate development. In northwest Iowa late planting and dry weather slowed progress while other regions show denting and beginning to cure. Clover seed yields range from poor to excellent with 75 percent of normal statewide. Soybean prospects look better than early season. some areas show early maturity. Pastures remain in good condition and fall plowing is about one third done as moisture allows field work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Des Moines
Iowa
Hillculture Field Day Draws 450 Farm People
Approximately 450 farm people attended the Hillculture experimental farm field day west of here. Dr J M Aikman, project superintendent, led the program and supervised the activities Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Here
M . Aikman
Farm Auction Notices From Gazette Listing Sales
A Gazette ad lists upcoming farm auctions with times and locations. Wroblewski and Burg stahler hold livestock sale 4% north of Cedar Bluff on Friday September 6. Burdette closing out sale 34% northeast of Hud son on Saturday September 7. Glenn Ritze public auction 34 miles northwest of Alburnett on Monday September 9. Mrs Ira Grassfield closing out sale 614 miles southeast of Anamosa on Tuesday September 10. Mrs Moltmann closing out sale 3 miles northeast of Anamosa on Tuesday September 10. Mrs Fannie Reed land sale 3 miles southeast of Walford on Wednesday September 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wroblewski
Burgstahler
Cedar Bluff
TV. Burdette
Hudson
Glenn Ritze
Alburnett
Ira Grassfield
Anamosa
Fannie Reed
Walford
Stanwood Horse Show Opens Thursday Evening
Stanwood prepares for its annual horse show with saddle and pleasure classes opening Thursday evening. The judging ring and accommodations have been overhauled and enlarged. Draft classes judge Friday. hitched classes Friday evening. grand finale features Norman Conrad's trained Belgians in a demonstration closing the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanwood
Idaho Wheat Piled On Ground At Bonneville
Foster Robertson, secretary of the Agricultural Adjustment agency, said farmers in Bonneville Idaho are dumping wheat on the ground due to storage and rail car shortages. About one third of needed storage is available and railroad cars are far short of requirements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Foster Robertson
The
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
Bonneville
Robertson
Soybean Pioneer William Riegel Dies at 63
William E. Riegel of Tolono Illinois, 63, a farmer who pioneered the soybean's introduction to the Midwest, died Tuesday from a heart ailment in Champaign Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champaign, Ill
William E. Riegel
Tolono, NL
Middle West
OPA Man Sees Meat Scarcity Likely With Or Without Controls
Omaha district OPA Director Edwin F. Moran told reporters that a meat shortage was likely in the year ahead, noting demand would outpace supply even without price controls. He cited seasonal drops in September meat shipments and extra cattle shipped in August to exploit higher prices before controls. Moran warned rising prices would simply raise costs for consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Sns
OPA
Edwin F. Moran
Nebraska
Moran
Livestock Rollback Drops Commodity Index
Washington reports the OPA rollback of cattle and hog prices described as triggering the first major recession in five months in the wholesale commodity price index compiled by the National Fertilizer association. The index fell to 1737 for the week ending Aug 31 from 1764, while cotton and foods reached new highs due to higher butter, bread, oranges, dried beans and canned salmon quotations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
OPA
National Fertilizer Association
Association
Closing Out Sale at Anamosa Area Farm Auction
Public auction at my home 3 miles northeast of Anamosa on Highway 161, featuring Holstein cows, heifers, pigs, horses, grain, hay, chickens, a 1929 Buick, 1937 Ford, farm machinery, tools, harness, cream equipment, shop tools, and assorted household items. All must go in a complete closing out sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
First
Upper Amber Road
Ford
Allis Chalmers
Iowa
Concord
