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Show Hgriculfciral Etavs stocks update Wool numbers March stocks of barley at all cations in Utah were up from the pre- down for '96 Grain vious year, while stocks of all wheat were lower, according to the Utah Agricultural Statistics Service. All wheat stored at locations totaled 3.8 million bushels on March 1, 1997 which was 27 percent lower than the previous year. Total barley stored (on and off farms) in Utah on March 1, 1997, at 3.1 million bushels, was up 27 percent from the previous years level. Barley stored on Utah farms, at 1.8 million bushels, accounted for 58 percent of the stocks. Nationally, all w heat stocks March 1, 1997 were estimated at 822 million bushels in all positions, down slightly from March 1, 1996. Corn stocks in all positions totaled 4.49 billion bushels, up 18 percent from a year earlier. Barley stored in all positions totaled 172 million bushels, 3 percent below the stocks of March 1, 1996. Oats stored in all positions on March 1, 1997 totaled 95.6 million bushels, 15 percent below the stocks of March 1. 1996. off-far- m Utah wool production totaled 3.1 million pounds during 1996, down 12 percent from 1995, according to the Utah Agricultural Statistics Service. Total sheep shorn during 1996, at 336,000 head, was 8 percent below the 1 995 level. The average fleece weight was 9.2 pounds, 4 percent below 1 995. The 1996 average price of wool in Utah was $0.65 per pound, 36 cents below the 1995 price. The total value of all wool produced during 1996 was $2.0 million, 43 percent lower than 1995. Shorn wool production in the United States during 1996 was 56.7 million pounds, down 1 1 percent from 1 995. Sheep and lambs shorn totaled 7.28 million head, a decrease of 11 percent from 1995. The average price paid for wool sold in 1996 was $0.70 per pound for a total value of $39.7 million, down 38 percent from $64.3 million in 1995. Planting intentions from Utah Ag Statistics Utah farm operators, as of March 1, 1997, indicate they intend to plant more acres of corn, oats, and dry edible beans than a year ago, according to the Utah Agricultural Statistics Service. Planting intentions for barley and winter wheat are dow n w hile hay and spring wheat acres are unchanged from last year. If current growers' intentions are realized. Utah farmers will plant 30,000 acres of other spring wheat, unchanged from 1996. Winter wheat planted for harvest in 1 997 is 1 70,000 acres, a decrease of 3 percent from last year. Planting intentions for oats are 50.000 acres, up 1 1 percent from the previous year; while barley intentions, at 105,000 acres, are down 5 percent from 1996. Expected acres of dry beans, at 6,800 acres, are up 36 percent; and com, at 67,000 acres, is up 3 percent. Hay acreage for harvest is expected to be 705,000 acres, unchanged from last year. Nationally, other spring wheat plantings are expected to total 1 7.8 million acres for 1997, eleven percent below last year. Winter wheat seeded area is 48.2 million acres, down 7 percent from 1996. Other planting intentions are as follows, com 81.4 million acres, up 2 percent; barley, 7.0 million acres, down 2 percent; oats, 5.3 million acres, up 14 percent; and diy beans, 1.9 million acres, up 6 percent. Hay harvested is expected to reach 61.5 million acres, 485,000 acres more than were harvested in 1996. Salina Producers Auction -97 00 50 50 00 50 00 50 00 50 00 00 00 50 950-10- 00 50 5. 51.00- Frame 2: 300-5Holstein Steers: Large38.50-53.5700-90; 500-7lbs lbs 54.00; 43.00-45.5- 0; lbs 52.50-53.0- 0. 200-2Feeder Heifers: Medium and Large Frame 1: 250-3lbs package lbs300-3- 64.00-72.0- 0; 350-467.50-78.0- 0; lbs lbs 71.50; 450-5400-40; 66.00-75.5- 0; lbs 66.00-77.5-65.00-76.5550-6500-50; 0; lbs lbs 73.00-77.5- 64.50-71.5600-60; lbs 56.50-65.0- 0; lbs 650-7lbs 55.75- lbs 59.00-65.2- 5; 58.00-62.5- 0; 700-7800-8750-8lbs lbs 64.00; 900-9850-951.50-57.5- 0; lbs 57.50-59.5- 0; Heiferettes and young feeder lbs 53.00-58.2- 5; 00 00 00 900-11- 00 50 00 00 50 00 50 00 50 50 50 00 50 00 50 00 37.00-55.5- 0. Cows : Medium bred cows 490.00-630.- 00 385.00-485.- 00 and Large Frame 1: young bred per head; older460.00-620.- per head; pairs per pair. 1- -3 36.00- Slaughter Cows: Boning Utility 39.25-44.0- 0; -4 Breaking 42.75; Utility 5. Cutter and Low Dressing Utility 132.75-36.21345-24lbs Grade Yield Bulls: Slaughter 45.00-50.2- 5; YG 2 lbs 40.50-44.5- 0. cows 00 2- 35 885-18- 70 The Gunnison Valley News and the Salina Sun are happy to bring you the Salina Producers Auction each week as a public service. Sherlock Holmes is coming to dinner! for its Join the Sanpete Community Theatre 2nd Annual Dinner Theatre Ehpralm Co-o- p 19 Friday, April 18 and Saturday, April Dinner will be served at 7p.m. and the play will commence at 8 p.m. each night. AH tickets must be reserved by calling CHFf at 283-488- 8 or 427-929- 3 owe Uncle Sam, scrape together cash. Getting caught up in the tax time frenzy can also mean ignoring the basics to good health like proper eating, exercise and rest. Try these tips from the Centrum Center stay-healt- re- Audit Your Eating Habits Stress can take its toll, but a healthy diet helps keep your body at Eat a wide variety of foods each consume plenty of breads, ceday reals, rice, pasta, fruits and vegetables. Enjoy moderate amounts