Aggie Game Echoes Farming Luck and Risk in Iowa
Des Moines AP reports the Agricul ture Game of Gambling Ingenuity and Enjoyment AGGIE was created by Joanne and Chuck Kuster of Indianola Iowa. Using a die players manage assets across a year long board with hazards and disasters reflecting real farming risks while some options allow hedge measures. The game starts players with assets and allows 2 to 5 players to bid trade and strategize, costing 12 dollars or 10 if ordered by October 15.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Joanne
Chuck Kuster
AGGIE
Riverbottom
Poland
China
Farm income may dip in 1981 despite large crops
Washington AP reports that farm income this year may barely rise above 1980 lows or even decline from 1980, according to a new Agriculture Department analysis. Economists halted hopes of 1981 matching 1979 levels as large crops, slow growth, high interest rates and a strong dollar pressure farm prices.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
U.S
Department’s Economic Research Service
Farm income outlook lowers slightly for 1981 crops
A Monday September 28, 1981 report projects calendar 1981 farmers income between 20 and 24 billion dollars, with realized net income between 18 and 22 billion after inventories. Hog prices rise about 15 percent while cattle stay near last year, and harvest prospects improve with weather boosting production of feed grains and major crops.
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Gary Lucier
Nearby St Louis milkshed grows toward dairy focus
A tour of Larry Meyer’s Clinton County farm illustrates the shift from mixed farming to intensive dairy operations near St. Louis. University of Illinois dairy expert Dr. Hutjens notes fewer farms run hogs and dairy together as the region faces a milk shortage into the St. Louis market while urban visitors learn modern dairy processes from udder to cooling tanks.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
Larry Meyer
St. Rose
Clinton County
Ill
Michael Hutjens
University of Illinois College of Agriculture
Urbana
Meyer
Hutjens
Meyer Farm
Huttens
Dory Potts
America
Surgeons mend broken legs saving horses with serious injuries
At Tufts New England Veterinary Medical Center large animal clinic doctors repair serious leg fractures in horses with screws plates carbon fibers and acupuncture. Led by Dr Gustave E Fackelman the team treats two to three fractures weekly extending athletic careers that once ended in humane destruction. The clinic opened near Boston in January as New England's only facility with academic ties.
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Grafton
Mass
Tufts New England Veterinary Medical Center
Gustave E. Fackelman
Joe Namath
Magic Johnson
Fackelman
Murphysboro hog earns top honors at national show
Angela Jenkins owns Bear 414 winner in Yorkshire category at the National Barrow Show in Austin Minnesota. H R and Angela Jenkins also bought the reserve champion in the Yorkshire class. The Reserve champion Hog was owned by C&D Yorkshires of West Plains Missouri and sold for 4600 dollars.
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Murphysboro
Austin
Minn
Egro Bear
Angela Jenkins
H. R
C&d Yorkshires
West Plains
Corn output seen matching 1979 record
The U S Department of Agriculture projects this year’s corn production at about 7.94 billion bushels, roughly a 20 percent rise from last year, potentially tying the 1979 record.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
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