FARMWEEK
December 7, 2007 - Show 3122 - Number 1,526
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Feature:
Norman Borlaug,
Father of the Green Revolution
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS
BAILEY WINS MFBF YOUNG FARMER AND RANCHER AWARD - Video
Third generation sweet potato grower Stephen Bailey of Vardaman is honored at Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation Convention in Jackson, Mississippi. Keynote speaker was Major General Harold Cross. Reporter / Video Editor: Leighton Spann. Photographer: MS Farm Bureau.
Appearing: Stephen Bailey / Vardaman.
Major General Harold Cross / Adjutant General / Mississippi National Guard.
MSU DAIRY COWS GET A “RESEARCH PARLOR” - Video
Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. Mississippi State University has its own dairy herds and the one located
near Starkville has a new milking parlor. The dairy provides job opportunities for students and serves as a
research and educational tool for the animal and dairy science department.
Reporter / Photographer / Video Editor: Amy Taylor
Appearing: Kenneth Graves / Dairy Parlor Manager / MSU Animal and Dairy Science.
Morgan Bullard / Dairy Employee / Junior / Southaven, MS
SOUTHERN GARDENING - The Color Yellow - Video - See this story
How to use “yellow” to add warmth to your landscape. Appearing: Norman Winter / Horticulturist / Mississippi State University Extension Service. Telephone (601) 857-2284. Writer / Video Editor: David Lack. Writer: Norman Winter. Photographer: Brian Utley
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MARKET NEWS
SOYBEANS AT HIGHEST PRICES IN 34 YEARS!
Prices being driven by Chinese demand and a fear that enough acres will not shift from corn to soybeans in 2008.
DEMAND REMAINS GOOD FOR SOYBEANS AND CORN DESPITE PRICES
Export sales remain good.
Appearing: Tomm Pfitzenmaier / Summit Commodities.
FEED PRICES UP 21% COMPARED TO A YEAR AGO
Source: U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture
TRIVIA QUESTION - What county is the largest in Mississippi? Answer Yazoo County
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT - Video
USDA REPORT CALENDAR - Link to National Agricultural Statistics Service
MARKET INTERVIEW - Video
Cattle - Appearing: John Anderson / Agricultural Economist / Mississippi State University Extension Service.
Link to MSU Agricultural Economics and Policy Perspective Newsletter Reporter: Leighton Spann. Video: MSU TV Center.
CATFISH PRICES AND PROCESSING DROP IN OCTOBER
Average pond bank price was 68 cents per pound. Down one cent from September and 15 cents from a year ago.
Link to USDA catfish processing report
TRIVIA ANSWER - What county is the largest in Mississippi? Answer Yazoo County
CALENDAR OF EVENTS - Link to Farmweek Calendar
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FEATURE STORY
NORMAN BORLAUG, FATHER OF THE “GREEN REVOLUTION” - Video - See this story at Market to Market
Ninety-three year old Norman Borlaug received the Congressional Gold Medal last summer in Washington D.C. He's only the fifth person to receive it as well as the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Nobel Peace Prize (1970). His plant breeding work to increase wheat yields in the Third World after World War Two is credited with saving millions of lives. Reporter: Nancy Crowfoot. Video source: Market to Market, Iowa Public Television.
Contact Information:
Link to story script at Market to Market
Links to information about Norman Borlaug
PREVIEW OF NEXT WEEK’S SHOW - Video
Feature story: 7L Farms and Land Company, Wiggins, Mississippi.
Southern Gardening: cyclamen.
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