100 BUSHELS OF WHEAT? That's the goal of researchers at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and scientists may be able to achieve their goal even sooner than young people think. "We know it can be done," says Dr. Sunkistperformance and profit, post this coupon .We'll send you the whole story - it's called "Sunkist - the sweet seller". This FFA member helps produce rainbow trout for the State Game and Fish Department, isolated in the mountains of Arizona. the final blow to our turbulent movement. steep and winding mountain road, our weather-beaten planes pulled themselves up and stopped isolated and clearing snow.
34;Actually, the fish farm here is the same. any other farm,” he says, smiling. 'You always have to have someone. here to feed the animals; that's exactly that. This growth phase lasts about four weeks, says James. “We have to use a petroleum product to boost them and feed them once they're done with the bag,” he says. He demonstrates a typical feeding session by filling a scoop with food and throwing the contents into one of the ponds at lightning speed.
I'm shooting for enough broodstock to produce two million eggs." More eggs produced at the hatchery means less chance of bacterial disease from outside sources, which can be a serious problem. But in the long run, he pays back because of the experience he want when it's time to apply for a job." James has decided to pursue a career in wildlife management.
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34;I think we're going to see explosive growth in conservation tillage methods over the next five years," says Neil. 34;Farmers make management decisions on both the cost and production sides of the business, but often there's little choice on production costs," he says . New machinery and other agricultural inputs are now being designed specifically for reduced tillage methods.
Todd Millar reports that his family farm had the highest proven acreage yield in the county last year - 133 bushels per acre. acreon a 283-acre test plot.
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Each year, the custom combiners that leapfrog the wheat crop from Texas through Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas and the Northwest look for hired hands with a farming background. 4 per hour for machine time if this was more than their $750 monthly guarantee. Other outfits are offered. 34;First of all, I ask myself, 'Are you afraid of a lot of work?' says Robin Swanson of Kimball, Nebraska, about the recruits who will run his three combines.
There's no doubt that you, as a small motorcycle professional, can use the huge...^ -. demand for qualified men in one of America's fastest growing industries. You don't have to be a born mechanic or have any experience. The lessons are fully illustrated...so clearly you can't go wrong, and our famous 'learn-by-doing' method gives you hands-on hands-on experience. .. tailsabulmy own companymSmall MotorReoau \ii*"**;* Sent)lot Iundetstano IheteisNoObligatorymatNo sellerwill\v^J^ucopy. For example, Harley Fry's wife Margaret has been cooking for the family since 1946 and could easily be 'mother- for-the-family'. -.
1 leave when school starts?" Thankfully, with combined time in Da-. kotas, harvesting is less pressing. outfits like Fry's can do with a skeleton crew, releasing new hands for school at the end of August. up to 16 hours in a combine, scraping dirt and scraping a wheat field, rain and mud that can hold an outfit hostage for days, long elevator lines and 100 degree days. This FFA member gets to the same thing.he benefits from the "hands-on" experience that others do—but he gets little of his training in a very unusual farm operation.
Fifteen hundred pups are born between February and April each year, thanks to an average litter of four perfox pups. But careful breeding is only one of several areas of management that Dwain and his father must strive for. Dwain needs to be vaccinated against plague and parasites. In addition, you can rely on a nearby Bike dealer or branch with a car for quick service and personal assistance.
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Congress-. manGunderson's duties with the House of Representatives Agricultural Com-. Mittee, Education and Labor Committee sensitizes vo-ag students preparing for careers in agriculture. "We need to answer any basic questions regarding the 'right' to farm, the structure of the American farm, and the overall direction of American agriculture in the 1980s and 1990s," .. solution to solving agriculture's future problems is not very happy news for The National FUTURE FARMER FARMER. start farmers... sense. "I believe we should place our number one emphasis on keeping those people already in agriculture above board," he says. "Let's not get people falsely into agriculture until we turn it into a profitable business." Doctor Hiram Drache, agricultural historian, 31-year-old farmer and author of several books on agriculture, points out that farmers in this country were "spoiled" by the Homestead Act at the beginning. "All you had to do was leave your country, come to the United States and get 160 acres of land—the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow—and farm," he says. The farm border was officially closed by 1890, and as a result the farmers became depressed."
34;boredom and drudgery break life in the time before modern transportation and the terrible school system we had then," says Doctor Drache..do about farming is that I wish I could put my mind back in a 20-year-old body now, because the opportunities are here," he says. "And the opportunities are going to be really big down the line, as far as I'm concerned. And another thing; just because you grew up on a farm doesn't qualify you to be the operators one day," he says. "A myth that's common among farmers , is that if you're born on the farm, you have an inherent right to farm," he points out. "That's about as antiquated as it gets. We can only entrust it to the people who can do the best job of managing it: those who inherit it from top management.”
