Soybean yield tips emphasize timing and irrigation
Agricultural guidance notes key factors for high soybean yields. Moisture management, drainage, and disease control are crucial. Late planting reduces production. irrigation during the critical mid to late growing period, soil shaping, and drainage support, with resistant varieties aiding against Race 3 cysts and other pests.
Dairy price boost planned to aid producers under drought
The administration proposes a nine percent increase in the basic dairy price support, aiming to raise wholesale milk prices and lift farm income. Secretary Bergland says the move helps dairy farmers facing drought costs and slumping market demand, while debates continue over exact impact on retail prices.
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Ulture
Bob Sid
Jey Cohen
Agure
Hiss
Berd
Carter
Nationalt Producers Federation
Bergland
Ergland
Wisconsin
Gerald R. Ford
United States
White House
Thornton urges more testing on saccharin before ban
Rep Ray Thornton says additional testing should be conducted before the FDA bans saccharin. He questions the reliability of large dose rat studies and notes local facilities capable of low to high dosage tests, including the National Center for Toxicological Research near Pine Bluff.
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Ashington
Federal Food Drug Administration
Ray Thornton
Thornton
National Center For Toxicological Research
Pine Bluff
Witnesses continue in Sheridan drug case trial in Memphis
Testimony resumes in U S District Court as prosecutors plan about 12 more witnesses in the case of Gerald Dixon Don Mitchell and T L Fortenberry all of Sheridan and Dumas who faced state charges of possession with intent to deliver The defense and prosecution detailed the Mexico connection and the alleged organization moving marijuana into Arkansas Louisiana and Texas with Wallace and Crisp due to be tried in May The jury of eight men and four women was seated earlier in the week and key undercover agent Jerry Roberts testified about arranging a marijuana purchase and identifying the operation's leaders
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Memphis
U.S. District Court
Arkansas
Sheridan
Gerald Dixon
Don Mitchell
T. L. Fortenberry
Dumas
G. Thomas Eisele
Little Rock
Jerry L. Roberts
Greenbrier
Faulkner County
Roberts
Bobby Boyd
Dixon
Mitchell
Circuit
Henry B. Means
Malvern
Crisp
Atty
John W. Cole
Cole
U.S. Atty. W. A
Sonny” Dillahunty
Dixon, Mitchell and
Fortenberry
Northeast snowstorm edges toward region amid heavy warnings
A spring storm moved from the Great Lakes toward the Northeast with two inches of snow in Chicago and an inch in Peoria and South Bend. Heavy snow warnings extended into southern Michigan, northern Ohio and western New York, with travel advisories across northern Illinois and lower Michigan. A possible tornado near Albany, Georgia caused property damage but no injuries. Temperature readings ranged from 12 in Marquette to 78 in Key West as the system spread.
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Ohio
New York
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Atlantic Coast
South Carolina
Albany
Marquette
Minn
Key West
Fla
Atlanta
Boston
Cincinnati
Senior jogger, 88, trims to one mile daily
Eula Weaver, 88, reduced jogging to one mile a day after a stroke and arthritis. She adds 10 miles on a stationary bike when it rains, and cycles 10 miles before dinner at a gym. A former National Senior Olympics champion, she credits recovery to determined walking, diet changes, and adviser Nathan Pritikin.
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Los Angeles
Eula Weaver
Santa Monica
Illinois
California
Weaver
Irvine
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Santa Barbara
Jonesboro Man Killed in Two-Car Crash North of City
James M. Burrow, 56, of Jonesboro died and Lowell Lee, 18, was injured in a two car collision on Arkansas 141 four miles north of Jonesboro. State Police said Lee struck Burrow's car as Burrow turned onto a county road.
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Ark
James M. Burrow
Arkansas 141
Here
Lowell Lee
Jerry Brodgen
Lee
Burrow
Faubus Works as Bank Teller in Huntsville Ark
Former Arkansas governor Orval Faubus works as a teller at First National Bank of Huntsville saying inflation forced him back to work. He reports his state retirement around six hundred dollars a month from ten of twelve years in office and discusses a forthcoming five hundred page memoir tied to desegregation milestones.
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Huntsville
Ark
Orval E. Faubus
First National Bank of
Faubus
Little Rock Central High School
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