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Summer's drought haunting agribusiness
Staff Reporter
By CHUCK ISAACSON Staff Reporter
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Farmers hardest hit by the June-July drought will be lucky to give five bushels an acre of corn this fall, he said, while 100 bushels an acre.
THERE SIMPLY WAN'T enough rain at the right time. It was not only the lack of water, but also the hot, dry winds during the dry spell.
Dave Smith, agricultural agent for the Douglas County Extension Center, said the hot winds destroyed the corn's pollination, sucking the moisture out. Although corn is a hardy plant and normally can take adverse weather conditions, pollination is very critical to the plant's development. Smith said.
"It doesn't take much rain for a good
crop if it comes at the right time."
Corn needs a great deal of water during pollination to fully develop the silk and tassel, which are the reproductive organs of the plant. Three or four inches of rain during that period are best, he said.
THE DROUGHT DID not affect farms in Iowa and Nebraska as badly local farmers, but prices probably will be higher than last year, Smith said.
A Lawrence grian elevator operator said corn prices might rise 30 percent over the past year’s price of $2.50 a bushel to high as $3.50 a bushel.
Wheat prices often rise when corn prices do, and wheat is now selling for $1.49 a pound.
Another problem corn farmers said they had this year was the halitorm that hit the area at the end of May. The hail damaged many crops, forcing the farmers to plow under the broken tree and replant. This doubled their planting costs, but probably will result in higher yields this fall, Smith said.
"We'll just have to wait and see what happens," he said. "We need more rain
CROPS OTHER THAN corn also were affected by the dry weather, but most have fared better. The bumper wheat crop was already harvested when the drought hit hardest. Milo, used for feed and alcohol production, is a hot-weather plant and does not start to produce until August.
now. The rainfall this month helped, but most of the ground water is gone."
Soybeans made it through the summer with no problem until now. During harsh conditions, the soybean produces its resources and slows its growth, Strong said.
However, the rains earlier this month cause the plants to start producing pods and the recent dry spell is forcing the plants to expand their roots in the plant rather than from the ground.
Many soybean fields are choked with weeds, Strong field, because without water, the herbicides used to kill will not harm the crops. The plantans are virtually impossible to harvest.
THE DROUGHT AFFECTED not THE DROUGHT AFFECTED but other related businesses as well.
Theeron Harper, owner of Deem's Farm Equipment, 110 E. 23rd St., said
farmers often bought new equipment in anticipation of good crops. But when rain is scarce, it can cause fewer sales in the farm equipment business.
WAYNE STRONG moved to restart his tractor.
"Although it was a bumper wheat crop this year, prices were lower earlier this summer because farmers had a surplus," Harper said.
Inflation hit the farm industry as hard as other businesses, raising equipment prices from 6 to 10 percent, Harper said.
"A 50-cent increase in crop prices would mean only a two or three-cent increase at the grocery store.
"I figure it will take five or six years to recover economically from this year," he said. "The expenses of planting, cultivating and harvesting a crop are high compared to the prices we get back at market.
"But no one can predict what the weather will do, and the weather has been the biggest problem we've had this year."
Business club president to be in telethon
By KATHY BRUSSEL Staff Reporter
As a high school junior, George Taylor had only a glimmer of an idea about where his business interests would take him.
Two years later, as a KU freshman, he holds a position that has him traveling and rubbing elbows with professionals in business.
Taylor, Overland Park freshman, is the national president of the high school division of DECA, the Distributive Education Clubs of America. According to Taylor, "DECA is the only student institution operating within the nation's schools to attract individuals to field in marketing, management and merchandising."
DECA MEMBERS who have finished high school and have had experience in
DECA marketing competitions often are elected president of the high school
As president, Taylor does public relations work for DECA, attends regional high school conferences and represents the student chapters of the organization in dealings with businessmen throughout the nation. This weekend, his job will have an added twist when he flies to Las Vegas, Nev., to appear on the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.
