Ag Basics 101; Ag Basics 101 Compilation 2

sam that's the one civilian employees go any senior research base is growing and selling those issues on the great plains tell me what's happening inside and four year history before well i chose the four h program because this year is the one hundredth birthday of four age they you know know what four h stands for well i'd say i know his heart and hands and hair i'm drawing a blank on the fourth one i'll hazard a guess and say help because that's what a lot of for each kids do in their communities not good guess the fourth page stands for health and that's the newest age to join the group originally skippers only three h's and then sometime after the organization was formed it became hard hands head and a hustle but that didn't stick and in the nineteen twenties health was added to take its place read you find out all this information i went to an expert on for a drug you could who isn't lamar

colorado and is an area extension agent for colorado state university cooperate extension rod specializes in the for each use development program and he gave me the rundown on the beginnings of four h when it came out i was educators primary educators in the rural areas look at the quality of life of their kids and what did they need to know where they missing out compared to city kids and what they determined was that there was a need for educating the young people and they began to have clubs they also allow these folks for agriculture oriented and there are a lot of new developments coming in agriculture at the time that have said it's really transformed the family farm or the time or not being accepted because they were different farmers than candid a farm like they were taught the farm either daddy was taught by his daddy and so on and so forth so the hybrid seed corn came in about that time and what they did they give the hand but the young boy enough to

plant a curve harbored seed corn and then daddy we planned his regular left over from last year corn and when one acre of the juniors corn not yielded five acres of betty's car in the next year that he was trying to figure out where to get a hybrid seed corn plant that rod mentions boys being members in the beginning that i know girls are also a big part of the clubs now well girls clubs were formed shortly after four eight first organized the first activities for girls were carrying clubs to learn to preserve food for the family until the civil rights movement in the late sixties four h clubs in the south were segregated but since the early seventies for ages been open to any kid anywhere age limits are set by each state run said that colorado kids between the ages of five and eighteen they're eligible you say any kid anywhere dickinson city beyond a four h and i wondered the same thing so i ask about a really good percentage of kids now come from more urban areas or away and inner city urban areas where they may take a project that is

cultural heritage and put together a drama based on the history of their particular culture there is for each inner city newark there for each end denver their fortune kansas city wichita over urban metro areas now have four h in a skit in working on this report i found that four h is really a lot more than just a project for the local county fair you know the kids they got a lot of project choices and they're learning career development and some great life skills where you report sounds pretty good how you can get well how else i'm going to recite the four h pledge i pledge my head to clear thinking my heart to greater royalty my hands to larger service and my health to better living for my club my community my country basics wanna one is a production of high plains public radio if you'd like answers to your basic questions about it i for a diploma

visit our website each pbr doubt though it and join us next time for nbc has won a wash growing tony do you have time to help me put this fact he together before lunch well i visited key the meals farm in northern haskell county where he runs a small animals operation we started out by looking at his chickens and i was met with a nun amazing sight the oatmeal edmar be all i thought i'd start the information with a quote from him about their unusual chicken house we had started out with an old school bus and converted over to

our table bill of all seats are out here we put a wall behind them driver's seat and we put an s in there and ridges and then on the back so we have a sliding door on the ramp for the chickens to go in and out so that they can come out during the day and grace and then going to lay their eggs again at night for protection from predators and also from the weather they'd raise chickens in their school bus just the lakers not the parlors and it's a great idea because these are free range chickens graze the pasture so they just drive the bus to a new area and set up a portable electric fence to keep the chickens in and the predators out and they're good to go what kind of chickens are layers the only us raised a mixed flock of black sex linked our rhode island red white leghorn barred rock black red white okay i have to ask this do brown eggs come from brown chickens well as a general rule yes white chickens lay white eggs and colored chickens like brownies but please tell me that the chickens diet can determine the color of the

yolk the yoke on compassion chickens is a real rich dark orange color yolks compared to the story exit is a pale yellow yolk that is not firm of all and so there's a real big difference on that the oakland pestered chickens if they can get out and get some fresh grass the hudson and weeds it makes a big difference in the quality of eight that you have now we supplement and to have with grain what we use that's a rare combination help that comes from the sea and fish meal of corn soybeans and trick a leak and it's very nutritious forum and it doesn't include a male body aches or any any chemicals and all its it's a natural writer that would make up ourselves skippers mr o'neill raise other types of chickens during a pasture season he raises broilers and he also raises turkeys and just how busy market his aides and poultry our marketing is it's really this word of mouth

