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Show I Misi Provo, Marilyn Felt, toasts one of Brigham Young I University's top producing cows with a glass of milk (what I else?) as Rulon Wistisen (right) and Bill Wood, member I of the University's farm management team, observe the I proceedings. I 1 I Juan Zentino, Utah State University graduate student I (agronomy) sets marker in place to indicate harvesting area I at Corn Test Plots conducted at Frank and Faris Fitzgerald I ranch near Draper. I 1 , ! S fZ 'S'x I Aj3wimL: ;J I Sunn Marshall, an attractive Utah Mill, ii quite lerious about offering thii cow a handout consisting of nutritious, I palatable, leafy alfalfa hay grown by Utah farmers. Photo- I graphed at the Cene S. Carter Dairy near Provo. I '' .fpiajr, - V , Bob Spry, hybrid corn specialist (right), points out high I grain content of Funk's C-5757 silage corn variety to Dr. I DeVere R. McAllister, Utah State University Extension H Agronomist (left) and Ray Davis, Utah field representative I for Germain's, at the Dave Bradford ranch near Spanish ' I Annual UTAH FARM, RANCH AND GARDEN SUPPLEMENT Our Cover . . . focuses on milk, alfalfa hay and corn silage products that represent close to 30 percent of Utah's total farm income. Cash receipts from dairying, the state's second largest agricultural industry, exceed $47 million. Hay, Utah's major crop, accounts for more than half the total acreage of all crops harvested. The value of corn silage, the state's second most valuable crop, is estimated in excess of $12 million annually. i ,,f Utffirt.M, Hi i tlJ I Brigham Young University's Dr. Raymond B. Farnsworth (left) and Bill Wood, farm manager, evaluate fine stems and extreme leafincss of WL-306 alfalfa which produced up to eight tons of hay per year at the BYU farm. Rulon Wistisen, assistant farm director observes the proceedings from the harvesting rig. Ray Davis, Utah field representative for Germain's, Inc., I (right 1 explains working procedure of electronic computer I mounted on mobile weigh trailer to Dr. DeVere R. McAllister, B Utah State University Extension Agronomist (left) and Dave I Bradford, Spanish Fork farmer. I Photos, courtesy Gortnoin's, Inc., 100 ycor oM cirm srd firm |