Taylor will represent DECA's student members on the Labor Day fund-riser and will present DECA's contribution to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
TAYLOR SALEH he expected DECA to donate about $347,000 collected by high school chapters across the nation. He will be meeting with students between 10 and 11 a.m. Monday.
Although Taylor will have only a 42 to 60-second spot on the telon, he said he was excited to be included in the tour. But Taylor also had the chance to meet several celebrities.
Taylor became interested in business as a junior at Shawnee Mission South High School in Overland Park. He enrolled in a marketing and retailing course and soon became involved in the school's DECA chapter.
AFTER SERVING as chapter president and the state president of high school chapters, Taylor set his sights on a higher office.
He was elected national president of the high school division at DECA's Career Development Conference last fall. The conference is the only Kansas to have won the podium chartered DECA chapters began electing national presidents in 1948.
He said campaigning for the DECA presidency was much like running for a running mate in the primaries.
He had to obtain recommendations from local businessmen as well as teachers and the state DECA adviser. He had to develop goals for DECA and outline the tasks he wanted to accomplish as president.
A campaign committee of fellow DECA members worked on publicity materials, and Taylor made the rounds in town to search for donations to fund his campaign.
DECA comprises five divisions: high school, junior college, alumni and professional. The high school division is 149,000 members, 164,000 members of the DECA 200,000 members.
AFTER HIS election, Taylor began the task of overseeing all high school chapters of DECA.
Museum store offers world shopping trip
By JANE NEVFELT Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Where do you go on campus to find a book on the maintenance of rattlesnakes in captivity? A n electric frog-growing kit? Indian beadwork? A carved wooden elephant from Africa?
The Museum Shop in the Museum of Natural History has all of the items above, plus basketball, wall art and baskets. batik tshirts from Thailand and batik tshirts from Thailand.
"You can't beat the prices and the variety here," said Mary Anne Orazem, manager of the Museum Shop.
ORAZEM SAID that most of the items dealt with nature so that people who visited the museum knew something to remind them of their visit.
"They can take part of the museum home with them," she said. "It enhances the experience."
Despite the opportunity to buy Mexican onnx wryv stones for 50 cents and fossilized sharks' teeth for $125, the hotel shop was seldom filled with customers.
"I think one of the problems is that the campus has grown to the south," she said. "A lot of people don't have an email address. This is part of the campus anymore."
ORAZEM SAID the shop had both imported and local items. Among the local items, she listed life-sized, naturally colored bird mobiles, produced in Lawrence, macrane work and cloisonne jewelry.
"In a university situation, you have extreme turnover," she said, "but once a person comes, we've got them. They'll come back."
Orazem said new students might not know about the shop.
"Some people call me up and tell me about their work," Orazem said. "I saw one woman's work in the library and liked it."
Orazem said imported objects were ordered from vendors who sold items to museum shops across the country.
"They import and we order from them, mostly at wholesale prices," she said.
The shop has carved wooden animals from Kenya, basket work from South America, assorted fuzzy animals from West Germany, Guatemalan wall hangings and a martineon horse from China.
"We get things from all over," Orazaem said. "It's a great place to buy gifts."
THE SHOP ALSO has plenty of items that relate directly to the Museum of Natural History. Postcards show pictures of dinosaurs and primalia flora, elephant herds and walruses. The electric frog-growing set gives an address to send a coupon to receive live frog eggs for growing. Instead of a model airplane or car kit, the Museum Shop offers an Eohippus kit.
Orazm seen the shop was started in 1968, when the museum director's office was converted into a specialty shop. The Museum Shop is located on the left of the main doors to the museum on Jayhawk Boulevard.
The shop has a more relaxed and attractive atmosphere than most bookstores or gift shops, Orazen said. She said she particularly liked the stained glass windows, which show scenes of several animals—two frogs on a lily pad and two raccoons entering a pond.
"You see the wood ceiling, the paneling and the stained glass windows," Orazem said. "It really has a nice atmosphere."
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