Roscoe Marsden was born at Jackson, Boone Iowa July 25, 1902, the son of Peter A. and Effie Bunce Marsden.
Marsden graduated from Iowa State University, Ames and was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. He married Katherine "Kay" Burns at Kansas City, KS May 12, 1931.
He was a distinguished Iowa agriculturalist and was named chairman of the Marketing Board of the Iowa Agricultural Department. He served as president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association and a director of both the National Corn Growers Association and the U.S. Feed Grains Council. In that capacity he participated in trade discussions with Nobpiko Ushiba, Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.
He and his wife Kay were escorts in the "Hog Lift" to Yamanashi, Japan in March of 1959.
"Getting the hogs to Japan was no easy task. Roscoe Marsden, president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, rounded up 36 lean meat breeding hogs donated by Iowa farmers. The animals were shipped on an Air Force Cargo plane fitted with special crates. Accompanying the hogs were Marsden, his wife Kay, and NCGA director Albert Miller. Because there were no jet cargo planes at the time, the hogs and their escorts were forced to take a time-consuming, treacherous, island hopping flight across the Pacific. At each stop, Miller and Marsden would bathe the hogs so that the animals wouldn't overheat"
by KATHY PIERCE
OGDEN REPORTER STAFF WRITER
Ogden farmer and director of the National Corn Growers Association Albert Miller, escorted 36 head of hogs to Yamanashi, Japan in March of 1960 in an effort to revive the hog industry there that was wiped out by two typhoons. Little did he realize this effort would set Japan up to be the largest foreign market for U. S. feed grains. Fifty years later a group would make a return trip in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Yamanashi "hog lift." The trip would double as a trade mission to Japan and South Korea promoting continued trade with two of the largest export markets for Iowa agriculture products.
"Japan and South Korea are key markets for our ag products and this trip is a great opportunity to continue to strengthen our trade relationship," said Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey prior to accompanying representatives from the state's commodity organizations and several of Iowa's government agencies in the flight overseas that departed Monday, March 29, 2010. "This is a big event with a parade and other activities in Japan to commemorate the help that the group of Iowa farmers and the state of Iowa gave the citizens of Yamanashi 50 years ago. People of Japan remember and appreciate the Yamanashi 'hog lift.'"
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack joined Northey in Japan. Also participating in the trade mission were officials from the Iowa Department of Economic Development, Iowa Pork Producers Association, Iowa Soybean Association, Iowa Corn Growers Association, Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, Iowa Beef Industry Council and the Iowa Sister States organization.
History of the "hog lift"
In 1959 the U.S. government assisted Japan in recovering its hog industry following two typhoons that hit the most important livestock producing district in Japan. At the time Master Sergeant Richard Thomas was working in public relations with an important U.S. Air Force general in Tokyo. After hearing of the heavy livestock losses, Thomas presented an idea to the U.S. agricultural attache at the Embassy - exporting Iowa hogs as an opportunity to help repopulate their swine herd. Then president of the National Corn Growers Association, Walter Goeppinger of rural Boone, was in support of the idea and agreed to help organize the effort.
Iowa farmers offered to provide the hogs and selected seven purebred sows and two boars from each of the four lean-meat breeds, a total of 36 hogs. The U.S. Air Force agreed to supply a plane to fly the hogs to Japan. USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation donated 60,000 bushels of number one grade corn to be used for feed. The animals were shipped on an Air Force cargo planed fitted with special crates.
Miller and Ames native Roscoe Marsden, president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, accompanied the swine on the island-hopping flight across the Pacific. At each stop the animals were bathed so they would not overheat. All but one hog survived the trip. Officials estimated that by the time the last of the original Iowa hogs died nine years later, their progeny totaled some 500,000 animals. Following the "hog lift" Yamanashi Province and the rest of Japan began to develop a modern hog industry.
Hogs weren't the only industry hurting in Japan in the late 1950s. A Japanese agricultural attache explained that his country was experiencing a critical, long-term shortage of feed grains. He wanted to know if the United States had any feed grain for sale. The attache was assured that U.S. producers could meet all of Japan's needs. That answer laid the ground work for years of U.S. - Japan cooperation and set the stage for Japan to become the largest foreign market for U.S. feed grains and also the foundation upon which the U.S. Grains Council was built and the U.S. Meat Export Federation.
Miller sat down for an interview with The Ogden Reporter following his seven-week trip in 1959.
"The population increase is slower now. The wage scale is climbing so there is more demand for meat, eggs and milk," Miller told. He pointed out that the country is about the size of Montana and has a population of 93,000,000. Enough food is raised on 13,000,000 acres to feed 85% of the people.
