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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1987
Page
13
The USDA Outlook and Situation Summary projects 1987 U S soybean production at 1.9 billion bushels, down 5 percent from 1986, with 58.7 million acres planted and declines from 1986. Soybean meal and oil markets show higher prices and strong exports, while CCC sales and rising crush spur stock trends into 1988.
Guidance from Dave Schwabe Price County agent urges reducing hog numbers by 5 to 10 percent when temps exceed 75 F or danger levels appear. Bed truck floors with sand above 60 F, use straw below 60 F, load during cooler hours, and water animals evenly to minimize fighting. Follow sound handling while sorting and loading swine.
Corn huskers from 14 states will compete for the national title October 18 in Marshall Missouri. Entrants aim to harvest the most corn in a timed event and toss cars into moving horse drawn wagons. Event features include antique car and tractor shows parade square dance crafts pony pulling mule jumping and corn throwing contests. Cargill Seeds provided seed and funding while Monsanto supplied chemicals. The contest is at Saline County Fairground on U S Highway 65 ten miles north of I 70. For more information call Marshal Chamber of Commerce 816 886 3324.
Three Agriculture Department agencies and the Food and Drug Administration signed a research pact to pursue mutual interest projects in animal health and human nutrition. The four agencies will cooperate through Sept 30, 1990, sharing scientific expertise data bases and resources. ARS APHIS and the National Agricultural Library signed for USDA.
Agriculture Department weed fighters claim progress against witchweed with 300000 plus acres cleared since 1974, equaling about 70 percent of the infestation in North and South Carolina. The weed parasitizes corn and sorghum roots, stunting crops and harming agriculture.
Norbert Anderson of Wisconsin Department of Transportation says 759 740 sets of graphic plates issued in the last year. About 282 000 were part of the black and yellow to graphic phaseout, 130 000 were personalized plates. Roughly 600 000 graphic plates retain blue lettering, and only 21 364 motorists paid extra for early graphic plates.
A nostalgia piece contrasts modern oat harvest with earlier 1920s methods in Peru. It recalls yellow fields, binders, cone shaped stacks, and a mobile threshing rig owned by Oliver Olson, featuring a steamer and separator that thresh oats into sacks, with workers lifting grain to upper granaries.
Doris Geisler Klatt recalls a 1939 harvest on the William Geisler farm near Fall Creek. The scene follows straw blowing from a separator, workers tamping stacks, and a stop for a noon meal of roast meat and beans. Farmers share stories, then move on as the steamer is rolled away. Harvests then took days. today time speeds by.
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