Nixon Cancels Wheat Set Aside Requirement
The Nixon administration canceled the wheat set aside rule as wholesale farm prices rose 6.8 percent in December. Farmers may plant spring crops on idled acres, with about 15 million acres released from retirement under the wheat program. ANCA opposition calls the move short sighted and potentially harmful long term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nixon
Agriculture Department
USDA
Glen A. Weir
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Farmland Idle and Weather Push Wheat Prices Higher
Unusually severe weather and export demand boosted grain and oilseed prices, with wheat averaging 2.38 per bushel in December, the highest since 1948. The Soviet Union bought over 400 million bushels, more than a quarter of U.S. production. The grazing privilege aids livestock producers by increasing forage, though payments for graziers will be cut, details to follow at ASCS offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soviet Union
U.S
USDA
ASCS
Department
Complete Rations Give Cattle Protein Needs
County Extension Director describes the complete ration concept to optimize rumen microbes. He notes that a 14 percent crude protein intake from corn or sorghum silage requires the concentrate portion to supply about 70 percent of the cows total protein, challenging conventional milking time feeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Pendleton
Rt. 2
Lawrence
Protein Processing in the Rumen Microbes
The text explains how ruminants digest protein, with two feedings at day end and 30 percent during the day. In the rumen, protein is first broken into peptides and amino acids, then deaminated to ammonia and carbon compounds. Rumen microbes reconstruct ammonia into microbial proteins for the animal.
4-H Days Event Slated Feb 17 1973
Douglas County announces 4-H Days with events on February 17 at Cordley School for individual presentations and February 24 at West Junior High for group presentations. The program features project talks demonstrations and a talent section with music, dance, drama, and novelty acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cordley School
West Junior High
Douglas County
Swine Producers Clinic Slated for Douglas County
Douglas County swine producers can attend the 1973 Swine Producers Clinic next Friday starting with a dinner at the 4H Fairgrounds. Dr. Lowell Breeden Kansas State University Veterinarian speaks on swine disease and stress, followed by a Q&A session. Wendell Moyer KSUSwine Specialist will show slides on housing types.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
Lowell Breeden
Kansas State University
Wendell, Moyer
Tho ‘County
Sheep Wool School Set in Lawrence Next Week
The District Sheep and Wool school sponsored by Kansas State University Extension Service will be held in Lawrence next week. The one day program starts at 9 30 a m Thursday at the Virginia Inn West Sixth Street with discussions on coyote damage and control improved sheep facilities and wool production tips. Experts from Kansas State University Extension Service and Midwest Wool Cooperative field service director Herman Popp will attend. All area sheep and wool producers are invited, noon luncheon included.
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Kansas State University Extension Service
Lawrence
Douglas County
E. L. van Meter
Virginia Inn
West Sixth Street
Herman Popp
Midwest Wool Cooperative
Hancock Named State Agricultural Statistician in Kansas
Raymond R. Hancock age 43 is appointed to succeed J E Pallesen as state agricultural statistician in Topeka Kansas. Pallesen retires after 39 years of service with the Kansas Department of Agriculture announced by Secretary Roy Feeland on Wednesday.
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Topeka
Kan
Raymond R. Hancock
J. E. Pallesen
Kansas
Roy Feeland
Pallesen
State Department of Agriculture
Incentive Wool Payments Require Sales Documents
After marketing season 1972, wool and unshorn lamb producers must bring sales documents to the county ASCS Office to qualify for incentive payments. The program applies to unshorn lambs and shorn wool, with payments set by national and individual net returns to reach 72 cents per pound.
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ASCS
No Immediate Benefits Seen In First Year
The Nixon Administration eased wheat program idle land rules, freeing about 16 million acres for other crops or spring wheat. National Wheat Growers Association president Gene Moos says little wheat production rise expected this year though feed grain and soybean shifts may affect beef prices long term. short term meat prices unlikely to change.
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Seattle
National Wheat Growers Association
Nixon
Agriculture Department
Moos
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American National Cattlemen’s Association
C. W. McMillan
Anca Execuive
Indianapolis
R. E. Hungate
University of California
By Billy R. Merhoff
Earl van Meter
van Meter
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Journal-World Photo
Swine Producers Clinic
Hancock
Peter King
York
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
the Land Bank
Apenas . Laws Bank Rawectates
Gene Moos
Don Kaiser
Merle Geyer
Lee F. Sells
Life—Disability Mutual Funds
Roy D. Sinclair
Farm Bureau Insurance
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