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Mondav. August 29, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Farmers refill feed stock with government hay
The Associated Press
MOSCOW. Idaho — Despite a bounty of good will and aid found here, drought-afflicted Iowa farmers are worried that the Idaho hay they are cutting for hungry livestock back through enough to make it through winter.
"A lot of us guys are just plain out of hay," said Alba, dairyman Don Tibbals, one of the farmers who was to begin cutting last week. "But when things are as bad as they are back home, every little bit helps."
The 64 men, women and teen-agers who arrived late Aug. 23 after a 40-
hour, 1,600-mile bus trip scouted
journals the next day, where they would
begin harvesting hay near Deary.
about 30 miles northeast of Moscow.
The farmers, from south and central lowa, came to the Pauley region of northern Idaho to cut hay on lands set aside for government erosion
hay project.
control program.
At a dinner Wednesday night, the lowans were assigned fields and machinery. Plans were to work from field to field — like an assembly line — until the 4,500 acres of hay were harvested.
Conservation Reserve Program land normally is not farmed, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture has released it for harvest by drought-resistant prairie grasses spokesman for the Idaho Farm Bureau, which is coordinating the
The harvest could take 10 days, but cutting and bailing must be finished by Aug. 31, a deadline set by the Department of Agriculture.
Depending on field conditions, the program was expected to produce
from 1,500 tons to 5,000 tons of hay, which will be shipped without charge to Iowa by the Burlington Northern Railroad.
The lowns said that where there usually are three to four cuttings of hay a season, this year there was one poor harvest.
In addition to donations of transportation, equipment, food and lodging, the Idaho Farm Bureau received assistance in assisting an associate in the harvest, Tracy said.
Plant noise may attract bad insects
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — This summer's drought has caused plants literally to "cry" out for water as they wither, and scientists are trying to determine if their sounds — to highly sensitive ones — are attracting destructive insects.
Department researchers have been using electronic gadgets for more than four years to heat earrows in classrooms. They make noises as cell structures, or water tubes, break down from a lack of water traveling from roots to the soil.
When there is adequate water in soil, the water and nutrients flow back to the soil. When the soil lacks enough water, the tension becomes too great and the soil erosion occurs.
One potential benefit from this kind of research would be new ways of water cultivation, more precisely when to water their fields. Also it could aid in developing new plant varieties, which would be better suited for human use and nutrients from roots to leaves.
Hueack, an entomologist at the department's North Central Forest Experiment Station, East Lansing, Mich., and a colleague, Bill Mattson, think there might be a connection between the noses and flocking of some insects, such as beetles, to drought-damaged trees.
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