Real estate for sale: 120 acres of really good land, of which nearly all could be plowed. The owner is retired and will sell for $17,500, north of Batesville; and 76 acres on dead-end road, half tillable, fair buildings, owner ill, will sacrifice, south of Batesville, $12,900 – Maucher Realty, Inc., Harrison, Ohio.

Dr. Merrill Ross and William Reiss have joined Purdue University’s botany and plant pathology and agronomy staff, respectively. Ross will specialize in weed control and Reiss will work as an extension crops specialist.

The recent "Blue Ribbon" Polled Shorthorn sale averaged $456, the 11 bulls averaging $488 and the 13 females averaging $430. A heifer owned by John Richardson & Sons of Clayton topped the sale at $1,000, selling to John Barrett, Greencastle. The top-selling bull was Richwood Wildfire x, consigned by John Richardson & Sons and purchased by Gary Cooper of Reynolds at $820.

Two Purdue students, Mark Pickering of Lewisville and Tom Slack of North Manchester, tied for top individual honors in the recent Mid-South Fair’s livestock judging contest, held in Memphis, Tenn. The Purdue team placed fourth, according to Dr. Roger Hunsley, associate professor of animal sciences and team coach.

A Bunker Hill homemaker, Mrs. Richard (Donna) Agness, has been elected president of the National Extension Homemaker’s Council. Elections were held during the annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. Agness will serve a three-year term.

Golden Harvest yield reports: Tom Newsom, Kempton, Ind., had 151.5 bushels per acre of dry corn with variety H-2500; Roger Hensley of Kokomo had 126.4 bushels per acre of dry corn, 26 percent moisture with variety H-2510.

J.C. Ellis III of Daviess County, Ky., won the 1990 Wheat Yield Contest with 100.50 bushels per acre using Pioneer 2548 seed. The results were announced by the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, and the state average this year was 37 bushels.

Scientists at Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. have achieved stable genetic transformation of corn, by placing a gene directly into corn cells, then generating a plant from those cells – then produced seed and found the gene in the next generation of corn plants.

The Senate passed a $500 billion five-year budget deficit reduction resolution, including $41 billion cut from the fiscal 1991 deficit.

Auctioneers Mitchell and Kelley conducted a farm sale featuring a multitude of farm equipment near Britton, Mich. High bids were: JD 4630 D tractor with 7,000 hours, $10,900; JD 643 corn head, $4,200; Glencoe 16-foot soil finisher, $1,600; JD 338 baler with 40 thrower, $5,100; NH 479 haybine, $1,500; NH 358 grinder mixer with scale, magnet and ext. auger, $6,600.

One small Indiana town is getting a complete energy makeover. Gov. Mitch Daniels, along with Indiana Agriculture Director Andy Miller, announced the White County community of Reynolds is the first BioTown, USA.