Dl2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 19,1981
Major global crop areas need precipitation
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Crop
areas of northwestern and South
Africa continued to need ram this
month, while dry weather forced a
switch from winter wheat planting
to lower-yielding spring wheat and
barley in parts of Spam and
Portugal, according to a weekly
report issued by the Joint
Agricultural Weather Facility of
Prepare the proper
grain for dairy cows
UNIVERSITY PARK - Many
people do not realize that beef
cattle on fattening rations respond
differently to grain preparation
than milk cows. Dairy cows must
be fed rations that are relatively
high in forage dry matter content
to remain normal and produce
nulk of normal composition, says
Richard S. Adams, Extension
dairy specialist at Penn State.
Fattening cattle often are fed high
concentrate rations containing
little or no forage or roughage dry
matter.
Farm grains, especially com,
must be well broken or ground to
optimize digestibility of the entire
ration. Adams says that this is just
as necessary for high-moisture
grain as for dry grain.
Cracked poultry com generally
is not fine enough for use in most
dairy rations. Each kernel of com
should be broken into at least 6 to 8
pieces for good feed utilization and
milk production. Often this
requires the equivalent of grinding
through a hammermill with a Ms
inch screen and rolling with
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the US. Departments of Com
merce and Agriculture. In the
United States, field work was
brought to a halt in New England
as a major storm dumped heavy
snow.
Highlights of the report follow.
—United States. Unseasonably
mild weather contmued across the
northern states and over the Great
enough tension to produce similar
particle-size when the material is
rubbed between your fingers.
Although steam flaking of corn
may improve digestibility more
consistently, it may not improve
the performance of dairy cows.
If steam flaked corn provides
over 30-35 percent of the con
centrate dry matter fed, milk fat
test results may drop. This
reduction may result from the
effect of the heat treatment such
as flaking or pelleting on feeds
with a high-starch content.
WANTED
Paid
NC.
Plains with normal to slightly
below-normal temperatures
dominant in the East and West. A
major storm dumped heavy snow
over New England, halting field
work. Sub-freezing temperatures
and frost extended into portions of
the Gulf Coastal states, but did not
reach into citrus orchards, and
caused only minor damage in
northernmost winter vegetable
regions of Texas.
—USSR. Widespread
precipitation in Western USSR fell
as ram in the central Ukraine and
snow in the Baltic states south into
Belorussia and the western
Ukraine. Light precipitation fell
from the Central Region and Volga
Valley south into the North
Caucasus. Winter wheat is dor
mant in most areas, with only
limited growth taking place near
the Black Sea. In South Central
USSR, the cotton harvested neared
completion in southern area_g.
—Europe. Due to continued dry
weather in Spam and Portugal,'
much of the area intended for
winter grams will be planted to
lower-yielding spring wheat and
barley in December or January.
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