"They are very efficient farmers because they have to be," Miller told the Reporter. "Grain is all hand sown and gathered. Grain mechanization would not work there because the ground is too mountainous." He said how farms average one to three acres and each farmer has only one to three sows each with the main carbohydrate feed being the sweet potato.
No services for Roscoe Marsden, 96, Lawrence, are planned.
Mr. Marsden died Thursday, Oct. 22, 1998, at the Brandon Woods Retirement Community in Lawrence.
He donated his body to the Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
He was born July 25, 1902, in Boone, Iowa, the son of P.A. and Effie May Bunce Marsden. He graduated with an agriculture science degree from Iowa State University.
He traveled as a portrait painter and later went into farming. In 1946, he moved to Ames, Iowa.
He was past president of the National Corn Growers Assn. and traveled in 55 foreign countries developing agricultural markets. He served on the board of supervisors in Story County, Iowa, was a member of Rotary Club and participated in other civic activities.
Mr. Marsden moved in 1989 to Overland Park and then to Brandon Woods in 1996.
He married Katherine Burns in May 1931, in Kansas City, Kan. She died Jan. 31, 1992.
Survivors include nieces and nephews.
Marsden graduated from Iowa State University, Ames and was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. He married Katherine "Kay" Burns at Kansas City, KS May 12, 1931.
He was a distinguished Iowa agriculturalist and was named chairman of the Marketing Board of the Iowa Agricultural Department. He served as president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association and a director of both the National Corn Growers Association and the U.S. Feed Grains Council. In that capacity he participated in trade discussions with Nobpiko Ushiba, Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.
He and his wife Kay were escorts in the "Hog Lift" to Yamanashi, Japan in March of 1959.
"Getting the hogs to Japan was no easy task. Roscoe Marsden, president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, rounded up 36 lean meat breeding hogs donated by Iowa farmers. The animals were shipped on an Air Force Cargo plane fitted with special crates. Accompanying the hogs were Marsden, his wife Kay, and NCGA director Albert Miller. Because there were no jet cargo planes at the time, the hogs and their escorts were forced to take a time-consuming, treacherous, island hopping flight across the Pacific. At each stop, Miller and Marsden would bathe the hogs so that the animals wouldn't overheat"
by KATHY PIERCE
OGDEN REPORTER STAFF WRITER
Ogden farmer and director of the National Corn Growers Association Albert Miller, escorted 36 head of hogs to Yamanashi, Japan in March of 1960 in an effort to revive the hog industry there that was wiped out by two typhoons. Little did he realize this effort would set Japan up to be the largest foreign market for U. S. feed grains. Fifty years later a group would make a return trip in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Yamanashi "hog lift." The trip would double as a trade mission to Japan and South Korea promoting continued trade with two of the largest export markets for Iowa agriculture products.
"Japan and South Korea are key markets for our ag products and this trip is a great opportunity to continue to strengthen our trade relationship," said Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey prior to accompanying representatives from the state's commodity organizations and several of Iowa's government agencies in the flight overseas that departed Monday, March 29, 2010. "This is a big event with a parade and other activities in Japan to commemorate the help that the group of Iowa farmers and the state of Iowa gave the citizens of Yamanashi 50 years ago. People of Japan remember and appreciate the Yamanashi 'hog lift.'"
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack joined Northey in Japan. Also participating in the trade mission were officials from the Iowa Department of Economic Development, Iowa Pork Producers Association, Iowa Soybean Association, Iowa Corn Growers Association, Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, Iowa Beef Industry Council and the Iowa Sister States organization.
History of the "hog lift"
In 1959 the U.S. government assisted Japan in recovering its hog industry following two typhoons that hit the most important livestock producing district in Japan. At the time Master Sergeant Richard Thomas was working in public relations with an important U.S. Air Force general in Tokyo. After hearing of the heavy livestock losses, Thomas presented an idea to the U.S. agricultural attache at the Embassy - exporting Iowa hogs as an opportunity to help repopulate their swine herd. Then president of the National Corn Growers Association, Walter Goeppinger of rural Boone, was in support of the idea and agreed to help organize the effort.
Iowa farmers offered to provide the hogs and selected seven purebred sows and two boars from each of the four lean-meat breeds, a total of 36 hogs. The U.S. Air Force agreed to supply a plane to fly the hogs to Japan. USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation donated 60,000 bushels of number one grade corn to be used for feed. The animals were shipped on an Air Force cargo planed fitted with special crates.
