Statewide livestock forage strong amid varied crop conditions
Across Texas most livestock remain in good shape with ranges and pastures averaging adequate forage. While cotton and grain sorghum harvests progress, moisture shortages persist in central to eastern counties. Screwworm cases exceed 50,000, marking the scourge as the worst year in a decade for eradication efforts.
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College Station
Tex
Texas
John E. Hutchison
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Hutchinson
San Antonio Winter Garden
Ing
North Central
el Paso
Reeves County
Okra
West Central
Callahan
Gillespie
Upper
Gulf Coast
South Central
Cotton Oil Meeting Treats At SWIG Event
Attendees at the SWIG Cotton Oil meeting enjoyed three cookies and a cotton seed flour candy. The flour, high in protein, is produced by Plains Co-op Mill and cookies were baked by Texas Tech Homemaking Department. The piece also notes a Pecos dove hunt, boll worm activity, and pesticide guidance from entomologists, plus a shell pesticide sponsored Bahamas trip and a defoliant themed prize tease.
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Plains Co-op Mill
Texas Tech Homemaking Department
Quarantine Tied to 30000 Tons Hay in Madera County
About 30000 tons of alfalfa hay with high pesticide residue are quarantined in a remote corner of Madera County. The crop, worth over a million dollars, came from 250 growers across 12 northern California counties. Guthion, an organic phosphorus pesticide by Chemagro Corp, has been used against the Egyptian alfalfa weevil for four years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madera, Calif
Madera County
California
Paul Livingston
State Agriculture Department
Chemagro Corp
Livinston
GE opens manure to feed conversion plant in Arizona
CASA GRANDE ARIZ. AP GE opened an experimental plant to convert cattle manure into a pasteurized protein powder for livestock feed. Scientists said it could be edible for humans but unlikely to taste good. The plant will feed trial cattle pigs and chickens with partners Arizona Feeds University of Arizona and Texas A&M University.
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Casa Grande
Ariz
General Electric Co
John J. Ebert
GE Biochemical
General Electric
Otto Klima
Arizona Feeds Co
University of Arizona
Texas A&m University
Descom Goodrich
San Joaquin cotton market cools with slow contracting
Domestic mills hold ample supplies as Far Western markets stay slow. Foreign inquiries rise with European and Far Eastern spinners seeking price levels, but offers lag. Prices drift downward across spot and landed quotes while crop prospects remain good in Far Western regions amid rains in Far West Texas and New Mexico and light insect damage. Fresno Phoenix El Paso price quotes are down slightly from last week.
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San Joaquin Valley
Agricultural Marketing Service
USDA
Texas
New Mexico
Fresno
Phoenix
el Paso
Farm exports could reach the $10 billion goal
The Agriculture Department says U S farm exports may total $10 billion this year if the Soviet Union buys about $1 billion of U S farm products in fiscal 1973. Last year exports were a record $8 billion and two thirds of this year’s sales are expected from grain and soybeans. Wheat prices rose sharply with August averages at $1.51 per bushel.
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Pecos
Bahamas
Shell Pesticides Products
Acapulco
Acre
Barstow
Washington
Agriculture Department
Soviet Union
U.S
Nixon
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
USDA
Ussr
Department
Meat price cut brings anger, joy, skepticism
Prices for cattle at market fell in August for the first time in four months, suggesting a possible retail price drop. Cattlemen, led by Iowa’s Bert Eason Jr., voiced irritation as wholesale costs ease while housewives may soon see lower beef prices, though some doubted full transmission. USDA noted higher farm prices overall and gains in milk, hogs, lettuce and grapefuit, with declines in eggs and several produce items. Pork prices rose and hog prices remained at record levels.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
USDA
John A. Copeland
National Livestock and Meat Board
Chicago
Iowa
Bert Eason Jr
U.S
Soviet Union
McPherson Joins Soil Conservation Service Post
Bill McPherson has been selected to fill the soil conservationist position at the USDA Soil Conservation Service in Balmorhea. He transferred from El Paso where he served a little over a year and is a University of Arizona graduate living with his wife Sherryl and 22 month old Shelley. Dr Ted Trew named Texas Agricultural Extension Service state agricultural program leader at College Station.
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Bill McPherson
Usda Soil Conservation Service
Balmorhea
el Paso
Soil Conservation Service
Bill
University of Arizona At
Tucson
Sherryl
Shelley
College Station
E.M
Ted) Trew
Cooperative Extension Service
University of Kentucky
Texas A&m University
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Trew
Farm prices rise 1 percent in August to new high
The Agriculture Department says overall farm prices increased by 1.0 percent in August to a record high average. Wheat and hog prices rose sharply with strong export and producer-cut effects, while cattle prices fell. Milk lettuce grapefruit boosted the index, but broilers celery eggs fell. The parity ratio stood at 75 percent, same as July and six points higher than last August.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Soviet Union
Crop Reporting Board
Contaminated beef livers found amid DES concerns
Federal meat inspectors detected five more DES positive livers from steers certified as DES free. Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois, California samples traced. Since Jan 8 rules require DES-free certification or withdrawal seven days before slaughter. Total 75 positives in 3,142 tests, about 2.4 percent. FDA bans DES in livestock feed starting next Jan 1. Implants still allowed.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Nebraska
Kansas
Illinois
California
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Saltbush as forage in dry lands shows promise
Texas Tech plant physiologist Dr J R Goodin says saltbush could provide forage in semi arid regions. He notes about 25 species grow in Texas and 200 worldwide with high protein content and drought tolerance. Not a substitute where alfalfa grows, but could aid extending agriculture into saline or degraded land. In Kentucky a hog cholera outbreak prompts culling of 3000 hogs in Warren County and wider regional control efforts across Kentucky Ohio and Indiana.
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Lubbock, Tex
Texas Tech
J.R. Goodin
Australia
Africa
Middle East
Texas
Goodin
Rehaim
Frankfort
Warren County
Kentucky
Wendell Butler
Ohio
Indiana
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