| 2001: USDA bans imports of livestock, equip. from UK, EU |
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55 years ago
USDA predicts farmers will plant this spring the smallest acreage since World War I.
Hog slaughter is running about 15 percent below last year, and hog prices are expected to be higher.
The Senate Agriculture Committee has approved a bill raising the Soil Bank corn planting allotment from 37.3 million acres to 51 million, according to USDA Secretary Benson.
A Purdue University ag economist predicts that wheat prices for 1957 will be above the government loan rate of $2 per bushel.
40 years ago
A new bulk fertilizer terminal will open in Southern Indiana. The Olin Corp. and Port Aurora, Inc. terminal will have a storage capacity of approximately 6,000 tons of ammonium phosphate fertilizers and will be located in Aurora, near the Ohio River.
Having discontinued farming, the following personal property of Henry Breeding of Bartholomew County, Ind., will sell his farm machinery, cattle, hog equipment and miscellaneous April 7, starting at 10:30, through the auction service of Herman Strakis, Indianapolis, and Don Smock of Whiteland.
Quality farm seeds for sale: Seed Beans, Waynes, Callands and Clark 63s, $4.90 per bushel for Medium Maturity Seed Corn, double and single crosses, $12.50-$23 per bushel – Randolph County Hybrid Growers, Inc. in Farmland, Ind. Henry County Savings and Loan is offering the following: two-year Savings Certificates at 6 percent; one-year Savings Certificate at 5.75 percent; six-month Savings Certificate at 5.25 percent; and Flexible Passbook Savings at 5 percent.
25 years ago
Five 4-H youths prepare for IFYE travel in Europe. Jeffrey Evans of Hebron will visit the United Kingdom; William Dull of Lebanon will travel to Portugal; Michelle Tyler of Remington, the Netherlands; Teresa Werling of Fort Wayne will travel to West Germany; and Barry Wornhoff of Cedar Lake will travel to India.
Despite the economic problems facing many American farmers, there are more job openings for college-trained people in the agricultural sector than there are qualified graduates to fill them, according to a Wilmington College agriculturalist. For sale: 1978 AC 7580, 4WD diesel, cab, air, 2,000 hours, field-ready, $18,500; 1981 AC 7010, loaded, 2,000 hours, excellent cond., $17,500 – Riddle Tractor Sales in Spencer, Ind.
10 years ago
The USDA has banned imports of used farm equipment from countries with confirmed cases of foot-and-mouth disease. They also have banned the import of livestock and uncooked livestock products from the United Kingdom, the European Union and Argentina.
“King of the Ring Club Pig Sale,” Tippecanoe County Fairgrounds, selling 125 head of Elite Show Prospects, Durocs, Hampshires, Landrace, Yorkshires and Crossbreeds. Consignors are C.W. Rhoads and family, Danville, Ind., Kent Brattain and family, Greencastle, Ind., and Rosedale Pork Farm, Blue Mound, Ill.
Used equipment for sale: JD 7200 planter, 12R, liq fert, no-till, vac, wing-fold, $22,000; JD 1997 1850 36-foot drill, 787 cart (170 bushels), markers, $57,500; 1997 JD 8400 MFWD tractor, 225 hp, 1,852 hours 3 SCV, PTO, $83,500 – JD Equipment, Inc., Ohio locations. Farm sale of the year – Petry Farms of Darlington, Wis., has decided to discontinue its dairy and grain farming operations and will be selling all cattle, feed equipment, machinery, trucks and trailers used in the operation. |
| 4/7/2011 |
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