Calcium management for dairy cow rations in forage shifts
Thomas Parslow of Juneau County ag agent outlines feeding changes when shifting lactating cows from alfalfa to corn silage. Recommendations include minerals with higher calcium, vitamin A and D supplementation, protein adjustments, hay inclusion in early lactation, and monitoring energy intake to prevent excess fat as cows move to silage based rations.
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Thomas Parslow
Juneau County Ag
Black layer signals corn reaches maximum dry matter
The black layer at the kernel tip marks maximum dry matter. Kernel moisture then runs 28 to 32 percent, with crown moisture higher. Drying depends on weather and hybrid traits, with indicators like half kernels dented and milk line guiding estimates. Steve Baver notes from Rusk County ag agent.
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Steve Baver
Rusk County Ag
Montana declares distressed counties amid drought and grasshoppers
Montana has 55 of 56 counties named emergency disaster areas. The USDA disaster declaration enables federal loan programs for producers and small businesses, including FmHA Emergency Disaster Loans up to 100000 at 5 percent and 100000 to 500000 at 8 percent, for crops with 30 percent losses. Agri-News, Billings, Mont.
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Fmha
Small Business Administration
Agri-News
Billings
Mont
Papa Gaines Barn Legacy of Trading and Selling Horses
Leonard Gaines built a bustling livery barn in Arlington Nebraska after trading an 80 acre Iowa farm in 1906. He traveled four states buying horses for shipment home while Mama tended a large garden and five women kept house. The Barn housed stables, harnesses, carriages, an annex with a haymow, and an office where cribbage and checks tracked horse purchases. After World War I the garage era reduced traffic and he became a successful real estate dealer, continuing his talent for trading and selling.
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Papa
Leonard Gaines
Arlington
Neb
Livery stable recalled in Yarn of Yester year
The Country Yesterday recalls the Livery Feed and Sale Stable run by Leonard Gaines in Arlington Nebraska in the early 1900s. His daughter Alice Gaines Oetting of Menomonie recounts the operation and its Midwest parallels in the Yarn of Yester year.
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Leonard Gaines
Arlington
Neb
Midwest
Yesteryear
Alice Gaines Oetting
Menomonie
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