Rain Lifts Ranchers as A&M Field Day Set For July
County Agent notes rain last week boosts pasturelands and grain sorghum while cotton prospects look good. Texas A&M Plantation Field Day scheduled July 30 will showcase grass varieties cucumber production pecan orchards and beef cattle management with registration at 3 30 p m and tours at 4 p m on Farm Road 50 Burleson County.
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A&m
Texas A&m University
A. A. Melton
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Melton
Burleson County
Texas A&m University System
New Insecticide NIA-33297 Shows Promise in Texas Tests
A USDA ARS and Texas A&M team report field tests in Brownsville and Weslaco of NIA-33297 a promising synthetic pyrethroid for cotton pests including the tobacco budworm bollworm and boll weevil. It proved less toxic to humans than some current insecticides while lab results show higher toxicity to target pests. Field researchers include J W Davis D A Wolfenbarger and J A Harding.
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Brownsville
Rio Grande Valley
Texas
U. S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
J. W Davis
D. A. Wolfenbarger
Agricultural Research Service
ARS
Weslaco
J. A. Harding
Metropolitan migration reverses from city to farm says expert
Dr Wilbur Zelinsky of Pennsylvania State University notes a shift toward rural living with 3 percent moving to rural areas versus 12.3 percent to cities in the 1960s. He cites crime, affluence, and housing as factors, forecasting continued rural migration from Gulf Farm Center in Cameron Texas.
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Gotham
Wilbur Zelinsky
Pennsylvania State University
Zelinsky
Public hearings set on Packers and Stockyards Act revisions
The House and Senate Agriculture Committees schedule public hearings July 12 in Amarillo Texas and July 19 in Omaha Nebraska to review proposed updates to the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921. Key speakers include Rep W R Poage and other lawmakers with witnesses from livestock, packing firms, and bond interests. no investigation of American Beef Packers is planned.
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House
Senate Agriculture
Jack Hightower
D-Tex
Glen English
D-Okla
Keith Sebelus
Charles Thone
Neb
Senate
Packers and Stockyards
Commission
American Beef Packers, Inc
American Beef Packers
Clark
Poage
Amarillo
Hightower
Senate Agriculture Committee
Texas
Bob Dole
R-Kan
Henry Bellman
R-Okla
Amarilo
Davis retires as Texas dairy specialist after 18 years
Davis, J W Jimmy Davis Jr, retires from the Texas Agricultural Extension Service after 18 years as dairy specialist. He led efforts to improve herd records and efficiency amid market pressures. A veteran of World War II era service, he also chaired the Texas Purebred Dairy Cattle Judging Conference since 1965.
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J. W
Jimmy’’ Davis Jr
Texas
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Davis
John E. Hutchinson
Extension Service
Hutchinson
O. B. Butler
Department of Animal Science
Texas A&m
American Jersey Cattle Club
Texas Jersey Cattle Club
Texas Purebred Dairy Cattle Association
Texas Federation of Dairy Herd Improvement Association, Inc
Officials Finalize Plans For Yugoslavia Field Day Seminar
U S Feed Grains Council officials finalize a field day seminar on feed grains to be held in Yugoslavia in October. The event aims to boost American feed grains use and attract delegates from 15 European countries and Russia. Leader Elbert Harp of Abernathy and Darwin Stolte of Washington D C spearhead the tour in East Europe, promoting U S grain imports. Harp heads the Grain Sorghum Producers Association and Texas Sorghum boards, active in council formation since 1960. They attended Novi Sad Trade Fair showing farm machinery and food products while touring Yugoslavia.
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U.S. Feed Grains Council
Yugoslavia
Russia
Elbert Harp
Abernathy
Darwin Stolte
Washington, D.C
East Europe
Harp
Lubbock-based
Grain Sorghum Producers Association
Council
Texas Grain Sorghum Producers Board
USFGC
Novi Sad
Air
U.S
Congress Receives Food Stamp Report
A 50 page summary of the Food Stamp Program report ordered by Senate Resolution 58 was transmitted today by the U S Department of Agriculture. The press can obtain reproduci ble charts from the Press Division in Washington D C 20250.
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Senate
Congress
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Office of Communication
Washington, D.C
Farmers to Get Acreage and Production Questionnaire
About 24 700 Texas farmers will receive an acreage and production questionnaire in early July. Charles Caudill of the Texas Crop and Livestock Report Service will use the data to compute harvested acreage and production for Texas and each county. Respondents are asked to return by mail. all reports stay confidential and support state and county totals as part of a cooperative USDA and Texas Department of Agriculture effort.
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Texas
Charles Caudill
Texas Crop and Livestock Report Service
Austin
Census Bureau
Texas Agricultural Outlook Boosts Livestock and Crops
The July Fourth week sees crops thriving across Texas with cotton planted and harvests underway while beef cattle on feed rise at 1,128,000 head in Texas. Milk production shows ups and downs with May up 5 percent from April yet 1 percent below last year. Census of Agriculture participation lags with 99,000 farmers yet to respond.
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Texas
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Cyclerama
San Antonio, Texas
Centex Mx Park
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Mx Plano
Nemes
West Baldwin
Kansas
Ama Somrdey
Jim Stafford
Rockbrook Farms
Montalba
Rockbrook
East Texas State University, Commerce
H. C. “Buck” Hughes
Statistical Reporting Service
The
Texas Department of Agriculture
Tex
A. T. Ball Lumber Co
Bryan, Texas
Mite
John C. White
High Plains
CM Orem
West
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