County Agent Pushes Screwworm Elimination in Texas
County notes from Milam County report Governor Briscoe urging cattlemen to unite behind a Mission 77 effort to eradicate screwworms from the continental U.S. A county committee will be reorganized for cooperation. Also in Cameron a cotton root rot demo uses salt treatment on Joe Mueck farm with future plantings of cotton and grain sorghum.
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Dolph Briscoe
Continental
United States
Texas
Milam County
Joe Mueck
Cameron
Stuart Lyda
Walter Walla
Texas A&m
Jerry Trampota
Crossroads Grain CO. Inc
CaMeron, Texas
Kenneth Marek & Cruz Perez
North & Farm
Animal Agriculture Conference Set For April at A&M
Texas animal agriculture representatives will register for the Texas Animal Agriculture Conference April 4 and 5 at the Rudder Center Texas A&M University with the theme A Look into the Future. Short courses cover beef dairy horses and swine plus range pasture forage and wildlife programs. L S Maddox Jr beef cattle specialist chairs the event focused on producer profits with sessions on marketing nutrition health and reproduction moderated by Dr O D Butler head of animal science. Five speakers will discuss key issues in animal agriculture.
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Texas Animal Agriculture Conference
Rudder Center
Texas A&m University
L. S. Maddox Jr
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Maddox
O. D. Butler
Texas A&m
ICA Leaders Testify On Agriculture Bill Agency hearing in Washington
Independent Cattlemen's Association of Texas leaders T A Cunningham and Dr Eddie Payne testified before the U S Senate Committee on Agriculture. They argued for fair play and free markets without subsidies, urged more animal health research, and pressed for new brucellosis solutions beyond test and kill methods. They faced questions on brucellosis fever ticks screw worms and cattle imports from Mexico.
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Eddie Payne
Independent Cattlemen's Association of Texas
U. S. Senate Committee On Agriculture
Washington
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Sweden
Cunningham
Dr. Payne
Mexico
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