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Sunbelt Ag News
DOANE: Cotton Comment
Louisiana: More North Louisiana Farmers Switch to Rice 3-12
Closing
Rice: Very weak mixed close, remains in a strong downtrend 3-12
Closing Cotton: Cotton Surges To Strong Closing Gains 3-12
2009 Grain Stocks Reports Key 3-12
Closing Grain: Corn and soybeans closed lower while wheat found support
3-12
Farmers Vent Over Competition 3-12
Closing Livestock: Cattle closed significantly higher; pork complex settled
on a mixed basis 3-12
Texas: Ag Cooperatives Have Billion Dollar impact on State Economy
3-12
AgFax Blog: North Carolina Extension Agent Makes A Case For Twitter
3-12
Midday Grain: Mixed at Midday 3-12
Midday Livestock: Strong Buying Pushes Livestock Complex
Higher 3-12
Georgia:
Blueberry Farmers Turn to Olives 3-12
Linn Soybean Commentary: Prices
declined sharply on Thursday 3-12
Linn Corn Commentary: Story was
the soybean market 3-12
Linn Wheat Commentary:
Still trading into fresh six month lows 3-12
Opening Cotton: Prices Move Higher After Retail Sales Gains 3-12
Opening Grains: Solid sell-off by U.S. dollar index provided support
for higher overnight 3-12
Rapid
Rise In Seed Prices Draws U.S. Scrutiny 3-12
Opening Livestock:
Pork Futures Projected to Begin With Softer
Prices 3-12
K. Good's
Farm Policy: Trade; Climate; Ag Competition; Animal Ag 3-12
U.S. Stock Market News 3-12
Morgan Keegan to Offer Farmer Mac Programs to Commercial Banking Clients
3-11
Arkansas: New Rice
Variety Roy J Stands Tall,Yields High 3-11
AgFax Blog: Monsanto Breaks Ground For Mississippi Corn Research Center.
More Bad News For The Delta. 3-11
US Corn Prices May Find Support 3-10
Projected
Economic Turnaround Fuels Recovery in Commodity Prices, According to 2010
FAPRI Outlook 3-10
Diesel, gasoline
prices up yet another week 3-10
Hurricanes: AccuWeather
Calls For More Active 2010 Season 3-10
Seed Trait Battles Raise Eyebrows 3-10
Fertilizer Outlook 3-10
Kentucky:
Control Volunteer Corn Early to Prevent Problems in Fields 3-10
Kentucky: UK
Entomologists to Look for New Stink Bugs 3-10
For Argument's Sake: Changing Pricing Dynamics Between Gasoline and Ethanol
3-9
Get More Coverage for the Money: 2010 Crop Insurance Decisions
3-9
Retail Fertilizer Trends 3-9
Georgia: Need
Commercial Pesticide Credits? Here's The Place 3-9
Mississippi: New Corn Breeding Facility Coming 3-9
Monsanto says Bollgard Bt toxin resistance confirmed in pink bollworms in India
3-9
AgFax Blog: Corn Planting Starts In
Louisiana - Ready Or Not
3-9
AgFax Blog: With More Cotton, Will
Used Picker Prices Increase?
3-9
Ohio:
Take Steps to Reduce Compaction Before Spring Planting 3-9
Indiana: Purdue Web
Site Helps Farmers Manage Corn Mold Issues 3-9
Crude oil and gasoline prices inching up again 3-9
Vietnam: Sluggish rice trade dampens local price 3-9
Cotton: Brazil Intends $591 Million Retaliation for U.S. Cotton Export
Subsidies 3-8
Georgia,
Mississippi,Texas Included in 18 State Rural Broadband Project 3-8
USDA
National Weekly Rice Summary 3-8
Upcoming Events:
(FD: field day; SS: scout schools)
Alabama: Row
Crop Insect Management for Maximum Profit, March 18, 9 am, David’s
Catfish House, Atmore.
Georgia: Cotton Production Meeting, March 22, 7 pm, Coffee County Extension
office, Douglas.
