If you live in Butte County and need a place to view the free webinars, contact the Extension Office at 527-8587
March 8, 2011 Grain Futures Market Webinar - 2:30 p.m. (MST) - Discussion with Carley Garner, grain futures broker on how to survive volatile grain markets and take advantage of rising grain prices.
Connect from your own computer at https://connect.cals.uidaho.edu/barley
Webinar viewing locations:
Fremont Co. Extension Office - 49 West 11st North, St. Anthony
Madison Co. Extension Office - 134 E. Main St., Rexburg
Caribou Co. FSA Office - 390 E Hooper Ave., Soda Springs
Cassia Co. Extension Office - 1013 West 16th St., Burley
March 9, 2011 Barley Crop Insurance Workshop/Webinar - 8:30 a.m. MST– live discussion with officials from the USDA Risk Management Agency on 2011 barley crop insurance options - Bonneville County Extension Office at 2925 Rollandet, Idaho Falls (take Exit 116 on I-15 and proceed through to second stop light on Sunnyside Road and take left onto Rollandet)
Workshop/webinar will be broadcast statewide. Connect at https://connect.cals.uidaho.edu/barley
Webinar viewing locations:
Fremont Co. Extension Office - 49 West 11st North, St. Anthony
Madison Co. Extension Office - 134 E. Main St., Rexburg
Caribou Co. FSA Office - 390 E Hooper Ave., Soda Springs
Cassia Co. Extension Office - 1013 West 16th St., Burley
Lewis Co. Extension Office - 510 Oak Street, Nezperce
Kelly L Olson, Administrator
Idaho Barley Commission
208-334-2090
Fax: 208-334-2335
kolson@idahobarley.org
Thursday, February 24, 2011
We Need Your Help to Update the Idaho Custom Rates Guide
The University of Idaho is in the process of updating the Idaho Custom Rates Guide, which was last revised in 2006. If you do any type of custom field work or if you hired someone in the last year to do some custom work, we would like to talk with you. A large sample ensures that the numbers obtained reflect the rates charged in Idaho. Anyone providing information used in the survey will receive a free copy of the Custom Rates Guide when it is published this summer. All information received is treated as confidential. Only the aggregated values are published.
If you are interested in participating in the survey, please do one of the following:
If you are interested in participating in the survey, please do one of the following:
Stripe Rust Starts Developing in the Pacific Northwest
February 18, 2011
Xianming Chen,
Research Plant Pathologist
Stripe rust of wheat has waked up much earlier this year than last year in the Pacific Northwest and may not have slept in the western Oregon and western Washington. Don Wysocki and Jim Towne found sporulating rust pustules in a wheat field near Pendleton in the northeastern Oregon on the 1st of this month. Last week, Mike Flowers and Chris Mundt reported that stripe rust was easily found (about 5% incidence) in wheat fields in the Willamette Valley of western Oregon.
Xianming Chen,
Research Plant Pathologist
Stripe rust of wheat has waked up much earlier this year than last year in the Pacific Northwest and may not have slept in the western Oregon and western Washington. Don Wysocki and Jim Towne found sporulating rust pustules in a wheat field near Pendleton in the northeastern Oregon on the 1st of this month. Last week, Mike Flowers and Chris Mundt reported that stripe rust was easily found (about 5% incidence) in wheat fields in the Willamette Valley of western Oregon.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Stewards of the Rangeland
KNPB’s ‘Stewards of the Rangeland’, a show on ranching on public lands in Nevada will air on Sunday 2/27 at 8pm!
http://www.knpb.org/programming/local/stewardsoftherangeland
KNPB's newest local production Stewards of the Rangeland points a spotlight on livestock management strategies of four northern Nevada ranching families, who make extensive use of Nevada’s public land. Follow along as the ranchers give us an inside look on what it means to be a rancher in the current climate and how each has to tailor their ranch to fit the distinctive environment that is Northern Nevada.
Producer Dennis Golden introduces viewers to the ranchers of Nevada's public lands. These stewards face a variety of challenges while maintaining BLM and US Forest Service land as well as their own ranches and families, and they each have their own methods for getting it done.
The four ranching families and locales include:
• Tipton's in Winnemucca
• Cassinelli's in Paradise Valley
• Dufferena's in Denio
• Boies' in Wells
Watch a preview of this program...
http://www.knpb.org/programming/local/stewardsoftherangeland
KNPB's newest local production Stewards of the Rangeland points a spotlight on livestock management strategies of four northern Nevada ranching families, who make extensive use of Nevada’s public land. Follow along as the ranchers give us an inside look on what it means to be a rancher in the current climate and how each has to tailor their ranch to fit the distinctive environment that is Northern Nevada.
Producer Dennis Golden introduces viewers to the ranchers of Nevada's public lands. These stewards face a variety of challenges while maintaining BLM and US Forest Service land as well as their own ranches and families, and they each have their own methods for getting it done.
The four ranching families and locales include:
• Tipton's in Winnemucca
• Cassinelli's in Paradise Valley
• Dufferena's in Denio
• Boies' in Wells
Watch a preview of this program...
