Audrain County Soybean Yield Contest Announced
The Audrain County Extension Center and MFA Grain Division sponsor a countywide soybean yield contest open to all county producers. Entry requires five or more continuous acres, proof of variety, harvested weight on state scales, a representative moisture sample, and $30 per acre land charge plus an annual charge. Entries due July 16, 1971, at the Extension Center in Mexico Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Schwarre
Audrain County
University Extension Center
Mexico
Missouri
4 H Fair Dates Set For August
The 4 H Fair Board schedules a fair for about 500 4 Hers with a year long learning focus. Over 100 projects offer youth a chance to compete and present work in home arts, vegetables, grains, and craft products. Exhibits fill the 4 H building while clubs host booths and contests include tractors bicycles livestock and horse shows.
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4-H
Chemicals Said Too Expensive Against Blight
The USDA says spraying for corn blight is not economical in field corn due to high large scale costs. Some seed corn growers may afford it, with Indiana as an example of limited spraying. Blight has raised world feed grain prices about 30 percent, affecting competition and exports in coming years.
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Don Kendall
Washington
Agriculture Department
House
USDA
H. R. Thomas
Agricultural Research Service
Thomas
Indiana
U.S
Raymond A. Soanes
Foreign Agricultural Service
Ioanes
New Credit For Family Farmers Expands Missouri Aid
Missouri farmers will gain extra credit assistance to buy refinance enlarge and develop farms. State Director Mendel R. Cline announces Farmers Home Administration program backed by a $50 million nationwide boost from President Nixon, with about $3 million allocated to Missouri. 74 county offices coordinate the program. County contacts include Joseph T. Raine Audrain Montgomery counties with weekly office hours in Mexico and Montgomery City, plus Friday Audrain hours.
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Missouri
Mendel R. Cline
Farmers Home Administration
Columbia
Rural Credit Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Richard M. Nixon
White House
Audrain
Montgomery
Joseph T. Raine
USDA
East Highway 54
Mexico
Federal
Montgomery City
Audrain County
Corn Blight Expands to 22 Counties Across Six States
AP reports corn blight detected in 22 more counties across Illinois Ohio North Carolina Georgia Texas and Alabama amid continued concerns. Officials say infestations remain localized to volunteer or test plots with no clear spread between fields and likely caused by local debris or on farm shelling activities.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Corn Belt
Canada
Illinois
Ohio
North Carolina
Georgia
Texas
Alabama
Kentucky
Tennessee
Nebraska
Iowa
Florida
Mississippi
Department
New Wheat Allotment Rules For 1972 Crop
A new farm wheat allotment may be set for 1972 for farms without a 1971 allotment if eligibility is met. Automatic allotments will be issued to farms that had a 1971 allotment. Applicants must expect farming to provide over half of current year income, have no ownership in another farm with a 1972 allotment, and show at least two years wheat experience in the past five years. Applications due by June 30, 1971 at the County Office.
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