The Tractor Affair and a Wife’s Quiet Revolt
A fraught marital tableau unfolds around a long used tractor and rising repair costs. The wife notices shifting dynamics as the husband’s focus on a newer machine reveals strain, with phrases about budgets, traded gear, and the toll of consumer pressure on the relationship.
Farms embrace manure wind and corn energy future
U S agriculture may soon rely on on farm energy sources such as manure methane digesters solar collectors and wind generators to heat homes dry grain and power machines Studies at Iowa State Ohio State and South Dakota State explore self sufficiency with methane for heating and cooking solar ponds and panels to heat buildings and dry crops and wind and crop residues to generate electricity and irrigation Potential 10 year horizon with natural gas prices driving adoption and costs considered by researchers including Dr Richard Smith Dr Robert Fehr and Prof Wesley Buchele.
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U Sriculture
Richard Smith
Iowa State University
Robert Fehr
South Dakota State University
Ames Iown
Grain Town
Gerry Klein
Glen Kransler
Farmfest 76 Opens September 13 in Crystal
Farmfest 76 America s Bi centennial Salute to Agriculture runs September 13 to 19 at Crystal Mini The 20th World Champion sup Tractor Pull opens the session September 30 at 9 30 am Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz to speak at 1 pm World Championship Horse Pulls scheduled September 17 and 18 at 9 30 am
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America
Crystal
Mini
Secretary of Agriculture
Earl Butz
Kenneth W Brown Holstein Sale Tomorrow
The 34th annual Kenneth W Brown Holstein sale starts tomorrow at 7 30 pm in the Brown barn two miles south of Creston on State Route No 60. Eighty top Holsteins, fifty percent Canadian and Wisconsin bred, including forty registered and forty grades, will be sold. Fo Feastermaker Homerville will be among the auctioneers. Some top cows have records above 21 500 pounds of milk and 863 pounds of butterfat, with several producing nearly 100 pounds daily.
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Kenneth W. Brown
Creston
Feastermaker
Homerville
Ohio apple crop forecast shows sharp drop in state
Ohio apple crop appears substantially smaller than last year with an estimate of 95 million pounds, down from 152 million a year ago and 132 million in 1974. The US forecast is about 14 percent below last year, with wide variation by region from good in the north to poor in the south. prices will vary by area.
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Columbus, Ohio
State Cooperative Extension Service
Ohio
Huntington Future Leaders Discuss Topics at Meeting
Area 4-H news covers a meeting at advisor Lyle Hoffman’s Wellington home where discussions on various subjects engaged participants Mike Griggs Paul Hoffman Brian Hoffman Terry Hales and Colleen Finkel.
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Huntington Future
Lyle Hoffman
Wellington
Mike Griggs
Paul and
Bnan Hoffman
Terry Hales
Colleen Finkel
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