Agri Business News 04-01-2010

In this Issue

• Climate Change: “A Work in Progress”
• EPA Sued by 15 States over Greenhouse Gas Rulemaking
• Senate Banking Approves Financial Rereg Bill; Commodity Market Portions still in Play
• Battle Over Child Nutrition EQIP Funding Offsets Ramping Up
• Senate Tax Credit Extenders Bill on Hold in House; Ethanol, Biofuel Bill Introduced

and more. . .

Agri Business News 04-05-2010

In This Issue:

• Senate Holds out for ‘Reduction, Refund’ Climate Bill; Some Say Likely Not until 2011
• Bill to Extend Ethanol Tax Breaks Draws Heavy Fire

• Meat Traceback Bill Introduced

• 2010 Corn Plantings up 3%, Soybeans Up Less than 1%

Agri Business News 04-23-2010

In This Issue:

• 2012 Farm Bill Hearing Kickoff Reveals Expected Partisan Divide.
• Senate Food Safety Delayed at Least Two Weeks.
• Grassley Introduces Ethanol Bill; Tax Committees Wrestle with Biodiesel Tax Extenders.
• Wheat Disease Pressure Light In Oklahoma

Boy/Girl Baby Blue Eyes Display

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Broom Corn – The Plant That Doesn’t Quit

Fall Decorations with Broom Corn

Broom corn (Sorghum vulgare) is not only a hardy annual plant, it’s a beautiful plant that can last for years following harvest.  This fact makes broom corn a plant that has numerous uses. As the botanical name suggests, broomcorn is a variety of sorghum resembling a tall grass that forms imposing and colorful tassel like, fan-shaped seed heads rather than of ears of corn.

Broom Corn Available In:

Red Seed Red Packet $2.00 Red 1 Ounce $8.00

Black Seed Black Packet $2.00 Black 1 Ounce $8.00

Mixed Seed Mixed Packet $2.00 Mixed 1 Ounce $8.00

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Canada Golden Rod (Solidago canadensis)

Canada Goldenrod

Goldenrod provides an easy to grow late-season plant for gardeners in search of reliable fall color. It can be used to treat a wide variety of aliments and is an ideal companion plant that not only attracts insects that are beneficial to your garden but these insects eat those that can damage plants. Goldenrod is considered native to the United States of America.

Canada Golden Rod is available in:

Canada Golden Rod 1 Packet $2.00 Canada Golden Rod 1 Ounce $20.00

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Caring for Indoor Plants – Simple Tips

It’s not unusual for people to worry about how to care for their indoor plants. These seven simple tips should help you stop worrying and let you enjoy your indoor plants they way you’re meant to enjoy them.

1. Watering – did you know that most indoor plants are killed by over-watering? . . .

2. Feeding – When it comes to feeding your indoor plants the most important thing to remember is “don’t over-fertilize” and “don’t. . .

3. Lighting – Different types of plants have different light requirements. While some plants will do very well without direct sunlight whereas other prefer. . .

Carolina Carports

Lorenz’s OK Seeds, LLC is proud to be an authorized Carolina Carports Dealer. Just like Lorenz’s, Carolina Carports is a family owned and operated business.

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Choosing Your Perfect Garden

Are you thinking about starting a garden? Maybe you’ve tried gardening before and ended up having a bad experience. Well don’t worry you’re not alone and hopefully this little guide will give you some ideas and help you in the initial planning stages so that your next experience will be a resounding result.

Once you’ve decided what type of garden you want to grow just make sure your not getting  into something you can’t handle. Remember, the ultimate aim of any gardening project should be enjoyment for you, your family and your friends.

Cold Frames –No Plants Should Begin Life Without One

Cold frames can play a vital part in your gardening endeavors. They are relatively easy to build and if you’re not that handy with a hammer and nails they definitely make a long-term, very worthwhile, time saving investment. In addition to growing vegetables, cold frames are an excellent place to start new seeds in springtime or to care for cuttings in the fall and winter months of your favorite evergreen plants. In fact, the propagation of a wide variety of new plants can occur in a cold frame. . .

