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Hereford Youth awarded scholarships totaling $35,750

National Junior Hereford Association members were awarded more than $30,000 in scholarships from the Hereford Youth Foundation of America Nov. 3, during the American Hereford Association Annual Meeting in Kansas City.

Heather Bradford, St. Marys, Ohio, and Roger Morgan, Burwell, Neb., won two of the largest scholarships: the $5,000 Bill and Jo Ellard Scholarships from HYFA.

Heather Bradford is a freshman at Purdue University, studying animal science. She plans to earn her master's degree in genetics and then pursue a career in quantitative genetics. Heather is currently serving as the secretary/treasurer for the Ohio Buckeye Junior Hereford Association and was the Hereford Idol contest winner at the 2008 Junior National Hereford Expo.  [Read More]


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Fencing company offers management intensive grazing advice

Management intensive Grazing (MiG) can be described as a means of teaching livestock better eating habits through controlled portioning, while making improvements to the land and forages. For the livestock producers, management intensive means working smarter, not harder.

Healthy, growing animals require an abundant supply of balanced, nutritional feed and a clean, accessible water supply. When cattle are turned into a large area they cannot be expected to ration out their own food supply over an extended period of time. The animals eat only the forages that they most prefer until they are no longer an option. Meanwhile, much of the other nutritional forages are wasted due to trampling, and manure deposits.  [Read More]

Grape and wine council to meet Jan. 8

Kansas The Kansas Grape and Wine Industry Advisory Council will meet to discuss current issues at 3 p.m., Jan. 8, at in the fourth floor meeting room at the Kansas Department of Agriculture, 109 SW 9th Street, in Topeka. Secretary of Agriculture Adrian Polansky formed the Kansas Grape and Wine Industry Advisory Council to advise him on marketing, regulatory, research and legislative issues important to the industry.



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Burris named new AgriLife Extension agent for Coleman County

Texas Christin Burris will become the new Texas AgriLife Extension Service family and consumer sciences agent for Coleman County effective Jan. 1, according to a recent announcement by Coleman County Judge Jimmie Hobbs and Scott Durham, AgriLife Extension administrator at San Angelo. "We are very proud to have this outstanding new agent begin her AgriLife Extension career with us here in the West Central District," Durham said.

Change is the name of the game--except for Christmas

By Richard C. Snell Barton County Extension Agent--Agriculture Kansas I probably should have been a sports writer.

National FFA Convention will rotate between Louisville, Indianapolis

The National FFA Organization announced Dec. 12 that its annual convention will rotate between Louisville, Ky., and Indianapolis, Ind., for the foreseeable future. Starting in 2013, Louisville will share hosting duties with Indianapolis on a three-year rotational basis. Louisville will host the convention 2013 through 2015.

New Texas AgriLife Extension entomologist named for Amarillo area

Texas Texas AgriLife Extension Service has named Dr. Edsel "Ed" D. Bynum Jr. to the position of entomology specialist in Amarillo, effective Jan. 1. "We are thrilled to have someone with Ed's background join the Extension entomology specialist group," said Dr. Chris Sansone, associate department head for AgriLife Extension entomology.


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Expert discusses synchronization protocols for cows

The latest generation of estrus synchronization protocols employs two strategies that are key to the more widespread adoption of synchronized artificial insemination in beef herds. That's the message reproductive physiologist Cliff Lamb carried to attendees of the Robert E. Taylor Memorial Symposium: Applied Reproductive Strategies in Beef Cattle Dec. 2 and 3 in Fort Collins, Colo. "These strategies include minimizing the number of times ...




2009 CWAC, CAWG Annual County Meetings and Elections set

Colorado Colorado wheat producers are invited to attend and participate in the annual county business meetings and elections jointly sponsored by the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee and the Colorado Association of Wheat Growers. The business meetings and elections will be held Jan. 12 to 19, at 14 different locations.






USDA enacts changes to payment limitations, income qualifications, and implements direct attribution

Kansas Bill R. Fuller, State Executive Director of USDA's Farm Service Agency in Kansas, announced Dec. 22 that with the publication of an interim final regulation in the Federal Register, the United States Department of Agriculture announced changes to both Adjusted Gross Income qualifications, program payment limitations, and direct attribution for FSA and Natural Resources Conservation ...




Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops

KUNMING, China (AP)--Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential--rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron. "See these plants? They can tolerate the cold," Zeng says as he walks through a checkerboard of test fields sown with different rice varieties on the outskirts of Kunming, capital of southwestern China'...







Farm bill informational meeting set for Enid at KNID Agrifest Farm Show

Oklahoma American Farmers and Ranchers will hold a farm bill informational meeting at the 13th Annual KNID Agrifest Farm Show. AFR invites everyone that is interested in learning more about the new farm bill to attend the free meeting on Jan. 9 at 11 a.m. at the Chisholm Trail Expo Center in Enid, Okla.




Minnesota farm land prices moderating with corn prices

LUVERNE, Minn. (AP)--Bill Weber is owner and president of Jensen Management Inc., an appraisal company in the heart of Rock County, a transition area across the divide into Iowa. Weber joined the company in 1976 when he was 20 years old, fresh out of business college. He had seen a lot of things--the tail end of the farm boom, the debt-credit crisis of the 1980s, the recovery in the 1990s, the boom effect of the ethanol age after 2000.







2009 CWAC, CAWG Annual County Meetings and Elections set

Colorado Colorado wheat producers are invited to attend and participate in the annual county business meetings and elections jointly sponsored by the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee and the Colorado Association of Wheat Growers. The business meetings and elections will be held Jan. 12 to 19, at 14 different locations.




National FFA Convention will rotate between Louisville, Indianapolis

The National FFA Organization announced Dec. 12 that its annual convention will rotate between Louisville, Ky., and Indianapolis, Ind., for the foreseeable future. Starting in 2013, Louisville will share hosting duties with Indianapolis on a three-year rotational basis. Louisville will host the convention 2013 through 2015.




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Lost! (According to my wife)


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Time to relax Cuba's trade and travel restrictions?


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More fun than a platypus


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Researcher: Soybean aphids continue to cause problems for farmers


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Doug Rich

Doug Rich

Accurate cash flow statements are vital


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Trent Loos

Trent Loos

What a waste


It appears to me that the best New Year's resolution we could all have for 2009 is to do our part to keep

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Just a scoop full


(Dec. 10)--I bought some December corn futures not terribly long ago. On Tuesday, we were in the middle of our cow sale and my

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