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Alfalfa Producers are Advised to Cut It Close (5/30/02) As haying season approaches, alfalfa producers are advised to cut as close as 1inch. Leaving 3- to 5-inch stubble height is common due to rocks, pocket gophers or lodging, but harvesting alfalfa at a lower stubble height will increase the forage yield. MORE Worst Teen Jobs Of 2002 (5/30/02) The National Consumers League (NCL) issues top five worst teen jobs for 2002. MORE Dairy Market Loss Payment To Be Made for June (5/30/02) The projected payment will be $1.20 per hundredweight of milk produced during the month of June, according to farm management specialist Dwight Aakre. MORE Roaring Tractors Will Damage Your Hearing! (5/24/02) A familiar sound has returned to the prairies this spring, farm tractors and other machinery are roaring to life as field work resumes. According to a North Dakota State University agricultural safety specialist, that roaring poses a serious threat to farm workers’ hearing. MORE BeefTalk: Check Your Bulls as Often as You Check Your Cows (5/30/02) If the bull is breeding at a similar or greater rate after being exposed to the cows for three weeks, you have a problem, says beef specialist Kris Ringwall.. You better take a good look at the bull bench and hope you have some depth to the team. MORE Prairie Fare: What Do Food Product Dates Mean, Anyway? (5/30/02) Food package dates can be confusing. Are the product dates required? What do they mean? Food and nutrition specialist Julie Garden-Robinson explains them and offers a recipe for Apple Slaw that will give you a chance to check the date on your mayonnaise jar. MORE Plains Folk: A Grand Forks Inventory (5/31/02) Tom Isern reports on the state of historic properties in Grand Forks after the 1997 flood. MORE Hortiscope (5/30/02) Ron Smith answers readers' questions about the world of plants and gardening. MORE Market Advisor: Imports Maintain Barley and Oats Stocks in 2002-2003 (5/30/02) Crops economist George Flaskerud gives details of the recent Supply and Demand Report. MORE |
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