we have to sell practically all of chickens to individuals legally were not allowed to sell for resell so we cannot sell to a grocery store or restaurant that chickens have to be picked up on the farm by the final consumer then the brothers that we determine the morning we put him in a cold ice water tank and the customers come out in the afternoon to pick them up so they're very fresh or demand has been very i am and so we were sold out for our chickens and turkeys for some time well skip i think you've got plenty of material for your fact sheet in fact it's just filled with nuggets of information her chicken nuggets that is a it's lunchtime on the buffalo wing it over to the cafeteria ok what's the matter are you marching to the beat of a different door on state stop tony ross i'll say your mark basics wanna one is a production

of high plains public radio if you'd like answers to your basic questions about life for a diploma visit our website each pbr don't blow it and join us next time for nbc's wanna one growing almost a year ago i started putting together a series of stories and telling the couple chronicles when i first talked to randy lucas haskell county farmer interested in bringing cotton crops to southwest kansas farm ground we were joined by joey healer a server tech crop consultant i started by asking randy why he was looking to bring a deep self commodity

to the high and dry plains of western kansas we're trying to find a crop that's diversify the area across the moon have fewer cases we do walk along it's there's been growers in moscow race in the last couple years in the end they were successful with that thought thought about the trial this year we only have two hundred acres the water that will say open up this recovery or have a short period of time the water we will water from july thirtieth so bowers it's funny that way teenage in june the first in literally <unk> similar savings versus core war effectively for your mind your honor that period were controlling your problem or thirty or forty year agents michael oren

prolong the life of laura oh yeah this last year we didn't have to do any shrine einstein had to do we had to write updates application on her to regulate the growth of the cotton with a fiery orator cotton is a unique crop nra and that's a real rose all our traditional approach or angels which presents a meaning management challenge of really are our as a great deal but we treat it as an annual in order to get it to do what we wanted they are the link below wally alice the last inning the bill are going out of their entrenched alam see there's more world can see that's a very high

protein in aisles towards the last summer berries love we talked on about types of cotton and harvesting equipment because of hauling the crop and the need for an area jennings a cell at a project that is lived forward rapidly resulting in the opening of a cotton gin and stevens county less than eight months after this initial conversation or visit was filled with a positive outlook for the future and near the end the two men again return to their initial reasons for joining this venture i just feel like the water savings is gonna be the biggest benefit the area where water civil war lawyers tree farmer

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year a cut may not be campaigning in southwest kansas but it has definitely moved into contention for becoming a crown prince today show is the second in a series as a visit with ron lucas in the backroom of hoskinson implement and he fills me and on the machinery used in the cotton harvest i was asking that he kept cotton are you take better you pull out our district is dropping the car off of the stop now way down in texas they pick at him and his fingers it picks the cotton out of the ball was but up here we don't have rung of season we dish but one that it strips a stop everything's gone and that's way we have to do it up here i come from a long line of of cotton pickers laid my family always said they'd much rather pool balls and they got it a lot easier and faster ok now we're back in the area in the repair area oh is this the combine for the cotton boy does that look different issues racial progress triple but there's nothing on

here except the kid is probably the same as a combine good everything else is totally different than a combine and it has a basket see in this basket when he gets full of shield hydraulic rams her that thing lives up in dumps in a vote would be a blow but he is how articulate a grain corps in the corner or tweet your model if you dump it in there and then you take your model builder and ended up of animosity overnight camp but real tight in its tim foot by thirty foot the model is like a big loaf of bread and the away from nineteen thousand to twenty five thousand bales painting on the grave of the cotton and how much triage you place a model to do to you and you get to the end of the game but he'll of one model the machine is a giant and we walk around to the front to find the source of much clanking inclining that is coming from a worker doing

some repairs and now on the front we have these brushes and belts and all those jimmy sings term and that's what trips to blow off steam and then go from here on appeal to the basket this is amazing it looks like a big industrial brands angled broomstick in and here you know and all these rooms are for is to keep the copy from climb back out in the cotton goes into it over the over brings the end of the meal and then it goes through the salts there were no no yeah they're all around the ruins and there was a case where a gathering of their pups those are you know that will but that

matters far away from the ball so is it a little bit different to drive this machine i mean we're somewhat somebody you need to take the lessons or get a license or something if they have kept pouring are we is it pretty much the same open it that way many money the trauma calm i would be able to get on right replied boy it's such a huge operation here to do this i mean my family picked it by hand it's obvious now it's all mechanized it's amazing i stare up at the machine towering over me and think of my family working the rows by hand dragging cotton sacks polling bowls or picking the white fluff out of the press play ball with their fingers and i suddenly think of all the science fiction stories warning about machines taking over the earth when it comes to cotton picking i think it's a great idea and

basics wanna one is a production of high plains public radio if you'd like answers to your basic questions about life for a diploma visit our website each pbr doubt though it and join us next time for nbc has won a wash growing this series of baghdad a sex includes a three part story following the efforts of a group of southwest kansas farmers to introduce cotton as a viable crop in the area today will catch a ride with me at the statistics a field of cut

