USDA Opens Sign Up For Poor Corn Feed To Farmers
Franklin County farmers qualify to purchase low grade corn as feed under a drought driven USDA program approved with last week’s dairy legislation. Sign up runs through Dec 14 at the ASCS office 209 W. 2nd. Eligible counties include Franklin, Shawnee, Wyandotte and others. About 240000 bushels at Atchison, 54000 at Shawnee, 569000 at Wyandotte available at roughly $2 per bushel. Prices based on 75 percent of county loan rates. 90 day feeding period begins on application with a max of 10 pounds per animal unit daily, depending on on hand feed and production loss. Additional 室 funds totaling about $195000 will be distributed to Franklin County to supplement deficiency payments for wheat, barley and oats, part of roughly $900 million nationwide. Checks expected next week with prior advance payments deducted.
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Diane Yeamans
Franklin County
U.S
David Hornung
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
ASCS
W. 2Nd
Hornung
Franklin
Miami
Douglas
Qage
Anderson
Atchison
Shawnee County
Wyandotte County
Wyandotte
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Food and Drug Administration
Laudert
Texas
Winter Wheat As A Feed Source For Stocker Cattle
Kansas State University extension livestock specialist Scott Laudert outlines management steps for grazing stocker calves on winter wheat. key points include pre-turnout purchases, vaccination, implants, Rumensin use, grain supplement rates, water access, bloat prevention with Poloxalene, mineral support, and the need for supplemental feed during non-grazing periods to maintain gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden City
Scott B. Laudert
Southwest Area
Kansas State University
Laudert
Conservation District Convention Highlights Kansas Soil Focus
About 300 local leaders attended the 39th Kansas Association of Conservation Districts convention in Wichita from November 27 to 29. Discussions covered flood prevention, water conservation, cost sharing, targeted funding, and the Agricultural Lands Evaluation program with USDA soil conservation chief Peter C. Myers advocating conservation tillage and reduced tillage to protect soil. Kansas touted for large cropland, terracing, waterways, watershed projects, and flood prevention, with over 600 watershed dams built. Franklin County delegates included Albert Dunbar and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas Association of Conservation Districts
Wichita
Peter C. Myers
Usda Soil Conservation Service
Washington, D.C
Kansas
LCS
Melanie Duvall
Federal Land Bank Association of Kansas
Melanie
Marvin Duvall
Richmond
Central Heights
Ikenberry
Franklin County
Albert Dunbar
Kansas Livestock Association Approves 1984 Policy Resolutions
At the Wichita convention, KLA members approved several policy resolutions for 1984 covering open markets, opposition to government commodity programs, calls for public hearings before land acquisitions, fair compensation to local governments on licensed land, reforms to the Uniform Commercial Code on mortgaged farm products, opposition to FDA uses of extra label drugs in food animals, funding cuts to regional colleges, tax indexing, cash-basis accounting for agricultural enterprises, and stronger penalties for illegal hunter trespass.
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Topeka
KLA
Wichita
Congress
Kansas Fish & Game Managed
Kansas Fish and Game Commission
Army Corps of Engineers
Kansas
Fish & Game
Food & Drug Administration
ELA
Kansas State University
Edwards and Brink named Kansas Farm Bureau Leaders of the Year
Almeda Edwards of Ottawa and Jarvis Brink of LeRoy are named 1993 Kansas Farm Bureau Leaders of the Year. Edwards directs a top county policy program and leads regional activities, including a women’s legislative luncheon and state legislature visits. Brink, a longtime county leader, heads a cow/calf operation and serves on school and church boards alongside Farm Bureau duties. The award includes a Washington, D.C. trip and honors eight leaders statewide in 1983.
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Almeda Edwards
Ottawa Rfd 2
Jarvis Brink
Coffey County
Kansas Farm Bureau
Edwards
Farm Bureau
Kansas
Topeka
KFB
Brink
Franklin County Farm Bureau
Ottawa Chamber of Commerce
City Commission
Franklin County
Ottawa
Nancy
LeRoy
Washington, D.C
Congress
USDA
Washington
American Farm Bureau Federation
Sylvester Named Top FB Safety Chairman
Debra Sylvester of Franklin County Kansas was honored for directing the county Farm Bureau safety program at the state convention. She leads a safety, EMT training, babysitting safety and youth poster contests, with her husband Clyde on a family farm west of Ottawa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvester
Manhattan
Debra Sylvester
Franklin County
Farm Bureau
Kansas
Kansas Farm Bureau
Ahiewoek Dn Ropek
Delia
Farm Bureau Safety Committee
Franklin
Debra
Clyde
Ottawa
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Counties
Allen, Atchison
Bourbon
Brown, Chase
Chautauqua
Cherokee
Clay, Coffey
Doniphan, Elk, Geary
Greenwood
Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Labette
Leavenworth
Linn
Lyon
Marshall
Montgomery
Nemaha
Neosho
Pottawatomie
Riley
Shawnee
Wabaungee
Woodson
Oklahoma
FDA
W. Wilson
Tae
Rancho
George
Ottaw
Almeda
Kenneth
Second District of Kansas Farm Bureau
Sperry New Holland
Ealers
Sheldon Equipment
South Walnut
Ottawa, Ks
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