Credit Called Top Factor In Agricultural Growth In Omaha
Thomas A. Maxwell Jr of the Federal Land Bank of Omaha tells the golden anniversary meeting that credit underpins U S farming growth. Loans rose to over 700 million with 50 000 farmers served while delinquencies are at a record low. High bond rates may persist.
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Omaha
Thomas A. Maxwell, Jr
Federal Land Bank of Omaha
Federal Land Bank Association
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wyoming
Maxwell
Omaha Land Bank
Poland China and Chester White sales in Monticello and Vinton
Wednesday fest 20 at 7 4 pm Ed and Galen Helgens hold Poland China boar and gilt sale eight miles southeast of Monticello Chester White sale follows on fest 21 at Walter Schminke and Sons seven miles southeast of Vinton Saturday Sept 2 8 morning Holstein s apersst Bar Zumbach 44 miles northwest of Ryan
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Poland
China
Galen Helgens
Monticello
Chester
Walter Schminke and Sons
Vinton
Neen
Holstein
Apersst
Bar Zumbach
Ryan
Wheat Growers Urge Restraint in 1967 Wheat Marketing
The National Association of Wheat Growers executive board at a Denver meeting urged restraint in marketing the 1967 crop. Board members from 10 member states called for using loans and storage payments to boost prices by delaying sales as harvest moves flood the market. President Allen Tom of The Dalles Oregon spoke on the impact of heavy harvest-time movement on prices.
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Denver
UPI
National Association of Wheat Growers
Allen Tom
Dalles
Ore
Manchester FFA Boys Auction Labor Benefit
Manchester FFA members plan to replenish their chapter treasury by auctioning their services at the Chamber of Commerce auction along West Main Street. Fifty energetic members offer eight hours of labor for Sept 23 or 30 or Oct 5.
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Manchester
FFA
Chamber of Commerce
Main Street
IFYE Delegate From Italy Heads to Strawbery Point
Ivan Carlini, an IFYE delegate from Italy, will live with the J. O. Gibbs family near Strawbery Point for three weeks starting September 19. Mrs. Gibbs will meet her at New Sharon after visiting another Iowa farm family.
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Strawberry Point
Lilivan Carlini
IFYE
Italy
J. O. Gibbs
USDA Warns About Cereal Leaf Beetle Quarantine
The agriculture department warns against violating the cereal leaf beetle quarantine. The beetle, a major destroyer of wheat, barley, and oats,已 infests Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Violations by out-of-state farmers, truckers, and locals threaten spread and up to 30 percent crop loss in the Midwest.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Midwest
Hudson Pig Dealer’s Registration Lifted Suspension
Hudson Iowa livestock dealer La Voy Orner doing business as Blackhawk Feeder Pig Co. had his Packers and Stockyards Act registrant status suspended by USDA Judicial Officer Thomas J. Flavin for 60 days from Sept. 5 and until financial conditions meet act requirements. He was ordered to cease issuing bad checks for livestock payments.
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Washington
la Voy
Soybeans Face Competition in World Markets
Washington AP American soybean growers face tougher world competition as a record world output of sunflower seeds and near record fish oil and meal supplies press demand. The United States may export about 250 million bushels of beans and 1.2 billion pounds of soy oil with similar meal, generating roughly $1.1 billion in exports for the government year ending June 30.
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Washington
United States
Agriculture Department
Millet Cedar Rapids Iowa August milk price set at 4 62 a cwt
The August uniform price for Grade A milk in the Cedar Rapids Iowa City market is 4.62 per cwt for 3.5 percent milk. Butterfat differential is 7.7 cents per cwt per 0.1 percent above or below 3.5. Class I utilization rose while deliveries fell. Receipts averaged 305266 pounds daily. 321 producers averaged 951 pounds daily.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
E. H. McGuire
McGuire
July meat imports rise 45 percent from year earlier
Washington AP reports meat shipments imported into the United States in July rose 45 percent from the same month a year earlier to 88.7 million pounds. Government figures show overall import use at about six percent to 466.3 million pounds of fresh and frozen beef veal mutton and goat meat in the first half of 1967.
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Washington
United States
Jowans Named to P&S Committee
The U S department of agriculture announced 15 new members to the Packer and Stockyards Livestock Committee with a Washington meeting set for Oct 18. Iowa appointees include Lester B Bookey Des Moines Erwin E Dubber Laurens and Leon C Haahr Newell serving one year terms.
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Washington
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Lester B. Bookey
Bookey Packing Co
Des Moines
Erwin E. Dubber
Laurens
Leon C. Haahr
Newell
USDA
Williamsburg Adults School Opens With Meat Consumers Topic
Williamsburg will host the first of twelve sessions of the adult farmers evening school Wednesday in the high school loag room. The series theme is The Business of Farming and the opening topic Where the Meat Consumer's Dollar Goes will be discussed by a panel including a wholesaler a packer representative a beef producer and a pork producer.
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Williamsburg
Lo Ag
Keota Farmers Class To Start Wednesday
Soybean disease topics headline the adult farmers class Wednesday at 7 PM in the high school vocational agriculture room. Attendees should bring soybean plants healthy and diseased for study. The October 4 session will cover the 1968 farm outlook.
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Keota
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