Legumes Offer Nitrogen Fuel For Texas Pastures
Texas A and M agronomists urge legumes as a nitrogen fertilizer alternative. Dr G W Evers notes grazing livestock on legume pastures returns nitrogen via urine and feces and from decomposing roots and leaves. Alfalfa and white clover are well adapted. inoculation quality and soil tests shape success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
Texas Agriculture Experiment Station
G.W. Evers
Texas A & M University Agricultural Research Station
Angleton
Evers
Texas
F.M. Rouquette
Texas A & M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Overton
R.W. Weaver
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences
Texas A & M University
4-H Leaders Train at New Texas Center
The Sid W Richardson Foundation funds a 25 000 grant to the Texas 4-H Youth Development Foundation for travel scholarships aiding 4-H volunteer leaders to attend training workshops at the Brownwood center. The 100 000 total grant covers a three year plan with about 80 conferences aimed at building Texas 4-H leadership statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
Sid W. Richardson
Richardson Foundation
Texas 4-H Youth Development Foundation
State Center
Brownwood
Texas
Tom Davison
Don Stormer
Extension Service
United States
Stormer
Texas Farm Outlook Brightens Slightly In April Cattle On Feed Rise
Texas animal and agricultural reports show a modest upturn in cattle on feed in April after a year of sharp declines. Texas had 1,122,000 cattle on feed as of April 1, four percent above March but 49 percent below last year. Nationally, April feed-cattle totals in 23 major states hit a 12 year low. Crop questionnaires will be mailed to 24,000 Texas farmers in late May to shape 1975 crop data. Brucellosis eradication efforts accelerate amid high cooperation from cattlemen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Austin
Arizona
California
Colorado
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Texas Animal Health Commission
TAHC
H. Q. Sibley
Statistical Reporting Service
Screwworm outbreak grows across Texas in April
In Mission Texas USDA screwworm chief Dr M E Cotton Meadows Jr reports 182 Texas cases by April 30 down 100 from last year. Most cases in April 151, with 14 new infestations March 20 April 5 and six new counties added Atascosa DeWitt Hidalgo Kenedy Kleberg McMullen. Nueces Frio Kinney Uvalde then Edwards Karnes La Salle Medina Real San Patricio Starr and Comal Guadalupe Wilson Kimble Llano listed as infested as APHIS notes spread into Trans Pecos and Hill Country aided by April rains. Ruth McLaughlin leads daily identification at Mission center.
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Coleman Couty
Atascosa
DeWitt
Hidalgo
Kenedy
Kleberg
McMullen
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
APHIS
Nueces County
Texas
Frio
Kinney
Uvalde
Edwards
Karnes
la Salle
Medina
Real
San Patricio
Starr
Worried Eyes
Comal
Guadalupe
Wilson
Kimble
Llano
Trans-Pecos
Hill Country
South Texas
Wetacid delinting promises quality cottonseed
In Tunica Mississippi Cotton Incorporated engineers unveiled a wet acid delinting process for cottonseed that uses far less sulfuric acid, reduces pollution, and recovers a byproduct. The method aims for seed quality equal to or better than existing methods and was tested before Cotton Incorporated executives in Tunica with officials from environmental and state agencies in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tunica, Miss
Cotton Incorporated
Fiber Company
U.S
New York
Raleigh
N. C
E. Hervery Evans
Cotton Incor
Laurinburg
N.C
Charles R
Jerry) Sayre
Staple Cotton Cooperative Association of
Greenwood
Miss
Cotton Incorporated Board of Directors
Cotton Incorporated Board
The
Cotton Board
Beef Herd Management Urges Early Calving Cows
A beef cattle researcher with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station says cattlemen must focus on reproduction to survive low market prices. Cows should calve early in the calving season to improve herd performance and profitability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Pecos Valley Growers Sell 1974 Cotton Amid Slow Market
New Mexico Pecos Valley growers sold several thousand bales of the 1974 crop as a market revival lifted equity above loan rates by 150 to 850 points. Prices ranged with grades 41 and 51 staples 36 and 37 yielding about 42.50 per bale for high 3.5 mike readings, down to 7.50 for 2.6 and below. No 1975 contracting reported in Carlsbad area covering New Mexico and Texas counties. Clifford Woody attended a J I Case sponsored ag equipment training in Waco, noting Case’s mobile centers for localized farmer tech training and diagnostics.
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Pecos Valley
New Mexico
Commodity Credit Corporation
Mack Bennett
USDA
Cotton Market News
Carlsbad
Bennett
Chaves, Eddy
Lea
Reeves and
Pecos
Texas
Clifford Woody
Pecos Tractor & Picker Service
Stafford Blvd
J I Case Company
Waco
Case Company
U. S
Canada
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New Center
Agricultural Extension Service
Texas Department of Agriculture
John C. White
Pecos Enterprise Agricultural News
Mission
Ruth McLaughlin
Baker Pump Corp
Baker & Pecos
Cummins
Engine Service
Jimmy Calhoun
Clint Glenn
ACCO
Acco Seed
Weldon Revel - Happy
Roy Apple
Acid Delinters, Ltd
New Mexico Pecos Valley
Woody
Dealer
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