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June 8, 2006Active Farming News ===================================================================== Active Farming is a community website. As such, the Admin Team would like to hear from you, the community, as to how to improve Activefarming.org. If you would like, please respond to this email and tell us things such as: What do you like or dislike? What needs to be improved at Active Farming? What would you like to see added? etc... We value your opinions. ===================================================================== "The new strain of the wheat stem rust, Ug99, has emerged as an international threat to wheat and barley that could affect the Green Revolution's outstanding yield increases of 50 years ago. Rusts are fungal diseases whose spores are spread by the wind. Ug99 first surfaced in Uganda in 1999. It is now in Kenya and Ethiopia...." "... ARS plant pathologist Yue Jin found that 80 percent of the hard red spring wheat grown in the U.S. Northern Plains has no resistance to this new race of stem rust." Ream more: ===================================================================== Most of us probably have heard of Click and Reward Training for Dogs Member "Sleepy Maggie" writes: "I have ten laying hens that I keep in a 1/4 acre pen attached to the side of my barn, with nest boxes and a little free-access henhouse inside the pen. Recently a rather large rat snake has discovered the pen. He (or she!) comes back every three or four days and eats up as many eggs as he can find. I appreciate that rat snakes are more beneficial than pesky, and don't mind sharing a few eggs in exchange for keeping the rodent population down, but his egg-stealing expeditions are upsetting the hens. So in addition to lost eggs, production is down overall..." Read More and Discuss at: Join the Active Farming Discussion Forums join in the fun! ===================================================================== Member "Mary Eklund" writes: "Beautiful old, Black & White Border Collies for sale - 2 Females - Born 3/8/06. These puppies have been handled from birth and we've started basic training skill and socialization skills. Both parents are full blooded border collies. The sire is registered. The dam is from registered stock, however her litter wasn't registered..." Read More at: More Animal Listings: ===================================================================== Member "pasquatch" writes: "Dormansville, New York USA / June 17, 2006 Read More at: Read More Event Listings: ===================================================================== Member "NMSell" writes: "1998 AG Chem; 60 foot X-Booms, Hypro Hydraulic Pump, 844 Teejet Monitor, foam markers, walking tandems. 4,000 acres ... " Read More at: Ream More Classified Ads: ===================================================================== Member "Parsonrealestate" writes: "Farmland: 113 (+/-) Acres Cropland 100.5 (+/-) Acres Land Description: The majority of the farm ground is further back from the river and that is fairly level with some rolling hills. Comments: This farm is close to Marble Rock and has river frontage. This is a good site for building a cabin by the Shell Rock River. There is a total of 46.6 (+/-) acres in varying programs of CRP. Their total income per year is $4,705.62...." Read More at: More Farms For Sale: ===================================================================== This is just a small sampling of what is new at Active Farming. We Read more at: ===================================================================== We encourage you to forward this newsletter to all your friends that Contact the Admin Team: We would like to remind everyone that Active Farming is a community If you have a website, we would like to ask you for a link to ===================================================================== Active Farming is an opt-in newsletter available by subscription only. To Subscribe, add your email address to the newsletter block found on: To Unsubscribe, follow the directions on the bottom of this newsletter. There have been some problems for some users with the subscription/unsubscription program. If you can't subscribe or unsubscribe, please let us know and we will do it manually. Thank you! |
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