Montana PCAs Freeze Stocks in Liquidation Talks
Two Montana Production Credit Associations plan asset liquidation and B stock freezes as the Missoula and Chinook bodies face voluntary shutdowns. Glendive may follow, while Milk River borrowers seek other financing amid sector stress from farming downturns in cattle, dryland and irrigated crops. Western Montana PCA reports 543 loans with 1.2 million in losses on 40 million loan volume. Milk River 372 loans with 4.7 million losses on 37.7 million. Glendive 339 loans with 2.5 million anticipated losses on 29.8 million. Other PCAs in Twin Falls, Medford, Salem and Mount Vernon have liquidated in 18 months. Western Washington PCA is liquidating now.
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Montana
Agri News
Billings
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PCA
Missoula
Milk River Pca
Chinook
Glendive Pca
Montana Pcas
Montana Pca
Glendive
Pcas
Twin Falls
Idaho
Medford
Ore
Salem
Mount Vernon
Wash
Western Washington
Chehalis
Block cuts ties with farming partner John Block says
Agriculture Secretary John Block on January 24 announced the winding down of his farming operation in Illinois and severing financial ties with partner John Curry. He noted 95 percent of the partnership dissolution is complete and defended his lack of value to Curry as secretary. Curry’s Iowa farm property was placed in receivership January 23 as he seeks bankruptcy protection following a $400,000 low interest disaster loan Block oversees as secretary.
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John Block
John Curry
Illinois
Secretary of Agriculture
Mr. Block
Curry
Iowa
Bloomfield
Block
Farmers Home Administration
Langlade School Class Picture of 1910 at Poor Farm Road
A 1910 Langlade School class photo from Barron County lists both boys and girls with names in back and front rows. Andrew Espeseth submitted the photo and still lives on his birthplace farm.
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Langlade School
Barron
Poor Farm Road
Josey Floz
Harry Johnson
Rupert Ruprecht
Adam Koenig
Edward Irvin
Conrad Koenig
Grant Irvin
Alvin Anderson
Edwin Johnson
Golden Barritt
Oscar Ruprecht
Herman Brandon
Theodore Koenig
Herman Luck
Clifford Hunt
Eddie Anderson
David Koenig
Andrew Louck
Esther Johnson
Leta Buxton
Bessie Hunt
Orpha Baker
Della Ruprecht
Effie Anderson
Charlotte Martinson
Melvina Louck
Mamie Folz
Oliver Folz
Esther Espeseth
Edna Hunt
Mable Brandon
Sarah Irvin
Nora Anderson
Clara Espeseth
Meta Ruprecht
Andrew Espeseth
Barron County
ASCS plans budget cuts in Wisconsin for 1986
Wisconsin ASCS plans internal budget reductions amid a $50 billion deficit reduction push. Peter Senn says the agency would consolidate two county offices into one, following a Racine Kenosha merger, and may curtail crop loans and farm program services if funds are reduced. Other cuts eyed include state and county expenses and several farm aid programs.
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U.S. Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service
Wisconsin
Congress
Peter Senn
ASCS
Racine
Kenosha
Jerome Foods Ranked Seventh in U S Turkey Output in 1983
Turkey World Magazine lists Jeromes of Barron as the seventh largest turkey processor in the United States in 1983, with 165 million pounds of the 3.2 billion pounds produced nationwide. Jeromes operates plants in Barron and Faribault Minnesota and has been a top ten mainstay since 1979, with several movements among the top firms since then.
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Jerome Foods of
Barron
United States
Turkey World Magazine
Barron County
Wisconsin
Jeromes
U.S
Barron and
Faribault, Minn
Louis Rich
Cargill
Jennie—O. Jeromes
House of Raeford
Swift
Marval
Norbest
Armour and
Valdiris
Turkey
Cuddy and Wampler
State fair park profits dip in late 1984 results
Wisconsin State Fair Park reported a 10 percent drop in net profit for the last five months of 1984. Officials cited lower August attendance and a revenue-sharing arrangement with a firm hired to book grandstand acts. The period ended January 23 with net profit of 995,573 on 5,343,182 in revenue versus 1,109,118 on 5,498,742 in 1983. Walter Rueckert, the fair’s operations manager, noted the multiple factors behind the decline.
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Wisconsin
Walter Rueckert
Memories of forbidden gum and sanitary fears
A daughter recalls her father a Rush Medical College graduate who preached hygiene and warned of germs. She describes childhood games of gum scavenging, the thrill of forbidden treats, and nightly fears of hydraulics epizootics as they hid chewed leftovers and imagined invisible dangers.
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Chicago
Rush Medical College
Elroy
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Dunn County
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Jerome Foods
State Fair Park
Virginia Hylkema
Juneau County
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