55 years ago
Egg Producers advertised it buys eggs on graded basis: “We will pick up your eggs at your farm every week. Why sell for less? Call, write or come in and see us for highest prices on your eggs. Regardless of where you live, contact us. Brosius Plty. & Egg Co., Knightstown, Ind., Phone 5-5445.”

W.W. Zike and Charles Law of near Morristown, Ind., Shelby County, received a Gold certificate recently because their herd of Holsteins showed each cow producing more than 400 pounds of butterfat during the past DHIA testing year. These awards were presented at the 66th annual meeting of the Indiana State Dairy Assoc., held in Lafayette.

Grand Champion Steer at the International Livestock exposition was a 995-pound Aberdeen Angus steer, which brought $15 a pound, or $14,925, to Nancy Turner of Champaign, Ill., plus $1,200 bonus when Nancy’s 13-year old sister was put on the steer’s back for the weighing. The steer was purchased by Howard Johnson’s Restaurants.

40 years ago

Five percent of the corn crop remained for harvest and soybeans, at 10 percent, remained for harvesting. Farmers were active in late fall plowing where soil conditions permitted.

Linda Comer and Dennis Hadler of Greensburg, Ind., were named outstanding 4-H girl and boy in Decatur County. Their achievements were made known at the annual 4-H awards program. Miss Comer is a sophomore at Purdue University and Hadler is a freshman at Asbury College in Wilmore, Ky.

New Indiana 101 from German Road in Union County to Brookville has been completed and is open to traffic. The 9.1-mile section is a two-lane highway with a truck lane on the big hill leading out of Brookville to the northeast. The highway is 22 feet wide and asphalt.

25 years ago

The first sale of boars entered in the fall-test program at the Indiana Boar Test Station will be held at the Dairy Pavilion in West Lafayette, Wayne Yake, station manager, announced.

There are 62 boars qualifying for the sale: 28 are Durocs, 12 are Spots, 12 Hampshire, six Yorkshires and four Berkshires.
Hampshires from the Kilmer Swine farm of Monticello finished as the top indexing pen.

Great Northern Equip. Co. of Springfield, Ill., has introduced a new concept in pull-type application equipment called “Pacesetter.” The Pacesetter unit can be used with a toolbar, specialized tillage equipment or spray boom.

It is capable of performing 19 different types of fertilizer or chemical applications. The support unit features a 1,600-gallon stainless steel tank with full length sump, baffle and 2-inch sparger line.

The largest and most influential trade delegation ever assembled by the U.S. Feed Grains Council recently returned from a two-week trade mission to the People’s Republic of China and Japan. The trade team was comprised of U.S. Feed Grains Council officers, officials with the Foreign Agricultural Service of USDA and U.S. agricultural media.

10 years ago

Doug and Leslie Rhoades of Darke County were the winners in the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Farm Couples contest. They are currently milking 65 Brown Swiss cows and operate a grain farm.
Brad Amthauer, 19, Kokomo, Ind., showed the Reserve Grand Champion Hampshire Wether at the resent North American Show in Louisville, Ky. Brad’s 149-pound wether sold for $8,000 in the NAILE Sale of Champions.

Buyers recently spent more than $5.3 million for the last horses (130 mares) from the legendary Castleton Farm in Lexington, Ky. The day before, 85 weanlings sold for more than $2.2 million.
The 207-year-old horse farm was divided and two smaller plots of land were sold. The main 1,010-acre parcel, with its historic barns, slave cabins and 1840 mansion, is still for sale for $17.5 million.