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Show BIG PLAINS FARMER BROADCASTS OVER KSUB The story behind one of the highest wheat yields harvested in the Plains area this year will be told on the radio program "This Business oi Farming," over station KSL at 2:30 p.m., Monday, Mon-day, Dec. 17. The crop was harvested by Grant Woodbury, chairman of the board of supervisors of the Hurri-cone Hurri-cone Soil Conservation District, and is attributed by Mr. Woodbury Wood-bury to his practices of leaving crop residue on his wheat land and planting on the contour. The moisture conditions in the Plains area during the past season were below normal, but Mr. Woodbury obteained an average yield of about 19 bushels of wheat an acre. Over much of the Plains area the yield the past season was around 10 to 12 bushels an acre. In addition to his crop residue management and contouring practices, prac-tices, Mr. Woodbury follows a rotational system of planting from 150 to 190 acres of wheat each year and pasturing anij fallowing tewo other fields. Through pasturing pas-turing and summer fallowing he has been able to mainteain his fields with a minimum amount of volunteer rye, interference, thereby harvesting a high quality of grain. |