Greene County 4-H Fair opens July 23 with new attractions
The Greene County 4-H Fair runs July 23 to 31 with a revised schedule. Highlights include fashion events at Worthington and Central schools, livestock judging, beef and sheep shows, horse and swine activities, a Tri-County pony pull, open horse show, tractor pull, and a free circus. New restrooms and TB and Coggins health requirements are noted with compliance details.
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Greene County
Worthington School
Central
Switz City
Tri-County
Don
Edwardians
Nashville
Tri County
Thelma Wright
Fund For the Arts
Fairgrounds
Purdue Unveils High Protein Wheat Named Key
Purdue University researchers announce Key, a new soft red winter wheat variety with 2 to 3 percent higher protein. Built for special use and contract cultivation, Key aims to boost protein in breakfast foods and snacks while joining Purdue’s line of nutritionally enhanced grains.
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Purdue University Research
Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station
Purdue University
Key
Purdue-Usda
Fred L. Patterson
Purdue
Patterson
Knox
Hoosier Farmers See Near Record Cash Receipts in 1975
Indiana farmers collected about 2.98 billion dollars in 1975 cash receipts from crop and livestock sales. Receipts were two percent below 1974’s 3.05 billion record, with crops contributing 1.7 billion and livestock 1.3 billion, while Conservation Program payments added 4.5 million. Indiana kept eighth in national farm cash receipts. California led, Iowa was second, Texas third.
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Purdue University
California
Iowa
Texas
Proposed farm plans studied for 1977 policy battle
Senate farm leaders initiate a written policy review to shape the 1977 farm bill. Chairman Herman Talmadge asks major farm and consumer groups to submit reports to outline future farm and food policy. Reports may guide August publication and early hearings.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Agriculture Committee
Herman E. Talmadge
D-Ga
Congress
Butz
Ford Administration
Edwin A. Jaenke
Agriculture Department
Kennedy
Johnson
Farm Credit
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Farmers Union
National Farmers Organization
National Grange
Talmadge
Consumer Federation of America
National Consumers Congress
American Freedom From Hunger Foundation
National Milk Producers Federation
The
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
National Association of Wheat Growers
American National Cattlemen's Association
National Cotton Council
And
Associations of Wool, Corn and Soybean Growers
Dry weather cuts Indiana wheat crop prospects
Indiana 1976 soft red winter wheat crop is forecast at 60 million bushels as of June 1, down three million from May 1. Average yield expected 40 bushels per acre on 1.5 million acres, with national production at 1.4 billion bushels, down three percent from May 1 and 14 percent below last year’s record.
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Hoosier Farmers
Parkers
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Worthington
Alon
Wabash Valley Production Credit Assoc
Citar
Bloomfield
Donald E. Greene
Goodzyear
Wolfe's City Service
A" St., NE
Linton
Banking AT Work
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Dhigga City
Linton, Indiana
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