There are new PEORIA, ILL Doubtful oil reserves and supplies, rising fuel costs, pressures to reduce the farm cost-price squeeze and, most importantly, an urgent need to preserve this Nation’s resource heritage, soil and water. These are real forces causing U.S. farmers, ranchers, and agricultural scientists to .re evaluate forage crops - grasses and legumes - and the agronomic practices that affect them. When managed properly, forage pasture and range plants do more to preserve soil and . water and maintain soil productivity than any other crops, says Gerald E. Carlson, program leadedr for forage and range research, USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. Producers and researchers know that dairy cattle and meat animals can convert forages to food products from land that is often highly erodible and not suitable to many cultivated food and feed crops, he continues. Hus con version not only produces food, otherwise unavailable, but also reduces loss of soil through erosion that now averages five tons or more an acre annually on much U.S. cropland. They realize that production of forages, particularly legume forages and range grasses, may require less fuel and fertilizer, two costly ingredients of production, than other U.S. crops, Carlson says. They know also that bacteria on the roots of legume forages convert nitrogen from the soil atmosphere to a form the legiime plants can use, and that some of si* Featu Large Loading Hopper Return Auger Recycles Through Mixing Drum Or Discharge Deflector. Feed Discharge Di Mechanical System Preci Feed Electronic Seal Advanced Design Mai As toed enters the loading hopper and into the stainless steel mixing drum the mechanical beam scale system weighs all Ingredients to the pound for the precise diet your herd needs. 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A team of federal and state scientists at St. Paul, Minn, is redesigning alfalfa in basic research for use as an annual to enhance its value in crop rotations, potentially one of this nation’s best tools for maintaining _ soil productivity. Alfalfa was chosen, the scientists say, because it is the most widely grown ILS. forage legume, occupying nearly one tenth of all U.S. cropland, and it is efficient in fixing nitrogen for plant use. The new alfalfa, expected to be available to growers in the late 1900’s, also could be grown in some areas where land is now fallowed, plowed and left idle for a year. Such a vegetative cover would help prevent water and wind erosion of exposedland A major goal of the team is an alfalfa for use as an annual crop that, besides providing feed for livestock, will leave ISO pounds of nitrogen an acre for the following year’s com crop when plowed down. In limited field tests to date. Ferencel Patent Pending Stainless St forage crops on horizon the team unu increased gram yields by U percent as a result of added nitrogen provided a com crop following an experimental alfalfa grown as an annual. A team of scientists at Tifton, Ga. has developed a new hybrid bermudagrass, Tifton 44, that la so nutrition-rich that, as a cattle feed, it could add millions of pounds of beef a year to the marketplace. Cattle eating Tifton 44 have averaged daily weight gains that are 10 percent higher than beef gains on Coastal bermudagrass, the most widely used productive pasture grass in the South. Tifton 44 is also more win terbardy than Coastal and can be grown throughout a 500-mile strip of land running from the South Atlantic States to Central Texas. Bermudagrass is a long-lived perennial with ' a vigorous spreading habit It establishes a thick ground cover and rooting system that is noted for superior protection against losses of soil and water. Reed canaiygrass may move up on the forage popularity charts because of a new low-alkaloid strain soon to be available to growers. Gordon C. Marten, ARS agronomist, found in studies at St. Paul, Minn, that lambs grazing the new strain, MN-76, gained 0.28 pounds per bead per day while lambs on such older varieties as Vantage gained 0.18 pounds and Rise, 0.15 pounds per day. Reed canary grass is widely adapted particularly in the northern half of the United States for wet pastures and for waterways. It also does well on upland soils. However, it Drum Height Width Loading Heighth Discharge Heighth 50 cu ft Mix Capacity 37 bu At 25 lbs, per Cu. Ft. 1250 lb*. Motor H.P. Drum Ola. Drum Length I am interested in Farmmaster Blender. □ Stationary □ Trailer □ Truck Mount NAME ADDRESS CITY PHONE □ Farmer □ Student □ Other has not been widely accepted by fanners because of its alkaloid content, low palatability, and problems with diarrhea. Only 3 percent of the lambs grazing MN -76 exhibited diarrhea in the 2-year pasture tests. Scientists are determining more suitable cropping systems for legumes and breeding to improve legumes that are better adapted to add soils, so common to the Northeast. This indudeds bird sfoot trefoil, ladino clover, and red clover - all of which produce. nitrogen from soil atmosphere to enhance plant growth. Dairy scientist, H. J. Larsen, University of Wisconsin, Madison, found trefoil-grass haylage (or silage) at least equal to alfalfa grass haylage. Trefoil is grown on more than a million acres in the northeastern United States where GRAIN BLENDER Featurli Return Paddles Scoop Feed Into Return Auger. ISO cu tt 120 cu ft 90 cu ft. 112 bu 90 Du 6* bu 3750 lbs 3000 lbs 2250 lbs ' 99” STATE Latailt ranwlag, Satrday, April % 103—A23 BLE IDER is Steel Mixing les For Fast, igh. Blending t Clockwise Blend Horizontal Blend 210 cu ft iSßbu. 5250 lbs 126” 1 r* | HURST TIRE SERVICE 1 f 4 717' 35.4 493! 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