Weevil Work To Be Seen At Field Day
The Spring Field Day at the Tobacco Experiment Station near Greeneville will spotlight tobacco plant production and alfalfa weevil control. More than 500 tobacco plant beds will be viewed showing spring versus fall weed control, fertilizer use, plastic covered plants, and germination under plastic. Dr Stelman Bennell will discuss experimental alfalfa weevil control, including fall and spring treatments and LP gas flaming.
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Tobacco Experiment Station
Greeneville
Sullivan County
J. W. McGrain
McClain
Hugh Fells
Greeneville Station
Stelman Bennell
University of Tennessee Department of Agricultural Biology
Grain Stocks Fall Sharply as Soybeans Rise in Tennessee
Tennessee crop report shows April 1 stocks of wheat oats and barley down from a year earlier while soybeans stored rose 18 percent. Corn and sorghum stocks also declined year over year, with wheat and oats down and soybeans up. Nationally feed grain stocks higher than last year but below average. durum durum stocks at their largest since estimates began.
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Nashville
Tennessee
Wie
Tennessee Crop Reporting Service
Win Vue Farm Buys $2,000 Heifer at Dyersburg Sale
Win Vue Polled Hereford Farms owners Atty Gen. and Mrs. H. Winstead purchased CMR Supermaid 194 for $2,000 at Charlie Moore's sales in Dyersburg. The heifer is from CMR Super Doming line with a record of high sales, part of a pedigree linked to national champions. Also selling for $2,000 was CMR Miss Supermix 3, sired by CMR Super Mixer, tied to Circle M Ranch's renowned lines.
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Church Hill
Heiskell H. Winstead
Win Vue
Rogersville House
Charlie Moore
Dyersburg
CMR
Supermaid
CMR Super Perfect
CMR Super Rollo
Levott
Clunate
CMR Supermaid
Winstead
Circle
M Ranch
Senatobia
Wit Vue Farms
Tor Brooke Lee
Damascus
Tennessee FFA Convention Honors Area Chapters
The 38th annual Tennessee Association Future Farmers of America state convention will be held at the War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville Wednesday through Friday. About 1,500 are expected, with 261 local chapters represented. Superior Chapter Awards, Star Farmer honors, and State Farmer Degrees to 277 FFA members will be announced, with various speakers and tours planned.
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Nashvillle
Tennessee Association
Future Farmers of America
War Memorial
H. Warf
Blair City
Church Hill
Cosby
Morristown
Rogersville
Suljphor Springs
Unicoi County
Upper East Tennessee
Frank G. Clement
Warf
W. F. Moss
B. &. Childers
Vocasional Technical Education
Jathers
FFA
Kingsport Area
East Tennessee
Powell Valley High School
Speedwell
W. F. Ryker Jr
Sweetwater
Bob Fugate
Tazewell
East Ten
Hessee
Larry Hutsell
Meigs County
Ronald Pulliam
Bradley
Denis T. Leamon
Calhoun
Tom Leitch
Porter
John W. Clabaugh
Ronald Davis
Polk County
Gary Barham
Paul
Ralph Brock
Joe Davis
Allen Ricks
Steenback
Benton
Nashville
Tennessee Federation of Production Credit Associations
Burley Specialist Urged For Southwest Virginia
In Abingdon Virginia the Southwest Virginia Agricultural Conference urged the hire of a burley tobacco specialist to boost research and development. The group pushed for funding from public and private sources and recommended a regional program to advance alfalfa and tobacco industries, praising the Virginia Tech TVA farm program and urging broad support for the Appalachian Initiative.
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Abingdon
College of Agriculture
Virgin
Burley Tobbach Spelia Tech
Southwest Virginia
Southwest Virginia Agricultural
Inter. Association Inc
Fion
Virginia
Department of Agriculhe
Virginia Agricultural Exture
West Virginia
South
Sys
Virginia Tech
Milk price supports raised to boost production and stabilize prices
Secretary Freeman raised support for manufacturing milk to 3.50 per hundredweight and butterfat in farm separated cream to 61.6 cents a pound for 1966 04 03 through 1967 03 31. Sullivan County official H W Copenhaver notes higher supports should lift output and keep consumer prices lower than otherwise.
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Orville Freeman
H. W. Copenhaver
Sullivan County Agricultural Sterilization and Conservation Comittee
Copenhaver
Copenhayer
4-H Chatter TALLY TESTER in Indian Springs report
A visit highlights Billy’s successful chicken project with no losses, supported by family and facilities. The Valley Pike 4-H club shows early organization with five to six leaders and plans for camps. reminders include camp fees by May 10 and USDA guidance on safe home canning of meat and poultry.
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Tally Tester
Indian Springs
Billy
Bill
Derby Cox Holston Pointy
Teek
Office of Information
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, D.C
Poultry Income Up Nine Percent in Tennessee 1965
Nashville reports total gross income from farm chickens eggs and commercial broilers in Tennessee reached 53.925 million dollars in 1965, up from 19.675 million in 1964. Eggs sales rose modestly while commercial broilers and farm chickens drove gains, with 1965 broilers at 22.285 million dollars and 152.636 million pounds produced.
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Nashville
Tennessee
Tennessee Crop Reporting Service
Ifarm
Modlin sells Angus cows to Deakins per Angus Assoc
E. R. Modlin of Kingsport recently sold three registered Angus cows to R. K. Deakins of Jonesboro, with the sale reported by the American Angus Association.
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E. R. Modlin
Kingsport
R. KL. Deakins
Jonesboro
American Angus Association
Milk production tied to feed quality in farm trials
Farm news notes dairy output depends on good roughage and adequate dry matter intake. Trials overseen by D R Jacobson and D M Gossett show high quality hay plus grain maintains production even in drought, with cultivation of weeds helping sustain yields. USDA proposes bacon as cured pork product under phosphate rules.
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Kentucky AG
Tion
Formal
D. R. Jacobson
Vn Ower
D. M. Gossett
Tennessee Agricultural
Jesssett
Cropland Adjustment Signup Closes May 13 in Sullivan County
H W Copenhaver, chairman, notes the CAP signup remains open as farmers pivot from surplus crops to CAP participation. Fifteen operators in Sullivan County have filed or signed CAP agreements covering about six acres, with a May 14 deadline and limited county acreage for long term or annual diversions.
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H.W. Copenhaver
Sullivan County
Nation Committee
Copenshayer
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Win Vue Farm
FFA Convention
Billy Doe Wiley
Fayetteville
IPFA
KNB
Main Street
Colonial Heights
Eastman Road
Kingsport National Bank
Metros T Insurance Corporation
DOWN
S Eastman Road
Burley
Southwest
Helen R. Stocking
Charles D. Holland
Valley Pike
USDA
Howe
Weavers
Stephen Saddler
Jen Snapp
Phil Booker
Tim Edwards
Barbara Henninger
Karen Stith
Karen
American Academy of Pediatrics
The
Academy
Ingneately
Consumer and Marketing Service
U. S. Department For Agriculture
Hazelwoods
Guernsey
P. J. Shivell
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Shy Valley King’s
Lady Bird
CAP
Cumberland Capital
Cumberland
Cumberland Capital Cooperation
Call Cumberland
Fort Henry Drive
Tenn
Richard Cooper
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