1964: 50 years ago
At the Howard Wilkinson purebred Spotted Boars and Gilts sale, boars averaged $106 and gilts averaged $111. The sale grossed a total of $4,790. Top boar went to Carl Schaffer and Sons, South Bend, for $260 and top gilt went to Merryl Runyan, Urbana, Ohio, for $310. The Madison County Co-op grain elevator, of Anderson, Ind., burned completely to the ground. It was believed to have started from a corncob brush fire located near a truck. The loss is estimated to be around $100,000 to the building, equipment and much grain stored. New FFA officers at Alquina in Fayette County are Dan Robinson, instructor; Joel Conaway, president; Kenneth Isaacs, vice president; Mark Powell, secretary; Gary Gettinger, treasurer; Cletis Isaacs; sentinel; and Ronald Kirschner, reporter. 1974: 40 years ago
Used cars for sale: 1973 Thunderbird, 2-door hardtop, full power, air, $5,495; 1973 Mustang, 2-door, auto, PS, PB, bucket seats, console, $3,495; 1972 Galaxie 500. 2-door hardtop, auto, PS, air, vinyl roof, $2,795; 1974 Impala, 4-door, hardtop, PS, PB, radio, vinyl roof, $2,795 – Skip Karmire Ford, Shelbyville, Ind. Real estate for sale: 170-acre farm 5 miles north of Noblesville. A farrowing setup with crates, heated floor, large bank barn, 2 implement buildings, large hog finishing barn with pit and mix mill. Automatic 2-feeders, 12,000-bushel grain storage, 140 acres tillable, 2-bedroom brick house, $1,100 per acre – Bruce Schwartz Realtors, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind. The cancellation of contracts with the Soviet Union for 3.4 million tons of corn and wheat by President Gerald Ford has caused a severe drop in the grain market and great concern for people in the farming industry. 1989: 25 years ago
Swine producers and Emge Packing Co. will have to wait till December to learn if the butchering facilities in Fort Branch and Anderson will close. An offer has been made by Dinner Bell Foods, Inc. of Defiance, Ohio, to purchase the Emge facilities, but negotiations are as yet incomplete, according to E.L. Elberson, Dinner Bell’s CEO and chair of its board of directors. Knightstown Sale Barn, Knightstown, Ind., sale prices: lambs $55.50 pound; feeder lambs $57 pound; ewes $23 pound; and buck $12 pound. William Brown, a farmer from Hartsville, Ind., drove away from this year’s Farm Progress Show a happy man. Brown won the grand prize in Garst Seed Co.’s “Drive Away a Winner” sweepstakes: A 1989 Ford Ranger pickup truck worth approximately $8,000. 2004: 10 years ago
Dick Swayzee, sales manager at Howard & Sons in Monticello, Ind., retired this fall after 45 years of selling John Deere farm equipment. He started his association with John Deere at F.O. Shershman & Son at Rensselaer, and then went to Smart Implement at Wolcott, ending with Howard & Sons. Farm equipment for sale: JD 9750STA, 2000, 1368/774 hours, 18.4x42 duals, Contour Master, 20-foot auger, $108,900; JD 9650STS, 2003, 392/289 hours, 20.8x38 duals, bin ext, 20-foot auger, $137,900; JD 9600, 1996, 2167/1423 hours, duals, 20-foot auger, $50,900 – Sloan Implement, Illinois. In 1904 John C. Koening started a farm and general store in Botkins, Ohio. One hundred years later, Koening Equipment operates six John Deere facilities in Ohio and two Case IH facilities in Indiana. |
