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Illinois beef expo may move<br>
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois’ top livestock producers may soon ask: Where’s the beef?<br>
The Illinois Beef Expo has been in Springfield for 20 years. But it could move to Bloomington-Normal if negotiations between show managers and Bloomington officials are successful.
Cimeron Frost is director of industry programs for the Illinois Beef Assoc. Frost told The (Springfield) State Journal-Register the group has begun negotiating with Bloomington officials and surveying members.<br>
The expo draws more than 10,000 participants a year. About 600 members of the beef association and the Illinois Pork Producers Assoc. were in Springfield March 12 for a lobbying day at the Capitol.<br>
Truck crashes, killing 22 cattle<br>
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A tractor-trailer hauling cattle overturned in southwestern Indiana after colliding with a minivan, leaving 22 of the animals dead, police said.<br>
Terry Marcum, 47, of Oakland, Ky., was northbound on U.S. Highway 41 around 10 p.m. Thursday as he was moving 110 cattle from Kentucky to Kansas. As Marcum approached the Indiana 57 intersection, he saw the traffic light turn red but could not stop the semi because of the heavy load, Vanderburgh County police said.
Marcum honked his horn to try to alert drivers in the intersection but a minivan driver collided with the truck, which then veered to the left, overturning on its side. Some of the cattle died and others were injured in the wreck and had to be shot, said Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Mike Jones.<br>
The driver of the minivan and her passenger were injured and taken to Deaconess Hospital. Marcum suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene.<br>
Fire kills more than 2,500 pigs<br>

WINGATE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a fire at a western Indiana farm killed more than 2,500 hogs. When firefighters arrived the morning of March 10 at Cardinal Farms, they found its hog farrowing and nursery barn – where pregnant sows and their offspring are kept – engulfed in flames. Coal Creek Township
Fire Chief Judd Meharry estimated more than 2,500 pigs died in the fire about 55 miles northwest of Indianapolis. That number includes litters yet to be born.<br>
Meharry says the damage is estimated at $1.5 million. Fire officials haven’t determined what caused the fire.<br>
UT prepares to move dairy<br>

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The University of Tennessee is preparing to move its dairy farm in Knoxville to make way for a new high-tech research campus.<br>
The UT Institute of Agriculture (UTIA) told the eight employees of Cherokee Farm that the 200-acre site will be formally turned over to the UT system for development in August, and they will be transferred to an agricultural experiment station in Knoxville.
A new dairy research facility in nearby Blount County won’t be ready for two years, so most of the existing livestock will be sold or moved to other experiment stations. That includes a prized herd of 100 Holstein cows – one of the top-producing herds in the state – that will be relocated to the Middle Tennessee research station in Spring Hill.<br>
“The good news is no one is going to be out of work,” said Joseph DiPietro, vice president of the UTIA. “We’ve worked very hard to ensure that our work force will still have jobs.”<br>
The Legislature has committed $32 million for roads and utilities at the new Cherokee campus, but development plans are still being reviewed by a UT panel. In an administrative battle over who will control the new campus, UT President John Petersen asserted his authority and former UT-Knoxville Chancellor Loren Crabtree resigned in January.<br>
The UT dairy operation has been located at the Cherokee Farm site since 1935.<br>
More charges in neglect case<br>
HAWKEYE, Iowa (AP) — A man faces additional charges after authorities found dead and malnourished horses at a northeastern Iowa farm.<br>
Kelly Olson, 41, of New Hampton, was initially charged with animal neglect after officials said they found three dead horses and 18 malnourished ones on a farm near Hawkeye two weeks ago. Olson was arrested when he arrived at the farm on March 10. Officials said he was keeping the horses at the farm, which is owned by Terry Schott, 48, of Fredericksburg.<br>
During the investigation, authorities received a tip that Schott illegally possessed a deer. Authorities found a deer carcass at his residence for which he did not have the proper permit, said Fayette County Sheriff Marty Fisher.<br>
Olson and Schott were charged with illegal possession and transportation of deer and were scheduled to appear before a magistrate later this month.<br>
Death of hogs investigated<br>
COLLINS, Iowa (AP) — Officials are investigating the death of hogs who were released from a confinement and run over by a vehicle.
Officials with the Story County Sheriff’s office say 15 hogs were found killed or injured after they were released from a confinement at Struthers Farms Inc. near Collins. Capt. Barry Thomas said investigators were called to the farm on March 10. The incident is believed to have happened late on March 8 or early on March 9.
He says the hogs were valued at $1,500. Thomas says it’s believed only one vehicle was involved.<br>

<i>This farm news was published in the March 19, 2008 issue of the Farm World, serving Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee.</i></p><p>
3/19/2008