55 years ago

A Senate vote of 45-35 defeated a bill calling for an increase in 1957 corn acreage to 51 million acres.

Maple Lumber, Inc. of Knightstown, Ind., owned by Thomas Maple, has been sold to Tweedy Lumber Co. of Carthage. Ross Tweedy and son Jack will operate the business at its present location in Knightstown.

Pickering’s Quality Indiana Certified Seed – every bag carries a Blue Indiana certified seed tag. Contact Willard Pickering & Son in Lewisville, Ind.
For sale: New International half-ton truck, $1,699; several good “used” trucks less than $1,000 – Kirkpatrick D-X Service, Middletown, Ind.

40 years ago

Property tax relief was killed this week in the state legislature after Governor Whitcomb vetoed the bill that would have raised sales taxes by 2 percent and income taxes by 0.5 percent, primarily in order to reduce property taxes.
New Ford Truck, F100 half-ton, $2,474; New Ford Truck 3/4-ton, $2,619 – Inskeep Ford & Mercury Sales, Inc. in Greenfield, Ind. Approximately 92 percent of American farmers now receive some of their income from off the farm.
Farm sale of registered Belgian horses, horse equipment, hay, farm machinery, trucks and corn, belonging to the late Howard Gale, by his wife at the farm east of Middletown, Ind., with Mort McShurley, auctioneer.

25 years ago

Ohio Gov. Richard F. Celeste has appointed Steve D. Maurer as director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture. Maurer, 38, of Botkins has served as interim director of the department since Dale Locker resigned to run for a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives.

Burley tobacco growers throughout the country are awaiting President Reagan’s’ signature on a bill which includes the new Tobacco Improvement Act.
Purdue University Top Ag Students were honored at an annual award banquet recently. Myra Sue Gish of St. Anthony, Ind., a pre-veterinary student, was named the school’s outstanding freshman; Cynthia Baker of Bargersville, pre-vet, was named the outstanding sophomore; Doug Everett of Lebanon, ag econ, was named the outstanding junior; and the outstanding senior award went to Steven Bishop, ag econ major, of Orleans. Joseph Uhl, associate professor of agricultural economics, was named the school’s outstanding teacher.

USDA’s whole herd dairy buyout program, designated to reduce the milk surplus, has been approved. The government will purchase select livestock over an 18-month span comprised of three time periods. This $1.8 billion program will be spread over five years, with 38 percent of the cost billed to dairy producers.

10 years ago

Foot-and-mouth fears halt World Pork Expo for 2001. In an effort to be proactive and help protect the health status of the U.S. swine herd and U.S. pork producers, the National Pork Producers Council announced the cancellation for this year.

Louis Cassens of West Laf, Matt Peter of Odon and Rebekah Kennedy of Akron, Ohio, all seniors in Purdue’s school of agriculture, have invented a heating fuel that replaces 20 percent of the petroleum currently used in the fuel with soybean oil. The seniors entered the seventh annual Indiana Soybean Board’s “New Uses for Soybeans Student Contest.”

Aquaculture is a $2-$5 million business in Michigan and although it is dominated by catfish farming in the south, rainbow trout is the most common stock.
A husband and wife from western Africa, Simeon K. and Mamou K. Ehui, are the first couple to receive Purdue University’s prestigious Distinguished Agricultural Alumni Award. Other honorees include Eric A. Brown, John S. Castrale, McArthur Floyd, Larry R. Rueff, Henry L. Shands and Robert W. Wotzak.