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Show Sunday. November from the local and national scene Down to Earth Plan in Advance Farm, Gardei Editor Do a little advance planning for next year's garden now. While the information is still fresh in your mind, jot down notes on which varieties of vegetables and flowers flourished or produced best during the summer growing season. Did one variety do poorly? Perhaps it was planted it an unfavorable location. Make a note to try it in a different place next year. By spring, when you're planning your 1981 garden, the memory of this year's successes and failures may be a little fuzzy. Some notes now will refresh your memory when you bring out the planting tools next year. Those planting tools need care, too. Clean them thoroughly before storing them for the winter, to keep rust from taking its toll.You'll be money ahead if you clean them and apply a light coating of oil to the metal parts. This Is the time to remove dead flower and vegetable stalks from the garden. Remember, that gardens breed insects and disease. It is best to remove the dead materials entirely. Put them in a compost pile, or dispose of them, but get them out of the garden plot. Clean up refuse, and don't let leaves pile up in the comers. They can mat down and kill tender young plants. ill-ke- pt :quipmentf Scales Upfurim 5) n Garden By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN trees and Poplars and other smooth-barke- d shrubs are susceptible to scale insects, so this is a good time to apply a dormant oil spray for their protection. Another spray should be applied in March or early April. Wrap arborvitae trees and shrubs now with strips of burlap or other materials to keep them from spreading when the snow falls. Young trees can be protected by wrapping the trunks with burlap or heavy paper to protect them from sun scald or winter burn. Warm daytime temperatures are continuing to dry out the soil, particularly around those trees which are still in leaf. Make sure your trees and shrubs have sufficient water to get through the winter months ahead. Keep watering them every few weeks until the ground freezes. Planting new trees and shrubs at this time of year can be risky. The weather may change and they can be damaged or killed before they have a chance to become established. If your lawn has holes or depressions, this is a good time of year to level them. It is not necessary to dig up the sod. You can apply thin layers of soil and build up the low places. The grass will grow through the layers, if they are not too thick. While farmers worried about coming up short on cash flow and financing earlv this year, tractor and farm equipment dealers were critically short on customers. The farm machinery market is already showing some signs of bouncing back from the doldrums of the first half the year when manufacturers had to close plants and lay off workers. However, dealers won't match last year's volume by a big margin. Demand for farm machinery early this year was pinched by tight credit, high interest rates, and disappointing returns on crops and livestock. Farmers also took a attitude when grain sales to the Soviet Union were suspended. Cost resistance may have been a factor too, as farm machinery prices climbed about 10 percent from last year. Tractor sales declined about 25 percent from a year ago in the first half of 1980, says USDA economist Carl Vosloh. citing figures compiled by the Farm and industrial Equipment Institute. 25.000 rolled off the lots in the first half of 1980. down 33 percent from the 37.000 sold in the first half 1979. Sales of other farm machines were also down: Combine sales were off 14 percent baler sales off SO percent, and forage harvester sales down 12 percent. The first sign of a possible pickup in tractor sales came in May when volume for the month ran only 23 percent below rate." To dealers, that the year-earlirepresented a big improvement. Until then, the decline from was widening each month, and April's sales were down a sharp 47 percent. In July, for the first time this year, tractor sales actually showed a improvement. About 20 percent more tractors were sold that month than in July 1979. Although other machinery categories were still lagging and even tractor sales slipped back under 1979's volume in August, the market appeared stronger than before especially as the harvest of small grains progressed. The easing of interest rate and credit er wait-and-s- For tractors year-to-ye- over 100 horsepower, the drop was worse. About Y' Farmers Study Market Hedge futures contracts shortly before the delivery date to lift the hedge. They then sell the cattle on the open market. If the contract is not bought back the cattle must be delivered at the time and place specified. He pointed out that hedging is simply a convenience mechanism of selling and buying futures contracts as a temporary substitute for the sale or purchase of cattle at a later date. In effect, the hedge locks in the price the producer is willing to accept. Its a form of price insurance with an offsetting feature. The producer who loses money on the hedge because of rising prices makes up for it by selling the cattle at the higher price. The extension specialist said, "If you plan to hedge livestock, it is most important that you know your production costs. Also, consider your financial position indicating the safety of your business. Seek as much information as possible from various sources on what the open market price is apt to be at the time the cattle are ready for sale." Producers with experience in futures marketing advised their fellow producers to gain such experience slowly. 