Agricultural Exposition at Du Quoin Week Schedule
AGPO presents a full week of Southern Illinois agriculture events at the Du Quoin State Fair Grounds. Daily activities include livestock judging, commercial exhibits, quarter horse events, tractor pulls, and a country music lineup featuring Barbara Mandrell, Mickey Gilley, Dottie West, and more with varied seating and parking fees. Fireworks conclude Sunday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
du Quoin State Fair Grounds
Barbara Mandrell
Mickey Gilley
Ben Smathers
Stoney Mountain Cloggers
Dottie West
Bill Anderson
Pests damage soybean crop in Southern Illinois fields
Soybean Cyst Nematode and drought stress are harming Franklin County fields with about 60,000 acres at risk. Experts describe nematodes invading roots, rapid life cycles, and potential huge yield losses. Rotation to corn after three years and use of resistant soybean varieties offered as mitigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Arimond
Swope
Illinois
Pulaski
Vermillion
Jasper
Bob Frank
Jackson County Extension Service
Frank
Custer
Dyer
Forrest
Mack
Picket
Farm wives battle to preserve livelihood amid wheat crisis
Five farm wives in Weatherford Oklahoma speak of a national uprising to defend family farms from the cost price squeeze. They cite wheat at about $2 a bushel, production costs around $3, and shrinking net incomes, pushing farmers toward collective action and government grain reserves to stabilize prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Cornell
Weatherford, Okla
Shirley Regier
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
Betty Jeanne Steiner
Department of Agriculture
Buckmaster
Agriculture Department
Montana
Dakotas
Texas
Minnesota
Colorado
Nixon
Ford
U.S
SIUC Professor Elkins Wins NACTA Distinguished Teacher Award
Donald M. Elkins of Southern Illinois University Carbondale received the Ensminger-Interstate Distinguished Teacher Award at the NACTA annual meeting at Pennsylvania State University on June 14. A nine time honoree, Elkins is noted for his personal touch and for establishing a student oriented self instruction center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture
NACTA
Donald M. Elkins
SIUC
School of Agriculture
Ensminger - Interstate
Pennsylvania State University
Elkins
Ensminger-Interstate
E.m.ensminger
Agri-Services
Interstate Printers and Publishers
Ag School
Farm Life Page Honors Teacher Elkins
Farm Life Page Five highlights 36 year old Elkins a Woodville Alabama native who has earned the 1971 Amoco Foundation Good Teacher award and was named Outstanding Faculty Member by agriculture students as well as the agriculture faculty service award. He earned a B S from Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in 1962 and M S and Ph D from Auburn University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkins
Amoco Foundation
Agriculture
Woodville, Ala
Tennessee Polytechnic Institute
Auburn University
Also Mentioned on This Page
AGPO
du Quoin
Jackson County
Bill Stark
Orval Twenhafel
Dean Shields
Twenhafel
Arlene Neufeld
Colleen Buckmaster
Crazy Johns
County Service
Yazoo
Grassroots Power Equip CO
Carbondale
Charlies Pautier cL. U. Pene
Murphysboro
den Smith
Herrin
Dwight B. Busch
Robert Bahr
State Farm Life Insurance Company
Snage Office
Bingamnington, Hino
Johnson Mobile Homes
S. Vine
Sparta
Financial Service
Control Data Corporation
N. University Ave
Credit Life
Burgess
E. G. Young Modern
Herrin, Ill
Parm “Commerc
Sky
Square Poet
Mencest
Chaffee P.O
Cape Girardeau
Fairfield Hwy
S. Fairfield
Memphis
Tenn
Booth
Umber
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!