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day randy's eyes briefly stray from the rosy marks and maneuvers as he casts a quick glance at the ominous side of gathering rain cloud then the lumbering stripper sway says the ball but he approaches to catch the bounty and take it to the edge of the field here comes this great big huge ball like the year great big fenced off box on wheels and then the top of this the basket just hinges over there you know it's like a three story building anyway our

next year you might the hope and those words as infectious as my round on the cotton stripper comes to an end and they quickly climb out of the cab so as not to cause the lion precious cutting time it's getting cold and windy and the storm clouds are drooping lower and darker back on the highway rain spatters my windshield and i think of the cotton crew rushing to get another round stripped formed an under a macho cover before they threw away and basics wanna one is a production of high plains public radio if you'd like answers to your basic questions about life for a diploma visit our website each pbr don't blow it and join us next time for nbc has won a one show it growing

taking the airbase its classes offered me an opportunity for some great field trips and last fall i joined lindsay right for a wonderful morning along the summer and reverence or a county where i learned about the workings of a cattle ranch so you have what's called a cow and calf heard yes a coward or break our taxicabs well there's a been weaned off this is middle of november and the chasm between over these cows about a month they're born in february march and then they're weaned off an attack on september october and either sold directly at that point to someone else or if there's enough wheat they're sure we retain among them on weak pressure and take them on a feeder size which would be seven hundred and fifty thousand from that point they go to the feed yard how long does it count as a mother cow stay with yemen how long that she produced was here's your

first pair for just two years old and then the cow a british general until she's nine or ten years old and i'm in course so that's an average surged doesn't have a greater longevity that my prediction center for thirteen and then there's cows ever worn out for one reason or another one there are several years ago but most of mark gertler eight or nine ten years ago ok and these cows have a cafe every year then yes this year we were we were pleasantly surprised when he protested the scales about two weeks ago where a dry summer and we thought we might have a lot of what we call open cows cows that can see during the breeding season that we tested a hundred and forty eight thousand this much here a narrower to open cats so they'll open cows are generally sold off where they go for hamburger does but we go way cows are so bob ryan and other pregnant cows or

retained and then it's just a cycle that thousands of year after year and witty back an affair for chaos to oil replenish the word each year in either balls here if you bring us an empty the take the cows away yeah we put the boats in the first to marry and then take him out of the first of september there so we don't get careless the wrong time of the year we want our cares be borne most of in february fifth to get in that way as i was a few cows it's trying out cabin martian april that the boats are put in a different pasture and hold away from the cows until time to put it back in again the next spring and it seemed to me like they're like the baby calves that they were born in february that's a cold time effectively a row hard time that do the moms just know how to take care of omar yet it's amazing to watch says catholic a half i've seen him or near the river bottom and after the smoke so you can hardly see the caf when

it comes out because he's gotten so immediately his body heat just takes it through that for the smarties lamb on the ground but the macau gets up and immediately starts making him off and that she keeps the moon and keep the mormon if a calf will get up and cirque which most of moore's new if they can get just a little bit a warm welcome or system a good ride off their amazingly tough they can take a lottery whether they're just sort of once they get their hair fluffed up and ride off and it's a milk another system they can take just about anything nature can throw at him basics wanna one is a production of high plains public radio if you'd like answers to your basic questions about life for a diploma visit our website each pbr doubt though it and join us next time for nbc has won a wash

growing the last time that goes by your house and noticed some yellow tanks sitting in the corner of the field no they don't like the other tanks that are part of the oil and natural gas industry in the region and i was wondering what was used for skin or twenty they're part of a new system called subsurface drip irrigation basically it's a series of water line set are buried below the ground my neighbors to the south always seem to be on the cutting edge of agriculture and mark mcclain installed the system on a small acreage to test out the water savings with a system like this are significant with drip

