Pasture vs corn yields more digestible nutrients say experts
An April National Livestock Producer piece cites experiments showing pastures can outproduce corn per acre in digestible nutrients. Cornell notes costs to produce digestible nutrients are 76 cents per 100 lbs from pasture versus higher for hay corn silage and grains, with North Carolina data showing labor returns of 23.07 dollars from pasture against 3.69 from corn.
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Cornell University
North Carolina
Legume Seed Plentiful While Grass Seed Scarce
Michigan reports alfalfa and clover seeds more plentiful and cheaper, while brome grass seed remains scarce. Alfalfa and brome mixtures risk brome overtake in year two if seeded heavily. Prices and supplies reflect variances from last year with carryovers and below normal grass seed stocks.
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Michigan
Karl Wray
M.sc. Crops Department
Board hires Walter Smith to supervise dairy production records
Walter Smith is appointed by the Board of Directors to supervise the prospecton records for about 20 dairymen in the northwest. Ed Sahafer is thanked for testing many herds before a tester was available. The aim is to complete all records without missing months and to add more dairymen in the near future.
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Walter Smith
Weldman
Quy
Ed Sahafer
Memibers
The Acid Test Of Private Enterprise Says Benson
Secretary Ezra Taft Benson declares in a February 5 1953 statement that future agriculture depends on vigorous re emphasis of private competitive enterprise. He argues for market based parity prices and income, warns against overreliance on government programs, and calls for price supports as disaster insurance while opposing policies that cause surpluses. He pledges to bolster individual integrity freedom and moral fiber through USDA administration and to seek diverse advisory input on policies.
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Ezra Taft Benson
USDA
Bbe
Congress
Grass Day Program Set for Gratiot County
Grass Day will be held June 17 in Gratiot County on the Roscow Cary farm, five miles west and two south of Alma. The all day event invites local farmers for forage crop education tours machinery displays and group meetings to improve farming practices.
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Gratiot
Roscow ‘Cary
Alma
Isabella County
Marble Auto Collision Service Brakes Check
Specialized brake service offer with free inspection. Slogan emphasizes safety with the warning Safe Brakes Save Lives Perhaps Your Own. Contact information partially shown as BBW.
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Marble Auto Collision Service
Beavers Dam Remnants Highlight Clare County Farms
The Clare Soil Conservation District assists landowners including schools and clubs with trees and wildlife packets. Farmers Raymond and Irwin Scott plan to plant thousands of trees with a planter, while steeper land requires hand planting. Muliflora Rose is being tried, waterways will be finished, and Virgil Newman notes an old beaver dam ridge on his land.
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Clare
Norris Garrow
Norris
Carrow
Clare County
Virgil Newman
Virgil
Sow Testing Project Starts In Isabella
Swine raisers from Michigan enter a sow testing contest in Isabella County. The program aims to increase pork output with less labor and feed by recording feed costs and pig weights at 56 days to select replacements. No special equipment is needed. participants ear mark at farrowing and weigh at 56 days.
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Michigan
Isabella County
Now Is Good Time To Get Soils Tested
County agronomists urge soil testing and lime application this spring. They note Clare county soils show a need for lime on seed beds and wheat land, with long range benefits to future yields and data recorded for next year.
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Clare County
Couny
Dan Bay Receives National 4 H Calf Club Honors
Dan Bay of Clare Vermont earned a Certificate of Merit and Junior membership in the Holstein-Friesian Association of American Brattleboro. Vermont for satisfactory Holstein calf club work in the past year. He was recommended by the State 4 H Club Leader and gains all privileges of the Association except voting until age 21. He is the 15 544th member of the Holstein Friesian Calf Club Association of America to achieve national recognition.
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Dan Bay
Clare
Holstein-Friesian Association of American
Brattleboro
Vermont
Olstein-Friesian Calf + Club Asociation of América
Dual Heating Unit Powers Milkhouse and Space Heater
Willard Vanden Heuvel of Seymour Wisconsin uses a propane water heater in his milkhouse to supply hot water for washing equipment and to heat a space above the milkhouse via a thermostat. The combined unit averages a gallon of LP gas daily in winter while powering a 14 by 14 foot cement and frame milkroom and herd records are checked nearby.
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Willard Vanden Heuvel
Seymour
Wis
Vanden
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