Field day at Cicardo’s attracts 100 visitors on cattle event
More than 100 people attended the Southern Missouri Illinois Polled Hereford Association field day and basket dinner on July 25 at John Cicardo farm in Rockwood. SIU’s Dr. Howard Miller spoke on beef carcasses while Bob Francis and Shelby Kahrs discussed cattle trends and association activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Cicardo
Rockwood
Cattle Association
Southern Missouri-Illinois Polled Hereford Association
Howard Miller
Southern Illinois University
Bob Francis
SIU
Shelby Kahrs
Kansas City
American Polled Hereford Association
James McLaughlin
Murphysboro
Deanice Parrish
Robert Frank
Jackson County Extension Agriculture
Cicardo
David
Joe
Jay
SIU ag professor receives fifth grant for soy research
Geigy Agricultural Chemicals granted SIU associate professor James A. Tweedy $2,500 for 1971 studies on growth regulating chemicals in soybean plants and grain yield. This is the fifth renewal since 1967, funded by the CIBA-Geigy division of Ardsley, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geigy Agricultural Chemicals
Southern Illinois University
James A. Tweedy
Tweedy
SIU
Ciba-Geigy Corp
Ardersley
N.Y
Vanishing dairy farmer lives near Chicago on long Illinois farm
Adina Illinois profile of John Nepermann a dairy farmer near Chicago his 160 acre farm 45 miles west of the city. His family shares the hard routine milking 56 Holstein cows at 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. each day with 5:30 a.m. start and farm life framed by modern machinery farm cooperatives and policy concerns.
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Adina
John Nepermann
Chicago
Nepermann
Clarice
Becky
Paul
Beth
Illinois
U. S
Clarice Nepermann
Conservation technician Baima assigned to Jackson County SCS
Steven F. Baima, a conservation technician from Beald, is assigned to the Jackson County Soil Conservation Service in Murphysboro under a career conditional appointment. He will work with Paul W. Ice, holds a biology education bachelor's from Western Illinois University in 1967 and a zoology master's earned in 1971, taught biology at Gillespie High School for three years, and will reside in Murphysboro with his wife Margie and their three children.
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Steven F. Baima
Jackson County Soil Conservation Service
Murphysboro
Baima
Beald
SCS
Paul W. Ice
Jackson County
Western Illinois University
Gillespie High School
Farmers expect stronger hand in market amid blight easing
Farmers may gain advantage in 1971 as blight impact softens though pockets remain hard hit. Officials say overall conditions are similar with blight and borers present. markets show tightened pipelines, with government stocks reduced and price support loans likely to pull corn from storage.
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L. H. Simerl
U of I
Brunthauer
Dixon Springs Agronomy Day Set With Tours
An Agronomy Day Tour at Dixon Springs Agricultural Center begins at 10 a.m. Thursday near Route 145, about 14 miles east of Vienna. Topics include corn and soybean diseases and herbicide needs for different crops under various conditions. A bus will shuttle participants to test plots.
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Dixon Springs Agricultural Center
Rt. 145
Vienna
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Erwin Mueller
Perryville, Mo
Anmin Montroy
William McCree
Kenneth McCree
Chester
SIU Ag
Patrick
Penelope
John Neperman
Neperman
Margie
Mike Carr
Lindsay-Schaub
Clifford W. Hardin
Corn Belt
Indiana
Minnesota
South Dakota
Mississippi
Wabash
Hardin
University of Illinois
Carroll G. Brunthaver
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
ASCS
Simerl
Rvus
James
Ridgway
Twin County Service Company
Marion, Murphysboro
Pinckneyville, Harrisburg
OUR
Sawyer
Carbondale
State Farm
Charlies Pautier c. & U
Murphysbore
Don Smith
Herrin
Dwight B. Busch
Robert Bahr
Iswaamer
Mutual Auto. Ins. CO
Bloomington, Hil
Southern Illinois
Dixon Springs
Lumber City
Old Castlewood
Cma
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