Rickie Yowell Receives American Farmer Degree Nomination
Brownfield student Rickie Yowell, son of Mr and Mrs D J Yowell Jr, has been nominated to receive the American Farmer Degree by the Texas FFA Association. The honor, presented to only about one tenth of one percent of FFA members, will be awarded at the National FFA Convention in Kansas City with a gold key certificate and travel funds. Yowell, a 1971 Brownfield High School graduate, attends Lubbock Christian College majoring in Agriculture Education and farms 160 acres while active in FFA leadership and judging teams.
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Rickie Yowell
D. J. Yowell Jr
American Farmer
National Future Farmer of America Organization
Yowell
Texas Ffa Association
National Ffa Rot of Directors
Washington, D.C
FFA
Kansas City
Brownfield High School
Lubbock Christian College
Brownfield Ffa
Robert Becker
Stanley Dixon
Scottie Cooper
FFA Organization
National Ffa Organization
National Ffa Foundation
Nomination Opens for Outstanding Farm Family Award
Nomination deadline is August 31. Submit entries to the Soil Conservation Service, P.O. Box 672, or to the Terry County Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture, P.O. Box 152.
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Soil Conservation Service
P.O
Terry County Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
Texas agriculture added nearly ten billion to economy in 1970
Texas agribusiness raised close to 10 billion dollars in 1970 with about 80 percent from tool making and processing of agricultural commodities. Farm marketing cash receipts reached 3.1 billion, livestock and crops each about 1.9 to 1.95 billion, and farm assets total around 29 billion. Real estate taxes by farmers topped 119 million, while off farm agribusiness employed 1.3 million workers.
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Texas
Charles K. Baker
Baker
Lubbock A and M Field Day Showcases Unique Program
The Texas A M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center at Lubbock will host a field day and open house on Tuesday September 14 starting at 1 p m. County Agent Jim Foy says attendees can choose from tours on grain sorghum varieties weed control narrow row cotton and verticillium wilt. Specialists will be on site for individual consultations with growers homeowners and gardeners invited to bring insect plant disease weed control fertilizer and irrigation questions plus plant specimens. Main tours cover field research plots offering a broad look at agricultural work on the Center's 300 acres with exhibits on plant diseases vegetable production soil testing plant physiology and herbicide use a large machinery display and the cotton ginning research lab. The theme is Research for Progress visitors should plan to attend seven and one half miles north of Lubbock on US 87.
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Texas A&m. University Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Lubbock
Jim Foy
Foy
Neill Attends AF ROTC Field Training Encampment
Keith Neill son of Mr and Mrs Almos W Neill Route Three completed an AF ROTC field training encampment at MacDill Air Force Base Florida Cadet Neill a member of the AFROTC unit at Texas Tech University and a 1969 Brownfield High School graduate learned survival training aircraft and aircrew indoctrination and base visits as part of the program
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Keith Neill
Almos W. Neill
U. S. Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps
Afrotc
MacDill Air Force Base
Fla
Air Force Bases
Neill
Texas Tech University
Brownfield High School
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