Midwestern Market Quotes Mixed on Wednesday
Grain prices show mixed trends with corn and oats quoted at various levels. Cedar Rapids Wilson Foods sets butchers steady around 45 to 46 dollars with lambs bid 45 to 50 dollars by Wilson Foods Lamb Processing and Mid-America Lamb Processing listing 100 to 120 head with prime spring lambs. Contact details provided for Russ Olson and Ray Zamastil.
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Waterloo Icking Co
Federal-State Market News Service reports mixed farm prices
Wednesday reports overall steady to firm tones in markets with light offerings and rising bid prices. Egg prices show mixed grade levels while live cattle and hog segments reflect modest price shifts amid balanced supplies and steady to uneven demand.
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Livestock Futures Report Amid Mixed Hogs and Cattle Trading
Wednesday livestock trading showed moderate to active hog sales with various weight classes at 40 to 47.5 dollars. Cattle traded moderate with slaughter steers and mixed good and choice categories reflecting gains and declines across weights. Sows rose slightly while boars moved higher on lighter demand.
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Grange leader urges farm aid as practical and needed
Ed Andersen national master of the Grange defends federal farm programs as essential for a stable food supply and argues taxes should fund a food reserve. He backs payment in kind and crop insurance while criticizing past Farm Home Administration lending decisions. Charles Routier elected Iowa Grange state master alongside other officers.
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Farm Progress Show crews prep under Dennis Crawford supervision
In his third year as field demonstrations chief at the Farm Progress Show, Dennis Crawford coordinates harvesting crews to staged fields from Sept 27 to 29. Weather, equipment tuning, and pre-show briefings with field supervisors shape the demonstrations while 60 firms participate in side-by-side comparisons.
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Farm Progress Show assigns 16 field supervisors for 2019
Dennis Crawford will oversee 16 crews at the Farm Progress Show to be held Sept 27 29. Supervisors include Roy Meninga and the Stockdales of Iowa Falls for drying on Lumir Dostal Jr. farm. Others cover silage, plowing, disking, soybean and corn operations, no till, and transport tasks. The show will plant no corn, show no till soybeans, and discuss winter survivability.
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Fairfax State Bank
Farm groups oppose slurry bill targeting eminent domain
Washington farmers and eleven major agricultural groups urged defeat of a slurry pipeline bill that would grant eminent domain to coal slurry lines. Rep. Berkley Bedell outlined an amendment requiring Water Resource Area consent before diverting water, aiming to curb water wars. Opposition warned passage could raise rail and food prices, while Cooper Evans added farm drainage tile restoration provisions. Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota are noted as states potentially affected.
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Pork price spread soars as farmer share shrinks
Rep. Berkley Bedell cites a 398 percent rise in the wholesale to retail pork spread from 1969 to 1982, reducing farmers' pork dollar from 58 percent to 50 percent. Rep. Tom Harkin notes farm value dip 1.9 percent while the spread grows 27.5 percent. Robert Aders of FMI challenges the data as misleading over ten years.
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Beach Boys Prompt Early Opening at National Cattle Congress
Waterloo officials move up the event with a preview night as the Beach Boys perform twice at 6 30 p m and 9 p m to fit their taping schedule. Jersey breeding stock sale debuts Sunday with 35 head. Yoder Feeds barrows rise a tenth of a pound in hot weather aided by sprinklers, says Bernard Ebbing.
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