This blog is used to serve as a means for the Hampton Ag Ed Animal Science class to complete their quote of the day activity. Students will post their comments each day.
Monday, December 1, 2014
Friday 12/5/14 Morning Ag Clips (50 Word Min)
Click on THIS LINK or the link below to get to the Morning Ag Clips. Choose one article, read it and respond with your thoughts. Provide a review for other to read to encourage them to read the article.
The 2014 Nebraska Soybean Day and Machinery Expo Dec. 18 will assist soybean producers in planning for next year’s growing season. Ed Usset, a well-known grain marketing specialist from the University of Minnesota, will present a different approach to grain marketing that focuses on eliminating mistakes in “Five Common Mistakes in Grain Marketing.Producers will be able to visit with representatives from seed, herbicide, fertilizer and equipment companies and view new farm equipment.
Ag Leader Learned From Ground Up Dick Mercer learned on the job how to grow crops and feed cattle and was educated about Nebraska’s complex water issues while serving on local, state and national natural resources boards. While doing all of that he also learned one valuable thing, leadership.He grew up as a normal kind of guy, getting his feet wet with everything and eventually learned everything over time. He really liked to help people.
Cow-Calf Share or Cash Cow Leases - What is fair? This is basically saying that the cattle market is really high right now and people what to start with pairs because there is quite a bit of money in it. Getting into cattle right now is very hard because you have to have a significant amount of money to make everything worth the prices that have to be payed to have a funtioning opperation
Girl trying to make a difference. Lyon’s objective was to install an efficient irrigation system that used less water and more uniformly applied water across a field. At the time, she was using an inefficient gated pipe system to irrigate her crops. This system used a large pipe that was laid across the end of the field and was perpendicular to the rows. Water was pumped through the pipe and gates would open up at each row allowing water to flow down the row to irrigate the crop.
The 2014 Nebraska Soybean Day and Machinery Expo Dec. 18 will assist soybean producers in planning for next year’s growing season. Ed Usset, a well-known grain marketing specialist from the University of Minnesota, will present a different approach to grain marketing that focuses on eliminating mistakes in “Five Common Mistakes in Grain Marketing.Producers will be able to visit with representatives from seed, herbicide, fertilizer and equipment companies and view new farm equipment.
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ReplyDeleteDick Mercer learned on the job how to grow crops and feed cattle and was educated about Nebraska’s complex water issues while serving on local, state and national natural resources boards. While doing all of that he also learned one valuable thing, leadership.He grew up as a normal kind of guy, getting his feet wet with everything and eventually learned everything over time. He really liked to help people.
Cow-Calf Share or Cash Cow Leases - What is fair?
ReplyDeleteThis is basically saying that the cattle market is really high right now and people what to start with pairs because there is quite a bit of money in it. Getting into cattle right now is very hard because you have to have a significant amount of money to make everything worth the prices that have to be payed to have a funtioning opperation
Girl trying to make a difference. Lyon’s objective was to install an efficient irrigation system that used less water and more uniformly applied water across a field. At the time, she was using an inefficient gated pipe system to irrigate her crops. This system used a large pipe that was laid across the end of the field and was perpendicular to the rows. Water was pumped through the pipe and gates would open up at each row allowing water to flow down the row to irrigate the crop.
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