Showcase farm proposed for Southern Illinois region
Leaders from agriculture labor industry and education proposed a showcase farm for Southern Illinois to aid forage and ruminant production on hilly land unsuited to crops. The plan emerged from SIUC Carbondale conference urging regionally oriented research marketing education and farm communication skills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Billingsley
Siuc News Service
Suthern Illinois
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Southern
Illinois
Walter Wills
Siuc School of Agriculture
Wills
Illinois Farm Bureau selects runners up at St Louis meet
David Marshall of Murphysboro representing Jackson County Farm Bureau finished as runner up in the Illinois Farm Bureau discussion meet at the annual St Louis gathering. Gene Blue of Clinton, for DeWitt County Farm Bureau, won and will represent Illinois at the national discussion meet during the American Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting in January.
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David Marshall
Murphysboro
Jackson County Farm Bureau
Illinois Farm Bureau
Bureau
St. Louis
Gene Blue
Clinton
DeWitt County
Seed germination tests costlier under new Illinois law
Illinois seed law changes raise germination test costs and adjust purity charges. Extension agronomist Gary Pepper notes monthly billing replaces annual, with tests costing 3 dollars and various purity rates for grasses, legumes, and seed mixtures. Additional copies cost 5 dollars per, rush samples 15 dollars each, and the new law booklet is available from the Illinois Department of Agriculture.
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Illinois
Gary Pepper
University of Illinois Extension Agronomist
Pepper
Illinois Department of Agriculture
Emerson Building
State Fairgrounds
Springfield
Illinois wheat payments total 10.5 million dollars
Springfield AP reports the federal government will pay Illinois wheat growers nearly 10.5 million dollars to offset low prices this year. About 80,000 checks total 15 cents per bushel, reflecting a national average price of 3.66 dollars, 15 cents below the target. The payments follow a bumper winter wheat harvest nationwide.
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Illinois
Springfield
Bob Engelking
The
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Southwestern Illinois Vegetable School Planned in Collinsville
A Southwestern Illinois Vegetable School is planned for Tuesday and Wednesday at the Holiday Inn in Collinsville, sponsored by the Cooperative Extension Service. A similar school was held today in Cobden for vegetable growers.
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Holiday Inn
Collinsville
The
Cooperative Extension Service
Cobden
Land shortage overstated study says by Don Kendall
A private study from the Population Reference Bureau argues the United States faces no national food crisis due to disappearing farmland. Agricultural land loss is real but not a national crisis. changes from cropland to nonfarm use may lessen, with regional problems possible.
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Don Kendall Washington
United States
Population Reference Bureau
Michael Brewer
National Agricultural Lands Study
NALS
Brewer
U.S
Soil Conservation Service
U S cropland may remain ample to meet demand through 2000
Brewer says 413 million acres cropland and 127 million acres with high or medium potential could convert to crops. Even if 875,000 acres yearly are lost to urban uses by 2005, less than 4 percent of cropland base would vanish, leaving ample land to meet domestic and international needs through 2000.
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United States
Brewer
U.S
Public comments show support for soil conservation aims
US farmers and citizens submitted 64,872 responses signed by 118,213 people on USDA RCA soil erosion objectives and strategies from January to March 1980. Respondents favored reducing erosion, preserving soil quality, retaining prime farmland, using organic waste, and boosting energy production.
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RCA
United States Department of Agriculture
USDA
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