Miller and Ames native Roscoe Marsden, president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, accompanied the swine on the island-hopping flight across the Pacific. At each stop the animals were bathed so they would not overheat. All but one hog survived the trip. Officials estimated that by the time the last of the original Iowa hogs died nine years later, their progeny totaled some 500,000 animals. Following the "hog lift" Yamanashi Province and the rest of Japan began to develop a modern hog industry.
Hogs weren't the only industry hurting in Japan in the late 1950s. A Japanese agricultural attache explained that his country was experiencing a critical, long-term shortage of feed grains. He wanted to know if the United States had any feed grain for sale. The attache was assured that U.S. producers could meet all of Japan's needs. That answer laid the ground work for years of U.S. - Japan cooperation and set the stage for Japan to become the largest foreign market for U.S. feed grains and also the foundation upon which the U.S. Grains Council was built and the U.S. Meat Export Federation.
Miller sat down for an interview with The Ogden Reporter following his seven-week trip in 1959.
"The population increase is slower now. The wage scale is climbing so there is more demand for meat, eggs and milk," Miller told. He pointed out that the country is about the size of Montana and has a population of 93,000,000. Enough food is raised on 13,000,000 acres to feed 85% of the people.
"They are very efficient farmers because they have to be," Miller told the Reporter. "Grain is all hand sown and gathered. Grain mechanization would not work there because the ground is too mountainous." He said how farms average one to three acres and each farmer has only one to three sows each with the main carbohydrate feed being the sweet potato.
No services for Roscoe Marsden, 96, Lawrence, are planned.
Mr. Marsden died Thursday, Oct. 22, 1998, at the Brandon Woods Retirement Community in Lawrence.
He donated his body to the Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
He was born July 25, 1902, in Boone, Iowa, the son of P.A. and Effie May Bunce Marsden. He graduated with an agriculture science degree from Iowa State University.
He traveled as a portrait painter and later went into farming. In 1946, he moved to Ames, Iowa.
He was past president of the National Corn Growers Assn. and traveled in 55 foreign countries developing agricultural markets. He served on the board of supervisors in Story County, Iowa, was a member of Rotary Club and participated in other civic activities.
Mr. Marsden moved in 1989 to Overland Park and then to Brandon Woods in 1996.
He married Katherine Burns in May 1931, in Kansas City, Kan. She died Jan. 31, 1992.
Survivors include nieces and nephews.
Roscoe Marsden was born at Jackson, Boone Iowa July 25, 1902, the son of Peter A. and Effie Bunce Marsden.
Marsden graduated from Iowa State University, Ames and was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. He married Katherine "Kay" Burns at Kansas City, KS May 12, 1931.
He was a distinguished Iowa agriculturalist and was named chairman of the Marketing Board of the Iowa Agricultural Department. He served as president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association and a director of both the National Corn Growers Association and the U.S. Feed Grains Council. In that capacity he participated in trade discussions with Nobpiko Ushiba, Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.
He and his wife Kay were escorts in the "Hog Lift" to Yamanashi, Japan in March of 1959.
"Getting the hogs to Japan was no easy task. Roscoe Marsden, president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, rounded up 36 lean meat breeding hogs donated by Iowa farmers. The animals were shipped on an Air Force Cargo plane fitted with special crates. Accompanying the hogs were Marsden, his wife Kay, and NCGA director Albert Miller. Because there were no jet cargo planes at the time, the hogs and their escorts were forced to take a time-consuming, treacherous, island hopping flight across the Pacific. At each stop, Miller and Marsden would bathe the hogs so that the animals wouldn't overheat"
by KATHY PIERCE
OGDEN REPORTER STAFF WRITER
Ogden farmer and director of the National Corn Growers Association Albert Miller, escorted 36 head of hogs to Yamanashi, Japan in March of 1960 in an effort to revive the hog industry there that was wiped out by two typhoons. Little did he realize this effort would set Japan up to be the largest foreign market for U. S. feed grains. Fifty years later a group would make a return trip in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Yamanashi "hog lift." The trip would double as a trade mission to Japan and South Korea promoting continued trade with two of the largest export markets for Iowa agriculture products.
"Japan and South Korea are key markets for our ag products and this trip is a great opportunity to continue to strengthen our trade relationship," said Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey prior to accompanying representatives from the state's commodity organizations and several of Iowa's government agencies in the flight overseas that departed Monday, March 29, 2010. "This is a big event with a parade and other activities in Japan to commemorate the help that the group of Iowa farmers and the state of Iowa gave the citizens of Yamanashi 50 years ago. People of Japan remember and appreciate the Yamanashi 'hog lift.'"
