Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 158, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1980 Page: 15 of 32
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By RONALD C. WOOLLEY
County Extension Agent
1 Northern Plains hard hit
j Heat takes toll on crops
Two new tests have been
added to the services available
at the Hopkins County Testing
Lab. They are tests for nitrates
in feed and storage and for
prussic add on sorghum and
sudans. These two tests should
prove to certainly be an aid in
providing producers with
critical information in making
management decisions.
These tests plus the protein
tests are offered by the Hopkins
County Testing Lab on an
unprecedented 24 hour service
policy. The lab is in the County-
Extension Office located at 127
Jefferson St. across from
Peoples National Bank.
If you are not utilizing the
services that the lab provides
you’re missing a real op-
portunity.
Food for Thought — Farmers
are more important to feeding
the world each year. One farm
worker supplied 65 people with
food and fiber in 1978. This is
five more than in 1977. That
compares to 47 in 1970, 25.8 in
1960,15.5 in 1950,6.9 in 1900 and
4.1 in 1820. '
...... Helping People
. Help Themselves
The Cooperative Extensive
Service is different from any
other educational system in the
world because its mission is
that of "helping people to help
themselves.” »
The Texas Agricultural
Extension Service, Texas A&M
Hopkins County high
in state beef count
AUSTIN — Hopkins County ranked sixth in 1979 in number of
cattle and calves, and cattle on feed in Texas, Agriculture Com-
missioner Reagan V. Brown reports.
Of the Up t^j counties Hopkins maintained 1.0 percent of the
state total with 130,000 head.
Total marketing of cattle and calves for the state was seven
billion pounds earning $4 9 billion.
Marketing of cattle on feed amounted to 4.4 million head. The
largest number of cattle on feed were marketed in January, 1979,
with the selling of 470.000 head.
In 1979 there were 157,000 cattle and 13,000 milk cow operations in
the state.
University System, reflects a
system of education that is
dedicated to working “with”
people, not “for” people.
Extension is the only
educational system in the
nation that is charged with the
responsibility at interpreting,
disseminating and encouraging
the practical application of
research information in a
manner that can bemused to
solve problems of daily living.
It is the linkage that brings to
reality the practical ap-
plication of research findings.
Problems discovered in the
field are relayed back to the
university for study and
practical solutions. This two-
way flow of information
provides an educational service
no other organization provides.'
There are a number of
“beliefs” that typify the
philosophy of Extension
education. v
—Belief in the importance of
the individual, not the subject
matter. v ^
--Belief in reaching out to
people, not waiting for them to
seek us out.
—Belief in working with
people at their level of interest
and understanding.
-Belief in helping people
determine their own needs and
solutions to their own problems
and in inspiring and motivating
them to action. ByOGRKENDALt
—Belief in helping people AP Farm Writer
learn skills required to im-v^-WASHINGTON (AP) —
plement technical recoiri- Despite the heat wave and
mendations, not just giving
recommendations.
—Belief in educational goals
that are flexible and adaptable
to the situation.
—Belief in helping people
learn to think, not what to
think.
—Belief in helping people to
help themselves, not doing
things for people or to people.
—Belief in the informal
educational approach whereby
teaching methods and
techniques are dictated by the
audience and the learning
situation.
—BWief in the use of
volunteer local leaders who are
trained to work with others.
Extension work in this new
decade will deal with the new
and challenging task of
meeting the concerns, which
represent Extension’s program
thrusts for the ’80s, related to
social conditions, economic
conditions, land and water
resources, leadership,
development, energy, and
marketing and policy.
The energy in one pound of
uranium can perform as much
work as 3 million pounds of
coal.
areas of severe drought in parts
of the Great Plains, a senior
government economist says he
thinks farmers still will harvest
a record wheat crop this year.
Moreover, says Howard W.
Hjort, it’s too eSrly to be
greatly alarmed over the com
crop, easily the most amindant
and important of the U.S.
grains.
But Hjort, who is the chief
economist and policy analyst
for the Agriculture Depart-
ment, said the heat djid dry
weather have taken a terrible
toll in the nation’yfnidsection,
including the northern plains,
where spring-planted crops and
pastures have been hurt.
Not much hard information
will be known for another week
when, on July 11, the USDA
issues a monthly report on 1980
crop production, including the
first estimate of total U.S.
wheat production and its first
1980 corn figures.
Last month the department
estimated 1980 winter wheat
output at a record level.
Planted in the fall for harvest
the following summer, winter
wheat makes up about 75
percent of the total U.S. wheat
production.
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“In total, one would still
expect to see a record wheat
crop this year, of all wheat,”
Hjort said in an interview late
Wednesday.