Florida: Beef Production Workshop, March 24, 11:30 am, Miami Community
Center, Miami.
Georgia: Commercial Pesticide Credit Meeting, March 26, 8:30 am, Coffee
County Extension office, Douglas.
Arkansas: Ozark Food
Processors Association Convention and Exposition, April 6-7, Springdale.
Mississippi: Magnolia Beef and Poultry Expo, April 8, Smith County
Agricultural Complex, Raleigh.
Pennsylvania Agronomy Scout School, April 10, Penn State Campus.
Texas: Predator Workshop, April 13, 8 am, Edward County 4-H Barns,
Rocketsprings.
Texas Urban
Ranchers and Small Acreage Short Course, April 15, 6:30 pm, AgriLife
Extension office, Canyon.
Texas Brush Control Workshop, April 20, 8 am, Edwards County Annex Building,
Edwards County.
Texas Urban
Ranchers and Small Acreage Short Course, May 20, 6:30 pm, AgriLife
Extension office, Canyon.
Texas Urban
Ranchers and Small Acreage Short Course, June 17, 6:30 pm, AgriLife
Extension office, Canyon.
Tennessee: 26th Milan No-Till Crop Production Field Day, July 22,
tennu@bellsouth.net
North Carolina 2010 Cotton Field Day, Sept. 16, Gary Respess
Farm, Beaufort County.
To list an event, contact
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South
Carolina:
Clemson
cut-away tractor display to be shown at John Deere
By
Alex Hill
Clemson University
CLEMSON, S.C. (November 7, 2007) – Students in the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life
Sciences (CAFLS) at Clemson University, will have their cutaway tractor
displayed at the John Deere Commercial Products facility in Augusta, Ga.,
during winter break.
Students in the agriculture mechanization and business department have been
working on the project for two years and have put more than 2,000 hours of
their time into the display.
The cutaway is a full-scale model that demonstrates how the components of a
tractor and engine work
together. Prior to beginning work on the cutaway tractor, it was a perfectly
good tractor in working order. The cuts that are made on a tractor are
carefully planned in order to provide "windows" through the engine,
transmission and axle housings so that the inner workings of the tractor
components can be seen.
“A 12-volt gear motor is now used to turn the entire engine on the tractor,"
said Kendall Kirk, lecturer in the agricultural mechanization and business (AGM)
program at Clemson. "Maintaining the parts in motion, in addition to
providing the largest possible viewing windows, is the biggest challenge.
The entire tractor and engine has to be disassembled in order to perform the
cuts and then reassembled with working parts, which provides an additional
challenge in making sure that the cuts did not eliminate the ability to
fasten the parts and pieces back together.”
The tractor was on display at the Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition in
Moultrie, Ga., in October. It will be
on display at the CAFLS Alumni tailgate in Fike Recreation Center on Nov. 10
and will travel to Augusta to be exhibited at the John Deere Commercial
Products facility during the latter half of December. The tractor also will
be displayed in several other local and regional engine and tractor shows.
“I have been going to engine tractor and agricultural machinery shows for
several years, and I have seen engine cutaways at several shows, however
they were all still models, with no moving parts. I have heard of a full
tractor cutaway, but never seen one at a show, and it also did not have a
working power train with moving parts like the cutaway that the AGM students
developed,” said Kirk.
The students involved include Mike Brown, a senior from Kingstree; Will
Brown, a freshman from Kingstree; Nathan Crumley, who graduated in August
2006, from Gainesville, Ga.; Jeremy Hamilton, a sophomore from Dorchester;
Brian Henderson, a senior from Ninety Six; Russell Henderson, a senior from
Johnston; Frank Morelli, who graduated in December 2006, from Aiken; Russell
Nafziger, a sophomore from Greenville; Wes Porter, a senior from Pickens;
Chase Reinhardt a senior from Rock Hill; Tyler Seagroves, a sophomore from
Myrtle Beach; and Michael Steele, a senior from Ridge Spring
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