Soybean Planting Time Grows Shorter Every Day
Advice column notes July 1 as a critical cut off for soybeans and milo with yield drops, suggests drilling or narrow 15 to 20 inch rows for soybeans to shade ground and control weeds, and warns of crusting at 7 inch spacing. It also covers potato and onion harvest storage guidelines and warns on bacterial wilt in vine crops with beetle transmission and recommended insecticide schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert W. Bozworth
Williams
Farmers Feel Stress Too Part I Stress of Farm Life series
Kansas State University Extension Specialist Mike Martin explains farm life brings extensive stress. Farmers face 24 hour work, seasonal pressures, multi generational conflicts, and financial worries that strain families and individual well being. The piece previews further discussion in the series.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Martin
Kansas State University Extension
Michael Martin
Martin
Hog fact sheets to streamline farmer information network
The Agriculture Department will publish 23 hog fact sheets to let farmers select specific readings from local extension offices, cutting duplication and potential federal paperwork. The four to eight page sheets, produced mainly by Purdue University with authors from land grant schools, aim at national distribution with about 10 000 copies each.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
John R. Black
George Holcomb
Department
Office of Governmental and Public Affairs
Retail meat prices expected to rise through year
The Agriculture Department reports retail meat prices will creep higher through 1981 with pork near 1.65 per pound this summer and beef averaging 2.45 to 2.50 in the second half. Livestock prices may wobble but higher live-animal costs likely pass to consumers in Q3. supplies rise late summer may put downward pressure on prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Jeff VanHorn Named Land Bank Apprentice
Jeff VanHorn of Ottawa was appointed as a land bank apprentice following an orientation at Wichita bank headquarters. He began a 13 week training program supervised by Charles Waggoner, president of the Federal Land Bank Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeff VanHorn
Ottawa
Land Bank
Wichita Bank
Charles Waggoner
Federal Land Bank Association
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