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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1976
Page
4
Across Kansas the wheat harvest neared completion as crews faced wet grain, limited rail cars, and crowded elevators. Yields ranged 50 to 60 bushels per acre in tested areas, with widespread good production elsewhere, while fire risk from dry straw lingered and farmers prepared for follow up tasks.
The Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service sets winter wheat at 321.9 million bushels for 1976, eight percent below 1975. Yield forecast is 29 bushels per acre, up from June 1 but below the 1970-74 five year average. 11.1 million acres to be harvested with 2 million acres abandoned. Regional yields vary from 24 to 34 bushels, with North Central at 34 and Southcentral producing 74,161 bushels from 2,656 acres.
TOPEKA The first Kansas Cow Calf Stocker Conference will be held at the Broadview Hotel in Wichita Monday and Tuesday Aug 30 and 31, according to Dee Likes executive secretary of the Kansas Livestock Association s cow calf stocker division. This two day conference will bring Kansas cattle producers together both cowmen and stocker operators.
The Kansas Simmental Association announces its annual meeting and Junior Simmentaller Days on July 17 18 in Manhattan at Ramada Inn Ci-Co Park and K-State Beef Research Center venues. Highlights include election of a Southwest District director, a buffet, barbecue lunch, a junior heifer exhibition, a slide on junior steer carcass futurity, and a management education focus addressing tax estate and cattle industry topics. Invitations directed to Cowmen and stocker operators.
Kansas State University economist says 1975 was a fair year for farmers as higher livestock receipts lifted net income 38 percent to about $20,170 on 2,500 Farm Management Association farms. Livestock averaged $43,442 per farm, while grain receipts fell from 1974 levels. beef finishing led income among major livestock groups.
Franklin County 4-H Agent Susan Verdoorn announced the judging teams for the Mid-America Fair at Topeka and the Kansas State Fair at Hutchinson. The selections honored results from Wingert Stock Farm Ottawa and Morris County Judging Contest Council Grove plus prior experience. Dean Chambers led county contenders with the top state fair potential. Ramona Lintner and Glen Stockstill also placed highly with alternates Sheryl Nedlock and Rhonda Lintner.
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