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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1973
Page
4
County agent’s notes advise spring nematode control in home gardens using DBCP fumigants or granular forms with gloves and proper furrow depth. Advice covers row and broadcast methods, sealing furrows, and watering after treatment. Pecan phylloxera and obscure scale control via dormant oil is noted, along with rubber tree production timing.
4 H Club activities at the Houston Livestock Show featured three Guernsey heifers. Daniel Richardson placed his heifer in the Dairy Scramble Show as Reserve Champion and in the Junior Dairy Show as Senior heifer calf champion.
Milam County Farm Bureau held its March meeting with 15 directors present. Reports covered monthly production in the insurance service, new member signups, TASCO, and a winter forage tour across four counties. A study group for constitutional revision was formed, and a cotton program for members was approved.
Producers may use set aside land for livestock forage or approved alternate crops with reduced payments. Land must be average quality cropland and at least five acres with 132 foot minimum width. Notify ASCS before haying or grazing. New 1973 rules allow grazing and specify eligible alternate crops with a 30 percent payment reduction. Two screwworm cases in Hidalgo and Willacy highlight ongoing pest presence in South Texas.
Dr. Robert M. Titsworth of Cameron will be a seminar speaker at the 5th annual Southwestern Animal Health Conference March 17 18 at the Convention Center in Waco. The non profit conference targets stockmen across Texas Arkansas Louisiana Oklahoma and New Mexico and is co sponsored by the Texas Veterinary Medical Association and Texas A&M University. Registration is 15 to 20 dollars at the door with pre registration by writing to the Southwestern Animal Health Conference Austin Texas.
Six Texas counties lose modified-certified brucellosis status for non compliance with eradication program rules. Cotton planting in the Lower Rio Grande Valley is delayed at least a month due to cold wet weather, with less than five percent planted. High Plains harvest of 1972 cotton is nearly complete as rains stalled activity. Nutrition challenges persist for livestock with muddy pastures and hay shortages. International cooperation expands grain sorghum breeding in Guatemala and Mexico. Texas supplies about 40 percent of the nation's grain sorghum and reports high quality hybrid seeds.
The Brazos River Authority will sponsor a public meeting on March 21 in Waco to discuss a basinwide water quality management study for the Brazos River watershed and adjoining Gulf Coast area. The session starts at 2 p.m. at the Convention Center.
The report notes beef prices rising over the past year due to higher producer costs and marketing. It cites emerging values for beef cuts and pork items, calls chickens a bargain, and lists fruit and vegetable prices. Colonel Walter Wells outlines a public meeting to discuss a Brazos Basin water quality plan with state and local agencies and stakeholders invited to comment.
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