Buzzing with Bob Opens July Garden Clinic Talk
A July 6 session in Columbus City will feature speakers from the Extension service to address lawn and garden insect or disease problems. The program includes John Furrer and others outlining care tips and early summer pruning guidance for pines, plus warnings about hog cholera in Adams County and indemnity for producers.
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Columbus City
John Furrer
Bob Rostile
Dave Wysone
T. Place
Adams County
Nebraska
Opuicars
Ara Ely
Seasonal alert to tick inspectors near border quarantine zone
The Agriculture Department issues a seasonal alert to tick inspectors in a quarantine zone extending up to 500 miles from the Gulf to Amistad Dam near Del Rio Texas. Sixty five inspectors check cattle and horses for calie tick fever to keep the disease from returning to the United States.
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Washington (P
Agriculture Department
U.S
URDA
Rio Grande
Mexico
United States
Glen C. Schubert
Inspection Service
Gulf of Mexico
Amistad Dam
del Ria
Tex
XI Salles
4 H Notes Wacky Waerkers at Kiunike nome meeting
4-H groups meet at Kiuntke nome Noll with Tammy Franzen and Karen Koppel presenting submarine sandwiches. Members discuss stay stitching pressing seams and sewing steps while John Oehlrich Doug Nelson lead a tuna submariner demonstration and party follows with gifts and games.
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Noll
Tammy Franzen
Karen Koppel
Theresa Kiuntke
Guys & Gals
John Oehlrich
Doug Nelson
Doug
John
Nelson
Qehlrich
Susan Rodehorst
Glenvil black walnut tree may be fourth largest in US
In Glenvil a black walnut on Dale Brader farm is claimed to be the fourth largest in the United States and Nebraska's largest. Fremont party hikers may have camped nearby on June 23, 1842, with experts estimating the tree’s age between 160 and 2 million years. Measurements include a 19 ft 2.3 in trunk girth, 4 ft height, and a 101 ft crown, with lumber value around $600 despite its gnarled limbs.
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Glenvil
John €. Tremont
Kit Carson
Dale Brader
Brader
Fremont
United States
Nebraska
American Forestry Association
Maryland
Michigan
Oregon
Monahan
ASCS Shakeup After Palutoy Resignation Rumors Fly
Washington AP reports a major ASCS shakeup follows the resignation of Assistant Secretary Clarence D. Palutoy. Darrell G. Brunthauer’s move to that post triggers more changes. Glenn A. Weir eyed as Brunthauer’s successor as associate administrator. Brimthauer’s Senate confirmation pending may delay shifts. Weir, a Kansas farmer, is seen as knowledgeable on farm policy programs. Welch becomes deputy administrator for commodity operations with grain duties. Laurel C. Meade Favored to head export marketing service sales. Clifford Pulvermacher to retire as general sales manager. Continental Grain ties loom as Palutby exits to join the firm and influence Soviet grain talks.
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Washington
Conservation Service
ASCS
Clarence. D. Palutoy
Darrell G. Brinthaver
Palmby
Brinthauer
Glenn A. Weir
Brunthauer
Senate
Kenne Frise
O Raita
Frick
Nixon
California
Weir
Brunthaver
Welch
Laurel C. Meade
Continental Grain Co
U.S
Continental
Wheat program meeting to shape 1973 plans
Washington AP Agri culture Secretary Mari L Butz will convene the National Advisory Committee on Gains next week to discuss next year’s wheat program and the outlook for 1973. Major program details will be announced early to help winter wheat producers plan, with crop outlook and grain supply discussed at a one day meeting scheduled for Tuesday, June 20.
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Washington
Mari L. ‘Butz
National Advisory Committee On
Opie
Farm exports to Russia seen in grains and breeding stock
An Agriculture Department report says the near term U S agricultural export potential to the Soviet Union centers on grains, feedstuffs and breeding stock in addition to hides and almonds. The Soviet plan to raise protein intake by 1975 boosts demand for high energy and high protein feeds and livestock growth.
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Don Kendall
Washington (Ap
Agriculture Department
U.S
Russia
Soviet Union
United States
Europe
Meat snacks drive growth in food service demand
The National Livestock and Meat Beard reports Americans eat one in four meals away from home. Data from 1970 shows 149 million meals and 42 million snacks away from home with restaurants leading all categories. Meat remains the main entree in lunches and dinners, prompting calls for expanded promotion and merchandising to boost snack and breakfast consumption.
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National Livestock and Meat Beard
Armericans
Roger Mandiga
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Moriligo
Controversial farm study to be updated in 1973
Agriculture Department economists plan a new version of the disputed study that estimated only 1 percent of farms were corporate owned. The revised report, due in 1973, is expected to show little change from the 1968 base, which tied 13 corporations to 1 percent of commercial farms and 8 percent of farm sales while noting geographic variations and ownership patterns.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Congress
Califarnna
Florida
Hawaii
Corn
Plains
William ¥. Scofield
Michigan State University
Richard D. Rodefeld
Senate
Fea
Rodefeld
Wisconsin
Scofield
Agriculture
Ile L. Freeman
ASCS Eyes Large Harvest and Storage Needs
Washington AP reports ASCS officials foresee a huge grain harvest this year. Farmers must plan storage to avoid low prices, with on farm storage expansion urged to hold grain under price support loans until cash markets strengthen. Past transport strikes slowed grain movement, affecting prices and exports.
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USDA
ASCS
Hoe Hind
Corn Corp
Steplnie Les Haeere
Texas Iowa lead in cattle feeding race continues
USDA June 1 feedlot inventories show Texas at 2,046,000 cattle fed for slaughter, Iowa 1,819,000. Total six states reach over 7.0 million, with Texas up 22 percent and Iowa up 3 percent from last year as Nebraska Colorado Arizona and California also post gains. Placements in July imply Texas may stay ahead, with May feedings totaling 87,000 head for Texas and 186,000 for Iowa.
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Washington
Texas
Midwest
Towa
Nebraska
Colorado
Arizona
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Kansas
Calle
Exas
Forward contracting seen as useful tool for farmers
Washington AP reports the Agriculture Department notes forward contracting as a method for farmers to improve income from grain and cotton by locking future sales. The method, liberalized a year ago for loan held commodities, allows loans on crops like corn with a plan to sell later at hoped for higher prices, though farmers must settle government price support before delivering stored grain to buyers.
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Washington
Agriculture’ Department
Rea
USDA
More cattle now on feed in Nebraska totals rise
Lincoln, Neb. The June 1 cattle on feed count reached 1,389,000 head, up 16 percent from a year ago but just 1 percent above May. May placements were 332,000 head, up 46 percent from a year earlier, while May marketings reached 344,000 head, up 12 percent.
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Lincoln
Neb
State-Federalivision of Agrisuture
Hit pay dirt use clean seed in weed warning
Platte County Weed Supt Ralph Eisenmenger warns that secondary noxious weeds sprouting from uncleaned seed crowd crops, rot soil nutrients, and threaten hay and pasture yields up to five dollars per acre. He notes ragweed consumes vast water, alfalfa and cereal crops demand heavy irrigation, and weeds hinder harvest, reduce quality, and lower property value.
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Platte County
Ralph Eisenmenger
Eisenmonger
Eisenmenger
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