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1956: Farmers threaten to dump milk over lower prices
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55 years ago
Beverly Ray of Shelby Township in Shelby County will reign as the Queen at the Junior Corn Jamboree at Purdue University in February.
Farmers from Shelby, Hancock and six other central Indiana counties met at Indianapolis and threats to “dump” all their milk” were heard in protest of recent price cuts to farmers. Farmers have taken a 25-cent price cut in the past two months and now receive $4.55 per hundred.
Dwindling receipts of hogs at all major markets caused butcher hogs to rise $2-$2.50 per cwt. over the past week, and near the $15 mark. During the first four days of last week, hog prices jumped more than during any other four-day period in the past 3.5 years.
Winner of a purebred calf, awarded in this area by Kraft Foods Co., was Hugo Artmeir of Greensburg, Ind.
40 years ago
A recent addition to the list of educational 4-H programs is Veterinary Science. This project gives an overview of livestock projects, but it is not limited to farm youth.
A Shelby County 4-H team was awarded a team trophy at the recent Chester White Swine Spotlight Show at the University of Georgia in Athens. Placing second in the junior division of the contest was the local team, comprised of Kent Cole, Aaron Hatton, Tony McDonald and Steve Young.
Cole received a trophy for third highest individual overall and Hatton exhibited and placed hogs in the boar and C.O.F.E.C. classes.
Three people reportedly viewed an “Unidentified Flying Object” (UFO) in the northern part of Rush County. Harold Souder of Mays and Dr. H.L. Hensler and Steve Ellis of Carthage reported sighting it hovering over the Carthage area for some time, and as they drove around it followed them. The men were not great believers in UFOs, but they know they saw one that evening and all reported “it was scary.”
Dr. J.M. Haggard will be joining the Gernand Veterinary Hospital in Muncie, where the hospital has operated for 22 years, announced by Dr. Orville E. Gernand.
25 years ago
Newly-elected officers of the Indiana Angus Auxiliary are Mrs. Carol Bloom, Westville, president; Mrs. Christine Siefker, Columbus, first vice president; Mrs. Janice Jackson, Columbus, second vice president; and Mrs. Connie Conard, Bloomington, secretary-treasurer.
The Ohio Pork Congress (OPC) will be held next week at the Dayton Convention Center. Highlights of the OPC will include the crowning of the 1986 Ohio Pork Queen, and Lou Holtz will be the evening featured speaker.
Four agricultural producers and a professor of agricultural engineering were honored by the Purdue Agricultural Alumni Assoc. at its Fish Fry. The recipients are George E. Corya, Commiskey; Harry T. Armstrong, Springville; Lawrence McKinney, Covington; Russell B. Weaver, Vevay; and Bruce A. McKenzie, Lafayette.
The odds are 1/125,000 for triplet calves being born, but then having all heifer calves, the odds are even higher. Robert Spaeth of Rush County reports that a Holstein cow on their farm delivered the heifer calves all by herself, but the calves did need help nursing the first day or so.
10 years ago
Ohio’s farmland has become hot real estate for Dutch farmers who find land prices and government tariffs too high in their native country. Many made huge profits by selling farms in the Netherlands and moving to the cheaper fields of Ohio to open modern mega-dairies.
A trio of Indiana agricultural leaders received Purdue University Ag Alumni Assoc. Certificate of Distinction awards at the recent fish fry. The honorees were Dale Humphrey, a farmer from Springville; Philip Nelson, head of Purdue’s Department of Food Science, from West Lafayette; and Robert M. Ritchie, Purdue professor emeritus of 4-H youth, from Lafayette.
For outstanding contributions on and off the farm, the Robert and Sue Stinson family of Frankfort was named the Indiana Farm Family of the year during the Fort Wayne Farm Show last week.
Nitrogen fertilizer will be higher for the 2001 crop year and in some places, supplies may not be adequate to meet needs. These problems are coming about because of rapidly escalating natural gas prices.
During the past 10 years, natural gas price to North American ammonia producers was around $2 per MMBtu, but this price had climbed in 2000, averaging about $4 for January-October and reaching $6 in November, with projections for the price to be in the $8 range in January 2001. |
| 1/26/2011 |
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