Soil Stewardship Week Proclaimed in Missouri 1974
Gov. Christopher S. Bond signs a proclamation designating May 19-26 1974 as Soil Stewardship Week in Missouri. The nationwide observance stresses protecting soil and natural resources with the Audrain SWCD distributing 3000 bulletins to churches. Don Shire cites energy shortages pollution and land use as factors shaping stewardship efforts.
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Terry D. Hill
Soil Conservatio Service
Christopher S. Bond
Missouri
Audrain Soil and Water Conservation District
Don Shire
Audrain Swcd
America
France
Plant Tissue And Analysis Of Soil Needed
Agronomy specialist A Kimmel outlines key nutrient deficiency symptoms in corn and explains why plant tissue and soil analysis helps identify weak spots in fertility. He covers nitrogen phosphorus potassium calcium magnesium symptoms, field factors, sampling steps, and data to include for accurate fertilizer recommendations.
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A. Kimmel
Milk sales fall as prices rise and unemployment grows
Washington AP reports that urban fluid milk sales are 5 percent below 1973 with whole milk down 9 percent, as higher retail prices and rising unemployment curb consumption. March dairy prices up 25 percent from a year earlier. April farm prices up 38 percent for milk, 43 percent for milk used in manufactured products. Dairy income for 1974 may reach 9.5 billion while production falls one percent. Cheese prices and stocks remain high, with 7 cents a pound in early April, 27 percent above 1973.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
Government buys beef for schools amid high cattle prices
Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz urged consumers to seek supermarket beef bargains while USDA itself pays higher prices through a $45 million ground beef purchase campaign to aid cattlemen. The agency announced additional purchases totaling 1,848,000 pounds at about $1.02 to $1.05 per pound as school orders push beef into classrooms next fall.
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Washington
Earl L. Butz
Agriculture Department
USDA
Butz
National Press Club
U.S
SDA
White House
Not Too Late for Top Dressing Pastures
Extension specialist says 30 60 pounds of nitrogen can still be applied to pastures if needed with phosphorus and potash as guides from soil tests. Rotational grazing can raise output about 15 percent and early hay cutting boosts quality and regrowth. Plan now to include clover this fall and winter to grow your own nitrogen and level pasture production through the season.
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Dale Schwarre
Howell Wheaton
Fly Season Just About Upon Us
Fly season is approaching and control devices for fly pests on pastured cattle should be activated before mid May. Repair and position sprayers, backrubbers, and dust bags to guide animals to use them. Good sanitation around feeding facilities aids fly control. Details are in M A Guides 7000 and 7001 at the Extension office. The university seeks heavily infested fields of wireworms or cutworms for study. contact the Extension Center.
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Dale Schwarre
M.A
Wheat Won't Wait Fuel Must Be Ready
Washington AP reports a Kansas official awaited a Friday meeting with Butz as six major wheat states coordinate with the Federal Energy Office to ensure farmers receive 100 percent of their promised fuel. Officials fear possible delays in delivering fuel to farmers unless states gain more control over earmarked amounts after June 1 at the refinery level.
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Washington
Kansas
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Federal Energy Office
Farm fuel skims at refinery level under new system
Starting next month the predetermined farm fuel need certified locally will be skimmed off the top at the refinery level and passed down intact through the distribution chain to the farmer. Other fuel categories stay under the old system and are handled separately. Meat production in the United States fell six per cent from the previous year while exports to noncommunist regions surged. Betel shipments to Japan jumped from two million dollars in 1972 to thirty five million last year.
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FEO
Washington
United States
U.S
Japan
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Christopher 5
Jefferson City
Missouri Council On Family Relations
MCFR
Columbia
University of Missouri-Columbia Extension Division
Mary Ann Hyleck
Cole County Extension Council
Clarence Folkins
First United Methodist Church
St. Charles
Gov. Bond
Peter Etzkorn
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Carolynne Kieffer
Hillsboro
MCFA
East-West Gateway Area
Paul D. Burgess
University of Missouri Extension
Audrain Soil Service
David Haden
John Riedel
Jerry Wright
Don Nichols
Keith Dowell
Gerald Mayes
Laddonia
Mexico
Auxvasse
Centralia
Martinsburg
Vandalia
Nutrena
Ee Ber
Harold Ulry
Judy Wagner
Soil Service
Hiway
Consolidated Electric Co-Op
Goodrich
Liesaver
BFG
Begoodrich
B.F
East Libert
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