Wolves Kill More Domestic Animals in Wisconsin
AP reports that wolves kill almost twice as many domestic animals in Wisconsin in 2010 than 2009. They reported that , "wolves killed 34 dogs, 47 calves, 16 cows and six sheep in 2010. The DNR estimates the wolves cost farms a total of $114,000."
This seems pretty tame compared to what is happening in some places in the central Rockies, but what seems to be important to me, is that the wolves that are getting into trouble are coming from down through northern Minnesota where wolves were re-established in the wilderness areas along the Canadian border. Sixteen of the attacks occur in the most northern county in Wisconsin, but the rest occured in 15 other counties.
Unlike livestock operators in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, wolves in Wisconsin are fully protected under the ESA. Perhaps this will eventually help tilt the table toward responsible wolf management.
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-resources/cattle-identification/DNR-says-wolves-in-Wisconsin-killing-more-livestock-.html
This seems pretty tame compared to what is happening in some places in the central Rockies, but what seems to be important to me, is that the wolves that are getting into trouble are coming from down through northern Minnesota where wolves were re-established in the wilderness areas along the Canadian border. Sixteen of the attacks occur in the most northern county in Wisconsin, but the rest occured in 15 other counties.
Unlike livestock operators in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, wolves in Wisconsin are fully protected under the ESA. Perhaps this will eventually help tilt the table toward responsible wolf management.
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-resources/cattle-identification/DNR-says-wolves-in-Wisconsin-killing-more-livestock-.html
Friday, February 11, 2011
Cereal Sentinel #55 Now Available
Cereal Sentinel Issue 55 is now available for viewing as a PDF file on my website. It is available at http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/swidaho/Newsletters/Sentinel56.pdf. It can be accessed also by going to the website and clicking on the latest issue button on the homepage or you can click on the Newsletter button and access the last issue or any of the previous newsletters back to 1996.
Click here for Southwest Idaho Cereals Website.
The contents of this newsletter includes articles related to
Spring Cereal Variety Performance
Soft White Spring Wheat
Hard Red Spring Wheat
Hard White Spring Wheat
Spring Barley
Spring Planting Dates
Personnel Changes
I trust you find the issue of interest.
Your comments are always welcome.
Brad Brown, Extension Soil and Crop Management Specialist
208-722-6701 Ext 216
Click here for Southwest Idaho Cereals Website.
The contents of this newsletter includes articles related to
Spring Cereal Variety Performance
Soft White Spring Wheat
Hard Red Spring Wheat
Hard White Spring Wheat
Spring Barley
Spring Planting Dates
Personnel Changes
I trust you find the issue of interest.
Your comments are always welcome.
Brad Brown, Extension Soil and Crop Management Specialist
208-722-6701 Ext 216
The Economics of Regional Meat: A National Good Food Network Webinar (free) Feb 17
The Economics of Regional Meat: A National Good Food Network Webinar (free) Feb 17 at 12:30 Pacific time.
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/723913059
As the Wallace Center project "Charting Growth: Sustainable Food Indicators" reports, the concentration of the meat industry is staggering (e.g. in 2007 the 4 top beef packers controlled over 80% of the market). Those looking to build a sustainable regional food system must understand the tremendous economic forces that lead to this situation to succeed in their goal. This webinar is designed for attendees of all knowledge levels to increase the effectiveness of their regional efforts.
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/723913059
As the Wallace Center project "Charting Growth: Sustainable Food Indicators" reports, the concentration of the meat industry is staggering (e.g. in 2007 the 4 top beef packers controlled over 80% of the market). Those looking to build a sustainable regional food system must understand the tremendous economic forces that lead to this situation to succeed in their goal. This webinar is designed for attendees of all knowledge levels to increase the effectiveness of their regional efforts.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Study links Yellowstone bison fate to genetic flaw
Study links Yellowstone bison fate to genetic flaw [edited]
By Laura Zuckerman
Reuters
WBFO (public broadcasting)
February 7, 2011
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A congenital defect combined with U.S. government plans to kill bison exposed to an infectious cattle disease could doom America's last wild herd of pure-bred buffalo at Yellowstone National Park, a genetics expert said in a new study.
The findings were posted on Monday in Nature Precedings, an online archive for pre-publication research by scientists, as the government and environmental groups clashed in court over an icon of Western wildlife that dates to prehistoric times. (The study is posted at http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5645/version/1)
By Laura Zuckerman
Reuters
WBFO (public broadcasting)
February 7, 2011
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A congenital defect combined with U.S. government plans to kill bison exposed to an infectious cattle disease could doom America's last wild herd of pure-bred buffalo at Yellowstone National Park, a genetics expert said in a new study.
The findings were posted on Monday in Nature Precedings, an online archive for pre-publication research by scientists, as the government and environmental groups clashed in court over an icon of Western wildlife that dates to prehistoric times. (The study is posted at http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5645/version/1)
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Advancing Biocrop Alternatives in the Pacific Northwest
Advancing biocrop alternatives for the Pacific Northwest:
Pacific Northwest farmers could someday be filling up their machinery's tanks with fuels produced from their own fields, according to ongoing research by ARS researchers who have been studying safflower, camelina, soybeans, mustard, canola, wheat, corn and switchgrass to assess their potential for bioenergy production.
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