Recreation as Farm Income Is Now Widely Recognized
Recreation as an income producing resource on the farm is now widely recognized. Hunting is a popular activity with landowners charging fees for access to private land. Farmers must manage land to provide food water and cover for game, using strips and ponds to attract and retain wildlife. Stockwater dams and fish ponds, sized to sustain permanent grassland, offer the best recreation potential and aid fish propagation while erosion control dams stabilize gullies and waterways.
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Douglas County
Kansas
4-H Awards and Fire Safety Tips From Utermoehlem
The article discusses 4-H awards as a means to foster youth growth through fair, high standards and broad participation. It also covers Spring Clean Up fire safety, urging families to prepare with suitable extinguishers, know their use, and train everyone on farm mitigation steps.
Extension Agent Offers Farm Suggestions and Weed Data
Extension office guidance covers pasture rental fairness using cattle price and feed costs, and salt water needs. The Kansas State University circular notes weed control in soybeans with Amiben, CDAA, and NPA, plus crop yield effects from weed pressures in KS sorghum trials and 1965 Kansas wheat and sorghum production figures and values.
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Mid-Western
Wool Act Extension Ties to 1965 Food Act
The 1954 Wool Act extension, part of the 1965 Food and Agricultural Act, funds a wool program via ASCS. It aims to boost annual shorn wool to 300 million pounds, improve quality and marketing, and pays incentives based on a percentage of US wool sales to raise average price toward 62 cents per pound. Applications may be filed any time. payments for 1965 wool sales arrive in April.
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Zoysia
Bermuda
The
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
ASCS
United States
Mileage on Kansas Turnpike Hits 363 Million in 1965
The Kansas Turnpike reports total miles traveled in 1965 reached 363,295,104, up 6 percent from 1964. Over the past nine years the mileage figure has doubled, reflecting growing use of the turnpike.
Shutdown Averted in Kansas City Construction
Union workers in Kansas City represented by Teamsters Local 541 approved a five year contract by a roll call of 380 to 53 with the Builders Association. The deal raises wages by 1.02 dollars an hour over five years for about 2000 workers and ends a weeklong shutdown as concrete plants had closed earlier due to a strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Teamsters Union
Local 541
Builders Association
Teamsters
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Chester F. Paxson
Paxson
By Ralph Utermoehlem
Utermoehien
Kansas State University Extension Service
Charles Parks
L. R. Quinlan
Department of Landscape Architecture
Amiben
CDAA
Randox
NPA
Alanap
Manhattan
John
Rosenbaum Ee
Douglas County Farm News
John Deere
John Deere Lawn & Garden Tractor
Deems Farm Equipment, Inc
Velgicol Chemical Corporation
G. Oale Street
Gnieage
Itinele
Farley
Lawrence
Kenses
Tri-County Wood Products
Edgerton, Kansas
Slim Windsor
Agricultural Business Company, Inc
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