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Date: Jan. 30, 2006

 

UW Farm & Ranch Days offers producers a harvest of information

 

            The 22^nd Fremont County Farm & Ranch Days Feb. 15-16 in Riverton can offer producers a jumpstart to their 2006 growing season efforts.

            Five rotating programs are offered Feb. 15 and four on Feb. 16, according to Ron Cunningham, University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service (UW CES) educator for Fremont County and Wind River Indian Reservation. UWCES, along with other groups, sponsor the event.

            “The Farm & Ranch Days are packed full of programs that should give producers great information to help them start planning their 2006 farming or ranching operations,” he said. The event is in the Armory Building at the Fremont County Fairgrounds.

            Barry Lawrence, river basin planner with the Wyoming Water Development Commission, will present information on the weather modification project in the state during lunch Feb. 16.

             Programs will include soil testing, estate planning for farmers and ranchers, fuel prices and fertilizer prices, alternative fuels for home stoves and shops, vesicular stomatitis, bio fuels, cooking lamb, emergency preparedness for the farm and ranch, fall windrow grazing, soil-applied chemicals, changing what, when and where cattle graze, surfactants oil benefits, financial planning and investing for the future, benefits of coal-bed methane water, small-acreage animal management, private pesticide school, cattle market outlook and how it might affect one’s ranch, agriculture and skin cancer, tree and shrub lawn care around the home, Roundup Ready® alfalfa and corn, winter feed costs, corn milling co-product usage in beef cattle diets, beef production records, and baler maintenance. There are many more.

            For the complete schedule, access www.uwyo.edu/UWCES/FarmRanchDays06Agenda.htm

            From 100 to 180 producers have attended each day of the event over the years, said Cunningham. “The Farm & Ranch Days covers such a broad range of topics that the programs attract the people,” he said.

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