Hay and soil fertility woes threaten farm profitability
Farmers report hay yields at about 60 percent of normal amid frequent showers and stagnant soil nutrients. Pastures are short, land long unused, and many fields show a decade of little lime or fertilizer, risking a slide toward weeds, brush, and forest unless liming and fertilizing are pursued or land is kept open by annual mowing.
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Ana Penave
Consistency in raising children emphasized by extension agent
DIANNE LAMB AVM County Extension Agent urges steady rules for child discipline. She notes inconsistency confuses children, strains parental effectiveness, and can differ with each parent or a child’s age. Subtle shifts occur with illness fatigue or special circumstances, while changes with divorce or separation require alignment of standards. Food preservation video sessions announced with dates and times.
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Vermont declares Beef Week to boost native cattle
A week from July 17 to 23 is proclaimed Vermont Beef Week by officials at the State House in Montpelier. Albert Kittredge and Edward Eurich led the ceremony, highlighting native-grown beef and a July 23 Beef Field Day at Vermont Technical College with a beef cattle show and a noon Beef Bar-B-Q.
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Albert Kittredge
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Remnants at Fayville once a Glastonbury logging hub
The Fayville site in northwestern Glastonbury shows few remains of the former logging community. Today hikers find abundant raspberries where the town once stood, near the Peter Matteson Tavern, after the area was declared unorganized by the Vermont legislature in the late 1930s.
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Glucose boosts efficiency of acetic acid in forage-fed cattle
Madison Wis Dr Henry F Tyrrell of the USDA ARS reports glucose infusion into the abomasum of yearling Holsteins on high forage diets markedly improves metabolizable energy use from acetic acid. When glucose and acetic acid are combined ME use matches that of glucose alone, suggesting glucose is key to unlocking acetic acid efficiency though cattle synthesize glucose rather to feed it directly.
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Madison, Wis
Henry F. Tyrrell
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Agricultural Research Service
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
Maryland
Tyrrell
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