Progress in South Dakota Sorghum Breeding for Low Prussic Acid
South Dakota researchers push to improve forage and grain sorghums with resistance to grasshoppers and diseases, earlier maturity, higher yields, and cooler temperatures. Breeding aims include low prussic acid content, uniform maturity, and ease of harvesting, with field isolation and pure seed essential for maintaining traits.
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South Dakota
Dakota
Eiment Station
United States
Agronomy
State College
Agronomy Department
Crop Improvement Association
Woonsocket 4-H Boy Builds Hog Raising Business
Delbert Steele a 15 year old Woonsocket area 4-H member started with a $25 purebred Hampshire sow in 1939. He sold boar pigs for 80 dollars and later 11 fall pigs. Now both he and his father operate purebred hogs and Delbert still attends Woonsocket High School.
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Delbert Steele
Sanborn County
4.H Club
Woonsocket High School
Delbert
Warren Township
4-H
Harry Steele
Woonsocket Bank
Hampshire
Walter Steele
Steele
Warrer Club
Careful rapeseed choice urged for hog forage
The Agricultural Marketing Service warns winter rapeseed shortages due to reduced imports. Farmers should buy only labeled Dwarf Essex seed and avoid varieties unsuitable for forage. A suggested mix is oats and rapeseed with specific planting rates and harvest timing for spring pigage.
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A. J. Norgaard Extension Agronomist
State College
Japan
Netherlands
Norgaard
Orchard Culture In Experimental Plot Near Spearfish
Spearfish February 25 County Agent Ivan V Flaharty with Professors L L Davis and S A McCrory of State College horticulture and forestry are guiding Robert Parker who owns a one acre tract in the Spearfish Valley in planting an orchard per a 1940 plan. The project follows disease and insect control pruning and irrigation recommendations.
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Spearfish
Ivan V. Flaharty
L. L. Davis
S. A. McCrory
Department of Horticulture and Forestry
State College
Robert Parker
Spearfish Valley
Davis
Parker
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