34;Young people are starting. agriculture today as in the past, but they will get better. managers than ever,” he emphasizes. “You... you can't say you're going to the farm, though, just because you were born on a farm. Now . you start farming because you can prove that you can do it. “If a young couple comes to us today and says they are having problems with the farm, I say the first thing you do is sit down and calculate your own budget; the second thing you do is work out the farm budget and forecasts for the farm. and then prove to him that you are determined, that you want to succeed.”
It's the same old song and dance about how you can't afford to buy. country. "How many children have been held back by their fathers because they were told, 'Grandpa paid $5 an acre for the land, .. we paid S50 an acre for the land, and now you want S2,500 an acre pay for the country and we can't pay it.'. Well, if that's the truth, then why do we pull the country up and throw it to the wolves?" .. he says. "Land has always been priced higher than the average farmer can afford to pay. 34;Never before in history have we had more tools to help young people start farming than today," he says firmly. "I believe there is nothing stronger than a good, dedicated, totally mechanized, well-managed young husband and wife team.
34; That's why I think it's that we got into enough crisis in the 80s that we're going to make farmers get serious about money management," he says. "The next decade will come after the next energy crisis before 1990, and.
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That's where a "small place" is "five or six thousand" acres, Casey says, one that "can only handle a few hundred cows." On a clear day, the deep blue sky tumbles down to meet the graceful curves of rolling hills, one after another, this stretch into eternity. 34;I entered the boys' barrel racing competition when I was three and four years old." Casey recalls." Then I got involved in the Little Britches, the junior and senior divisions, and SDRA, the South Dakota Rodeo Association.” Casey's goal is to win the PRCA (Professional Rodeo Association) finals. but you have to build your name.”
34;At the state level you pretty much know where you stand," he says, referring to Tom's Oklahoma Horse Proficiency Award.
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34; We are still growing," he says." Machinery Show and Championship Tractor Pull in Louisville by selling magazines, working the fishing boat at the county fair and selling popcorn at ball games. Funds Wanted by Colstrip, MT, a donkey basketball game was used to sponsor $500 scholarship for outstanding senior AliceBroadus.
The halftime feature during the donkey basketball game sponsored by the Lake Region FFA in Orleans, VT was a schoolboy basketball relay. MN, Chapter is having a pig barbecue to wish the graduating seniors good luck in their future. Threegirls in Green BaySouthwest, WI, Chapter ran in the March of Dimes super race and finished first.
WayneBeltzhad spends the days in the county jail - that is, painting - for his work after the FFA slave sale at
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GaryHermann, left, representing Westvaco, chaired the Timber Harvest Field Day Committee and is. Forest products contestants from Marion and Walterboro High Schools won the top three individual honors in the robust annual SouthCarolina Forest productsfieldday held recently on Man-. Terry Fore of Marion topped the field of over 100 vocational agriculture students to claim top honors with a score of 470 points out of a possible 500.
The field day brought together the best students who enrolled in forest products courses at selected high schools across the state. Clinkscales, agriculture teacher; Walterboro High School (ColletonCounty), JerryGowdy, Agriculture Teacher; Andrews High School (Georgetown County), Gilmoe McManus, agriculture teacher; Marion High School (Marion County), Walter Tart, agriculture teacher; and Chester AreaVocationalCenter (ChesterCounty), DouglasShannon, agriculture teacher. Each organization provided a member who serves on an advisory board to the teachers who have forest products courses and to the state vocational agriculture staff who supervise the courses in selected high schools.
The equipment is scheduled at each school for one month each year. EarlFrick, district consultant of agricultural education, Florence, conducted the field day activities this year.
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The Fort Morgan Times had photos taken during the program and later published an article in the agricultural newspaper (Mike Bass, Greenhand Reporter). Prior to FFA WEEK in February, Missouri Association state officials hosted a dinner and program for the members of the Missouri Senate Agriculture Committees.
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The baseball field and basketball court, as a result of the work of a chapter, will soon have lights and games that can be played at night. Benjie Barnes, chapter secretary, gave a talk show on various local stations to help publicize the project. The common phrase "driving around" comes pretty close to explaining JeffRiley's life. Horses play an important role for this 17-year-old FFA player from Farmington, Kentucky.
Jeff spends most of his time feeding, doctoring and supervising his cattle; he also exports hogs, ships hogs and sows, works in the fields, and still has time to break custom and train several horses. Jeff's favorite projects horses.
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