In tonight’s Evening Edition, meet up with XtremeAg farmers Chad Henderson and Lee Lubbers, get an replace on California’s Prop 12, and browse the newest news about avian influenza in Iowa.
All I need for Christmas …
XtremeAg’s Chad Henderson’s Alabama wheat crop is off to a fantastic begin, whereas Lee Lubbers is worried about emergence in bone dry South Dakota.
Henderson is on tempo with herbicide utility. He’s spending his time cleansing out grain bins, transferring corn and beans, and doing grain bin upkeep.
Meanwhile in South Dakota, Lubbers (pictured above) says his winter wheat is struggling, and a few fields have not even germinated but. Even although temperatures are effectively under freezing, the bottom is not freezing as a result of there isn’t any moisture there. “All I want for Christmas is some moisture. It’s been ages since we’ve had measurable precipitation in west river region of South Dakota,” he says.
Catch up with each XtremeAg farmers of their newest replace.
Prop 12 placed on maintain
A California state decide has prolonged his ban on enforcement of voter-approved Proposition 12 till July 1 to permit time for the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of the animal welfare legislation. Justices heard arguments on the farm-group problem of Prop 12 in October and a choice is anticipated by the top of June.
Prop 12 requires hog farmers to offer at the very least 24 sq. toes of ground house for breeding sows and it bars the sale of pork produced on farms that don’t meet these requirements. The pork business argues that Prop 12 units unfair limitations to interstate commerce.
An identical proposition accepted by voters in Massachusetts can be on maintain pending the Supreme Court’s determination. Read extra about Prop 12 and why pork producers say it’s unconstitutional.
Bird flu is not going wherever
The fall migration of geese is anticipated to peak this month in Iowa with the potential to trigger additional infections of home flocks by a extremely pathogenic and damaging avian influenza.
The most up-to-date detection of the virus amongst these flocks was late final week at a Buena Vista County business turkey facility with about 40,000 birds, based on the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. This was the fifth detection within the state this fall.
Wild, migrating birds are believed to be the first supply of the virus transmissions. Even although the autumn duck migration is waning, the variety of Canada geese doubled final month.
Get the newest on avian influenza and see how this yr’s variety of affected birds compares with the 2014-2015 outbreak.
