Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 119, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 January 1992 — Page 6

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 22,1992

Market reports INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Estimated prices Tuesday at Indianapolis area elevators: Corn No. 2 yellow: $2.432.57; new $2.36-2.49. Soybeans No. 1 yellow: $5.53-5.69; new $5.70-5.91. Wheat No. 2 soft red: $44.04; new $3.50-3.71. ♦ ♦ ♦ INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indiana direct hog market at 70 yards and markets Tuesday. Barrows and gilts: Mostly 50 cents lower, instances 75 cents to 1.00 lower, plants 50 cents to 75 cents lower. Demand moderate. US 1-2 220260 lbs country 35.50-37.00, few down to 35.00, few up to 37.50, plants 36.00-37.00; 210220 lbs 33.50-35.00. US 1-3 220-260 lbs 34.50-36.00 Sows: Under 500 lbs steady to 1.00 lower; over 500 lbs 50 cents to 1.00 lower. US 1-3 300-500 lbs 21.00-25.00, few to 26.00; 500-650 lbs 21.00-26.00, few to 28.00. * ♦ ♦ CHICAGO (AP) Soybeans futures rose Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade amid news of dry weather in Brazilian soybean regions. Com and wheat futures ended mostly lower.

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C A F Gryphon 3200, owned by DeWayne Costin, Route 5, Greencastle, and Wilson Cattle Co., Cloverdale, won reserve grand champion bull honors at the 1992 National Western Stock Show Jan. 10-11 in Denver. Micky Costin (right),

Computers help work bugs out of pesticide use

URBANA, 111. (AP) More fanners interested in profit and the environment will be sitting down at computers before climbing on spray rigs, pesticide specialists say. The scientists described the latest computer models to increase the safety and decrease the cost of killing bugs and weeds. Entomologist Leon Higley of the University of Nebraska and crop scientist Harold Coble of North Carolina State spoke to farmers and professional chemical applicators during the Illinois Agricultural Pesticides Conference.

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wife of the co-owner, and Donnie Robertson, Cloverdale, who showed the bull, pose with other dignitaries at the Roll of Victory Angus Show. (American Angus Association photo).

Higley said that farmers want to protect people, animals, fish and water supplies from dangerous chemicals but lack enough information when selecting a pesticide. A SURVEY OF 8,000 farmers in Nebraska, Ohio, lowa and Illinois indicated that, on average, they would be willing to spend more than sl2 an acre to avoid high risks to the environment with a single insecticide application and nearly $6 to avoid low risk. Those added costs likely would result from higher insect populations and lower yields.

Farmers filled out questionnaires in 1990. Higley did not say how the farmers were chosen or what the margin of error was. “THE PERCEPTION that farmers and other pesticide users are not interested in protecting the environment is simply not true,” said Higley. He said the survey showed farmers are willing to accept more crop injury and yield reduction less profit in exchange for more protection of the environment Higley incorporated data from the survey into a computer model

County ASCS office to administer crop disaster assistance program

The Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) will administer a crop disaster assistance program to compensate eligible producers for crop losses caused by drought, flood and other natural disasters in either 1990 or 1991. Roger Bailey, Putnam County ASCS official, said that producers with crop insurance must have ex-

Livestock fat scanner on display at 1992 Indiana Pork Conference

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A 3,000-pound fat scanner that promises to weed out grisly pork chops and fatty roasts before they reach the grocery store is on display at the Indiana Pork Conference. “This is very important, I think, to start ... encouraging the production of leaner pork,” John C. Forrest, professor of animal science at Purdue University, said while installing the scanner in an Indiana Convention Center. FORREST HEADS the research to design the livestock fat scanner, using the electromagnetic techni-

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Residents’ angus bull is reserve champ at Western Stock Show

A bull owned by local cattle herders was chosen reserve grand champion bull at the recent 1992 Western Stock Show’s Super Roll of Victory Angus Show. C A F Gryphon 3200, owned by De Wayne Costin, Route 5, Greencastle, and Wilson Cattle Co. (formerly Premier Angus), Cloverdale, topped the junior division at the Jan. 10-11 Denver, Colo., show,

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that will allow farmers to describe their crop situation and insect problems and get an analysis of the best environmental choice. IT MIGHT SHOW, for example, that a potential loss of $lO an acre would justify the use of one insecticide. But the potential loss in the field would have to be S2O an acre to support the use of a more environmentally-dangerous insecticide. “It gives farmers a method of selecting an insecticide based on something other than price,” he said. “If we don’t show (the public)

perienced losses greater than 35 percent to be eligible for the program, and producers without crop insurance must have had losses greater than 40 percent. Program applications may be filed from Feb. 3 through March 13 for cash payments for production losses on participating program crops of wheat, feed grains, nonpar-

ques that hospitals use to diagnose ailments in humans. The idea behind the Total Body Electrical Conductivity scanner is to give packers a reliable way to ensure they’re paying for lean meat rather than fat when they buy hogs and cattle from farmers. Forrest said the scanner could help boost profits for both packers and farmers who raise lean hogs because fat sells for 8 cents a pound and lean cuts sell for $ 1 a pound. THE SCANNER works by measuring energy absorption from a weak magnetic field passed through

before entering the champion lineup. The 2,103-pound bull is a March 1990 son of Grubbs MacKenzie. Grand champion honors went to a bull owned by Whitestone Krebs, Gordon, Neb., and Eric Schlutz, Letts, lowa. Angus numbers totaled 256 head at the Super Roll of Victory Point Show.

that we can reduce environmental risk ... our access to these chemicals will be reduced.” FARMERS BEGIN BY considering various factors, including what chemicals and crops have been used in the field in the past; .what crop will be planted now and .in following years; what type of soil is in the field; and what weeds pose a problem. “You have to make good weed maps in the fall,” Coble said. “If you don’t know what weeds you’ve got, you can’t get precise, economic control.”

ticipating program crops, soybeans, and all commercial nonprogram crops including fruit and vegetables. Disaster program information will be mailed to farmers later this month. If producers have not received the information by Feb. 3, they should contact the ASCS office (653-5716).

carcasses as a conveyor belt carries them into a seven-foot stainless steel tube and out the other side at a rate of up to 1,000 an hour. The more absorption, the leaner the carcass. Once packers know the leanness of a carcass, they can discount their price for fat and pay a premium for meatiness. That’s expected to induce farmers to raise leaner animals. Several meatpacking companies have funded the six-year project, which will reach the real-life testing stage next month.