55 years ago
Farm Bureau again backs flexible support program. The controversial policy of flexible price supports was approved this week by the American Farm Bureau, despite Southern opposition.

Lair Halterman of Rushville Township was named Rush County Corn King. Clarence Dyer of Center Township won the reserve sweepstakes award and Maxine Hiner of Center Township was named Corn Princess at the annual Rush County Corn and Farm Products Show.

Allan Harris of Jefferson Township topped the senior division of Wayne County entries in the five-acres corn contest, with a yield of 180 bushels of corn to the acre, and ranked fifth in the state contest. His son, Robert Harris, placed first in the junior division with a 167-bushel yield.

Butcher hogs sold at the Producers Marketing Assoc. stockyards at Centerville, Ind., last Wednesday for $9.50-$11.75 per cwt. Roughs brought $7.30-$9.90 and boars, $5.90-$10. Feeder pigs sold for $11.90 and down per cwt., and $9 and down per head.

40 years ago

George Graves of Chalmers, Ind., sold the top-selling Hereford Bull, a two-year old, at the Tri-State Hereford Sale, held in Rushville, Ind., to the Don McCorkle farm at Wingate, Ind., for $1,525.

Farmers will find a new label on their 1971 seed corn. It will show whether the seed was produced on plants with normal cytoplasm or on plants with Texas male sterile cytoplasm. Or, if the bags contain a blend of these seeds, the percentage of each type will be shown.

A second case of hog cholera in New Garden Township in Wayne County has been confirmed by veterinarians of the State Board of Animal Heath. The first outbreak was reported four weeks ago on another New Garden farm.
A 1970 IHC pickup truck Model 1200 was sold for $2,886.35 at McWilliams Implement Co. of Morristown, Ind.

Southern Indiana farmers are coming to Madison with truckloads of tobacco for the tobacco market which is in progress now. The average price this year for good tobacco is 72 cents a pound.

25 years ago

Senate majority leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) said he expected the U.S. Senate to take up the 1985 farm bill conference report sometime late Tuesday. The bill was completed by the conference late Saturday and was also expected to be considered Tuesday by the House, which must act first on the measure.
The farm package, which includes slightly more than the $50 billion, three-year target set by the president, contains enough key Reagan administration initiatives to put the president in the position of either signing the bill or seeing his relations with Midwest farmers deteriorate further.

Fire destroyed farm equipment and a tool shed valued at $250,000, belonging to Roy Alverson of Milroy, Ind. Destroyed in the building were three to four tractors, a feed grinder, disc, auger wagons and a pickup truck. The building’s second half contained shop equipment such as welders, cutting torches, saws, drills and other equipment.

Two Tippecanoe County youths recently exhibited sheep in the 1985 North American Jr. Livestock Show in Louisville and came away with the First Place and Champion Montadale Ewe, and First and Champion Montadale Ram titles. Jeff Roy, 15, and Brother Brian, 12, who showed the champion animals, also exhibited the Montadale Ewe Reserve Champion.

The Roy brothers are sons of Steve and Ruth Ann Roy of Battle Ground, Ind.

10 years ago

Authority to regulate large livestock farms will be transferred from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to the Ohio Department of Ag under a bill signed by Gov. Bob Taft.

Tom Curtsinger, the retired Daviess County extension agent revered throughout western Kentucky for his tireless work on behalf of agriculture, is this year’s recipient of the Kentucky Farm Bureau Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award.

Guy Jackson of Warren, Ind., showed the Grand Champion Duroc female at the recent World Pork Expo held in Indianapolis. The female sold to Nick Garcia of Galt, Calif., for $950.

Used Equipment: 1996 JD 8400, 355 hours – $69,500; 1999 JD 240 Skid Steer Loader, 700 hours, cab, heater and bucket – $16,500; 1990 JD 7200 12-30 flex liquid planter – $21,000; and a 1996 JD 9600, 971 hours – $86,000.