of low-fmilk, yogurt and cheese and lean meats, poultry and fish. Go light on fats such as butter, margarine, salad dressing and oil, and on sweets such as sugar, candy, jelly and soil drinks. If you are like most Americans and arent eating a proper, diet eveiy day, consider taking - at $ 2.50 Per Person $25.00 Per couPl Call before April 12, 1997 is particularly If your work-da- y stressful, take a brief time out. For exwalk ample, squeezing a lunch-tim- e into your schedule will not only help walk can to relax you, but a 110 calories burn help approximately for an average person. Find Time To Relax Continuous anxiety can leave you exhausted and unable to function at your best. Avoid excessive caffeine too much can make you jittery. You can powerfully influence your mood by consciously changing 150-pou- a complete and balanced multivitamin mineral supplement. Make Time To Exercise the rhythm of your breathing. If you When you are busy and stressed, get stressed during the day, set everyexercise may be one of the first things thing aside for a minute, take a deep to get dropped from your schedule. breath and exhale slowly. Try to incorporate exercise into Don't do your taxes right before your regular routine. For example, bedtime. Take a few minutes to wind park farther away from the office or down before you try to go to sleep mall and try to take the stairs when take the phone off the hook, put the possible instead of the elevator. Exerreceipts aw ay and set aside your concise will not only build endurance and cerns for the night. If you still have strength, but will also decrease anxi- trouble sleeping, try reading a book or taking a warm bath. ety and tension. Even brief periods of exercise can For a free copy of the USDA brofor Centers reduce stress. The chure, Nutrition and Your Health: help Disease Control states that just 30 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, minutes of moderate physical activity and a refrigerator magnet illustrating most days of the w eek can be the food guide pyramid, please call the group, organized by Brigham Young, began their arduous journey of over 1,000 miles. The party consisted of 144 men, three women and two boys with 72 wagons, 93 horses, 66 oxen, 52 mules and other livestock. This was a special group chosen for their skills to build a settlement and to prepare the way for thousands more pioneers to follow. Greenwood says, Parents and teachers could take a few minutes of each day to count down the days of the first group of pioneers. Adults can share pioneer stories and show children the progress of the pioneers along a map of the trail. Children could put stickers on calendars to mark off the days until July 24, the day Brigham Young entered the Salt Lake Valley. You 111-da- scout neckerchief slide, a putty knife, a computer disk, six or seven valentine heart pencils, a overdue book a protractor, a picture frame off the refrigerator, a couple of canisters of film, a set of headphones, fuses for the car, a bottle of acrylic craft paint, some moist towelettes from Kentucky Fried Chicken.... Do you get the idea? Im a slob. Where do YOU put all this stuff? I will admit we have a of cleats, a Sunday tie, a baseball place for snorkel a piunderwear, gear, glove, most of these things, but in a hurried rates sword, a frisbee, a water gun, a moment of cleaning up, this variety of little league baseball trophy, and junk gets dropped in the drawer. puzzle pieces sprinkled on the bottom. So, it's spring and time to This doesn't sound like things I should straighten up the places that get junked find in a toy box. Where are the Power up when I straighten. And time for the Rangers, tractors, and Hot Wheel cars? kids to pitch in and clean their own Around the toy box: a dirty sock, messes. a comic book, a baseball cap, tennis Have a look around in your speballs, Nerf gun, a slipper, a dog toy, a cial junk collecting cubby holes. And scout book, and knee pads for roller check out the kids toy box. I hope you blading. My kids are growing up. These are not the traces of small children. (Sigh!) And these kids are old enough to spring clean their own mess! We also have a family mess in the drawer by the phone. You know the place. When straightening up around the house, you find something find some interesting things like I did. Happy spring cleaning! This column is the product of Loris rambling and often disjointed thoughts. This conversational style piece, does not reflect the opinion of this newspaper. Chris LeDoux tickets available 1 529-748- 4. Zion, by Hal Knight which gives a acccount of the pioneers' day- first trek. The book is a compilation by-d- of articles written by Knight which originally appeared in the Deseret News. It includes maps of the trail, campsites, present day roads, highways and historic markers. The reprint was published by Big Moon Traders and is available in most bookstores and many libraries. A of the 1847 wagon train will leave Council Bluffs, Iowa on April 2 1 of this year and make its way through Nebraska and doming and then into Utah by July 22. This will be a very exciting event with celebrations in towns all along the trail. Parents and teachers should watch for special new s coverage and TV historical vignettes of the trail which will be aired over the next few months, reports