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack joined Northey in Japan. Also participating in the trade mission were officials from the Iowa Department of Economic Development, Iowa Pork Producers Association, Iowa Soybean Association, Iowa Corn Growers Association, Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, Iowa Beef Industry Council and the Iowa Sister States organization.
History of the "hog lift"
In 1959 the U.S. government assisted Japan in recovering its hog industry following two typhoons that hit the most important livestock producing district in Japan. At the time Master Sergeant Richard Thomas was working in public relations with an important U.S. Air Force general in Tokyo. After hearing of the heavy livestock losses, Thomas presented an idea to the U.S. agricultural attache at the Embassy - exporting Iowa hogs as an opportunity to help repopulate their swine herd. Then president of the National Corn Growers Association, Walter Goeppinger of rural Boone, was in support of the idea and agreed to help organize the effort.
Iowa farmers offered to provide the hogs and selected seven purebred sows and two boars from each of the four lean-meat breeds, a total of 36 hogs. The U.S. Air Force agreed to supply a plane to fly the hogs to Japan. USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation donated 60,000 bushels of number one grade corn to be used for feed. The animals were shipped on an Air Force cargo planed fitted with special crates.
Miller and Ames native Roscoe Marsden, president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, accompanied the swine on the island-hopping flight across the Pacific. At each stop the animals were bathed so they would not overheat. All but one hog survived the trip. Officials estimated that by the time the last of the original Iowa hogs died nine years later, their progeny totaled some 500,000 animals. Following the "hog lift" Yamanashi Province and the rest of Japan began to develop a modern hog industry.
Hogs weren't the only industry hurting in Japan in the late 1950s. A Japanese agricultural attache explained that his country was experiencing a critical, long-term shortage of feed grains. He wanted to know if the United States had any feed grain for sale. The attache was assured that U.S. producers could meet all of Japan's needs. That answer laid the ground work for years of U.S. - Japan cooperation and set the stage for Japan to become the largest foreign market for U.S. feed grains and also the foundation upon which the U.S. Grains Council was built and the U.S. Meat Export Federation.
Miller sat down for an interview with The Ogden Reporter following his seven-week trip in 1959.
"The population increase is slower now. The wage scale is climbing so there is more demand for meat, eggs and milk," Miller told. He pointed out that the country is about the size of Montana and has a population of 93,000,000. Enough food is raised on 13,000,000 acres to feed 85% of the people.
"They are very efficient farmers because they have to be," Miller told the Reporter. "Grain is all hand sown and gathered. Grain mechanization would not work there because the ground is too mountainous." He said how farms average one to three acres and each farmer has only one to three sows each with the main carbohydrate feed being the sweet potato.
No services for Roscoe Marsden, 96, Lawrence, are planned.
Mr. Marsden died Thursday, Oct. 22, 1998, at the Brandon Woods Retirement Community in Lawrence.
He donated his body to the Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
He was born July 25, 1902, in Boone, Iowa, the son of P.A. and Effie May Bunce Marsden. He graduated with an agriculture science degree from Iowa State University.
He traveled as a portrait painter and later went into farming. In 1946, he moved to Ames, Iowa.
He was past president of the National Corn Growers Assn. and traveled in 55 foreign countries developing agricultural markets. He served on the board of supervisors in Story County, Iowa, was a member of Rotary Club and participated in other civic activities.
Mr. Marsden moved in 1989 to Overland Park and then to Brandon Woods in 1996.
He married Katherine Burns in May 1931, in Kansas City, Kan. She died Jan. 31, 1992.
Survivors include nieces and nephews.
Marsden graduated from Iowa State University, Ames and was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. He married Katherine "Kay" Burns at Kansas City, KS May 12, 1931.
He was a distinguished Iowa agriculturalist and was named chairman of the Marketing Board of the Iowa Agricultural Department. He served as president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association and a director of both the National Corn Growers Association and the U.S. Feed Grains Council. In that capacity he participated in trade discussions with Nobpiko Ushiba, Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.
He and his wife Kay were escorts in the "Hog Lift" to Yamanashi, Japan in March of 1959.
"Getting the hogs to Japan was no easy task. Roscoe Marsden, president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, rounded up 36 lean meat breeding hogs donated by Iowa farmers. The animals were shipped on an Air Force Cargo plane fitted with special crates. Accompanying the hogs were Marsden, his wife Kay, and NCGA director Albert Miller. Because there were no jet cargo planes at the time, the hogs and their escorts were forced to take a time-consuming, treacherous, island hopping flight across the Pacific. At each stop, Miller and Marsden would bathe the hogs so that the animals wouldn't overheat"
by KATHY PIERCE
OGDEN REPORTER STAFF WRITER
Ogden farmer and director of the National Corn Growers Association Albert Miller, escorted 36 head of hogs to Yamanashi, Japan in March of 1960 in an effort to revive the hog industry there that was wiped out by two typhoons. Little did he realize this effort would set Japan up to be the largest foreign market for U. S. feed grains. Fifty years later a group would make a return trip in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Yamanashi "hog lift." The trip would double as a trade mission to Japan and South Korea promoting continued trade with two of the largest export markets for Iowa agriculture products.
