When grass seed heads appear, hay quality drops
Media contact:
Duane Dailey
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9181
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Robert L. Kallenbach, 573-884-2213
COLUMBIA, Mo. – So far, it’s a bad hay year. Cool weather, lack of sun and dry soil slowed grass growth.
Dry matter per acre is about one-third of what we expect this time of...
Cereal leaf beetle spotted in southern Missouri wheat fields
Media contact:
Linda Geist
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Wayne C. Bailey, 573-864-9905
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Cereal leaf beetle has been found on both sides of the state in southern Missouri. Cereal leaf beetle strips the leaves of wheat and can reduce yields.
Wheat growers should...
12-year-old 4-H member earns books for preschool students
Media contact:
Linda Geist
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Velynda Cameron, 417-326-4916
PLEASANT HOPE, Mo. – Twelve-year-old ReAnna Owens reads constantly. “I read everything—even cereal boxes,” she says.
Reading cereal boxes helped her share her passion for...
Boots on the Green
Media contact:
Curt Wohleber
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-5409
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Jerry Hitzhusen, 573- 882-9512
GRANITE CITY, Ill.– After Bobby Hutchinson lost his left leg in 1991 during Operation Desert Storm, he thought he’d never play golf again.
“I just kind of had it in my head...
Clark County students have sweet ending to school year
Media contact:
Linda Geist
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story sources: Katie Hogan, 660-727-3339; Wendy Ray, 660-727-3339
KAHOKA, Mo. – Lessons in farm and family tradition are on the menu for fifth-grade students at Black Hawk Elementary School in Clark County.
Students learn how food gets...
True armyworms appear in SW Missouri
Media contact:
Linda Geist
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Wayne C. Bailey, 573-864-9905
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Armyworms that can strip pastures and hayfields have begun their march through Missouri’s tall fescue fields, warns University of Missouri Extension entomologist Wayne...
New record set by Show-Me-Select heifers
Media contact:
Duane Dailey
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9181
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: David J. Patterson, 573-882-7519
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Bred heifers sold for an average of $2,444, a new record for the Show-Me-Select sale at Joplin Regional Stockyards, May 16.
“Heifers sold for $300 more per head than...
North American Manure Expo comes to Springfield
Media contact:
Jason Vance
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9731
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Teng Teeh Lim, 573-882-9519
COLUMBIA, Mo.– The 2014 North American Manure Expo will be held in Springfield, Missouri, on July 8-9. The expo rotates among states each year and this is the first year Missouri is hosting...
Donated 4-H memorabilia becomes backbone of museum collection
Media contact:
Linda Geist
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Velynda Cameron, 417-326-4916
BOLIVAR, Mo. – University of Missouri Extension’s first 4-H program in Polk County began in 1926, three years before Betty Beason Ammerman was born.
Ammerman, now 84, contributed...
4-H history project comes to life for youth
Media contact:
Linda Geist
Writer
University of Missouri Extension
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Velynda Cameron, 417-326-4916
BOLIVAR, Mo. – Fourteen-year-old Michaela Higginbotham of Bolivar expected to learn about the history of Polk County 4-H when she began working on a national 4-H history project. But she was...
