West Liberty Family Wins Open Class Heifer at State Fair
Ed Eichelberger and sons from Muscatine County captured top honors in the open class cattle show with their shorthorn heifer. Dave Eichelberger placed third in the 4H show. Cindy Broders won first in Angus heifer class, Gleeanna Lehman placed second with a Hereford, and Tom Smith of Columbus Junction led the champion Charolais steer. Muscatine County 4H herd consisted of two shorthorn and three Angus steers.
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Des Moines
Muscatine County
Ed Eichelberger
Dave
West Liberty
Tle
Cindy Broders
West Liberty Fair
Gleeanna Lehman
Tom Smith
Columbus Junction
Iowa State
Tom Bowlin
Tom
Iowa State University
Iowa Junior Hereford Association
Farming Enrollment Keeps Pace At Muscatine Campus
Enrollment for agri culture programs at the Muscatine Campus of Eastern Iowa Community College remains about normal. Thirty new students are in the feed and fertilizer marketing program with 27 returning sophomores in the sixth week of their course featuring on the job work experience in 20 area towns. The eight part program includes four classroom and four employment phases, with rotation through sales, delivery, and mill work. A large enrollment is expected in the new farm management program, which mirrors the marketing program and will have students living on farms to gain practical management experience, especially during peak planting and harvest times when classes are scaled back to assist on farms. Veterans are particularly interested as benefits qualify them for schooling. The Aledo Pony Club plans a horse and pony show September 7 at 7 p.m. at the Perryton Ballroom 4 miles north of Aledo on Route 94, with seven classes each for ponies and horses. Contest classes will be timed with an electric eye. winners receive an Illinois Sesquicentennial trophy. The Flower and Garden Show judge will give free floral arrangement lectures in the North Auditorium on September 22, 25, and 27. The show is open to entrants. premium lists and entry blanks are available from the National Dairy Cattle Congress, Water Too, Iowa 50704. Entries close September 13.
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Aledo
North Auditorium
National Dairy Cattle Congress
Water Too
Iowa
Predict Record Corn Crop To Produce Price Pressure
American farmers are expected to harvest a record 4.56 billion bushels of corn this year with an average yield of 1.5 bushels per acre, per the USDA August crop report. Iowa forecasts 925 million bushels at 95 bushels per acre, while Nebraska and the Corn Belt show mixed yields. The report also notes higher outputs for other feed grains and a large old crop carryover, signaling potential storage shortages and price pressure as market movement under price support loans could rise this fall.
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USDA
Bob Wisner
Towa State University
Iowa
Wisner
Nebraska
Feed and Fertilizer Grads Average 6530 In Wages
The second class from Eastern Iowa Community College Muscatine campus reports an average starting salary of 6530 with salaries ranging from 5400 with commission to 7500 for 25 graduates of the 21 month program. Enrolled since fall 1966, the cohort spent alternating periods in class and employment within 100 miles of Muscatine learning animal nutrition seeds soils fertilizer crop production and farm supply business operations under cooperative firms. Instructors include Huseman Howell Clover Mitschle. A new class begins September 3 1968.
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Muscatine
Eastern Iowa Community College
Martin Huseman
Kermit Howell
Everett Clover
Walter Mitschele
Cattle Congress Features Little Gardens at Waterloo Show
The Midwest Garden and Flower Show at the National Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo unveils Four Seasons of an Iowa Garden. Local clubs build spring to winter displays, offering six classes and 1068 dollars in prize money as the show runs September 21 to 29.
Four 4-Hers win purebred beef heifers at Iowa State Fair
Four Iowa 4-H members won purebred beef heifers at the 1968 State Fair. Tom Bowlin of St. Charles won Hereford honors, Jay Curran of Mason City took Polland Hereford, George Paul of Osceola claimed Shorthorn, and Larry Joe Mather of Webster took Angus. Each had extensive 4-H beef experience and plans to continue in the breed.
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Iowa 4H
Tom Bowlin
St. Charles
Warren County
Hereford
Jay Curran
Mason City
Cérro Gordo County
Polland Hereford Divsion
George Paul
Osceola
Clarke County
Larry Jo Mather
Webster
Keokuk County
Angus
Jay
Iowa Junior Hereford Association
Nixon
George
Danforth
Science Club
Larry Joe Mather
Larry
Cedar Rapids
Mount Pleasant
Cattle Feeder Event Transport Planned. Editor Announces Departure
Gaylord Elliott coordinates rides for cattlemen traveling to the annual cattle feeders event in Ames. Early arrivals may tour the beef nutrition farm facilities and examine experimental cattle before the program begins at 10 30 a m and ends at 3 45 p m. The column closes as the farm editor reveals he is joining the army and hopes to return after his tour.
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Gaylord Elliott
Louisa County
Ames
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