NASA Photos Map Corn Blight Watch Across seven states
Williamson County farm adviser O R Walley is among 250 observers in seven states in the 1971 Corn Blight Watch Experiment using high altitude ultra violet photos by NASA aircraft. The project, coordinated with Purdue LARS and Indiana and Illinois agencies, tracks blight spread on five corn plants per field from June through October.
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O. R. Walley
Clindsan
Victor Smith
Williamson County
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Laboratory For Applications of Remote Sensing
LARS
Purdue University
Cooperative Extension Service of Indiana
Indiana Agricultural Station
Corn Belt
Ilinois
Iowa
Indiana
Ohio
Nebraska
Illinois
Winnebago
Boone
Wisconsin
Jefferson, Franklin, Williamson, Johnson and Massac
Johnston City
Creal Springs
Smith
Cooperative Reporting Service
Cooperative Extension Service
University of Ilinois
Statistical Reporting Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Cooperative State Research Service
Agricultural Research Service
Purdue Laboratory
University of Michigan Institute For Science and Technology
Farmer Joe Basham Faces Uneven Soybean Harvest
Joe Basham, who leases a farm west of Harrisburg, cultivates a soybean field. He notes his crop may be below usual yield due to alternating dry and rainy weather, which hindered field work for Southern Illinois farmers.
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Joe Basham
Harrisburg
Southern Illinois
Ed Greer
New farmer city gap narrows says farm writer
Farm writer Mike Carr notes a shrinking gap between farmers and city people. Magazine pieces on agriculture show urban interest in farming, nutrition, and regulation. Readers discuss blight, the Morrow Plots, and organic methods while weighing rural and urban ties.
Meat output rises in June from year earlier
Washington AP says June red meat production from cattle sheep and hogs rose 11 percent versus a year earlier. Beef output exceeded 1.9 billion pounds up six percent while pork approached 1.2 billion pounds up 22 percent. Veal fell four percent and lamb and mutton dropped five percent according to the Crop Reporting Board.
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Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
SIU ag faculty two leave for new positions
Two Southern Illinois University School of Agriculture faculty members will depart SIU at the end of August. Howard W. Miller will become professor of animal science at Mississippi State University in Mississippi. Daniel B. Houston will join Ohio State University as a physiological geneticist with the forestry department research staff at the Wooster, Ohio center.
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Southern Ilinois University School of Agriculture
SIU
Howard W. Miller
Animal Industries
Mississippi State University
State College
Miss
Daniel B. Houston
Ohio State University Forestry Department
Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center
Wooster
Ohio
Miller
Moline
Ill
SIU Animal Industries Department
University of Kentucky
Houston
Concord
New Hampshire
SIU Forestry
Farm index steady as July prices mix shifts
The Agriculture Department reports the overall prices received by farmers held steady from June to July 15, with hog, soybean, and milk prices rising while cattle and wheat values declined. Hog prices rose 9 percent to 19.10 per hundredweight, beef cattle averaged 28.40, and the grain index fell 6 percent to 1.34 per bushel. Parity ratios stayed at 70 percent and 94 percent for the two measures.
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Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
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Anne
By Mike Carr
Lindsay-Schaub News Service
Vaudevill
Time Reports
Time Magazine
Rockefeller Center
New York
Nader
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Run
Midwest
Rockome Gardens
Robert D. Redman
Lovington
University of Illinois
Redman
Mr. Redman
Washington
James
Farm and Home Store
Ridgway
Southern
Lomi
SIU Ag
Weather Guide
OUR
Brush
Sawyer
Carbondale
Catalina
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