Freeze Damage and Disease in Wheat and Cattle Implants
Wheat producers should inspect heads for alive flowers and green anthers or developing kernels to gauge freeze damage. Frozen stems show white areas one half to one inch long, with injury location depending on heading stage. Severe damage can yield light grain or cause lodging, with some crop usable as hay for ASCS disaster payments after an appraisal. Also noted is Cephalosporium stripe disease in wheat and barley, presenting yellow white leaf stripes and stunting. Cattlemen are advised to use hormone implants DES Synovex S and Balgro to boost summer gains by 10 to 15 percent per 180 days, yielding $10 to $15 extra per head. Do not implant replacement heifers grazing summer pasture. Calves implanted in suckling phase should be reimplanted before summer grazing.
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Bob Bozworth
ASCS
Kansas
Earthworm Industry Finds A Home In Richmond
Earthworm industry expands in Richmond as a sheltered facility houses thousands of earthworms in long rows of wooden boxes filled with manure leached of impurities. The scene shows a painted giant earthworm statue in a white garage like building, with musty basement odor and damp air.
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Richmond
Joan Istas Richmond
Worm farming grows in Richmond business start up
Bob Maddex Jr starts an earthworm farm near Richmond after tours in Phoenix inspired him. He markets red wigglers to North American Bait Farms, ships 50 000 per carton from Ontario, and beds worms in manure at 60 to 70 degrees. He plans 350 beds with 8 current beds of 100 000 worms each.
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Us-59
Richmond
Bob Maddex Jr
Maddex
Garnett
Phoenix
Betty
Teri
Steven
Maddox
Ontario
Calif
Kansas City
Nostalgia and Bread Across Rural Heritage to Modern Farming
A reflection on bread as a daily staple from hand harvesting to modern farming. The piece contrasts past rural life with today’s supermarket bread, noting laborious grain processing and the shift to mechanized farming with the Sperry New Holland Twin Rotor combine.
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Sperry New Holland
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