Throughout the day you will get to informally discuss what all these producers have experienced with the dry conditions this year and what kind of adjustments they have had to make. nacdnet.net There is no charge for the workshop, but reservations need to be made by Friday so that enough food will be prepared. Cooks are using grazing and forages to supplement the feed for their buffalo. Before being published on our web site, your comments will be considered and approved by our staff. You...

Currently in Montana, we have many pleasure horses on small acreages that subsist on hay 365 days a year, and their only involvement with "pasture" is a place to exercise. At the other extreme, full access to early bloom alfalfa hay can lead to weight problems in lightly-used pleasure horses, due to the high intake potential of the alfalfa. For example, if you have late-maturity grass hay, no matter if it is timothy, orchard grass, or brome, it will be deficient in protein. What are the...

Three years ago, the National Gardening Association polled consumers on their use of chemicals in gardening and found that although only 5 percent said they used strictly organic fertilizers and pesticides, 13 percent said they probably would go organic, according to Bruce Butterfield, the association's research director. In this season of lawn repair, Tukey wants people to throw away the chemicals and switch to organic methods of establishing and maintaining turf grass. For half a century...

He estimated the machine was about 10-feet tall and about 10-feet long. It makes chemicals for use in animal feed additives, human pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals, according to the company's Web site. Nettleton said the fire started in a paddle dryer that is used in the manufacture of a poultry feed additive. Nettleton said the plant's automatic fire suppression system was activated and the Charles City fire department was notified and responded. in the plant's drying department, said...

THE MORNING NEWS KSOUZA@NWAONLINE.net SPRINGDALE Springdale-based Tyson Foods inc. and other major poultry producers face three difficult hurdles in the coming months with higher feed costs, questionable export markets and a rising supply due to increased production. THE MORNING NEWS KSOUZA@NWAONLINE.net SPRINGDALE Springdale-based Tyson Foods inc. and other major poultry producers face three difficult hurdles in the coming months with higher feed costs, questionable export markets and a...

Fourth cutting of alfalfa hay is 91 percent complete and a fifth cutting of alfalfa hay is 24 percent complete. Barley is 77 percent planted, compared to 74 percent last week. Hay supplies were 36 percent very short, 40 percent short, 20 percent adequate and 4 percent surplus. Winter wheat is 48 percent planted, compared to 32 percent last week. There were 6.4 days suitable for field work for the week ending Oct. Rain this past week will help small grains progress. Fourth cutting of other...

The 2007 alfalfa tests include entries of commercial varieties conducted at Ames and Nashua. Performance data provided with the results include yield in tons per acre, fall dormancy ratings and disease resistances. Information on the adaptation and performance of hybrids and varieties is currently offered for alfalfa, barley, corn, oat, soybean and wheat. Results from orchardgrass, perennial ryegrass, reed canarygrass and timothy grass tests are included as well. A late cold weather event...

The hour-long Convocation drew about 60 people to Jewett Hall, along with a nearly equal number of professors who marched in wearing their caps and robes. Schalit, the keynote speaker at the fourth annual UMA Convocation, shared her thoughts and research on the subject as the school kicked off a year that will be focused on health and social justice. Hunger is a problem that affects all of us far more of us than even we at the newspaper imagined when we started this project, she said....

The program, recently swept up in a political firestorm between two Monmouth County state Senate candidates, has been exploited for years by corporations, developers and millionaires seeking to cut property taxes on their sweeping vistas by up to 99 percent. The program, recently swept up in a political firestorm between two Monmouth County state Senate candidates, has been exploited for years by corporations, developers and millionaires seeking to cut property taxes on their sweeping...