irrigation crops using half the amount of water over standard picture overhead wiring that no but i'll close to have put those lines together well it depends on the type of crop and also the equipment or the farmer uses might explain his system like this it's on sixteen centers because i plan on thirty introduced so it's played every two rows for certain applications if you grew out top or everest base it may have even been forty but it adds to the cost the closer you go together and that's quite a bit more balanced right it's it's a black plastic and it comes in different sizes depending on the memoir you apply it just comes in roles and they just vote on these big schools and in rickety in four teenagers be just collapsible the mirrors are believe or every twenty origins and they just see the water out basically all you need to do is plan and spray it rest

of it's the people in that way because when you know i want them to the top rain will germinate week that was a time with that group you don't have low we'd probably do other day she says you for about how you were injured vets to be and that's we need to be for the rest of tom i want you for about mayor rybak haiti and then you just stay in the same room talking will what are the tapes used for that video of tanks that's yi fertilizing everything they're set in fury guess an austere yes the potassium phosphate and thirty two percent nitrogen well i noticed some plates with nods and switches at certain intervals on the edge of the field there does is control the feeding and watering or do they have like a main switchboard this particular situation there's twenty seven acres and is divided into four sections and each

section has its own control and then there's a main control of the stage and hit its widget every pound at once which it's set up wants to have power intervals so the field gets watered twice it in twenty four hours so every three half hour to get water to certain section well hollande is that plastic tape last inning visit biodegrade after a certain period of time what mike said that the system has been in the test plots for twenty years with no problems the only problem they had was this past year when drought conditions forced him to water the plants from above to get them to germany you see with the water source fourteen inches below the soil and the record breaking dryness that we had the plants had to have some help to get started but mark feels that the advantages of the system the water savings and that reduced demand of weeds unless cultivation are ultimately going to make it a viable system performing in the future in this area the improving of the several thousand acres of it in in the ground to ram there's been quite a bit of in southwest kansas the last say five years

i think that's where you'll end up with the water situation after the last two years of drought we're getting pretty close to having problems now sit in areas in some areas they don't have trouble in this area was really brought up what of it there's going to be some changes in their bodies basics wanna one is a production of high plains public radio if you'd like answers to your basic questions about life for a diploma visit our website each pbr doubt though it and join us next time for aggies six when a wash growing

last week and stopped in a hospice in employment in haskell county to get the lowdown on all those big attachments icy parked in front of a place i arrived just in time for fresh coffee in the front room served complements of the manager ron lucas i like your sign here says cows make him and cows may go but the bull in this place goes on forever the coffee's always on edge to hoskinson and right it's always on the uk in the city of coffee and tam what's the prize a quote free international have to make sense but talk to me today i'll bet on that john deere implements what isn't implemented as an is an implement that attracted to come on to read that to know not only problem either vote yes or a wart well porches all this public thing more so than the tractor and the company is there a difference between falling and this king yes the

plow won't go from a to teenagers deep in mid terms the swirl over at bs will go from three to five meters be exposed and they'll turn over some but not as much as it will work while i'm looking at sam that says i think that's a cultivate your it has like prongs of that curved prongs an encounter raked says the soil here to shake and that this is actually going around from all from three to eight inches deep and repairs the soil up sort of take it morphed or easy ok is that the same thing as cultivating a feel collaborator the only run from one to three inches be any of the shank sherlock culture which is a pilot and that twelve inches apart and a cult leader is a sixty nine inches apart hughes a cult leader first cd of preparation which is ok this is a fall kill each type thing to port au prince the ground up it'll take in more sure taken a

range though with a colleague or use it mainly built that just before you play in mud and my vegetable garden i have a little plow that belonged to my grandmother that little push plow that i used that i walk behind and i push it and then it has said an attachment i can put on it that has the low five prongs and that they call a cultivated and that you put after your gardens rowing you go along and you take the weeds out as an employment for big farming for that yes it's called a row crop call of agar which is this different in that it doesn't have any shanks were the roles of corner mile whatever's growing inequality between the rovers but her field coordinator it cooperates solid across the waco awaits the all of the soil so there are no weeds and when you play ok now does that content covers for things like getting a stern of making a clone of them they're right there is there is a sweet well that they use out here a lot especially dry land farmer it's

