Miss America continues to be spot on Agriculture

Local radio station KNEB had a great story about Miss American 2011, Teresa Scanlan on their Ag News today. It is great to see a young woman from Gering, Nebraska speak and write so well about agriculture. Here are a few links you might like to read:

http://www.kneb.com/news/agricultural/8ecae285-0ce4-42fe-a729-24f65563a4a4

Here is the op-ed piece from the Hand that Feeds the U.S.:

http://www.thehandthatfeedsus.org/farming_america_Rural-Americas-Roller-Coaster.cfm

Hopefully, if anyone can inspire young people to look at agriculture and influence policy makers to see the importance of agriculture as not only a national issue, but a global issue as well. I hope she continues to be a strong voice of agriculture.

Great Job Teresa, we are pretty proud of you here in Western Nebraska!

Spider Mites

Spider Mites are showing up already. We scouted a field south of Bridgeport today and there was a very large colony found doing an extreme amount of damage to the crop already. This is the earliest that I have seen mites show up in the geography. This leads me to believe that we will have a fight against them all season. In this particular area they received a good shot of moisture last week and just ran the pivot over it this week. The colony was still very large. Contact a sales rep at Panhandle Coop and we will place you on our Inspex program and evaluate the crop. If an issue such as this flares up, a great deal of yield can be lost in a short amount of time.