Grass Drill Expo Proclaimed A Success
About 200 people toured Grass Drill Expo sponsored by Lake Region RC&D at Celebration Hall. Bud Davis said exhibitors were pleased with turnout, calling it best yet for grass drills exhibitions. Visitors came from Missouri and Manhattan as six grass drill firms, seed firms, a fence firm, tree cutter, trailers, wood splitters, root plows, soil savers, and Shelter Shield showcased products. New Hope Baptist Church ran concessions.
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Lake Region
Rc&d
Bud Davis
E. 2Nd
Missouri
Atchison
Manhattan
Shelter Shield
New Hope
Grass Seed Shortage Rises Prices Under CRP Push
In the Great Plains and adjacent states farmers face a grass seed shortage as the 1985 farm bill's Conservation Reserve Program takes effect. Texas lead acres exceed a million, with Minnesota, Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado also enrolled. Seed prices have doubled or tripled, with some varieties hitting about 20 dollars per pound as supply struggles to meet demand. Officials expect shortages through 1988 while seed companies and ASCS manage allocations and possible temporary cover crops.
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Kansas City
Texas
Richard Heizer
Texas Soil Conservation Service
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
Soil Bank
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service
Great Plains
Minnesota
New Mexico
Leonard Jurgens
Colorado Soil Conservation Service
Ronald Fuhrmann
George Warner Seed Co
Hereford
Midwest
Gail Sharp
Sharp Brothers Seed Co
Healy
Kan
Sharp
al Schmaderer
Kansas Ascs
ASCS
Schmaderer
Heizer
Hobbs Wins Hogs at Royal Jack Hobbs Leads FFA Entry
Hobbs of Central Heights FFA showed hogs in two youth classes at the American Royal in Kansas City Missouri. His Duroc placed third of seven and a crossbreed sixth of fifteen. Darrell Garber also competed and the chapter toured the Royal events including rodeo and a talent show.
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Jack Hobbs
Central Heights
Future Farmers of America
Kansas City
Hobbs’ Duroc
Darrell Garber
Royal
the Royal
Better Than Last Year Farmers Co op Suffers Loss
The Farmers Co op of Richmond and Williamsburg reports a 1985-86 loss of 15000 amid a poor wheat season and damaged stock holdings including a 35.5 percent write off of Farmland Industries. Sales totaled five million, with 23000 in unpaid debts and a shift to grain sorghum collateral to stabilize income. New board member Leroy Wasmund joins alongside re elected directors Gene Adams and Galen Wichman.
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Farmers Co-op
Richmond
Williamsburg
Farm Co-Op
Central Heights School
Dale Peargton
Co-Op
Farmland Industries
Farmer's Co-op
Pearson
Us-59
Rigid Farm
Leroy Wasmund
RFD
Princeton
James Kipper
Gene Adams
Galen Wichman
RFD 1
Albert Dunbar
Don Randel
Pomona
Dale Kuesner
Wendy's Sold to Heartland in Six-Restaurant Deal
Ed Lapin of Heartland Food Service Inc buys six Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, including Ottawa, From Interstate Food Service. He says Ottawa store has strong sales due to workforce and nearby university. Other locations include three in Topeka, one in Leavenworth, and one in Lawrence.
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Wendy’s of
Ottawa
Ed Lapin
Heartland Food Service, Inc
Wendy's
Interstate Food Service, Inc
Topeka
Lapin
Ottawa’s
Leavenworth
23Rd Street
Lawrence
Heartland
Farm Trade Surplus Declines Further Says USDA Record
Washington AP reports the U S farm trade surplus fell to 5 4 billion in the last fiscal year with exports at 26 3 billion and imports at 20 9 billion a nine year low. The 1980 81 peak exports reached 43 8 billion before a decline.
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Washington
U.S
Agriculture Department
USDA
Foreign Agricultural Service
Einstein Called It a Fiddle in Bach Brandenberg Concierto
The note relates that Einstein described the violin as a fiddle and played second fiddle in one of Bach's Brandenburg concertos, reflecting a light anecdote about the famous scientist's musical role.
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Einstein
Bach
Brandenberg
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Chevette
Ey Chevrolet Olds Inc
Wendy’s
Greene County
Ohio
Ag Board
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Sam Brownback
Kansas State University
Brownback
Board of Agriculture
United States
West Germany
Soviet Union
Japan
Jhn Deere
John Deere
Ottawa Mansas
EL Eve
Erwood
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