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EUGENE V. STADEL, Jo Daviess 

 county farm adviser, has been 

 hired as manager of the Illinois 

 Livestock Producers' Association, 

 newly organized affiliate of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association set-up to co- 

 ordinate cooperative livestock marketing 

 in Illinois. Stadel is scheduled to take 

 over his new job Dec. 1, with head- 

 quarters in Chicago. 



Annual meeting of the Illinois Live- 

 stock Producers' Association will be 

 held at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14 in the 

 Hotel Sherman in conjunction with the 

 annual meetings of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association and Associated Com- 

 panies. L. L. Colvis, secretary of mar- 

 keting for the I A A. will be the main 

 speaker on the Producers' program. 



The Livestock Producers' Association 

 will work closely with Illinois' six live- 

 stock marketing cooperatives to achieve 

 three objectives: (1) strengthen pres- 

 ent marketing cooperatives; (2) estab- 

 lish additional markets or agencies 

 where needed or where desirable, and 

 (3) co-ordinate selling. 



The five cooperative agencies and 

 their representatives on the Producers' 

 Association board are: Chicago Pro- 

 ducers' Commission Association, Carl 

 M. Johnson, DeKalb county; Peoria 

 Producers' Commission Association, M. 

 F. Holmes, Peoria; Springfield Pro- 

 ducers' Livestock Commission Co.. Scott 

 Irwin, Sangamon; and Illinois Livestock 

 Marketing Association, Ray Ihrig. 

 Adams; Bushnell Producers' Commis- 

 sion Company, Henry L. Combs. Mc- 

 Donough. Otto Steffey, Henderson 

 county, is the lAA representative on 

 the board. 



NOVEMBER, 1949 



lAap shows 6\%Ulttins for representation on Illinois Livestock Producers' Association board 

 of directors. Added to the eight directors on the board from the eight districts on map 

 are representatives from each of the associated producer agencies shown as dots on map. 



Producers' Livestock 

 Manager Named 



Eugene V. Stadel, Jo Daviess Farm 

 Adviser, To Head Association 

 Six Livestock Marketing Co-ops 



Eight other board members are 

 elected from eight districts in which the 

 state is divided for representation pur- 

 poses and are as follows: district 1. 

 William Temple, La Salle county; dis- 

 trict 2, Frank P. Norrish, Whiteside; 

 district 3, Robert Armstrong, McDon- 

 ough; district 4. L. E. Mathers, Mason; 

 district 5. Lester E. 

 Martin, Morgan; 

 district 6, Clark E. 

 Wise. Champaign ; 

 district 7, vacancy 

 caused by death of 

 J. P. Redman. Alex- 

 ander; district 8. 

 Marion A. Fry, 

 Shelby. 



Officers are : John- 

 son. president; 

 Armstrong, v i c e - 

 president; Ihrig, 

 secretary, and A. 

 county, treasurer. 



t. V. stadel 



F. Schuck. Cook 

 W. J. Nevermann. 



DuPage, is assistant treasurer, and C. C. 

 Chapelle, Cook, comptroller. 



Stadel, the new manager of the Illi- 

 nois Livestock Producers' Association, 

 has a long record of Farm Bureau work 

 in Illinois. A native of Marshall county. 

 Stadel was graduated from the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois College of Agriculture 

 in 1941. He worked as dairy herd im- 

 provement association milk tester in 

 Brown, Schuyler and Adams counties 

 in 1934; as assistant farm adviser and 

 organization director in Marshall- 

 Putnam counties from 1936 to 1938: 

 and as assistant farm adviser and 

 organization director in Winnebago 

 county, in 1939 and 1941. He served 

 three and one-half years in the Army 

 and was a first lieutenant when he was 

 discharged in 1946. He has been farm 

 adviser in Jo Daviess county since Oct. 

 1. 1946. He is married and has two 

 children. 



The five member agencies of the Illi- 

 nois Livestock Producers' Association 

 during August handled 92,642 hogs. 



21,623 cattle, 2,300 calves and 10,066 

 sheep. 



Illinois Livestock Marketing Associa- 

 tion, one of the agencies, handled 45,175 

 hogs, and Chicago Producers Commis- 

 sion Association handled 18.359 cattle 

 during August. Chicago Producers also 

 handled 22.943 hogs in that month. 



Farm Bureau Joins 

 Campaign To Promote 

 Sale of Pork Products 



THE Farm Bureau, both state and 

 national, is joining with other rep- 

 resentatives of the livestock industry in 

 a campaign to boost the sale of pork 

 and pork products during heavy pro- 

 duction periods. Hog marketings are 

 expected to reach their peak in Decem- 

 ber and early part of January. 



lAA President Charles B. Shuman. 

 Herman C. Aaberg. AFBF livestock de- 

 partment director, P. 0. Wilson, man- 

 ager of the National Livestock Pro- 

 ducers Association and University of 

 Illinois specialists. Dr. L. E. Card and 

 Dr. J. L. Krider, attended a conference 

 of the livestock industry in September 

 to study the pork problem. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 and county Farm Bureaus are expected 

 to support publicity and promotion to 

 aid in the sale of pork. 



National magazine advertising fea- 

 turing nourishing pork will appear in 

 such magazines as Life. Look. Ladies' 

 Home Journal. \^ Oman's Home Com- 

 panion, and Good Housekeeping in De- 

 cember and January. At the same time, 

 newspaper advertising will be run in 

 more than 250 daily newspapers in 181 

 cities throughout the country. The ad- 

 vertising program will be directed by 

 the American Meat Institute. 



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