like a five or six foot the blade while they'll have seven weeks or implement in then they'll have papers behind an epic poems the weeds out of the great mass of the implements here and captain and morel wide have the two wings and i am a sinner and some that are even longer than that too full and in the center section so that have you know three section or five sections if they're too wide they have to fold twice so that they will make the electric lines down when you go under my visit to the farm implement dealership help to show me how complex farming has become and that doesn't take into account all the paperwork the farmer has to plow through or should i say disc through and basics wanna one is a production of high plains public radio if you'd like answers to your basic questions about life for a diploma

visit our website each pbr doubt though it and join us next time for nbc has won a wash growing recently i went on a field trip to lamar colorado in search of alternative agriculture outlets and visited a local fish farm i spoke with jacob nelson in colorado aqua culture incorporated areas

water enter the water destroy his blog and that's what we use because what you are made of apricots and they like warm water on the top or on the water warm water power plant is run salmon about ninety five degrees and then we mix it with some well water that's about sixty and so it makes it to about eighty five degrees about the optimal amateur lafayette twenty cds are well we'd be an actual fish porters come a long way in the beginning there weren't a lot of bottle females it's made for upgrades and stop the now the females are actually feed mill to make just that the defense all industry is growing that we have infrastructure for the support of people who are really young is the owner of

culture incorporated near lamar and he also owns a lot of meters and almost started raising the fish tilapia over there now most then about five years ago they expanded over your mom well we'll try to get i'm he raises the baby's over into alamosa and he brings them over here and we try to read some of the town in half in about nine to twelve months in which a map of them file access anymore that's a lot more people show up the stadium you know they have a guide that we are our mail was the alligators that of course and they are pretty interesting and the kids love them the warrior from our most of them have them over there to our theory that they show their sole figure who brings more here they are dead fish yeah

that's right now we are only human like any kind of your culture you're raising livestock and have some adult make it through the process and sell on this annual romp on that fish on the streets or more so we have elevators to me that that my product is our state's i know i'll be held areas of thirty three states here to help and have a long healthy life with us and basics wanna one is a production of high plains public radio if you'd like answers to your basic questions about life for a diploma visit our website each pbr don't blow it and join us next time for nbc has won a wash growing

on a recent trip to levy a fish farm and omar i learned a lot about marketing a product and the difficulties involved in getting fresh fish to the consumer jacob nelson of colorado aqua culture incorporated opened my eyes to government regulations imports in the following fish story mr powell well it's kind of interesting aspect of the law the industry right now is that we market our nationwide that's the only way we can compete with foreign competition own ego the grocery store they have a lot of ways to becoming more popular every day but those are actually important on cargo ships and taiwan and thailand and china because they can import a lot of boys frozen cheaper than we can make them here so we ship through on who are we going to denver

and to wish upon the asian grocery stores there's one i believe in alameda square with asian grocery store or an asian fusion restaurant pho asian american population will pay a premium price for life fish they like to go into the restaurant are going through their local chinese grocery store and see the fish in the tank like if you walk through the red lobster something in a pickup officially one week then i enter the end of a component of the mob riot or there's a flatbed truck with a big fiberglass fish tank on there and that's a big box of let's box divided into different apartments and i would feel among the proponents of water about seventy degrees because of the shape i'm in to normal

water will die so that prompted many water at them or and then of course we have the bottle months and opposes going into the banks such as a french you add are people stopping by year round people actually all of time wanting to buy fish we can do that we don't realize is selfish the city would get mad at us that we don't have no sales that's not like that's the fly fisherman year out we tried a few years ago before i was here we had a little store on a cold streak that we like a farmers' market would fall vegetables and the potatoes and might fetch if we had such a demand for people want to come and buy a couple fish broth but after one

survey coming by parachute opened a store known show about serena and the fourth it's not even like fisherman smith won by two three thousand pounds and also the south i actually want the school board this type of thing i want the southern illinois university and studied zoology that actually went on were never smelled them and get my masters not involve yourself or that was flowing for this type of stuff here and basics one on one is a production of high plains public radio if you like answers to your basic questions about agriculture fewer if you fly fly fly visit our website each pbr dot a largely and join us next time for and basics one on one growing

bushel of wheat from a planter box to the family's table okay let's see which led the way to the planting growing and harvesting stages i think we're ready to move on to grain storage let's review an interview with jerry sullivan of the solomon grain company headquartered in ulysses kansas and here is what happens when a truckload of wheat comes into the elevator when the rain would take through the elevator dump a celebrated put into have been for storage your truck's way back to determine the amount of grain have we give you at that time when ticket which is in itself is a receipt showing that we have received x number of bushels or x number of pounds of grain from the we give you thirty days the free storage to determine the wobble celebrate what you want to do with it after that we start for charging

