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The Hereford Brand- Sunday, March 29, 1981-Page 13B
Swine Short Course
Syndication of Amerispain ?
Will Be in Plainview
Bull Has Been Announced
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sire
Breeders
Dry Weather, Winds
Damaging Land Areas
bale net weight estimate for its 25 counties
will be bred back to create
364-8384
Mobile 578-4686
LOOMIX with Bloat Guard*
Weather Good for Harvest
In Mexico. South America
a, trace
Onion Harvest Expected
Near 355 Million Lbs.
Consumers' Best
Interest. Strong
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INSURANCE
DRYLANDER 289
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breeding and is used to
genetically lock in outstan-
MOW IN
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WIH RILCOT
in addition to his work in
developing the Amerispain
breed Mr Adams was one of
the first Charolais Breeders
in the United States, the
highest yielding of
the Ricot varieties
more disease
tolerance
C W Dub i Adams of San
Angelo and Fort Worth.
wilt tolerant,
stormproof
Federal Crop Insurance
Jim Cavin, Jr Agent (806) 364.7686
BALE
ROSTER
Rilcot varieties are specificaily brad to put you on the rood to the gin with all the cotton
you grow. They accomplish more for you.
* Planted earty, they mature more quickly, can be defoliated and harvested early
* Planted late — when adverse weather dictates — they still mature in time for harvest
Adams is the owner of
Amerispain bull No 220.
whose name is Gold Nugget
At $1,000,000 he is the highest
priced gold nugget in history
Patsy Wright, of the
Southwest Wax Museum is
the owner of the Longhorn
Bull Amerispain No 997 and
uses him in the Dallas, Fort
Worth area to represent Mer-
nl - Lynch - A Breed Apart •
at $500,000 he is a bred apart
deep wigorous root vystem Brod especiaily
for dryland, the Drylander 289 can wait for
• rain and stil come back and wt fruit of a
high quality micronaire & praoda, strength
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Note to Editors: The next issue of Cotton Talks will be
on Friday, April 3.
.Also. Dr TD Thanksley
Jr . professor and Extension
swine specialist in the depart-
ment of animal science at
A&M Dr D A Knabe assis-
tant professor of animal
science. Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station. A&M:
Dr Roland Smith, Extension
economist-gram marketing.
College Station: Dr Ramon
W Sammons, Extension area
economi st-management.
Amarillo, and Cohen
I like PAG SX333 because it withstood
the hot dry summer better than some
competitive varieties Good ear retention
and very httle lodging high yields and
good threshability I plan to plant some
SX333 next year
Robert Strain Farm*
Hereford Texas
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PLAINVIEW - Swine pro-
ducers in the Rolling and
High Plains and Texas
Panhandle will explore
techniques which can help
turn losses into profit in view
of current feed prices during
the annual Texas A&M
University Swine Short
Course here Wednesday .
April 8.
controls Hoot and supples needed pheaph
minerais and vitamins.
Chubby Black
364-6519
developer of the Char-Swiss
Breed, publisher of the
American Cattle Breeders
Hall of Fame Texas Edition,
and founder of the American
Cattle Breeders Hall of Fame
housed at the Southwest
Historical Wax Museum on
Interstate 30 between Dallas
and Fort Worth
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WE’LL GUARANTEE YOUR
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YOUR INCOME.
WHEN IT’S TIME
TO START PUNTING AGAIN,
REMEMBER THIS...
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I like PAG SXbecause ithas excellent
seedling vigor resistance tolodamnq and
good threshability tai retention and
placement are very cood
Carl Kleuskens 251 7300
Jerry Sublett 276-5336
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That's the promise behind All-Risk
Federal Crop Insurance
What does it mean for you and your
family* Plenty Because by locking in a
guaranteed yield And income you cover
the risk of losses from natural disasters
such as drouth, flood insects and disease
With All-Risk Federal Crop Insurance
you and your family can all sleep a little
easier knowing that even if you hit a bad
year your cash flow will keep flowing
Because no matter what natural disaster
comes along. All-Risk Federal Crop
Insurance protects the money you and
your family invest in your crop.
For more information, call the FCIC
representative in your area All-Risk
Federal Crop Insurance In good years
and bad. it pays off. . k .
LOOMIX With Bloat Guard*
* effectively protects against bloat on alfalfa, clover and winter
wheat pasture.
* supplies needed phosphorous, trace minerals and vitamins.