Hog price ceilings reshuffled by OPA hit interior Iowa
The OPA cut 15 cents per hundred on interior hogs while central markets keep the $1.40 to $1.45 spread. Chicago leads with $16.25. interior Iowa plants at $15.70. The differential aims to balance receipts but cuts farmers’ income and may fuel black market risk as ceilings expire next June 30. Production incentives and dairy decontrol cautions follow in ongoing price policy debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmers
OPA
Iowa
St. Paul
Chicago
Sioux City
Omaha
Kansas City
St. Joseph
St. Louis
Indianapolis
Wilson and Company
Cedar Rapids
Wyoming
Congress
Goo
Wis
Iowa Farm Price Index Signals August Peak
Iowa farmers saw the price index reach 280 percent of the 1910–14 average on Aug 15, led by record livestock prices while the crop index slipped from 305 to 267. The overall gain was driven by livestock as the prices paid to prices received ratio reached a favorable 147, though pending September data may shift the reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Farmers Face Critical Shortage Of Machinery
Grant Dillman reports that American farmers confront a severe machinery shortage despite a rise in tractors. Wartime wear and an agricultural shift toward mechanization have reduced work stock, with 1.4 million fewer horses and mules since 1942. Output lags demand due to strikes, labor shortages, and evolving attachments expanding farm tech use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant Dillman
Ysaaron
America
A. P. Brodell
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
MNRRA
Brodell
War years boost in mechanical farming across crops
A Cleveland field report notes 1945 harvest gains in oats soybeans and other grains with about 40 percent of oats and 11 million acres of soybeans harvested by combine. Corn pickers up 30 percent since 1942 and total mechanical harvesting expected to nearly double. New power farm machines like tractor mowers windrow balers buck rakes and stacker loaders show strong wartime growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eage
Brodell
Sweden bans nonoperators from buying large farm land
Sweden passes a law forbidding purchase of farm land by nonoperators. Property over 5,000 crowns requires government permission, aiming to prevent growing large holdings by wealthy individuals and to stop land bought as an investment rather than for operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Sweden
Dairy Cattle Congress Entries Break Records in Waterloo
Waterloo reports 1946 Dairy Cattle Congress entries surpassing all prior years with cattle from New Jersey Texas Colorado and New York. A record $40000 in prize money will be awarded across shows including National Belgian Horse and Mid-West Saddle Horse events plus women’s and girls’ departments garden show and rabbit show. Poultry and waterfowl shows were cancelled. 85000 square feet of hall space plus 20 acres host machinery farm equipment and food displays. 4-H dairy entries are limited to fit barn space and only top animals advance from elimination rounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
New Jersey
Texas
Colorado
New York
Congress
Dairy Products
State Department of Agriculture
Central West
Also Mentioned on This Page
M. Feder
Iron & Steel Scrap
F Ave
Little Giant
Kalamazoo
Lincoln Electric
Second Avenue SE
Merchant Sale
Vinton City Limits
Nathan
Bud
Iowa Livestock Exchange
Springers
Edmond Bonts
Chester Risdal
Veal
Sitton McClosky Veats
Ray Nolan
Simon
Scharder
Klouda
OWA Livestock Exchange
12Th Avenue
12Th Street
Tony Schmitz
George B. Basker van Horne
Clara M. Olfmann Lee Bebce
Citizens Savings Bank
Barryard Chatter
Dean Smith
Ryan
Grover Davis
Independence
Linn
Peoples Savings Bank of
Iowa State College Extension
Rk. B.C
Center Point
Summit Street
R. D. Watson
Geo, Price, Alburnett
Thomas McGowan
Glenn E. Ritze
Peoples Bank
Geo. Price
W. A. Hogan
Greenfield Township
Martelle
Ed Pospishil
Monticello State Bank
Hogan Estate
Combine
Grain Combine
Denver
Serum
St. SW
Jersey
Orange School
T. V. Burdette
Hudson State Bank
Oscar Tostlebe
Cattle Congress
Morley
Guernsey
Poland
Orib
Ira Grassfield Lee Bebee
Auct
Citizens Saving Bank
Northwestern
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!