Record soybean harvest prompts storage and market worries
A huge soybean crop, projected around 1.0 to 1.01 billion bushels nationally, sparks concerns over storage, price declines, and processing capacity. Iowa tops in yield forecasts with about 152.6 million bushels, while weather, frost risk, and late planting threaten timely harvest. Officials urge holding beans for price support, increasing storage space, and careful harvest methods. prices may dip toward $2 per bushel, and new laws affect hauling fees.
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Lamson Brothers & Company
Iowa
Grant
Blackhawk
ASC
NFC
The
Farm Bureau
Grain Trade
American Soybean Association
Chet Randolph
Randolph
NF O
Grain Bank
ISU
Remarkable 92.98 Bushel Soy Yield Reported in Iowa
SCRAM-ZEMS notes that farm yields typically stay under 40 to 60 bushels per acre but records a standout 92.98 bushels per acre by Ray Beanson of Hamburg in 1966. The piece mentions ongoing 1967 questions about surpassing that mark and highlights county soybean unit formation nationwide, listing 14 Iowa counties with associations and six more planning committees in Boone, Butler, Cherokee, Clinton, Franklin and O’Brien counties.
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Iowa
Ray Beanson
Hamburg
Buchanan
Dallas
Des’ Moines
Hamilton
Henry, Lee
Louisa
Mahaska
Marion
Polk
Story
van Buren
Warren
Webster
Boone
Butler
Cherokee
Clinton
Franklin
O’brien
Guests Wednesday in Wallace home
Bethel residents Mr. and Mrs. Mac Wallace hosted visitors Mrs. Nita Henss of Wayland and Mrs. Elsie Conrad of Washington on Wednesday. The group then visited Ernest Gideon at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, with May and I visiting Vincent Sojka there. Ernest Gideon was moved to Extended Care in Iowa City Thursday for further care. Additional calls were made to the Gideon home and hospital while rain arrived easing dust and revived dry lawns.
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Bethel
Mac Wallace
Nita Henss
Wayland
Elsie Conrad
Washington
Earnest Gideon
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
May
Vincent Sojka
Mike Flynn
R. J. Knottnerus
John Hughes
Jay Brewer
Maurice Alvine
Ernest Gideon
Ernest
Charles Plecker
Gideon
Bernard Payne
Randy
Rose Anne
Blue Cross and Blue Shield: charity funded care for Iowa
The speaker touts Blue Cross and Blue Shield as a nonprofit, member funded health fund that provides hospital and doctor care through emergency funds. There are no owners, no dividends, and no stock. Advertising aims to inform the one third of Iowa already enrolled and persuade others of their distinct approach.
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Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Iowa
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Jack Fulton
Waterloo
National Dairy Congress
P.V. Sukharme
U.N. Good & Agriculture Organization
Rome
Temvio
Ch Mem Anemm
the McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Monrosmeno Ward
Race Ways Park
Burlington
U. S. 34
Tuloma
Tuloma Gas Products Company
West Chester, Iowa
Morton, Illinois
Wallace
Rose Sojka
Lloyd Mareks
Walter Sojka
Carters
Ainsworth Corners Cafe
Bob Stevenson
Des Moines
Sioux City
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