new storage on a daily basis will it keep the grain there as long as you want to restore order and we have a responsibility to go to keep it in good shape will issue you a warehouse receipt stating that you have x number of bushels of grain or x number of pounds of grain soy grated number one three whatever the great is we applied to in a timely way it into your elbow let's say that i bring in a truck load of grain and migraine is maybe not quite as good as somebody else's but it all gets dumped in the same place right id id determine the work that if you've got the number two brain we'll have a discount for number two during the week have been for number one margaret wente we then we have a discount program for light weight for moisture for triage the various things that this created by and will discount price according to that

we will pay you there's a song a great great it is a real low quality will drive and up to hold separate that will otherwise we'll try to commingle all of her grain and come up with hopefully number one i think we should also include some specific information about the tests determine what the great of the week as we tested for more sure we're checking for shrunken various green berets we check through trash caf weirdly this upscale asked a time when wage work we wage low grade each load and we put a grade on the ticket how do they choose a green for testing would they use a probe a long tube that they say can a load of wheat to get samples of grain from all layers lots of places nowadays use a vacuum pro and here's how that works you don't have to climb up on the truck and

drove porsches this place isn't and sucks the sample from all lawyers to probe opens up it is opening solo way up and down the side of the probe ago pamella same time and allows a grain to run in and it sucked back into the elevator through with a vacuum and dropped into a container so that we can check the quality of the grain right so we have our bushel of wheat in the elevator and we've had it tested and graded and it's been stored for a little while let's sell a bushel and see what happens next we buy from you and then we sell it to wherever we find the best market for general manager is daily contact with seven or eight to bring brokers in elevators getting their beards and we'll ship where we can find the best to the best price ok tony a bottle of wheat is now off to see the world but i

hear a genius in southern journey will have to wait for another adaptation and basics one on one is a production of high plains public radio if you like answers to your basic questions about agriculture or if you like to fly for the final visit our website each pbr dot a largely and join us next time for and basics one on one growing i was listening for garden show talking about the use of hay bales

in around your garden but the hay bales that i see in the fields around here are a huge surely you're not handling those big ones well it may be from strong pioneer stock but there's a limit to what i can do you know it is a small rectangular bales but you know you're right i don't see this small bales around much anymore everything in the daily business seems to been super sized do you think those little bills oh i don't worry about that because i need to replace my enclosure fence around my garden so i called one of our public radio friends mike skinner and the texas panhandle to get the skinny on the shape of the bailing business the raids relating to people would just go cut the grass and make it into a bundle may be rap it was constrained or another piece of spam and those were bundles are also shocks and also call sheets bringing in machines so for centuries millennia i suppose people we used it that way they could carry one bundle at a time and the one and but that was very loosely packed and it would take a lot of work to

make a big stack them that was all him it later on as we got industrialized will we begin to press hey and it will scrap with size of which was a natural fiber and then we used to are now we're back to synthetic point properly string which is lighter but just strong and that was suppressed bales and i got heavier says it was more compact you wouldn't take as many people want to bring in the crops used to and it would take less storage space and it would last long not be degraded by the right families became smaller and later became more expensive and children left are going the city and get an education the provider of the pay to the animals would be limited in this time or her time and have to mechanize or hamlet sell it became just as easy to pick up a big bailout is it would be to pick up small and so now we have big round bales and we have big square bales and we have medium sized bill but those are all too heavy for a

single person to have things well how do they lift them out but they use tractors with special attachments to her can carry the bales and sometimes they already been bailed out all anymore i asked mike about some unusual looking hey storage i'd seen along the roadside slightly what's the story on those big plastic tubes look like big hey sausages is that just loose hay stuffed into plastic or is it round bales that are covered in plastic well it's really both your analogy about sausage is right those are known as adam bags the hague not willing to be called hey but chopped for ej because it's not as dr say is stuffed into those plastic tubes and then the air is sealed off of it so it's really insulated this above ground also there is a rapping mechanism that well rap sheets of long links of plastic around dried pay bales and that is simply to keep the water out so what you have to say about the future of your little details where he assured me that the small bales are going to

