Air December 1, 2004

Thank you Jerry, and good morning everyone.

Remember the cow-calf meeting tomorrow night at the sale barn. If you are wanting to go and haven't called in yet, please call the extension office today. Another meeting coming up next Tuesday - K-State Research and Extension is teaming with the Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission for a grain sorghum profit meeting in Marysville on December 7th. The program starts at 10 it is through by 2 and it will be at the American Legion in Marysville, which is located 2 blocks north of Hiway 36 - turn north at the Sonic drive-in. You do need to call by Friday to pre-register - contact the Extension office at 238-4161 for details.

I'm sure all you cattle producers had a little extra to be thankful for Thanksgiving day after the announcement that it was in fact a false positive on the BSE test. And it looks like the markets appreciated the news too! Well, these little tastes of winter we've been having the past week or so should serve well as a wake up call for everyone that we are into December and just three weeks away from the official start of winter! Sooo, what this means is that we may get no more snow this winter, or it may be the start of a very snowy wet winter. Are you prepared? With this wake up call fresh in your mind, why not start looking around the farmstead and seeing what needs to be done. Take some time to get all equipment ready to be stored away or winterized so it's ready to run. Place equipment you won't be needing into a storage shed or at least out of the way. Mow down weeds and vegetation so you'll have one less place to pile up snow in the wind. Get winter emergency equipment like tow ropes, tire chains, jumper cables and snow shovels where you can get to them easily. It's no fun rummaging around on a cold snowy night trying to find what you need. If you have livestock, make sure you have a good idea of what it would take to feed them for a couple days and then have those emergency rations stored where you could get it to them in an emergency. Which might mean hauling a few bales to a field and putting a fence around it. You all know that the more you prepare for an emergency, the less likely it will be that you'll actually face one!

This is Chuck Otte, Geary County Extension Agent, with Ag Outlook 2004.

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