* backed by LOOMIX 25 years experience in the liquid feed
business.
* saves labor (your LOOMIX man serd the troughs)
* Lets you decide the most profitable way to use your pasture.
* conforms to FDA requirements for safety and effectiveness.
Hereford Liquid Feed
Service
RILCOT
The course is organized and
sponsored by the Extension
Service Cooperating with it
ure the department of animal
science at Texas A&M, the
Texas Agricultural Experi-
ment Station, Texas Pork
Producers Assn and Texas
Pork Producers Board
The course begins at 8 a m
and adjourns at 4:15 p.m.
The impact of various pro-
duction factors on profit and
loss; practical aspects of
herd health, reproduction and
maintenance; conversion of
hog biomass to alternate
fuels; opportunities for com-
puterizing swine production
records, and the potential for
farrowing cooperatives in
Texas are featured topics for
the program
Speakers and discussion
leaders will include Dr
Maynard Hogberg. Extension
“*
vation Service, said that
through February of last
season, wind damaged about
3.1 million acres in the
10-state region
Berg said lack of moisture
was the major factor con-
tributing to the rise in wind
damage this season
States in the northern
(ireat Plains accounted for 67
percent of the damage South
Dakota accounted for more
than one-fifth of the total
officials consider land
damaged by wind if enough
local favorite
Joe Grotegut
Hereford, Texas
Official county-by-county net weight production purebred Amerispain This
figures will be released later, probably in June or July, procedure is called inline
along with planted and harvested acreage and per-acre
yield figures, by the Texas Crop and Livestock Report
ing Service. Austin.
RILCOT
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The Texas ( rop and I ive-
ck Reporting Service
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characteristics.
The purebred Amerispain
bull No 220 will then be bred
to the developed purebred
Amerispain heifers to
genetically lock in outstan-
ling breed characteristics of
Amerispain
Adams and the Amerispain
Breeders in the syndication
believe that these two bulls
will create the most outstan-
ding .Amerispain herds in the
world for years to come They
will be backing up this belief
with 81.500.000
soil has been removed or
deposited on it to subject the
land to further erosion
hazard. or to impair its pro-
ductive capacity
The agency keeps track of
wind erosion in the Great
Plains during a seven-month
period beginning on Nov 1
and ending the following May
31 The report Monday was
for the first four months of
the current season
Last year. in the entire
seven-month period. land
damaged by wind totaled
more than 5.1 million acres,
compared with 2.9 million in
1978-79 — one of the mildest
seasons on res ord
Damage in 1976-77. for ex-
ample. was reported on near-
ly 8 million acres, and in the
drought years of the 1950s
damage was even greater,
ranging up to 15.8 million
acres in 1954-55
According to the the four-
month total, damage from
w ind erosion included
leading animal scientists
and producers from Texas.
New Mexico. Kansas and
Michigan will conduct the
daylong program at the Hale
County Agricultural Center
south of the city on U S 87
Business Route The $10
registration fee includes
lunch and proceedings, noted
Dr Robert S Cohen, area
swine specialist with the
Texas Agrcultural Extension
Service
markets for American pro-
ducers or are their com-
petitors in world export ■ han-
ne is
IS an important
swine specialist. Michigan
State University. Lansing.