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The second most preferred strategy there will be another y public review. would provide bonuses to land users who voluntarily Meanwhile, several bills have been introduced in apply and maintain conservation measures that meet Congress that relate to the recent appraisal of conUSDA standards. The least favored strategy was servation programs. One proposal would authorize conregulatory authorities to carry out a national soil and the Federal government to develop long-terwater conservation program. servation contracts with farmers in parts of the Berg said, "Respondents want more technical as- country with especially chronic or severe soil erosion sistance for implementation of conser- problems. Another would authorize financial and technical asvation, more funding, and less regulation and red sistance to those geographic areas which have severe tape." "What these comments boil down to," said Berg, have severe soil erosion or irrigation water manage"is widespread support for a voluntary locally con ment problems. IFinbCii-llWsMirsQl- mid-sprin- Dial-a-Ta- pe Public Gives New Ideas for Conservation Fresh ideas and new directions suggested by the American public during a recent review of soil and water conservation programs are reflected in fiscal year 1982 budget proposals by the USDA Soil Conservation Service (SCS). SCS Chief Norman A. Berg, in a recent speech at the National Soil Conservation Conference in Rapid City, South Dakota, said language in his 1982 budget request includes targeting SCS resources to: (1) reduce erosion in critical areas and on fragile soils, (2) improve water quality and water conservation, (3) develop more nonstructural alternatives to reduce upstream flood damages, (4) preserve wetlands and wildlife habitat, and (5) conserve energy. SCS analyzed 65,000 written responses from concerned citizens. These responses contained 1.5 million different comments. The responses showed the greatest support for objectives to reduce soil erosion and retain prime farmland. Comments on how these objectives could be achieved most frequently said that erosion control measures, structural flood control measures, conservation tillage, and drainage were effective conservation measures. These comments supported incentives for solving soil and water resource problems and advocated a conservation philosophy, research and education, and technical assistance as solutions to the problems. Persons generally believed that USDA agencies and their conservation programs were effective but said that the agencies could do an even better job if they had more funding. The said that education and research, but not regulation, are appropriate areas ar g availability since probably contributed to this comeback. Also, a sharp turnaround in farm prices gave many producers outside drought-damageareas the expectation of a better cash flow in the year ahead, thus encouraging major capital expenditures. "Farm equipment sales are very sensitive to farmers' real cash flow and their economic Vosloh says. "The classic pattern is that in good times farmers upgrade equipment, getting a bigger and better tractor, and then buy or rent more land to capture the added I "eduction potential of the larger equipment. In a not so good year, they get by with the old equipment, he says. Will the dropoff in equipment sales affect farm productivity? "In the short run, it will probably not have a signficiant effect, as farmers repair their machines and keep them running," says economist I eland Southard. "You can stretch equipment somewhat, but if needed replacement is postponed longer, say for 1 or 2 years, productivity could deteriorate." Students Students who otherwise would not have an oppo- Cattle producers and feeders, hoping to reduce their market risks have been studying hedging in the future markets. Over 100 attended workshops conducted recently in Utah focusing particularly on Chicago Merchantile Exchange feeder cattle futures, noted Larry K. Bond, extension marketing specialist, Utah State University. Bond said, "The concern over the past few years created by the volatile cattle market situation is concentrating more interest on various alternatives in marketing cattle. Producers are becoming more aware that they can't succeed by spending 364 days producing and just one day marketing." Bond pointed out that most producers are familiar with foward contacting as one way of managing their marketing risk. They do it when they agree to a buyer's price offered before delivery time. He explained that hedging offers another way for the producer to reduce price uncertainty and protect a profitable operation. For example, the producer of feeder cattle can work through a broker and sell one or more futures contracts. The producer contracts to deliver a specified amount of quality of cattle at a certain date. Usually, producers will buy back their THE HERALD. Provo. I'tah Page J3 News o! agriculture Agriculture For 1981 9. i960. STATE CITY ZIP PHONE i'ir Why Pay OUR PRICE 399.95 |