"Japan and South Korea are key markets for our ag products and this trip is a great opportunity to continue to strengthen our trade relationship," said Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey prior to accompanying representatives from the state's commodity organizations and several of Iowa's government agencies in the flight overseas that departed Monday, March 29, 2010. "This is a big event with a parade and other activities in Japan to commemorate the help that the group of Iowa farmers and the state of Iowa gave the citizens of Yamanashi 50 years ago. People of Japan remember and appreciate the Yamanashi 'hog lift.'"
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack joined Northey in Japan. Also participating in the trade mission were officials from the Iowa Department of Economic Development, Iowa Pork Producers Association, Iowa Soybean Association, Iowa Corn Growers Association, Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, Iowa Beef Industry Council and the Iowa Sister States organization.
History of the "hog lift"
In 1959 the U.S. government assisted Japan in recovering its hog industry following two typhoons that hit the most important livestock producing district in Japan. At the time Master Sergeant Richard Thomas was working in public relations with an important U.S. Air Force general in Tokyo. After hearing of the heavy livestock losses, Thomas presented an idea to the U.S. agricultural attache at the Embassy - exporting Iowa hogs as an opportunity to help repopulate their swine herd. Then president of the National Corn Growers Association, Walter Goeppinger of rural Boone, was in support of the idea and agreed to help organize the effort.
Iowa farmers offered to provide the hogs and selected seven purebred sows and two boars from each of the four lean-meat breeds, a total of 36 hogs. The U.S. Air Force agreed to supply a plane to fly the hogs to Japan. USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation donated 60,000 bushels of number one grade corn to be used for feed. The animals were shipped on an Air Force cargo planed fitted with special crates.
Miller and Ames native Roscoe Marsden, president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, accompanied the swine on the island-hopping flight across the Pacific. At each stop the animals were bathed so they would not overheat. All but one hog survived the trip. Officials estimated that by the time the last of the original Iowa hogs died nine years later, their progeny totaled some 500,000 animals. Following the "hog lift" Yamanashi Province and the rest of Japan began to develop a modern hog industry.
Hogs weren't the only industry hurting in Japan in the late 1950s. A Japanese agricultural attache explained that his country was experiencing a critical, long-term shortage of feed grains. He wanted to know if the United States had any feed grain for sale. The attache was assured that U.S. producers could meet all of Japan's needs. That answer laid the ground work for years of U.S. - Japan cooperation and set the stage for Japan to become the largest foreign market for U.S. feed grains and also the foundation upon which the U.S. Grains Council was built and the U.S. Meat Export Federation.
Miller sat down for an interview with The Ogden Reporter following his seven-week trip in 1959.
"The population increase is slower now. The wage scale is climbing so there is more demand for meat, eggs and milk," Miller told. He pointed out that the country is about the size of Montana and has a population of 93,000,000. Enough food is raised on 13,000,000 acres to feed 85% of the people.
"They are very efficient farmers because they have to be," Miller told the Reporter. "Grain is all hand sown and gathered. Grain mechanization would not work there because the ground is too mountainous." He said how farms average one to three acres and each farmer has only one to three sows each with the main carbohydrate feed being the sweet potato.
No services for Roscoe Marsden, 96, Lawrence, are planned.
Mr. Marsden died Thursday, Oct. 22, 1998, at the Brandon Woods Retirement Community in Lawrence.
He donated his body to the Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
He was born July 25, 1902, in Boone, Iowa, the son of P.A. and Effie May Bunce Marsden. He graduated with an agriculture science degree from Iowa State University.
He traveled as a portrait painter and later went into farming. In 1946, he moved to Ames, Iowa.
He was past president of the National Corn Growers Assn. and traveled in 55 foreign countries developing agricultural markets. He served on the board of supervisors in Story County, Iowa, was a member of Rotary Club and participated in other civic activities.
Mr. Marsden moved in 1989 to Overland Park and then to Brandon Woods in 1996.
He married Katherine Burns in May 1931, in Kansas City, Kan. She died Jan. 31, 1992.
Survivors include nieces and nephews.
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