Milledgeville Student Wins DeKalb Agriculture Award
Kevin Folk son of Mr and Mrs Edward Dittmar of Milledgeville won the 1972 DeKalb Agricultural Accomplishment Award. Sponsored by DeKalb Ag Research Inc the honor goes to the outstanding senior in vocational education based on scholarship leadership and supervised farming activities.
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Kevin Folk
Edward Dittmar
Milledgeville
DeKalb
DeKalb Ag Research, Inc
Kevin
Milledgeville High School
FFA
Sauk Valley College
Farm Leaders Say Price Freeze Won't Solve Problem
Illinois and Indiana farm leaders say President Nixon's price freeze is only a temporary stopgap that will likely worsen long term food price problems. They argue against broad price level freezes and urge continued agricultural exports, reduced government spending, and careful monitoring of any steps affecting inflation.
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Nixon
Peenie
Indiana Farm
Harold B. Steele
Illinois Agricultural Association
George Doup
Indiana Farm Bureau
Steele
Doup
Chicago
Congress
Cut High Protein Costs With Good Quality Haulage
Guidance on harvesting alfalfa and legume grass to maximize dry matter while managing digestibility. Delay cuttings to bloom stage, 35 day intervals, and store at 50 percent moisture to minimize heating and protein loss. Haulage and haylage offer cost savings on protein supplements for home rations.
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Illinois Cooperative Extension Service
Chicago Joliet Livestock Market Opens June 9
The grand opening drew about 10 000 livestock producers from Illinois Indiana Wisconsin and Iowa to the new opengeoliet Livestock Marketing Center near Joliet. Officials included USDA marketing administrator Ervin L Peterson U S Rep George M O'Brien and Illinois Agriculture Director Robert J Williams.
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Illinois
Iowa
Indiana
Wisconsin
Opengeoliet Livestock Marketing Center
Joliet
Central Market Livestock System
U.S.D.A
Ervin L. Peterson
U.S
George M. O
Williams
Chicago-Joliet
Midwest
O’brien
Chicago
Chicago Bears
Bobby Douglass
Douglass
WGN
Orion Samuelson
Center
Chipulger Bulger
Illinois Property Tax Freeze Sought Amid Discontent
A proposal in the Illinois General Assembly aims to cap real property taxes for 1974 and 1975, addressing farm concerns over rising taxes treading on equity with school district funding and state revenue adjustments. Farmers seek relief from escalating farm real property taxes while public finance reforms loom.
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Illinois
Illinois General Assembly
Btill
Armers
Federa
Schoo
New Wheat Allotments For 1974 Program
Farmers without a wheat allotment may gain one for 1974 by meeting eligibility rules. Applications must be filed with the county ASCS office at Morrison by July 2. Automatic allotments exist for eligible old wheat farms and the new farm provision targets nonallotment farms with farming income and erosion suitability checks.
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ASCS
Morrison
Nature Balancers Spiders Regulate Insect Population
Spiders are essential to ecosystem balance. Averaging at least 50,000 per acre in green areas, they annually destroy a hundred times their number in insects.
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Folk
Agri Division
Hart Carter
Mendotainois
Ratzlaff Ford Tractor
Rock Falls, Lilin
Eller & Willey Block CO
Dixon
the Daily Gazette
Farm News
Whiteside
Carroll, Lee
Bureau Farm
Lhe Land Bank Nor
Farm Credit Act
Land Bank
Federal Land Bank
Association OF Morrison
Farm Bureau Building
Norman K. Horach
Mgr
E. Knox Street
Whiteside Ey
Wesley Pessman
Whiteside County Extension Office
Country Life Insurance Company
United States
Country Life
Country Life Cuntry Mutual
Country Casualty
Mid America
Ebersohr
C.S.A
L Ebersoh
Highland Park Nursery
Freeport Road
Ctede Ai
Jianling
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