Corn Items Collectors Association Celebrates Corninspired Collectibles
Corn enthusiasts in Champaign Illinois form a national group, the Corn Items Collectors Association, with 212 members who own corn related items from salt shakers to seed sacks. Members like Wayne Brucker Curtis Norskog and Richard Layden share passion for corn as an original American crop, swapping items at meetings and via ads in Bang Board.
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Champaign, Ill
Corn Items Collectors Association
Onejation
Curtis Norskog
Willmar
Richard Layden
Illinois
Kinistino Saskatchewan: Four Star Prairie Stop
An American traveler visits Kinistino a prairie town with three grain elevators and a robust Farm World dealership run by Dave Cook. The piece paints a simple, self reliant community centered on agriculture, family, and local hospitality, noting the Cook clan’s pivotal role and a festive customer appreciation event.
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Pat Leumbach
Farm World
Phone numbers of Lorain County agri natural resource agencies
A public service list of common phone contacts for agricultural and natural resources agencies around Lorain County. Names include USDA Agricultural Stabilization and Farmers Home Administration in Norwalk and Lorain County Extension, plus Ohio EPA divisions, Soil and Water Conservation, and Fish and Wildlife. Local offices in Wellington Perrysville and Reynoldsburg appear with direct lines and hotlines for pollution and wetlands.
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Lorain County
Lorain
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Loram County
Division of Wildlife
Karl Schneider
Soil Conservation Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Wheat shortage fears weigh on consumer prices
Consumer activists worry a dry Great Plains wheat crop could push bread and pasta prices higher. El Nino and Mount Pinatubo effects threaten yields. USDA data show tight stocks and rising farm prices. Corn and soybean plantings shift, with record spring wheat and durum contrasts. Wheat at $3.65 per bushel in March. other grain prices mixed.
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Great Plains
USDA
Department
Texas
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Wayne Brucker
Lexington
Central
Ilinois
Corn Belt
Alaska
Colorado
Alabama
Layden
Ona
Lando Lakes
Wayne Bruckner
Canada
Kinistino
Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Rinistino
Canadian Legion Hall
Disney World
Ford
North America
Dave Cook
Dave
Marge
Grandma
Tiger Room
Margie
Midwest
Marge Cook
Cook Clan
Pat Leimbach
Farmers Home
Norwalk
Lorain County Cooperative
Ohio State University
Ohio Sea Grant
Lorain County Engineers
Lorain County Fairboard Office
Wellington
Wana
Division of Geological Survey
Publication Center
Akron
Loram County Farm Forester
Perrysville
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Twinsburg
Columbus
Roral Lorain County Water Authority
RLCWA
Army Corps of Engineers
Buffalo
Cleveland
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Department of Interior
Reynoldshire
Washington
Hemisphere
United States
Mount
Pinatubo
Rod Leonard
The
Community Nutrition Institute
Leonard
Ed Allen
Economic Research Service
Washington (Ap
Agriculture Department
Linden
LaGrange Rd
LaGrange
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!