Draft farm bill targets full production cost as support
Senate aides under Herman Talmadge draft a new farm bill framework using target prices set at the full cost of production and loan rates about 80 percent of costs. The plan retains the 1973 twin target and loan system and would apply to 1978 and later crops with cost estimates for 1974 and 1975 figures guiding projections.
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Bernard Brenner
UPI
Washington
Herman E. Talmadge
D-Ga
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate Farm
Senate
Talmadge
Agriculture Department
Congress
Public input invited on milk price supports for 1977
UPI report notes the Agriculture Department seeks public comment on possible changes to the milk price support floor, with the 80 percent parity target guiding decisions. Officials say current price of 8.26 per hundredweight for manufacturing milk may hold into January, influenced by farm cost indices and quarterly reviews.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Department
Ford
Top dairy herds named at Nebraska awards banquet
The Nebraska State Dairymen's Association honored top herds by breed at a Friday awards banquet. Special recognition went to Carl Ossenkop & Sons of Lincoln for their Holstein herd producing 738 lbs butterfat and 18,962 lbs milk over five years, with other breeds led by Henry Drucke West Point Guernsey Leo Fairley Fairbury Jersey John S Rhodes Beatrice Ayrshire Clinton and Leslie Smith West Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska State Dairymen’s Association
Nebraska
Phil Cole
University of Nebraska- Lincoln Extension Dairyman
Carl Ossenkop & Sons
Lincoln
Henry Drucke
West Point
Guernsey
Leo Fairley
Fairbury
Jersey
John S. Rhodes
Beatrice
Max Kimmerling
High Ayrshire
Clinton
Leslie Smith
Telegram Missing Call Sought For Large Sum
A telegram missing call concerns 64 274 dollars between cent symbol and 30 pm on Saturdays to am. Authorities urge locating the caller and establishing the payment timing amid the confusion surrounding the message.
Farm research success story in America’s history
The document extols agricultural research as America's greatest untold success, noting the United States achieves far higher crop yields and livestock production than other nations. It contrasts modern farming with Indigenous life, describing a vast 10 square mile area in the lower Illinois Valley yielding walnuts, hickory nuts, acorns, deer, squirrels, turkeys, and even black bears, plus numerous small game.
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America
United States
New World
Illinois Valley
Community Dairy and Farm Meetings Across Columbus Area
Readers learn of multiple farm focused events including a Humphrey meeting on cow mating at City Hall, December sessions on family farm incorporation and farm leases, windbreak tree orders via Clarke McNary program, and an all day swine breeder seminar at Schuyler's Johnnies Cafe with a $10 fee. also a cautionary note about handling swine disease and farrowing barn access.
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Humphrey City Hall
Humphrey
Columbus
Johnnies Cafe
Schuyler
Ninth Annual Platte County Rural Recognition Banquet Planned
The Platte County Rural Recognition Banquet is set for Nov 16 at Agricultural Park with more than 500 expected attendees. Guest speaker Jack C. Taylor will appear as the Honorable Timothy Hayes and Dr. Jerry Lee will MC. local families can sponsor farm families via the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce. Awards for outstanding agriculture and 4H work will be presented, and Bicentennial families honored as guests.
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Platte County
Agricultural Park
Columbus
Robert MacFarland
Jack C. Taylor
Taylor
Columbia, Mo
Timothy Hayes
Whoopup
Jerry Lee
Platte College
Columbus Area
Farm News: Production Expenses Far Outpace 1975 Income
The report shows US farmers lost three quarters of earnings from crop and livestock sales in 1975 to production expenses. It highlights the strain on farmers as costs rose while prices and returns lagged.
Pla-Co Pork Producers Set Meeting With Feed Topic
The Pla-Co Pork Producers will meet Tuesday at Klub 81 starting at 8 p.m. A ham dinner follows a social hour. Walter Mejstick from Northeast Nebraska Automation leads program on feed handling in livestock enterprises, with Terry Schrick of Nebraska Pork Producers discussing the checkoff program. Betty Elbracht will give a craft demonstration.
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Pla-Co Pork Producers
Klub
Walter Mejstick
Northeast Nebraska Automation
Terry Schrick
Nebraska Pork Producers
Parkette
Betty Elbracht
Howells
Nebraska dairy herd tops butterfat with 738 lb average
The third annual Nebraska State Dairymen's Association awards honored Carl Ossenkop and Sons Holstein herd of Lincoln for a 738 pound butterfat average, first in the 600 Pound Club based on 1975 76 data. Other top herds from Western, West Point, Bloomfield, Falls City, Fairbury and more received gold silver and bronze awards for butterfat above 460 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska Diary
Nebraska State Dairymen's Association
Lincoln
Carl Ossenkop and Sons
Phil Cole
University of Nebraska- Lincoln Extension
Ossenkop
Edward D. Roesler
Western
Leo Knievel
West Point
Duane Stelling
Bloomfield
Cedar
Fams Inc
Falls City
Richard P. Zimmerman
Fairbury
Cander & Cander
Humboldt
Daniel Drees
Daykin
Menno Murman
Glenvil
Cole
Ossenkop’s
Roesler’s
Stelling’s
Drees
Guernsey
Jersey
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Columbus Telegram
Columbus 9 Telegram
27Th Avenue
Neb
Investors Diversified Services, Inc
13Th St. Columbus
Nebr
Clarke-McNary
Soil Conservation Service
NRD
TGE
Farm News
Fleischer Rexall
S&h
Pla-Co
Rodney Kromman
Washington State University
Shell Valley Dairy Farm
Platte Center
El-Crest Farms
Creston
LeRoy Schroeder
Melvin Bender
Clarks
Eugene Schwarts
Paul Wait
Fullerton
Elk Creek Farms
Roland Hellbusch
Urban P. Imholte
Clarkson
Country View Estates
Rad
M. North
Behlen Manufacturing Company
Commodore Mobile Home
Matt Pollard
Buss Auction & Realty Co. Clerks
Henry Buss
August Runge, Jr
Farmer's
Charles de Gaulle
Henry Winston
Smithsonian
D.E.L
Gloucester
Mass
New England
New York
New Jersey
Middle Atlantic
Piedmont
Southeast
N.Y
Toronto
Montreal
Florida
Greater
Ohio Valley
Deep South
Southern
Great Lakes
Central
Great Plains
Texas-Oklahoma
Rocky Mountain
Southwest Desert
Pacific Northwest
California
Yankee, Inc
Dublin
Mary E. Schumacher
Platte
Platte Center Auditorium
Monroe
ASCS
Conyers Auction Company
Cyril Zoucha
Con Conyers
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