“I would Judge that most of
the winter wheat was suf-
ficiently mature so that it (the
heat wave) would have only a
slight negative effect on that
crop,” he said.
“□early, there will be a
record winter wheat crop. The
spring wheat crop has been in
trouble ... the only question is
the magnitude in the decline
from last year.”
But in the northern plains
region, including the Dakotas
and Hjort’s home state of
Montana, there "are parts of it
where they’re not going to
harvest much of a crop at all"
this year, he said.
“Any of those spring crops
have to have been hurt," in-
cluding spriftf-planted wheat,
barley, oats, flaxseed, and
sunflowers, he said. Besides
that, “Pastures are poor, the
hay crop is poor, hay prices are
high” and some farmers and
ranchers are being forced to
sell livestock prematurely or
truck hay from long distances.
In the southern plains,
particularly in Texas — which
has more than half of the
nation’s cotton acreage—Hjort
said some of the cotton crop
will be affected. Grain
sorghum, called milo, also has
been hit hard, but probably not
as severely so far as barley or
oats, Hjort said.
Although com is grown in
parts of the heat-ridden Great
Plains — classified as all or
part of 10 states running from
Texas to Montana — and is
being hurt, most is grown in the
more humid areas of the
Midwest and South where,
according to Hjort, moisture
supplies appear to be adequate
right now for the crop to hang
on.
Most soybeans, a prime
source of high-protein meal for,
feed and vegetable oil, are
grown in com areas and also
are planted in the spring.
“I think through a broad
spectrum of the country ...
there is a situation where I
don’t think there’s any major *
Thirsty ground
Thirsty cracks in the parched earth ol what once was a stock
tank on a farm near Creedmore, Texas, testifies to the
prolonged heat wave that has plagued Texas farmers and the
drought that is threatening not only Texas crops, but. those
throughout a wide area of the United States as well. Farmers in
Texas and elsewere say their crops are literally burning on the
ground.
, —AP Photo
damage (to corn), but it is
vulnerable,” Hjort said.
Corn’s moat critical period is
now and in August, when the
crop requires sufficient
moisture for it to develop grain
for harvest in the fall.
As it stands, Hjort said, the
department Is sticking to its
earlier predictions that retail
food prices will go up by 7
percent to 11 percent this year,
on the average, from 1979. Most
probably, the prediction has
been, the rise will be 8 percent
or 9 percent.
Hjort said food prices in June
rose more sharply than some
had been forecasting,
primarily because of rising
prices of live hogs and broiler
chickens, a situation he expects
will continue for awhile.
Although reports of “millions
of birds” dying from heat are
having what Hjort called a
psychological effect on the
market, broiler prices
traditional go up sharply just
before July 4, he said.
The main thing to remember,
Hjort said, Is that hog and
broiler producers began cutting
back production significantly
before the heat wave, and that
has been the main reason for
market prices moving up.
Feds asked
to monitor
onion fields
HEREFORD, Texas (AP) -
Federal officials have been
asked to monitor the Panhandle
onion harvest to “alleviate any
tensions and try to prevent any
conflict or confrontation”
between striking farmworkers
and police.
Ruben Bonilla, national
president of the League of
United Latin American
Citizens, said Wednesday he
asked Attorney General
Benjamin Civllettl to have the
Justice Department oversee
the harvest.
The request came on the
same day that growers played
blaring music over loud
speakers in onion fields to
drown out about 80 strikers and
union organizers who used
bullhorns to coax remaining
workers out of Griffin k Brand
fields west of Hereford.
A caravan of strikers and
union organisers later circled
the Deaf Smith County Cour-
thouse in Hereford, using loud
speakers to protest ■ court
order limiting the activities of
pickets and union organizers in
High Plains vegetable Reids.
Bonilla said he called
Clvlllettl after Texas Farm
Workers Union director An-
tonio Orendaln complained to
him about Increased activity by
Department of Public Safety
officers in the Hereford area.
Orendaln “shares our fear”
that increased use of DPS
troopers “can be used as an
intimidating factor and lead to
violence,” Bonilla said. “It
appears likely one or more
federal mediators will be sent.”
City National Bank
Racogiiiips
DOROTHY EDWARDS
Dorothy is marriod to Nelson Ray Edwards and
has two daughters, and onegrandaughter. Sho
is a Drlve-ln Teller and has been employed for
sixteen years. They attend Gafford Chapel
Methodist Church.
City National Bank
201 Connalljr MS-7523 v
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 158, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1980, newspaper, July 3, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth823593/m1/15/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.