Hampshire hog Sale of 25 boars, 50 commercial gilts, 30 regular gilts and 12 sows with litters at the Elmer and Tom Denhart-Checkerboard Farms in Lebanon, Ind. Herd is #11 Indiana Health Certified.

Real estate for sale: 170 acres on State Highway 101, 110 acres tillable, good house and outbuildings, best fencing, $30,000; 170-acre dairy farm, brick house, large barn, silo and corn crib, $17,000; 122 acres, brick home, fair outbuildings, 65 acres tillable, $10,000 – Walter R. Smith, Realtor, Brookville, Ind.

Announcing the “new” family of John Deere Tractors, 320-420-520-620-720. Stop in and see these new lines of tractors at your local John Deere dealership.

The new combination treatment of aureomycin and sylfamethazine has proved 100 percent effective in preventing mortality of chicks infected with cecal coccidiosis under experimental conditions, the USDA reports.

A large barn on the Nelson Curry Farm located east of Liberty was destroyed by fire. The contents, including more than 100 head of hogs, 3,400 bales of hay and 2,000 bales of straw, were lost.

The Randolph-Wayne counties’ 4-H and FFA soils judging contest was held at the Bill Botkin Farm west of Lynn. County winners were from Union Township, with a team score of 710 points out of 945, Duane Hunt, Allen Hall, Buddy Lester and Jim Reese, alternate.

Three Carroll County farm families are hosting a young Scottish farmer, John Arbuckle, at their homes for three weeks. He is a guest of the Carroll High School FFA. Host families are Robert Ayers, William Evans and Kenneth Orem.

Tobacco growers in the Olean-Cross Plains-Friendship area suffered a financial setback when an unusual hailstorm riddled leaf tobacco waiting to be harvested. It is estimated that about 85 percent of the crop in those areas struck by the ice pellets was lost.

The first annual Heartland Apple Festival will be held at Beasley’s Orchard in Danville. Admission to the festival is free.

Club calves, Chi-Angus cross and Simmental and Angus steers and heifers at the farm, for your approval – Sibbitt & Chivington Land & Cattle Co., Greencastle, Ind.

Used combines for sale: 1984 JD 6620, 320 hours, monitor, chopper, hydro, $49,000; 1985 JD 6620, 215 hours, 4 W/D monitor, chopper, $57,000; 1983 JD 8820, 4 W/D, chopper, monitor like new, 700 hours, $62,500 – Easterday Bros. Implement, Orleans, Ind.

Grand Champion Boar at the Illinois State Fair belonged to Indiana Hampshire breeder Jack Rodibaugh & Sons of Rensselaer. They exhibited three Hampshires from their SPF herd and came away with three firsts, including the Grand Champion Boar and Reserve Grand Champion female.

Used fertilizer equipment for sale: 1,600-gallon big wheel, 100-foot hyd., fold boom, $13,100; 1010 single axle, big wheel, 60-foot hyd., fold boom, $8,850; 500 single axle, big wheel, 60-foot hyd., fold boom, $7,525; 500-gallon tandem axle, 60-foot hyd., fold boom, $6,950 – Tri-State Fertilizer Equipment, Anna, Ohio.

Chris Hurt, a Purdue University ag economist, predicts soybean prices will be $5.10-$5.20 by late fall and corn, in the $2.10-$2.14 range.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the fastest-growing county in Indiana is Hamilton County and is listed as one of America’s “20 hottest white-collar addresses.” The county grew 68 percent in a 10-year period, with 22,000 acres lost to development in this timeframe.

A 1,201-acre livestock farm in Greene County, Ind., three houses with free gas heat, city water, many ponds and springs, 600 tillable acres or hay ground, 450 acres pasture, 150 acres wooded lots, barns, silos, $2,200 per acre, firm. Contract available with 25 percent down; by owner, Bloomfield, Ind.