be around for a long time because they used in gardens and small farming and ranching operations and they're using them as building blocks for environmental housing projects and mike ended our conversation with hugh morris but very practical solution to hate packaging in the future or are we looking at the possibility of a total change in the shape of packaging hey is it possible that it will become palatine stir something so that you just scoop it out for cattle instead of thrown out of bail you just throw out a scam well i think you said the words that if you think about it you understand what the problem is throwing scooping hand lane that is all laborious and basically we're just getting away from at them more that can be handled mechanically the better that everything this movie's old again so the most progressive way of handling for ej is do not handle it at all just let the machines that have their legs my mouth go out there in egypt and part of the machinery

basics wanna one is a production of high plains public radio if you'd like answers to your basic questions about life we're diploma visit our website each pbr don't blow it and join us next time for and basics when a wash it growing today we have a guest lecturer in the classroom couldn't like kathy grew up on his family ranch in southeast colorado and has many skills to his credit he's worked as a cowboy on ranches as a pen writer in feedlots is that older radio and and also works as a farrier and

that's what we're gonna talk about today what does that term mean most people in our shoe repair just a technical a mother horse your learns to the anatomy of a horse's foot learned the tremont correctly and get our three walks correctly in our societies gallaga perkins six weeks to grow up very neatly trimmed and tenncare know i crown of the yard if you don't keep is all hours of the brake off the talks and they were down in two quick in many had a sort of our security what was the process other than finding my worst he and i say the source needs new shoes of her slanted look at ios ten and poetry month long war the tony will heal and help him with the neighbor trim unless he only respite and i'm a need a little more about that you get good shape where you want the new tactic issue and where will call an amble into shape shape a shoe to them for that

now are designed shape use it to buy shoes that takes limited time to get you perked up for you want ok so after you get the foot shaped and issue shed any have to nail the shooter the flood right it's mid december know theirs is a fine line on an outdoor the outrage is that he keeps the nails on outside agents and the little one liner six male says vision towers reason i don't use a blackmail is that wall is the young and as what you call a quarter of the football horse races or a sidestep limits at that snail mail it in brighton co author waller footage very important that you need to keep it as much over there he can because as will hold more shoe horses i always remember scenes in old time westerns where the cowboys riding into town and he goes by the blacksmith shop and there's a big beefy guy out there and he's cold in the shoe with

his tongs and then hammered away and then hold that the fire and then put it down in the water so thats blacksmith thing the sooner that they didn't have taylor made horseshoes what we do today they made him themselves is that anything like the press says she is with her and the land your hammer it choosing more and when more manly shape women are a lot of it will have been lit that i'd been back with my either sizes of where she is and you know like there's different ways that people she is their parents as they get a little bit if you vote for our knees in a large someone's two centuries like you in graft or submit yours is disseminating size how much does it cost usually ten tissue of course the ongoing project knows fifty to fifty five cents per morse for hours about four feet how long does a where she's last well i ate my mom person or snowshoe that every five weeks mostly your horses go sixty seven and an individual sometimes

tend to depend on the season one or no and how long this is taking the shia worse than all right now make your sales an hour you make house calls or maybe i should say were squads marya people call you the house and pearls we're really having to take care of them work in the character plays with a horse or more comfortable in his own environment and basics wanna one is a production of high plains public radio if you'd like answers to your basic questions about agriculture cry for a diploma visit our website hpv are not know it and join us next time for nbc's when a wash growing

let's get out of the classroom and joined wednesday right on his cattle ranch where an absolute wonderful places and so again money and a cimarron river runs through your ranch is absolutely wonderful where year after the leaves have fallen that it's it's really a great place it doesn't seem like we're in kansas anymore dorothy would say you have to do for world i'm here ok that we look at these cows and we have all different well kind of all different colors most of mr black or black with a little bit of white some white on their faces and then you have a few red ones with white artist all read that same basically red or black cows were a few of those her for cows left in this but maybe a dozen but most of these cows are crushed red cows are the red rock cafe so the red whitefish cows are her for rent and more another great native son of exotic severe or limousine goes on her

for cast and i didn't surrender in my face kara red white face caf and the black cows and we see our angus cows the straight black summer was with a white face or partially white face more than her for mother annan and his daddy then they make good range gas and you can cross those back on the rollout of the new grades exotic reads an ad that makes him raise a bigger care from when off more pounds a calf maybe better in the feedlot so forth it's changing so rapidly right now they're there hargus value of an animal as word headed a carcass that has more of the better cuts so now they're year test the bows and the ones that have another carcass dead on on that that could have been proven in the feed yards to us our calves that have a higher percentage of the better cuts of meat that's the direction it's all going to be like a lot of times i see a lot of black and white cows now or less because they're so many dairies in the area i think this oak staves and there's a lot of milk as board of