Mich.: Dr Steve Henry,
veterinarian, Abilene. Kan
producers Adair Merrell of
Animas, N.M ; and Dan Ber-
doll of Del Valle: and David
Malish and Don Raley of
Austin, whose engineering
firm has designed a methane
generating plant
WASHINGTON AP
Agriculture Secretary John
R Block says that while
farmers and consumers are
partners, farmers shouldn't
be asked to produce food at a
blSS
In the long run, a str ng
farm economy is in the i on-
sumer s best interest," Block
said in testimony Wednesday
before the House Budget
Committee
It is now assured that 1980 cotton production from Texas National Appraiser for
the 25 High Plains counties represented by Plains Cot- Amerispain. Ereeter:
ton Growers. Inc.. Lubbock, in terms of 480-pound net Association, has announced
weight bales, win exceed the two million bale mark the syndicationofa Purebred
This is still a very poor crop overall, observes Longhorn ' iam er ispain
PCG Executive Vice President Donal Johnson, but Purebrtdformsernspain “ui
it is wel above some of the dire predictions made at the No 220 for s 000 000 The
beginning of the harvest season. . Amerispain Breed dev eloped
The High Plains planted something over 4 5 million by Mr Adams, a fourth
acres to cotton in 1980. but the official figure for either generation Texas cattleman,
planted or harvested acres won't be known for some is , Longhorn and 1, any
time other breed
To date USDA's four High Plains cotton classing of- Top Amerispain Breeders
taste ot
months
Reagan
excellent
WASHINGTON AP -
Government experts say the
weather has been generally
favorable in Mexico. South
America and South Africa
where harvest are about to
begin
The Joint Agricultural
Weather Facility also said
Tuesday that beneficial rain
was reported from the
southeast into Iowa and Kan-
-a- and over portions of the
Rockies and the West Coast
durirg the week of March
16-22
Mild temperatures con-
tinued over the western two-
thirds of the country while
cool weather prevailed in the
East the report said By
week’s end. the wet weather
slowed r stopped field work
in many Gulf Coast states
The facility is operated by
the departments of Com-
merce and Agriculture
Among its purposes is to give
farmers an idea of weather
and crop onditions in foreign
countries many of which are
fices in Lubbock, Brownfield, Lamesa and Levelland throughout the 16 major at-
have reported classings of over 1.915.000 running tie producing States will be
bales. Approximately 1.885.000 bales of this total, ac- using Semen from these two
cording to USDA's Cotton Market News Director Bill utstanding Herd Sires to
Crockett at Lubbock, was grown in PCG's 25-county develop and improve their
territory. with the other 30,000 coming from Eastern Registered Amerispain
New Mexico. Herds
But to arrive at the 25-county estimate of running 100 Amerispain Breeders
bales. PCG points out. it is necessary to add about will be paying $5,000 each for
86.100 bales that were grown in the High Plains area exclusive Semen purchase
but were classed at either the Abilene or Memphis, riehts to these, two Ameris-
Texas classing offices pain Registered Bulls
The Memphis office estimates classings of about Amerispain, cattle are
41,100 bales grown in Briscoe and Motley Counties, tecoming widayinnownifror
and the Abilene office puts classings from three other air heifers hardness as
PCG counties. Howard, Martin and Midland, at 45,000 foragers and (alf raisers, and
bales. profitability at the ::
This brings the total 25-county production in run- plac e
rung bales to around 1.971,000. And one of the area's The Longhorn Amerispain
largest compresses reports average bale weights for Bull No 997 wil be bred to
the season at a net 502 pounds, which makes a 104.58 any sther breed to < reate the
percent running bale-net weight bale conversion factor first cross Amerispain and
From this figure PCG comes up with a 2.061.272 the heifers from this mating
fresh onions in
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million
Spt n
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Southern Great Plains
Colorado. 102.520 and
10,185 Kansas 872,251 and
MI 14 '• a '■’■ i
and 148.900. < klahoma. 83.545
and 180.450 and Texas
269,006 and
WASHINGTON AP
Dry weather this winter has
brought a surge in the land
area damaged by wind ero-
sion in the Great Plains, ac-
cording to the Agriculture
Department s latest survey
Through the first four mon-
ths of the current wind
season, nearly 4.2 million
acres were damaged, an in-
crease of about 34 percent
from a y ear ago, officials said
Monday
Norman A Berg. chief of
the department's Soil Conser-
- . - g ■ w Giranex
variety and moving into
Texas Granon about mid-
It ure < ommissioner
N Broun -aid an
crop is expected.
the High Plains and
I rans-Pecon
onion- ft is second
onion production
Northern Great Plains
Montana 889.000 acres and
406 125 acres for the same
Nebraska
155.595 and 34,135: North
Dakota, 817.705 and 277.750:
South DakoU 901.500 and
620.948 and Wyoming. 28 475
and 11,530
pound- ot cariy oprng hions
made their wa from the
leva- l ower Rio Grande
Valley recent Co ng I nited
States' consumers their first
• - a-o ,% row RILCOT S
THE BOLL AND LETS YOU I
JR -AR . € ST
cstimates that * -U acre
wil be harvested in the V 4 ley
Winter Giarden arca and
I aredo the pr ncipa gr * ng
arcas for 'pring on ns 1 eld
i* expected ■ be 19.500
pound' an acre, the ame 4*
last year
mportant ahc that
et~s Q/ vou natura
RILCOT heips ,ou vav
-COTTON TALKS
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