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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1976
Page
2
Local farmers facing drought and low feed grain yields may apply for disaster assistance. Eligibility hinges on verified production, farm allotment, and county factors. late applications incur farm visit charges. Payments depend on allotment times yield minus on farm production, at set per bushel rates.
A ninth annual Platte County Rural Recognition Banquet at Agricultural Park at 6 30 p.m. Tuesday features humorist Jack C. Taylor of Columbia Missouri famed for his rustic mayor persona. Taylor has appeared 1500 times nationwide and often riffs on Marriage Middle Age and Other Perils. Bob MacFarland chairs the event which expects over 500 attendees as Columbus businessmen sponsor farm families. Doors open 6 p.m. 4H leaders to be seated on the north side of tables.
Lincoln Nebraska UPI reports the Nebraska Crop and Livestock Reporting Service is sending survey questionnaires to one third of farmers this fall. The first mailings cover acreage and production of fall harvest crops and winter wheat seeding with later surveys planned for livestock poultry and further wheat data.
National Director Eugene Glock of Rising City and ACA Chairman E L Shug Hatcher announce a nationwide four week fact-finding mission. Five teams of farmers and farm wives will visit three cities each to meet with municipal leaders, consumer groups, labor groups, academics, and shoppers.
The Center for Rural Affairs reports growing absentee land ownership in nine Sandhills counties, detailing 81000 acres held by absentee investors and failures to report by Kiewit and other entities. The issue also notes increased remote investment in center pivot irrigation across Dundy County.
The Nebraska Livestock Feeders Association will hold its convention November 29 to December 1 at the Radisson-Cornhusker Hotel in Lincoln. A campus tour and luncheon address by Gov. J James Exon are featured, with legislators and other officials attending.
The Rural Banquet will be held Tuesday at Ag Park at 6 30 p m with 30 4 H leaders alumni seven farm families and agricultural awards. The event emphasizes farm city cooperation for a better community.
At Leigh the NFO heard taped remarks by the Minnesota Commissioner of Agriculture. He compared farming to the Truman era, cited parity targets for milk and crops, noted deflation as fair price, and warned inflation from deficit spending. Delegates were chosen for a Milwaukee convention.
Spring Bakenhus 19 of Columbus is named first runner up in the International Shorthorn Lassie at Lakeview High School and a national candidate at the American Royal meeting. She is daughter of Mr and Mrs Art Fa Jr and attends a Methodist School of era in Omaha.
Washington officials say a government crop report lifts the 1976 corn forecast to 6.1 billion bushels, boosting grain sorghums and soybeans with mixed effects. Carryover corn stocks are seen at 578 million bushels next fall, the largest since 1973, while wheat exports and use are trimmed, soybean carryover falling to about 85 million.
Gerald Woltjer, once a dairy farmer with a productive Holstein herd near Gille, Michigan, has fallen into welfare with about $500,000 in debt after his cattle were contaminated by the 1973 PBB chemical disaster. He and his family suffer health problems including chronic diarrhea and dizziness as doctors study the impact on 1,100 Michigan residents.
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