Limits on Farm Borrowing and Pasture Trends in Dairy Farming
Farmers weigh safe borrowing limits amid rising rates and lower prices for some farm products. Factors like age, equity, collateral, and repayment capacity shape limits. Dutch elm disease spreads through trees. prompt removal reduces risk. Pasture use declines in dairy programs as stored forages outperform grazing, though small herds can still benefit from planned pasture plus supplements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Management Association
Kansas
Wisconsin
Illinois
July 23 Livestock Clinic At Ottawa County Fairgrounds
County Extension 4-H Agent Bill Merhoff hosts a livestock fitting and showing clinic at the Ottawa fairgrounds starting at 9:00 a.m. Beef session led by Lovell Kuykedall with scales available. clippers brushes and show sticks advised. Evening demonstrations for swine sheep and horse projects begin at 6:30 with Eddie Hull Tom Swearington guiding, no livestock allowed. Youth in Action 4-H conference set for July 2025 at Rock Springs Ranch with Rita Campbell Martha Christie Kathy Loyd Jo Anne Smith Joanne Fitzgerald Jean Fitzgerald and Dick Wagner among attendees. Assembly speakers include Rep Richard Rogers and Dr Chester E Peters. Special groups and three foreign farmers to attend.
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Bill Merhoff
Franklin
Ottawa
Lovell Kuykedall
American Hereford Association
Eddie Hull
Tom Swearington
Lawrence
Franklin County
Rita Campbell
Martha Christie
Kathy Loyd
Jo Anne Smith
Rambling Ranchers
Joanne Fitzgerald
Jean Fitzgerald
Westerners
Dick Wagner
Berea Boosters
Richard Rogers
Manhattan
Kansas House of Representatives
Chester E. Peters
K-State
Vital Organic Matter Loss Exceeds Soil Erosion Rates
Organic matter is removed by erosion at five times the rate of soil loss, depleting nutrients especially nitrogen and phosphorus. Loss degrades soil structure and reduces exchange and waterholding capacities, hindering nutrient and water retention and accelerating erosion. Farmers should seek terraces, contour farming, conservation tillage, high fertility, narrow roots, and high population to boost production while controlling erosion.
Trip To Starlight Planned For Ethel Merman Show
Community bus trip sponsored by Home Ec Advisory Committee to see Call Me Madam at Starlight Theatre. July 30 departure 7 00 PM from Courthouse Parking Lot with ticket and bus for 385. Reservations at Extension office or CH 2 3166. Open to men and children. July is Kansas Wheat Month highlighting flour gluten content.
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Starlight
Home Ec
Good Neighbors and Community Craft Notes Compilation
EHU notes cover club talks on shopping relevance and impulse avoidance. WORTHWHILE reports eighteen members at a Crestview Nursing Home service project. a donation to the scholarship fund and a picnic set for Forest Park on Aug. 12. TRI-HEPTA notes July 8 meet at F M Coons. eleven in attendance. no meetings until Sept. 9. The piece ends with a detailed bread baking guide covering flour types, self rising flour limits, and a French bread recipe with steps and a glaze variation.
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W. B. Smith
Mary Black
H. H. Feuerborn
Pearl Davidson
Crestview Nursing Home
Glenice Brown
Forest Park
F. M. Coons
Ed Crawford
Kenneth Keelin
George Royer
Emma Lou Sullins
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Kansas State University
Bozworth
Fairgrounds
Youth In Action
Rock Springs Ranch
Elbow Lounge
Montgomery
Mil
Awrence Speedway
Earl L. Wier
Ethel Merman
Call Me Madam
Starlight Theatre
EHU
Ralph Garrett
Roy Gerhard
United States
Department of Agriculture
South
Ottawa Herald
Coats
Betty
Baldwin
Carole
Grigsby
GEHL
Ottawa Farm
Bryant
Whirlpool
Arkla
the Gas Service Co. Natural Gas
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