Wheat harvest begins in Chanute area despite early troubles
Wheat harvest has started in Chanute with test cuttings to elevators and expected regular deliveries this week. Yields vary from 5 to 7 bushels per acre to 35, moisture and test weights reported, while some farmers plowed under frost-damaged wheat. Kansas wheat officials announce foreign visitor groups in June to discuss grain industry and higher protein wheat research funding.
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Chanute
Paul Kelly
Neosho County
Bill Kepley
Thayer
Richard Greve
Kansas
Kansas Wheat Commission
India Wheat Industry
Kansas City Board of Trade
Doty Laboratories
Kansas State University to host regional dog industry meetings
Five regional educational meetings sponsored by the Kansas State University Extension Service will feature Purebreed and registered dog production. Kansas breeders, brokers, veterinarians and agents are invited. Chanute hosts June 23 at Central Park Building with 7 p.m. registration and 7:30 program.
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Kansas State University Extension Service
Manhattan
Neosho County
Kansas
Abilene
Chanute
Central Park Building
Use value appraisal to shift Kansas tax base per study
Kansas State University researchers estimate use value appraisal of agricultural land will shift the tax base from farms to other property mainly in rural counties. The report analyzes county and district impacts, noting urban counties would see minimal tax shifts and that state aid to many unified school districts would rise.
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Kansas
Kansas State University Extension
Flinchbaugh
Mark A. Edelman
Kansas State University
Flinchbaugh and
Edelman
Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
K-State
Farm Management Associations
Wyandotte County
Greeley
Wallace
Logan
Jewell
Johnson
Wyandotte
Sedgwick
Shawnee
Shawnee County
Sedgwick County
Johnson County
Allen County
Wheat varieties to be checked at Neosho plots
The Neosho County wheat variety plots will be discussed at 10:30 a.m. Friday. Sixteen varieties are on the Glenn Neely farm, 12 miles north of Urbana or 1 mile south of Hillcrest school on Shaw road. Extension agronomist Gary Kilgore will discuss the plots and wheat diseases with questions on the greenbug situation. Paul Kelly said anyone interested may participate.
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Neosho County
Glenn Neely
Urbana
Hillcrest
Shaw Road
Gary Kilgore
Area Extension Agronomist
Kilgore
Paul Kelly
Wheat harvest spotty in Wilson County
Wilson County wheat harvest has begun with uneven yields. Eber Cox of Cox Grain reports a first load at 61 pounds with moisture around 13 percent and notes some fields yielding up to 20 bushels per acre while others produce about six bushels per acre.
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Wilson County
Eber Cox
Cox Grain
Exotic cattle breed thrives on Kansas farm
On a Stockton farm the Bigge family elevates Pinzgauer cattle, an exotic breed. Bethyl and Thomas Bigge describe their exotic herd as gentle and fertile with good feed efficiency while noting artificial insemination demands daily heat checks and distant sales to breeders rather than local sale barns.
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Stockton
Hns
Canada
Kirk Bigge
Bethyl Bigge
Kansas
Thomas
Bigge
United States
Thomas Bigge
Georgia
Solid waste and wood studied as fuel source at KU
Former Chanute resident Gary Naughton assistant state forester at Kansas State University leads a KU funded project assessing solid waste and wood as alternatives to natural gas and oil for campus power. The plan includes 20 acres of fast growing plantations near Lawrence to supply wood chips for the EU power plant by 1980 with 80 percent grant support. species vary by site and include cottonwood silver maple and catalpa.
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Chanute
Gary Naughton
Kansas State University
Manhattan
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Wildcats
Jayhawks
Naughton
K State
K-State
Ozarks Regional Commission
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Kans
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Ron Livers
Livers
Eagle
Sage
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Barry L. Flinchbaugh
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