Pollination and fruit drop in garden crops
This guide explains how vegetable flowers rely on wind insects or self pollination to form fruits. It notes examples cucumber pepper tomato bean and pea and discusses fruit drop causes including weather insect damage and natural June drop. It also covers bedding plants roses and care for newly planted trees and stakes.
Grass rates No 1 on the crop list
The piece extols grass as the globe’s largest crop and essential to life noting its vast distribution from deserts to the Arctic. It highlights grass’s land-building role, flood protection, and its support for cereal crops and livestock forage with Warm and cool season grasses forming productive, rested grazing systems.
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John J. Ingalls
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Prompt weed control for wheat fields in rain impacted areas
E L Van Meter County Extension Director urges farmers to spray wheat fields infested with pig weed sunflowers wild lettuce lambsquarter kochia Russian thistle and field bindweed after recent rains. 2 4 D can control many broadleaf weeds but avoid early boot to milk stage. use low volatile ester or amine formulations and apply at the soft dough stage or soon after.
Poor Year For Kansas Farmers As Net Income Falls
Kansas Farm Management Association members report 1976 net farm income averaging 9,219 on 2,400 farms, down from 21,588 in 1975. Langemeier notes a realistic benchmark shows labor 3 per hour, 6 percent equity return, and 10 percent management share, yet actual returns lag, signaling a financially stressed year.
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Kansas State University Extension
Larry N. Langemeier
Langemeier
Economist
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Douglas County 4-H camping program offers youth camps statewide
Douglas County 4-H runs day camps for younger youths and a statewide conservation conference for teens. Ninety 4-Hers and counselors will attend a June 19 22 session at Rock Springs Ranch State 4 H Center near Junction City with participants from Franklin Johnson and Miami counties.
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Rock Springs Ranch
Junction City
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Johnson
Miami
Rock Springs
4-H
Lake Perry
Douglas County Extension Center
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