Wheat and ash myth in eastern Washington fields
A Washington wheat farmer recalls Mount St. Helens and ash effects, noting crops remain strong. The article travels from Spokane’s Palouse region to Pomeroy, detailing fertile wheat belts, high yields, summer fallow, and the large Snake River port elevators used to load grain onto barges for export.
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Mount St. Helens
Portland
Spokane River
Spokane
Idaho
Oregon
Pomeroy
Steptoe
Colfax
Snake River
Pomeroy Grain
Snake
Columbia
Pacific
Montana
Dakotas
America
Fruit School for Wooster growers set for Dec 8 to 9
Ohio fruit growers will gather at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster for the 1980 Fruit School December 8 and 9. The program includes talks by Dr. Louis Edgerton of Cornell on fruit thinning and growth regulators, and Dr. Alan Jones of Michigan State on apple scab monitoring and disease resistance. Topics cover fruit size factors, leaf miners, pests, fruit firmness, and farm finance. A lab will aid disease identification. Registration is $15 per person plus $1 per student. luncheon and banquet charges apply. Reservations by mail or at the door.
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Ohio
Ohio Agricultural Research and Development
Cornell University
Michigan State University
Alan Jones
Ohio State University
Department of Horticulture
Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center
Wooster
Lorain district to honor conservation winners banquet set
The Lorain Soil and Water Conservation District will hold its 31st annual banquet on December 6 at 7 30 pm in Keystone High School LaGrange. Conservation District winners will be named and ballots may be cast on December 5 at the Extension office Elyria. Floyd Heft will speak on soil and water topics as election voting opens to residents 18 and older.
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Lorain
Ruth Horvath
Lowell Street
Elyria
Floyd Heft
Division of Soil and Water Districts
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Lorain County Fairgrounds
The
Wranglers 4-H Club
Avon
Bill Curtis
Marie
Tira Ternes
Laura Sulus
Sue Beckwith
Kelly McKenzie
Stephanie Papp
Stanford Avenue
Monroeville FFA Chapter Wins National Award
The Monroeville Chapter Future Farmers of America received the National FFA Building Our American Communities award for creating an agricultural heritage farmstead at the Huron County Fairgrounds. It earned a $200 citation and a plaque at the 33rd National FFA Convention in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Monroeville
Future Farmers of America
FFA
Huron County Fairgrounds
Kansas City
A. Alan
Firelands FFA Team Wins First in Parliamentary Procedure
Firelands High School Chapter of Future Farmers of America placed first in the parliamentary procedure contest held at Buckeye High School in Medina on Thursday. Six schools participated. Team members included Ron Bauman, president, Doug Benedict.
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Firelands High School
Future Farmers of America
Buckeye High School
Medina
Ron Bauman
Doug Benedict
New process may save hardwood paper energy
USDA Forest Service researchers at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison Wisconsin report a press dry papermaking process that uses hardwood pulp to produce stronger, flatter paper with less energy. The method could boost the economy, reduce hardwood waste, and ease softwood demand by enabling 100 percent red oak linerboard production.
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UPI
Agriculture Department
Madison
Wis
Department
Forest Products Laboratory
Usda Forest Service
Setterholm
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