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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1982
Page
14
It costs only 22.50 for a three-row 100-yard windbreak using barefoot trees planted 12 feet apart. Container-grown trees cost more. A windbreak plan could be two rows of eastern red cedar and a row of Austrian pine, with a possible fourth row of hackberry for extra height. Delivery is for conservation purposes through Kansas State University.
Otis Griggs as agent lists shrubs and trees for windbreaks and landscapes. Shrubs include American plum autumn olive cotoneaster fragrant sumac honeysuckle lilac. Evergreens Salem pine pondersa etc. Deciduous species include locusts oaks maples and walnuts. Container grown pines juniper and cedar. Wildlife bundles offered. For orders contact the Extension office on the fairgrounds at 276 3205.
Mark L Hooker research agronomist at Garden City Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station will speak at the American Society of Agronomy annual meeting in Anaheim California ending December 3 He will present Winter Wheat Yield Responses to Soil Moisture Deficits at Critical Growth Stages The work shows wheat tolerates moderate moisture stress during early growth but requires more water later to maximize yield Scheduling irrigation to match needs can cut water use while preserving yields George Herron and Merle Witt station colleagues also attend the diamond jubilee meeting marking 75 years of soil water plant system advances
Bonnie Devies attended the seventh American Agri-Women convention in Kansas City where Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum gave the Washington Update on 1982-83 agricultural issues. Topics included land use food energy and water resources. Farm Bureau delegates to Topeka will meet in Topeka December 5-7 with Elton Smith and John Hosemann presenting.
Area producers held the 5th annual 4 H Club Calf Sale in Garden City on November 20 at the Garden City Livestock Market hosted by Dave Daniels. Forty eight calves sold for 26 625 averaging 554 69 with consignors led by Mike Friesen Eugene Gross and Nick Wells. The top two calves brought 1150 and 1100 each owned by Nick Wells. Calves weighed 500 to 770 pounds and were born after January 1 1981.
Economists hedge on 1983 farm prospects while Agriculture Secretary Block forecasts improvement next year. Ahalt predicts 3 to 6 percent rise in food prices, with farmers facing a fourth tough income year despite lower costs. Block cites crop acreage cuts, export push, and a stronger economy as reasons for optimism.
About 60 4-H members are enrolled in the Junior Leader project. December meetings include County Record and Award Chairman training December 7 at Dodge City from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and a Junior Leader meeting December 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the 4-H Building. The group plans a Breckenridge snow ski trip February 17 to 20 with an approximate $140 cost. call the Extension office to reserve.
Millers National Federation plans a media campaign to boost visibility of the U.S. flour milling sector. The effort notes tight margins and competition, alongside common ground with wheat farmers in Kansas, where both growers and millers dominate production.
Dodge City artist Mark Haley created a welded Cor ten steel sculpture titled queen of food grains depicting three stalks of hard red winter wheat. The 35 foot piece, placed before High Plains Journal, honors wheat as a Kansas product and celebrates the publication's 100th anniversary in 1983.
The 1983 Extension Council elected its executive board on November 18 at the annual meeting. Officers include Boyd Funk as chairman Johnny Diehl vice chairman Diana Stone secretary and Lowell McGraw treasurer. New and returning members were named with Cliff Hope Carol Brown Ray Mann among guests. Brown swore in the new board as advisory reports highlighted 4-H youth programs home economics work and major extension education plans for 1982.
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