Greenwood. The Sesquicentennial Council has more suggestions for families and teachers to celebrate the pioneer sesquicentennial, including 97 ways to celebrate in 97" and a Teacher's Handbook. There are even sesquicentennial stickers available to place on calendars. For more information call Nevada man admits to stealing wild horses On March 25, 1997, Kenny Greenhalgh of Lincoln County, Nevada, plead guilty in U.S. Magistrates Court in Salt Lake City, Utah, to one misdemeanor count of violating the Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act. Greenhalgh admitted to stealing 6 wild horses and attempting to sell them to a third party for profit. The horses were taken from the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Sulfur Herd in Iron County and sold by Greenhalgh to a third party. The third party was preparing to ship the horses from Cedar City, Utah, to a Texas horsemeat packing plant until BLM rangers and State of Utah law enforcement officers seized them. Greenhalgh was charged $ 500 in fines and restitution. For further information, contact the Special Agent In Charge, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1 Applications available Landowner general season buck deer program Applications for the experimental Landowner General Season Buck Deer Program are currently available at the Division of Wildlife Resources' Southern Regional Office located at 622 N. Main, Cedar City. Applications for the program will be accepted through April 15, 1997. This program provides an opportunity for landowners with 640 acres or more of greenbelt status land, to apply for southern region general season buck deer permits. Those landowners interested in participating in this program should contact the regional office for more information. or 3513, or visit our (801) 533-35web site at www.history.state.ut.ushis-torysesq97 ui or dont have to count down the eny tire trek, says Greenwood. Even just the month of July would be fun. There are many resources available to teachers and parents to do this, adds Greenwood. The Sesquicentennial Council has licensed the reprint of a classic book called 1 1 1 Days to the FUN into evenings and Saturdays. I noticed last week when the boys were looking for the soccer ball they went right to the dirty clothes hamper. And there it was... along with the football, volleyball and two basketballs. No wonder they don't but their dirty clothes in the hamper! The toy box in the boys bedroom is not full of toys either. I noticed it has arm guards from football, a pair Chris LeDoux will be in concert, on Friday, May 9, at 8 p.m., at the Blackhawk Arena in Salina. Tickets are now available at Bums Saddlery in Salina or at the Shirt Stop in Richfield. Reserved seating is $ 7.50; general admission is $ 5. For credit card orders by phone, call the Shirt Stop at For more information about the concert, call Danna Shaw at Sesquicentennial countdown begins Council. One idea is to follow the journey of Utahs, first group of pioneers by counting down the 1 1 1 days it took to get from Winter Quarters, Nebraska to the Salt Lake Valley. April 5, 1847, was the first day is the drawer by the phone. Rarely will you find a phone book or a pad of paper for messages. Today, I found: a mucking, dusting, vacuuming and football chin guard, packets of spring cleaning. But I am sure glad I ketchup, two D batteries, fondue didnt! Now, I'll just have to squeeze forks, a dog toy, a measuring tape, a turns. its best. Off the my knickknack shelves and the cobwebs off the ceiling fans. I could have spent spring break for Nutrition Science to glide through this tax season with many happy SunGunnison Valiev News Page 3 by Lori Olsen Its spring! And that means it's time to muck out the junk drawer by the phone, the pile by the computer, the front closet and the kid's toy box! and you dont know where it goes. Just It would take a full week to just dust put it in that special hiding place. Ours, if you and, April 2, 1997 Salina Spring cleaning The weeks before April IS are a taxing time; stress runs high as you search for receipts, figure out forms tennial Celebration Coordinating TUESDAY. 2,042. Last Year 2,016. Last Week ReceiptsFeeder Steers: firm to 1.00 higher, 1,668. lower. except 300 and 500 lbs weak to 1.00Holstein Feeder Heifers: mostly steady; lower on limited numbers. Steers: 1.00-2.Slaughter Cows: steady; Slaughter Bulls: steady. and Large Frame 1: 250- Feeder Steers: Medium 300-3lbs 72.00-79.0- 0; 300 lbs 71.50-88.0- 0; 400-472.00-86.0- 0; 350-4lbs 78.50- lbs 500-577.00-87.0- 0; 450-5lbs lbs 88.50; 600-60; 550-677.50-87.0- 0; lbs 80.50-84.0-67.50-79.7700-7650-75; 5; lbs lbs 78.00-82.7- 64.00-74.7750-85; lbs 64.75-68.5- 0; lbs 800-8lbs 62.50- lbs 64.50-66.5- 0; 64.25-66.0- 0; 850-9lbs lbs 64.90; 900-9- stock strategies hy "Families, schools, and individuals can participate in the Sesquicentennial of the arrival of Utah's pioneers in 1 847, in fun and simple w ays, suggests Rhonda B. Greenwood, coordinator of the Utah Pioneer Sesquicen- SALINA PRODUCERS AUCTION cows: stay-healt- lo- 1 60.50-60.7- Survive tax season with these to: kcook(S;history.state.ut.us. Be informed! Decisions, Read your hometown newspaper Decisions, tijii j IwUlKi Decisions, M $299.95 Moronoui another one. 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