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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1955
Page
18
Washington, AP. Growing farm price and income pressures and Democratic threats to make them political issues may force a sharp revision in U.S. farm policy under Eisenhower. Leaders fear unhappy farmers could affect 1954 elections and push Benson toward price supports or other market actions.
MARENGO Harlan Backhaus of Marion district SCS conservationist will speak to the Marengo adult school farm class Monday evening Sept. 26. He will discuss fitting conservation practices into the crop rotation. Gene Shore Iowa State college extension engineer will talk on farm building repair in the farm mechanics division of the school the same evening.
Davenport hosts the first Mississippi Valley Old-Time Threshermen's Association event at the fairgrounds Friday to Sunday. A steam engine parade runs daily at 2 p m with sawmill operation prong brake testing threshing demos and a display of antiques on the program.
A sequence of farm auctions and sales across northeastern and central Iowa lists Holstein dispersals, livestock and hay closings, and 4-H calves at Hawkeye Downs. Locations include Lisbon Center Point Monticello Wapello Cedar Rapids North English and Hunter airport with buyers like Mohn and Zenishek Carl Wheeler and Louis F Ruess and Son. Multiple dates from Sept 20 to Oct 1 show times around 1 p.m. or 12:45 p.m. with 80 to 320 acre farms and various livestock.
Iowa City farmers and lawyers will gather Sept 23 24 in Shambaugh lecture room at the State University of Iowa college of law to study farm lease issues water law and social security taxes. Speakers include Ray Emmert E Albert Kreek George Ahrens and E Eugene Davis with a four man panel discussing fair rentals and operating costs.
The Cedar Valley Farm Business Association schedules its annual fall tour Friday. It starts at 1 p.m. on the Charlie Brown farm two miles west of Highway 38 between Olin and Stanwood, featuring hog and heavy cattle feeding. The Meyer dairy and calf hog operation near Highway 38 is the second stop at 2:30 p.m.
L. H. Simers explains hog price dynamics by weight. Consumers prefer 200–220 pound cuts, heavies sell at discounts due to fat and supply. Seasonal shifts, fall demand, and German-origin buyers influence bids. Farmers often sell at lighter weights to avoid lower prices later.
Washington reports that Ezra Taft Benson, secretary of agriculture, rejects blanket acreage allotments and cross compliance for price supports. The Eisenhower administration had floated both controls for 1955 crops but appears to have discarded them by September, signaling no current plan to tighten farm regulation.
In New York a new healing substance Bio- Dyne marketed as Preparation H reportedly reduces hemorrhoids and relieves pain without narcotics or anesthesia. Doctors observed striking improvements in cases lasting years with sustained results over months. The product is sold in suppository and ointment forms with a money back guarantee.
In a 236 page FAO report Rome says huge surpluses of some agricultural products threaten international price stability in coming years. It calls for better production, marketing, price support, and disposal of surplus stocks to prevent price collapse and urges governments to aid adjustment to new conditions. Global output rose about 30 percent from 1946-47 to 1954, but distribution remained uneven with price swings and low farmer incomes amid widespread poverty.
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