TOP: Gloria Belton, a senior at Centre High, is the recipient of the 2007 Marion County Agriculture Future of America scholarship. The $3,200 award requires a minimum grade-point average of 3.0 and a willingness to participate in AFA’s leadership conference and a four-year degree in agriculture. Applicants are interviewed and must submit an essay on their personal vision for agriculture. Pictured with Belton are Mike Padgett, representing Central National Bank, and Lyman Adams, representing Cooperative Grain & Supply. Those two businesses, plus Midlands Farm Services of Marion, are co-sponsors of the scholarship along with AFA. Belton also received a $1,500 scholarship donated by Terry Vinduska, a sales agent with Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. Vinduska was awarded the scholarship money for his dedication to customer-focused activities. Belton plans to attend Kansas State University.
BOTTOM: Pictured from left are recipients of the 2007 American Legion Post 366 Scholarship awards: Shane Willliams, Canton-Galva; Chelsey Harmon, Hillsboro; Hannah Marsh, Hillsboro; Terina McGee, Peabody-Burns; Jandee Sharp, Marion; and Jessica Deiner, Not pictured are Megan McCarty and Lora Andrews, Hillsboro, and Lindsey Maudlin, Hutchinson. The scholarships are granted through Hillsboro American Legion Post 366, Hillsboro American Legion Auxiliary Post 366, Sons of American Legion Squad 366 and American Legion Riders Post 192 of Canton.
The sunshine, wind and warmth of the last week helped Marion County farmers avoid what could have been a calamity, a huge additional loss in the hay crop following a hay-short year.
County Extension Agent Rickey Roberts said fungus diseases, primarily spring blackstem and leaf spot, were rapidly moving into the alfalfa fields, and actually had destroyed large sections of a few fields in the cool, wet, cloudy weather.
Marion County ag-agent Rickey Roberts said farmers will have to make difficult decisions regarding their wheat. In some fields, the grain can mostly be gone with only foliage still there, while in others tillers that come from the base of plants are growing and may still produce adequate grain. Don Ratzlaff / Free Press
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A couple of guys were sitting in the Hillsboro Pizza Hut last week wearing crop insurance adjuster ballcaps.
Since the hats made it obvious who they were, they were asked the question they said they’re being asked everywhere, “What’s happening with the wheat?”
Written by John Morris / Kansas Wheat Growers Association
Wednesday, 16 May 2007
Ask any Kansas farmer and the answer will be the same. Crop insurance is one of the more complicated risk-management issues with which the Kansas farmer needs to deal.
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