Summer Management of Beef Cattle and Contests Deadlines
Agricultural notes summarize beef cattle summer management including grain use with wheat, shade needs, fly control, cattle grubs insecticide timing, and best practices for large calf crops. Also details on Audrain County corn and soybean contests, entry dates July 15, and prize-focused, cost-record contests with entry rules.
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Ross Swofford
Weldon Spring
University Extension Center
MFA Grain Division
Substantial $1.13 Billion Wheat and Cotton Subsidies Mailsout
Washington AP reports checks totaling $1.13 billion are being mailed to nearly 1.5 million wheat, feed-grain and cotton farms certified under land set-aside programs. Preliminary payments trail last year’s pace due to late spring and drought delaying planting. The Agriculture Department expects most farmers to have received preliminary payments within two weeks, boosting total advances to about $2.5 billion as 2 million farms participate.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Charolais Field Day Set at Kingview Ranch Marshfield
The 4th Annual Charolais Field Day will be held Sunday July 18 at Kingview Ranch Marshfield. Lloyd Hanna, ranch manager and Field Day chair, announced the theme Beef Grass and Taxes. Events start at 10 am with 9 am registrations. Three rings of breeding cattle and one ring of steers will be judged by Missouri breeders. A Junior program is planned to display animals ready for local Missouri fairs and the State Fair.
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Missouri Charolais
Kingview Ranch
Marshfield
Lloyd Hanna
Missouri
Red Meat Sets 12 Month Record in 62.4 Billion Pounds
Washington reports American ranchers produced a record 62.4 billion pounds of red meat in the last 12 months, up 3.7 billion from the prior year. Cattle and calves made up 63 percent, hogs and pigs 35 percent, sheep and lambs 2 percent. Farmers received a record $18.6 billion for their meat animals, 6 percent higher than a year earlier, while production costs rose 4 percent.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Rule to avoid rear-end collisions by following distance
A safe driving guideline suggests maintaining a following distance of at least one car length for every ten miles per hour of speed to reduce rear-end collision risk.
Number of Farms Drops 26 Percent in Decade
Washington AP The Agriculture Department reports 2,924,000 farms in 1970, 26 percent fewer than 1960, while total farmland declined 6 percent to 1.121 billion acres. Average farm size rose to 383 acres, up 86 since 1960, with New England hardest hit and West North Central region home to about 657,000 farms. By 1971 farm count falls to about 2,876,000 as land in farms edges down slightly to 1,117,035,000 acres.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Statistical Reporting Service
U.S
New England
North Atlantic
South Atlantic
Pacific States
South Central
West North Central
Mountain States
United States
Special sale on X-P hog supplements at MFA Exchange
Fall hog feeding savings with a five dollar per ton discount on X-P Hog Supplement and LX-P Pork Balancer through MFA Exchange. Extra Performance line promises low cost production and high performance for growing and finishing hogs. Don’t delay. place orders today.
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