May 09, 2008 10:23 am
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Heifer sale set for this Friday
CARTHAGE, Mo. — A Show-Me-Select heifer sale will be held at 7 p.m. Friday at Joplin Regional Stockyards, Carthage.
The sale is to have 125 bred heifers that will have passed various health and reproductive examinations. They also will have received official Brucellosis calf vaccinations and been negative prior to the sale. They will have been tested and found negative for BVD-PI.
The sale includes a new level of participation that requires Tier Two SMS heifers to be sired by bulls that have attained certain levels of expected progeny difference accuracy for calving ease, weaning weight, carcass weight and meat marbling.
Sale catalogs are available at University of Missouri Extension offices in Southwest Missouri. Data can be seen at extension.missouri.edu/lawrence/.
All heifers in the sale will have been raised on area beef cattle farms. Heifers are expected to have calves from the middle of August to late November, said Eldon Cole, extension livestock specialist at Mount Vernon.
Details: (417) 466-3102.
Poultry litter adds nitrogen to plants
COLUMBUS, Kan. — Incorporating poultry litter increases the amount of nitrogen to plants the initial year, said Dennis Elbrader, Kansas State University Extension agriculture agent at Columbus.
Incorporating litter will enable 60 percent of the nitrogen to be used for plants, compared with 50 percent available when it is spread on the surface.
The second year after application, 12 percent of the litter is available when litter is spread on the surface compared to 15 percent when incorporated into the soil.
Elbrader said the best use of poultry litter comes when incorporating it into the soil as soon as possible after it is removed from the poultry house.
Details about poultry litter as fertilizer are at www.poultrywaste.okstate.edu. It also can be found at www.oznet.ksu.edu/cherokee.
Area cattlemen plan meeting
VINITA, Okla. — Reservations are due by May 16 to attend an Ottawa/Craig Counties Cattleman’s Association meeting to be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 20, at the Craig County Fairgrounds at Vinita.
For reservations, call either the Craig County extension center at (918) 256-7569 or the Ottawa County extension office at (918) 542-1688.
Bob Woods, Oklahoma State University area agronomy specialist, is to talk about the impact soaring fertilizer prices are having on cattle producers.
Bill Burton, OSU area economist, is to give an update on Country of Origin Labeling requirements and an outlook on cattle prices.
Thistle control required by law
GALENA, Mo. — If good fences make good neighbors, then musk thistle control makes excellent neighbors, said Tim Schnakenberg, University of Missouri Extension agronomist at Galena.
The difference between fences and thistle is that state law requires thistle control, he said.
The key is to stop thistles from producing seed. The prime time for control is to spray in early spring.
Products that can be used on plants when seed heads begin to grow or show pink include Ally, Banvel, Grazon, Remedy or Tordon, he said.
Ally would not be the best choice for fescue fields, especially if the fescue is managed for seed, he said.
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