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Vol. 39 No. 20 • May 17, 2019•$1.50 Visit Our Livestock Section pgs.15-18
Attendees of the Northwest Beef and Forage Field Day listen to presentations by veterinarianMurphy Colvin, right, and LSU AgCenter agent Lee Faulk, second fromright. The event was at the AgCenter Red River Research Station in Bossier City. Photo by Karol Osborne/LSU AgCenter
Cattle Producers HearWays ToMaximize Profits Amid Stagnant Prices BOSSIER CITY, LA.
slightly higher than last year as supply and de- mand dynamics provide
C
attle producers can expect prices to re- main the same or be
some stability in 2019, according to LSU AgCen- ter
Guidry. “It may not be the most
optimistic outlook, but considering the number
economist Kurt
of animals we have, it is probably as positive an outlook as we can have given the supply situa- tion,” Guidry told atten- dees of a field day April 25 at the AgCenter Red
ing season for a multi- tude of reasons. The most obvious has been the persistent rain that has resulted in saturated ground and continued delays in both in corn and soybean planting. Less obvious have been the developmental delays
Current Status OfMissouriWheat M
DR. KAITLYN BISSONNETTE AND GREGORY A. LUCE
COLUMBIA,MO.
uch of the region has had a slow start to the grow-
in the wheat crop with much of the soft red win- ter wheat acreage is a week to 10 days behind normal throughoutmuch of the Midwest. The delays in wheat de-
velopment are due to a number of factors, late planting last fall due to the late harvest and a lin- gering winter with cold temperatures into the early spring among them. There should not be alarm due to the delay, but we anticipate some-
River Research Station in Bossier City. There are currently
about 460,000 mature beef cows in Louisiana. The state’s total cattle in- ventory, which includes
what later harvest that may impact double crop soybeans. In areas that have not yet reached heading, wheatmay be in a better position for the flowering period with less moisture, and therefore lower the risk for head diseases, such as Fusar- ium head blight (FHB or Scab) (Figure 1). We cer- tainly need it to dry out to resume corn and soy- bean planting and im- prove the conditions for wheat development. Cur- rently, wheat fields tend to have more variability in development than is typical. Scouting fields and assessing wheat de- velopment for scab man- agement
decisions
should be top of mind. CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
Figure 2 Symptoms of Fusariumhead blight begin as bleaching of single ormultiple florets or spikelets (a) or bleaching of whole portions of the head (b).
As Late Planting PeriodDraws To A Close, Arkansas Corn Growers Face ToughDecisions
to have been a “normal year” in Arkansas agri- culture, one thing is cer- tain: 2019 isn’t one of them. Heavy springtime rains
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are nothing new, and neither are depressed commodity prices or pre- vented planting. But the current confluence of flooding, trade disputes and other factors are forcing many Arkansas growers,
those heavily invested in corn,
to make hard
choices. April 25 was consid- ered the “final planting
CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 JONESBORO, ARK.
o whatever degree any year in the last decade can be said
beef and dairy cows and calves, is about 800,000 head. Weather
conditions
during the winter and spring months have in- fluenced beef production,
limiting any big increases that may have been ex- pected and having a pos- itive effect on themarket, Guidry said. Domestic
demand CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
Jackson County producer Bob Hornsby, left, and David Coffey, agriculture and natural resources extension agent, look at Hornsby's cattle and pastures during a recent farmvisit.
Photo by Katie Pratt, UK agricultural communications
Extension Program Helps Producers Improve Their Operations
particularly
tion as possible while nurturing a healthy envi- ronment in which their livestock can thrive. A University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service programin Jack- son County is striving to help local producers do just that.
M MCKEE, KY.
ost cattle produc- ers want to run as efficient an opera-
David Coffey started a
farm management pro- gram in 2017 in the county to focus on pro- ducers’ total operations. “My producers are all
different, and their oper- ations are all different,” said Coffey, Jackson County agriculture and natural resources exten- sion agent. “I wanted a way that I could work
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