Low Income Is Problem For U S Farm Laborers
Editor notes a series based on leaflets from the Agricultural Policy Institute. It outlines income challenges for regular and seasonal farm workers, with data on 1966 and 1986 earnings, housing, health, and education needs, and discusses paths to better pay, training, and nonfarm opportunities. It highlights wage laws, social programs, job placement efforts, and housing gaps affecting migrants.
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Paxton Marshall
Virginia Tech
Agricultural Policy Institute
North Carolina State University
America
U.S
Hepidid
Hawaii
Running In Circles at Virginia Tech Plot
Virginia Tech agronomy students study an experimental corn plot laid out in concentric circles. The 70 foot diameter plot ranges density from 6,000 per acre at the rim to 76,000 per acre at the center. Dr W Carson explains the design enables population studies with minimal land.
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Virginia Tech Agronomy
W. Carson
VPI
Virginia 4 1 Congress in Progress This Week
Virginia Tech hosts a statewide 4 H Congress with award winners named throughout the week. Trips to the National 4 H Congress in Chicago in November are among prizes, along with college awards and county level recognitions. Extension agents Page Gorlsey and Roy Laytan Koike will teach teen life and recreation classes with guest lecturers from Michigan State University and the University of Kentucky.
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Blacksburg
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Chicago
University of Kentucky
Duratty
Emerson Citizenship
National 410 Club Foundation
Arden M. Pelerzon
Michigan State University
Page Gorlsey
Montgomery County
Roy Laytan
Koike County
Kathleen Wampler
Tech
Polly Hanst
Wil
the University
Virginia Hereford Field Day Plans Announced
Annual event outline for the Virginia Hereford Field Day includes a prelude tie tent, a futur judging contest, and a cattle show open to bus heifers and steers of certain ages owned by VIA members and day-joiners. The host farm offers overnight facilities and the event features a public community fest, a VIHA meeting, and a USDA consumer meal with soil topics under the theme Let's Buy Beef.
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Ste
Sandra
Beekeepers Meet Friday in TriCity Association
The TriCity Beekeepers Association will meet at 7 p.m. Friday in the Neighborhood Service Center on East Sevier Avenue. A honey sale will be held on Broad Street Saturday. Arthur Knight, president, has announced the event details.
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TriCity Beekeepers) Association
East Sevier Avenue
Broad Street
Arthur Knight
Broiler Chick Placements Rise in 22 States
The week ended June 14 shows broiler chick placements in 22 principal states up 8 percent from a year earlier, per the Tennessee Crop Reporting Service.
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Nashville
Tennessee Crop Npporting Service
Farm report notes farmers receive lower prices than 20 years ago
United Press International reports a House study finds American farmers getting prices below those of two decades prior while consumers enjoy the largest food bargains in history. The analysis covers farm price trends, cattle calf gains, and calving months from Tennessee data and University of Tennessee research, urging breeders to apply findings to maximize returns.
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House of Representatives
U.S
Sherel
Tennessee
University of Tennessee
Haley M. Jamison
Jamison
Electric Shock Dangers and Home Wiring Safety
The article urges caution with electricity citing frayed insulation and 125 volt shocks as deadly. It advises using a qualified electrician for wiring, proper grounding, and turning off the main switch before work, plus summer pasture management for cattle.
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Bss
Ashland
Fifteen Acts to Perform at 4-H Honor Club Talent Show
Fourteen to fifteen 4-H members will perform singing, skill work, and guitar pieces at the 4-H Honor Club Talent Show on Saturday June 28 at 7 30 pm in Blountville Junior High School. Proceeds fund the Iown exchange with tickets 24 cents for students and 30 cents for adults. Countywide sales support Sullivan County 4-H efforts and members.
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Blountville
th +H Honor Club
Iown Exchange
Hadents
Sonr
Blountville Junior High School
Blueboy Wheat Tops Virginia Plantings in 1968 Survey
In Virginia Blueboy wheat dominates with 53.4 percent of acreage according to the Virginia Crop Reporting Service. Redcoat trails at 15.5 percent while older lines Seneca and Thorne have fallen to about 14 percent combined. Blueboy’s yield potential, aided by Norin-10 genetics, is cited as the main driver of its surge and broad adoption.
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Blacksburg
Virginia
Virginia Crop Reporting Service
Blueboy
Robert J. Harrison
Virginia Tech
Seneca
Thorne
Ifarcison
India
Harrison
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