Three Area Bands to Feature in Cattle Congress Parade
The National Dairy Cattle Congress opens Saturday at 10 a m in downtown Waterloo with marching bands from North Linn High School Coggan Shellsburg High School Shellsburg and Dysart Geneseo Community High School Dysart taking part. The event runs through Oct 1.
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Waterloo
Gazette
National Dairy Cattle Congress
North Linn High School
Coggan
Shellsburg High School
Shellsburg
Dysart-Geneseo Community High School
Dysart
Cattle Congress
Korean livestock feed reps visit Iowa to study soybeans
Representatives from Korea, key soybean buyers, will tour Iowa Tuesday and Wednesday to learn U.S. soybean growing. They will visit ASA Hudson headquarters, FS Grain Winton, Cargill Grain Cedar Rapids, and Yoder Feed Mill Kalona. Local sales reports note top boars and gilts with prices and averages.
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West Des Moines
Korea
U.S
Iowa
Iowa Soybean Association
ASA
Hudson
FS Grain
Winton
Cargill Grain
Cedar Rapids
Yoder Feed
Kalona
Iowa panel studies shrink factor harming farmers profits
An Iowa legislative committee began examining the shrink factor used by grain elevators when farmers sell grain. Rep. Richard Byerly cited the issue as potentially the biggest farm problem, noting higher shrink reduces farmer profits. Testimony cited shrink factors of 1.25 to 2 percent with moisture-based calculations. a 1.25 percent cap was proposed but not enacted.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Richard Byerly
Ankeny
Iowa House
Iowa farmers down on Carter in July poll
An Iowa poll of 501 farmers and their wives for Wallaces Farmer shows 54 percent disapprove of President Carter, 26 percent approve, and 20 percent unsure. Commenters blame Congress for poor policy and note worsening conditions, with 75 percent rating his term as fair to poor.
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Iowa
Carter
DES Moines
Clinton County
Black Hawk County
Jones County
Congress
Dallas
Wapello County
Jimmy Carter
Farm Auctions Friday September 15 Set Across Area
Auctions at 12 30 p m feature machine lots with Wes Hamblin and Sons 414 miles north of Jesup Harold Sherman 5 miles northeast of Victor James Harold Reardon 414 miles north of Newhall and Harold Eden Estate sale of machinery household goods and antiques seven miles north of Anamosa.
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Mach
Wes Hamblin and Sons
Jesup
Harold Sherman
Victor
James Harold Reardon
Newhall
Harold Eden
Anamosa
Duroc Boar Tops Sale At National Barrow Show For 27000
At the National Barrow Show in Austin Minnesota a Duroc boar bred by Dick and Ron Morton of Hennepin Oklo sold for 27000 to Kanagawa Perfecture Japan the top price and the event featured several other high bids from Japanese firms for Durocs including a 38000 record in 1973. The article lists multiple buyers and lineage across Duroc Poland Spot and Berkshire classes with prices ranging from 800 to 27000 and buyers including Kanagawa Perfecture Saitama Perfecture Mills Brothers and various farms in Illinois Iowa and Ohio.
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Austin, Minn
Dick and
Ron Morton
Hennepin, Oklo
Kanagawa Perfecture
Forkner Farms
Richards, Mo
Tatsuo Soga
Soga-No-Yo Farms
Mortons
Tam-Lee Farms
Kenney, II
LaVerne Weller and Sons
Dwight, III
Indianola
Melzer
Hanska
Minn
Corn Husker Farms
Shickley
Neb
Orville
Roger Kempers
Sioux Center
Don Rigsby
Madill
Okla
Champion
Larry Crane
Mitchell, S.C
Melzer’s
Spots
Farrer Stock Farms
Royal Center
Ind
Richardson and Gilliam
Newcastle
Lonnie
Debby Robertson
Phenotypic
Ames
John Hess
Batesville
Ark
Phenotypic Acres
Champion Berkshire
Saitama Perfecture
Japan
Berkshire
Gary Getzmier
Schaller
Iowa
Uptown Acres
Holstein
Triple M Farm
Elkton
Wool vote approves four year wool checkoff program
Washington AP reports wool producers approved a four year checkoff to fund wool and lamb promotion by a 3 to 1 mail ballot. Deduction increases would be 2.5 cents a pound for shorn wool and 12.5 cents a hundredweight for unshorn lambs sold for slaughter, expected to raise about 2.5 million in 1978.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
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