Fruit Growers Cross Fingers Against Frost
Growers fear a late frost after a warm winter with February 8 temperatures plummeting to near minus seventeen degrees in spots. Peach crops face years of damage while cherries and apples look healthier though cautious. Berlin Heights fruit farm owner Burt Oehling notes trees’ moisture affected frost resistance and urges a slower bloom toward April 25.
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Burt Oehling
Firelands Fruit Farm
Berlin Heights
Miles Phillips
W.F. Swabley
Phillips
Don Robertson
Berlin Hrs Youth Wins State Star Agri-Business Award
Berlin Heights Dave Sexton senior voag student is named State Star Agri-Business by the Ohio FFA Association after winning the district award on Feb 28. He will receive a $100 prize and certificate at the April 21 awards banquet at the Youth Center on the Ohio State fairgrounds.
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Berlin Heights
Dave Sexton
Berlin
Voag
David
Alex Gammie
Charles Swineford
Marathon
Cave
FFA
Ohio Edison Agri-business
Buckeye Boys’ State
James Mutchler
Columbus
Bill Deehr
Bruce Fleming
Labor policies risk pushing farm work to Mexican areas
A House subcommittee report says U S labor rules have driven vegetable production toward Mexico and warns more shifts could occur without aid. It urges revising labor policy to ensure a steady supply of experienced help and reexamining foreign labor imports if needed. The panel also calls for mechanizing perishables to boost competitiveness against low wage producers.
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Washington
UPI
House
Mexico
House Agricultural Appropriations Subcommittee
U.S
Labor Department
Congress
Mexico City
Freeman Drives Proposals to Cut Dairy Imports
Patrick J. Nolan Jr announces Secretary Freeman urges Tariff Commission hearings to set quotas on dairy products not now limited. 1966 dairy imports total 2.7 billion pounds milk equivalent, up from 1965, with evasion of existing law cited as key cause.
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Patrick J. Nolan Jr
Huron County Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Orville L. Freeman
United States
Freeman
Tariff Commission
Weed control for quack grass in corn and soybeans
Farm guidance notes quack grass is a persistent weed on low ground and outlines a two stage chemical plan. A two pound Amb trole T plus two pounds Atrazine in 20 gallons per acre now, then a pre emergent Atrazine after corn planting, with optional fall Dalapon.
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Ed Stroube
Extension Agronomist At
Bucyrus Auction Market Prices Report Week
Auction consignors total 247 with 1723 head including 925 hogs and 366 cattle. Hog prices rise butcher hogs 16.90 to 18.15, sows 12.60 to 14.90, feeders 16.00 to 17.90. cattle trend steady to down with steers 19.00 to 25.50, heifers 17.00 to 23.90, cows 14.50 to 19.10, calves 29.99 to 41.00, sheep and lambs up modestly.
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Bucyrus Auction
Weevils Hatch Early In Ohio Alfalfa Fields
Unseasonably warm late March and early April bring early alfalfa weevil hatching in Ohio. Southern counties report hatch. northern farmers may see damage sooner if warm temps continue. The pest first appeared in 1960 and last year caused about 7.3 million dollars in damage. Newly hatched larvae are about 1/32 inch, mature larvae about 3/8 inch.
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Columbus
Ohio
B.D. Blair
Ohio State University Extension
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By Janet Conway
FFA Agri-Business
John Wells
Wells
Firelands
By Bernard Brenner
Agriculture Department
Ohio State University
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Walk Parts CO
S. Linwood St
Woodlawn
Firelands Tool Rental, Inc
Norwalk
Wayne
Wayne Blox
N. Hester ST
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