those milk cows also speak else and so they don't retain them back to the dairy day they go out on the farm just like the scaffolding and are taken out to feed or wait maybe seven eight hundred pounds monday and the feed yard and they're fattened up and had a lot of those go from about a hamburger if we went down into texas would there be more red cows or is the black cows the way things are gone yes the black girls yeah i would say theyre the leading breed right now because in their carcass value the other breeds are come along as fast as they can and they'll get there but the black cows a mushroom in the numbers just tremendously in the last ten years but as you move south for a ways in texas it would be the same but as you move on sell it in a more humid indian more insect problem and more different types of country then they read more year cavanaugh ram across get because they're different spieth see a nice way up and they can take the

insect pressure and thrive on the country was further south from here so they would look different to further south where ok what about texas longhorns i i mean in the history books on it and do in the history stories that i write about the texas trail herds in that people of a northwest kansas that broad and angus brains from scott london england and then there were kind of cross braids and they got the toughness from the texas longhorns and i got that the meat value from the stocky or english talk that they brought over do people just grow texas longhorns now for fun that's mainly it it's a novelty there are some people that advertise at its a leaner healthier beef in and they're trying to work that part of the market but it's mostly just a novelty and they're not worth as much money they don't feed as well it's pretty hard to make money with your cattle you think of anything else we need to talk about here i know it rained

basics wanna one is a production of high plains public radio if you'd like answers to your basic questions about life for a diploma visit our website each pbr don't blow it and join us next time for and basics when a wash it growing i'm on a field trip today and that's exactly where i am in a field of sunflowers a few weeks ago this was a sight to behold giant golden flowers as far as the eye can see now it's late september there's a stiff wind from the north and the dried stalks and blackened flower heads

russell ahead of the approaching combine let's catch up with your hands as it brings in the season's harvest they need thirty six rows down and the more weight and is at a scale on a farm i were seen it right is doomed set there's more the gold medal a fire has won her idea that and then there's a political rivals at which a credit for taking on that we got thirty six rows of six different kinds in running side by side sampled ceo of you and to the nation primary here with me in the red with him were write it all down in college now

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i've heard that the reason they use my fortieth roses that's what a portion deal with it in the plane in an ever in the animal would not come over without that sometimes an aerospace and we'll give you better shaving beekeeper we've got more experience and maturity to close a prominent artist and is probably where you runnin the more troublesome anything like right now around six seven miles regardless of the thirty inch snout and that is more fierce work needs to be a the dead body and overcast in on the front end of the things that we had out that there's been a case that while the religious people honest with you it's much more

quietly mr other local elders feared words in the sunflowers appearance and other filters and it makes a lot easier to be at that level or fifteen our own way to give back the poet oh it's chow when i was a production of high plains public radio if you'd like your basic questions about agriculture we're diploma visit our website each pbr doubt though it and join us next time for and basics when a wash

growing it's good my daughter get real headache rate question for a basic she asked if one of those big tractor tires goes flat how do they fix it well gabrielle armando and basic says ask and we shall find so i stopped him in the somewhat co op ed ask pak at phoenix who's a supervisor the tire center about the process of fixing a flat on a tractor or combine it begins with a call from the farmer and service trucker sent directly to the field and then the repair work begins

you get into that little irving caesar it honestly to be detonated once been up now after and i think it's a sign that the box goes to think bobby baker knew that that's something that rim the pirates and says that the military isn't reich's often do that with a hammer on both sides it was easier to use this week in science wow what a process we know that that it's fixable point out that solar powered solely connecticut didn't have advised that job there's probably over the rim of the terrorist groups on the old tyrant and then there's a smaller bore has lived on the individual right under the remains bright inward york where an electronic thing about both sides and you there's a narrative all their own how many people does it take to change a

big tire that takes it to people it becomes lighter touch as abrasive ways but one doesn't know those tractor incumbent haters are just huge what would cause a flat on something that big but governments are also split know a visit with the pope was looking for those young says a murderer's row absolutism john powers says patrick also tommy there's sometimes an extra step in getting a tractor back in the field some farmers tell the tires with water mixed with calcium chloride to keep the water from freezing in the winter and this is dengue adds weight for more traction will get real there you have it thanks for your a basic question you know if you've got a question or a quest for the aba sixteen go ahead give us a call at one eight hundred six seven eight seven four four four or you could email us to hp pr at peeled the basics what i

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