Open field day at Linkola Angus Farm near Tallahassee
Cattlemen are invited to an open field day at Linkola Angus Farm four miles south of the Tallahassee road on June 20 starting at 10:00 a.m. The event features demonstrations and discussions with experts including Byron Southwell from the Coastal Plain Experiment Station and Dr T J Cunha from the University of Florida Animal Husbandry Department. A panel on breeding stock will showcase a herd from a leading Angus farm, with refreshments provided.
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OW. L
Whittle
Linkola- Angus Farm
Tallahassee
Byron Southwell
Usbandryman
Coastal Plain Experiment Station
T. J. Cunha
University of Fla
Paul Good
van Wert
Ohio
Oryn
Vent
Guthesst
Grady Area Farm Tour Highlights County Progress and Livestock Talks
The Cairo Kiwanis Club led the 10th annual Grady Area Farm Tour drawing about 875 farmers and businessmen. The event showcased new farm methods and equipment, with presentations by L B Harvard of Sunnyland Packing Co and tours of a new feed plant system. Delegations from Albany and Dougherty Kiwanis joined the barbecue at a Cairo farm, aiding the club’s 1985 Kiwanis Achievement Award efforts to be awarded in San Francisco.
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Airo
Grady Area
Yester
County cl
Cer
Cairo
USDA
L. B
Dude) Harvard
Sunnyland Packing Co
Thomasville
Assembly
Albany
Dougherty County
Kiwanis
Dairy Month Programs Extend Georgia Outreach
Extension staff and Georgia Dairy Association launched June Dairy Month efforts to raise per capita milk consumption. Key figures include Miss Bibbs nutritionist and John Conner dairy marketing specialist, with county producers and plant representatives joining committees to plan activities across 12 Georgia areas. Distributors and producers named span Rossville to Valdosta, highlighting statewide collaboration.
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Athens
Mary Gibbs
College of Agriculture Extension Service
John Conner
Sid Diamond
Frank Fitch
Bibbs
Georgia Dairy Association
U. S. Bureau of Census
Conner
Georgia
Sam ‘Turner
Rossville
Charles Hall
Gainesville
Eugene Williams
Newman
Robert Sexton
Atlanta
R. R. Baskin
Cross Hill Placed On Hereford Listing
Cross Hill Plantation in Thomasville is named to membership in the American Hereford Association, the national purebred registry based in Kansas City. The May roster adds eighty five breeders while the association reports over 80 000 active breeders and a record calf total of 622 639 for the year.
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Kansas City
Cross Hill Plantation
Joe D. Cross
Thomasville
American Hereford Association
Hereford Association
Relief from First Heat Wave Moves Into Lakes Area
Heat relief spread into the Great Lakes region and the Upper Mississippi Valley as Eastern areas sweltered. Records set yesterday included New York 96.1, Newark 99, Columbus 92 with other highs across Philadelphia Washington Chicago and Milwaukee.
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Associated Press
Great Lakes
Mississippi River
New York
Newark
Columbus
el Paso
Phoenix
San Antonio
Philadelphia
Washington
Detroit
Cleveland
Milwaukee
Chicago
Minneapolis
Rockies
Pacific
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Mississippi Valley
Ohio Valley
Four-H Club Meetings Scheduled Across Georgia in June
Almost 2,500 Georgia 4-H members will attend district project achievement meetings in six districts this June and July. Delegates will present demonstrations and enter record books to win district honors in 40 farming and homemaking projects. Demonstrations count 60 percent and record books 40 percent toward district scores while officers are elected and a candlelighting service held.
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Athens
Georgia 4Ph
Tommy Walton
College of Agriculture Extension Service
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Tifton
Rock Eagle
Northwest
Northeast
North
Southwest
Georgia Southwestern College
Americus
Walton
Milk Prices Advance Less Than Other Foods
In June Dairy Month notes, dairy expert Sid Diamond of the University of Georgia cites a Labor Department study showing milk prices in Atlanta rose 68.6 percent from 1939 to 1955, the only major food with less cost growth than milk among items like round steak pork chops flour eggs green beans and sugar. Government nutritionists say a substantial portion of food budgets should go to milk and dairy products.
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Diamond
U. S. Department of Labor
Atlanta
Bal Four Farms Buys Registered Angus Cattle
Bal Four Farms at Thomasville purchased three purebred Aberdeen Angus cows from Brooks Hill Farm in Thomasville.
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Bal Four Farms
Bal
Thomasville
Brooks Hill Farm
Georgia Farmers Eye Soil Bank Details in 1956 Program
James L. Morgan, Georgia state ASC chairman, outlined the Soil Bank Act to farmers, detailing two programs conservation reserve and acreage reserve. He noted conservation is not yet available and explained 1956 acreage reserve rules including participating methods, acreage limits, and payment rates, with emphasis on assisting farmers while reducing surpluses in 1957. Morgan said meetings statewide will inform county committees and office managers.
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Athens
James L. Morgan
Geogal
Soil Bank
Morgan
ASC
Georgia
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PSTO
Kora Tarmey
College Agriculture
Cross Hill
Hereford
Lakes
MR. Farmer
Jeannine Parris
A. G. Wells
Wells Dairy Cooperative of
Wells
University of Georgia ,Agricultural Extension Service
District 4-H
America
Agricultural Extension Service
University of Georgia College of Agriculture
McCormick
Farmers Mach. & Equip. Co., Inc
Moultrie Road
Eyey
Dergein
Hill Tractor CC
Moultrie Rd
Woodyear
Goodyear
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