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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1976
Page
5
Manchester resident Martin Hillers Jr. receives the Delaware County Pork Producers organization honor as master Pork Producer. Hillers has raised hogs for 30 years, exhibited since 1961, and markets 800 to 1,000 hogs annually, mainly purebred Durocs graded on quality. The Delaware county park barbecue drew about 1,100 attendees with Windsor chops featured.
The Pork Producers in Delaware County Iowa, with 735 members, elected two directors and named Angie McDonald 17 Hopkinton as county pork queen and Doris Gull 17 Greeley as runner up. McDonald is a West Delaware High School student and NHS member. New officers include Lawrence Werner Manchester president and Gary von Talge Manchester vice president. Sigourney hosts Keokuk County Farm Bureau officers led by Lloyd Hahn president and Maryl Grove vice president along with secretary Chris Wondelich and treasurer Lyie Snakenberg. Entertainment by Farm Bureau Women’s chorus.
Jowa City reports the Parson Berry Reyman Duroc sale where the highest boar sold for 2200 dollars. Leonard Reyman of Swisher owned the top animal sold to Dave Hartl of Ames who also bought a gilt gift for 550 dollars. The event totaled 37230 dollars with boars averaging 379 and gilts 250.
Dave Hubler of Lisbon captured the Pork Center hog show carcass title in the new on the farm production division. His 161 pound carcass measured 32.2 inches with 1 inch backfat and a 5.5 square inch loineye.
A string of farm and household auctions spans September with events in Mt Vernon Ryan Craig and surrounding areas. Listings include farmland, machinery and livestock sales along with moving and closeout auctions by various organizers and locations.
Clinton Smith a 39 year old independent farmer near Grinnell discusses his Grange leadership duties as acting state master substitute, the Grange’s nonpartisan stance, youth and senior programs, local projects, and issues like dam construction and tax reforms during a three day state convention in Manchester.
Dan Stadtmueller was elected president of the Jones County Farm Bureau at the annual meeting in Anamosa, with Thomas Sivet as vice president and Douglas Adams as secretary. Wilbur Peters was chosen as voting delegate for a three year term. Women's officers were re elected. About 350 attended. the bureau has 1,789 members. The group adopted nine state issue and eight national issue resolutions and favored adjustments to property tax assessments, corn loan rate increases, and a recourse commodity loan instead of grain delivery to the government.
Anamosa farmer Les Toenjes bought the high selling Duroc boar from Klein and Hartl for 1200 dollars at the state sale in Webster City. The champion boar was shown by Martin Solheim and Sons of Eagle Grove. Other top prices included 1000 dollars for a reserve boar and 700 650 dollars for gifts, with multiple buyers from Iowa Falls Mallard Storm Lake and Baxter.
A fall outlook meeting sponsored by the extension service will be at 8 pm in the Farmers State Bank in Marion. Eldon Olson and Eldon Hans will discuss grain and livestock, prospective marketings, and factors to consider for management decisions amid grain supplies and livestock numbers. The note adds that markets are unpredictable and producers should gather information before marketing decisions, with an additional dated line about a 1665 London bubonic plague event.
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