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Posted on September 18 at 10:47 p.m.
This is my 3rd year of swathing and baling Sericia for hay for my cowherd. There are 2 things that made me start doing it. First, my dad was telling a guy who worked on the same ranch dad did back in the early '60's about this noxious weed taking over the country. The guy asked dad what it was and dad told him Sericia. The guy asked dad what he thought he was feeding to the cattle in the showbarn back when they worked for the same ranch. Dad said, "Alfalfa", but the guy said, "No it wasn't, it was Sericia. We had 60 acres under irrigation that we put up for hay every 28 days. The 2nd thing that happened is that Jeff Davidson, Greenwood county agent, had a program at the Anderson building talking about prairie invaders and the main topic was Sericia. The fall before, he had a field day at someone's pasture and about 2 weeks before the field day, the sericia had been sprayed and on the day of the field day, the cattle were eating it. At that meeting, Jeff hypothesized that the Tannin leaves the Sericia after it dies. The first year that I baled it, the Sericia was 5' tall in places when I cut it for hay in September when it was blooming before going to seed. Last year, it was about 3-4' tall, and this year, it was only 1 1/2 to 2' tall and had a lot less canopy. Last year, I mowed it off at about 2" whereas the year before I left about 6" to leave as much brome and fescue to graze as possible. This year, I mowed it at 6" again to see if that affected the plant vigor. The pasture had been broke then sewed to brome and fescue back in the middle '60's and now, it has a lot of Little Bluestem and Indiangrass (both native prairie grasses) moving in and getting established. I have not used any chemical to try to control the sericia. The only chemical this pasture has seen is the Remedy/Diesel mix that Gary Kilgore recommends using on hedge stumps to keep them from growing back after cutting the trees down. One practice I am planning on trying to implement next year is burning where I have trees and am unable to get into to cut hay and see if I can get the my cattle to graze that more heavily early in the season to see if that will hurt the sericia. The main thing I do not like about burning sericia, is that we had noticed some plants starting in another brome pasture one fall and we burned it the following spring (about 20 years ago) and that summer we had about 100 times more sericia in that pasture. Researchers have since discovered that burning "scarifies" the seed and causes it to germinate, The areas I am planning on burning in this pasture, however, I am not worried about that because I already have a solid stand of Sericia under the trees.
Posted on July 10 at 10:02 p.m.
The cost of the cleanup will be added to the property tax bill and if not paid, the county will sell the property at sheriffs auction. That is how these things are handled when government barges in and takes over.
seriouslyfolks, When we were looking into building a couple haybarns, we found out from our insurance company that a steel framed building looses tensil strength in a fire and collapses faster than a wood framed building does.
Posted on June 9 at 10:52 p.m.
We got 2 converter boxes earlier this year from wal-mart and the remote has quit working on both of them. We also have to sometimes unplug them and for a day to get them to work again. If you cannot get a coupon, save yourself the time, money, and headache and just get a new TV.
Posted on April 22 at 9:09 p.m.
It took them 3 hours to give my mom 6 staples and a tetanus shot.
Posted on April 16 at 8:42 p.m.
I have held my tongue to long. When my parents and I went to vote, our names were not in the book. The people working the polling place were sure that a page was missing from the book because we vote at every election so they called the courthouse. They said we were supposed to vote at Olpe instead of Neosho Rapids, but let us vote provisional ballots. I think we are the 3 who were listed as voting at the wrong polling place. Mom called in a couple days latter to see where we are supposed to vote in future elections and we were told that they made a mistake at the courthouse and that we would continue to vote at Neosho Rapids. I wonder how many other mistakes like that were covered up by the clerks office.
Also, I know of at least 2 people in Emporia who said they read the smoking ban question and voted in favor of it then realised after they left that they wanted to vote against it because of the rights issue. I wonder how many other people did the same.
I am sure that we will have a chance to vote on a ban similar to this county wide. It is just a matter of time with Walters on the county Commission if the state does not beat her to it.
Posted on April 7 at 10:10 p.m.
Ok Mrs.Vopat, Why was the location I was supposed to vote at changed when I did not move and I was not notified. Also, according to the map on your webpage at lyoncounty.org, I was supposed to vote at the polling place that I have been in the past?
Posted on April 7 at 6:39 p.m.
From April 7, 2009 Grass and Grain Newspaper:
The Center for Consumer
Freedom (CCF) has
published documents showing
that People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals
(PETA) killed 95% of the
adoptable pets in its care
last year. According to public
records from the Virginia
Department of Agriculture
and Consumer Services,
PETA euthanized 2,124
pets last year, while placing
only seven in adoptive
homes. Since 1998, a total of
21,339 dogs and cats have
been euthanized by PETA at
its Norfolk, VA, headquarters.
CCF questioned the fact
that PETA doesn’t operate
an adoption shelter despite
a $32 million annual budget.
David Martosko, CCF’s research
director, called
PETA a “hypocritical killing
machine.”
“Since killing pets is AOK
with PETA, why should
anyone listen to their demands
about eating meat,
using lab rats for medical
research or taking children
to the circus?” Martosko
said.
CCF is a non-profit coalition
supported by the food
industry to promote personal
responsibility and protect
consumer choices.
Posted on February 5 at 9:33 a.m.
We got our boxes, but then could only pull in channel 49's digital signal...sometimes. We had to spend about $350 to replace the rabbit ears on our tv with an outdoor antenna and that was me doing the work myself. Imagine how much it would cost to pay someone to do it for you. I am sure that with the economy down like it is that there will be some people making a decision between TV and food.
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Posted on September 28 at 9:34 p.m.
How will I be able to tell if someone working for me on the farm has a farm permit?
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