Michigan Farms Generate 733 Million In Gross Receipts
Michigan's 100000 plus farms reported gross receipts over 733 million dollars for last year. Costs consumed about 83 percent of receipts with over 615 million spent on supplies capital outlays and labor. Net income per farm averaged under 2500 dollars while off farm income filled gaps. Livestock drives over half of state cash receipts with dairying and cattle providing two fifths. Dairy accounts for 200 million, placing Michigan among top ten dairy states.
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Michigan
Clare
Isabella
Clare County
Crop Reporting Service
Four 4 H Youth Show At Michigan State Fair
Dee and Darell Dunkle with four steers and John Simpkins with one steer spent ten days at the Michigan State Fair. They competed in 4 H and open classes and all placed well. Jane Ann Walters of the Eagle 441 Club, representing Clare County, won a blue ribbon.
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Dee
Darell Dunkle
John Simpkins
Jane Ann Walters
Eagle 441 Club
Clare County
Church notices and county extension club plans listed
Local church schedules include Eagle Church of God St John s Evangelical Lutheran and others with service times. County Agent Desk reports 1962 extension activities, fall rally in Grayling and new extension club plans with Clare meeting details. Prices from Clare Livestock Auction show market ranges for cattle hogs calves and sheep.
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Albert Lyons
Grayling
Isabella County farmers adopt new soil conservation plans
New cooperators in Isabella Soil Conservation District include Martin Stover and Keith Hill of nearby townships. Duane Kenny of Lincoln Township completes a 40 acre plan with erosion control and a rotation for cash crops. Robert Cowden plans upland crop rotation and ditch bank work. Raldon Pasch expands ditch and tile drainage on 80 acres, increasing internal drainage awareness in 1961 62.
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Isabella Soil Conservation District
Martin Stover
Coe
Keith G. Hill
Rolland
Ray F. Adams
Broomfield Township
Duane Kenny
Lincoln Township
Duane
Robert Cowden
Isabella
Bob
Raldon Pasch
Nottawa
Raldon
Isabella County
Michigan hosts aid IFYE program for 15 years
Nearly 20,000 American families have hosted more than 2,700 International Farm Youth Exchange delegates from foreign countries. Michigan has welcomed 62 youths to 40 countries since the IFYE program began 15 years ago.
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International Farm
Michigan
Michigan woodlots reach 900 tree farms over 1.3 million acres
Michigan now lists over 900 certified tree farms spanning more than 1.3 million acres and growth is likely with systematic management. At Mio's Great Lakes Forestry Expo in late July, 59 new Michigan tree farms were dedicated, as Lester Bell of Michigan State University notes many woodlots underutilize their crop potential.
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Michigan
Mio
American Forest Products Industries, Inc
Lester E. Bell
Michigan State University Extension Forester
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Raymond Schultz
Reorganized Church OF Jesus Christ ON Latter Day
Saints Farwell
Hobart L. Beavers
Farwell Methodist Charly
John Allan
ST. Ann East
Old US
Charles M. Stuart
Loomis Missionary Church
Ernest Belella
Methodist Church
D. BR. Salisburry
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Sofi McEwan
Clare Ikew
Eugene
Hamblin
Farwell
Missionary Church
Wesley Teale
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Pine Streets
Otis C. Lang
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William Groeneveld
Young Peoples Meeting
Brown Corners
United Brethren In Christ
C. H. Hall
Christian Endeavor
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Gilmore Church of Christ
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Hiram Gates
Bible School
Colonville Church of God
V. Brinkman
Christian Science Sochity
Clare Masonic Hall
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United Church of Christ
West Fifth Street
van Parker
Arthur Center Church OF God
Herrick Mennonite Church
Floyd I. Bontrager
First Baptist Church
Harold Knickerbocker
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Herbert. E. Lehr
Ed Johnsev
ST. Cecilia’s Catholic Church
J. I. Sruba
Richard Schroeder
Home ¢ Council
Ed Pudway
Lyons County Council
Las Cruses
New Mexico
Chiles
Harrison
Clare Livestock
Capr LE
Dpecsseeeoue
England
Isabella Farm News
Clare, Michigan
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Free Agrico Soil Service
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American Agricultural Chemical Company
David J. Hill
West Branch
Farwell Mills & Elevator
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Rudy Dadacki
McEwan
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