Common Reed (Phragmites australis)

Common Reed

Common Reed (Phragmites australis) is perennial wetlands grass that resembles cane. It can reach a heights between 6 and 16 feet and tends to grow in thick stands. The seed head, is 8-16” long and has multiple branches. The plume-like, feathery, purple-brown flower heads gain their appearance from silky hairs growing along the flowers axis.

Common Reed Seed is Available in:

Common Reed Packet 1000 Seeds $10.00 Common Reed 1 Ounce 131,000 Seeds $500.00

For larger quantities call Freddie Toll Free 1 800 826 3655 for a quote

Container Gardening – What is it?

Container gardening is the procedure of growing plants solely planters and containers (pots). Unlike the traditional method of growing plants in the ground, container gardens are displayed throughout a home, office, patio or terrace.

You can grow almost anything in a container. Container gardening is the answer for most people who live in busy cities or those who don’t have a big back yard. You can put a container anywhere. And because it’s easy, just about anyone can grow flowers and vegetables.

Container Gardening Tips

Container gardens are a great way of creating a natural sanctuary in a variety of situations whether it be indoors or outside. They add a colorful and accented welcome to a room, patio or deck using pots filled with annuals or you can fill window boxes with wildflowers and small perennials that can be appreciated from the street and inside your home. You can place pots along the edges of outside steps, hide walls and other ugly concrete structures. You’re really only limited by your imagination and local conditions.

Discover Nature’s 7 Most Nutritious Herbs For Greater Health & Vitality

For maximum health and vitality both scientists and nutritionists highly recommend that we all pack in as many raw fruits and veggies as possible. Unfortunately, they often overlook the humble herb’s inner vigor. But not anymore!

Through the charms of organic container gardening, it’s time to not only add a melody of tastes, but a great source of essential vitamins, minerals and nutrients.

The Finalists Are:

Field Burning in Oregon Being Phased Out

Recently passed legislation in Oregon is aimed at phasing out the burning of grass seed fields. While reactions to the bill seem to be somewhat mixed, it makes us wonder if anything like this could be introduced in Oklahoma.

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First Gardening Experiences

Can you still remember your first gardening experience?

Was it a great experience or was it one full of disaster?

Let me tell you a secret. Mine was such a horrendous disaster that right then and there I decided that I would never touch a garden again. What’s worse, it wasn’t even my own garden, it was my mothers and I decided to help her out by weeding.

Well, I thought all the good plants were those that had flowers on them and that the weeds were everything else. Needless to say at that point in time

Frog Fruit (Lippia nodiflora)

Frog Fruit

Frog Fruit (Lippia nodiflora) is not really a fruit for frogs. This small prostrate spreading perennial forb has soft green leaves when water is plentiful and blooms from spring through fall. It is widespread in tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate regions and can be used as a lawn substitute. The tiny blossoms open in a ring varying in color from pale pink to white.

Frog Fruit is Available in:

Frog Fruit Packet 300 Seeds $10.00 Frog Fruit 1 Ounce 60,000 Seeds $50.00

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Garden with Your Kids and Reap the Benefits

If you can get your kids interested in gardening their enthusiasm and imagination will soon take over and with this will come questions, all types of questions, and thus learning. In this way your kids will develop a real appreciation for the environment and how humans can have both positive and negative impacts. The chances are that you’ll learn new stuff yourself and enjoy it because your children’s enthusiasm will carry over to you.

Keep in mind that you don’t need a large garden to get your kids involved. Why not have a container garden. You could even start with something as an old boot. if it’s the wrong time of the year to begin growing things, why not get some containers and let your kids decorate them?

Getting Ready For Spring Gardening

Have you resolved to make your garden the envy of your neighborhood this year?  Are you determined to have a garden you don’t need to apologize for? If so, now is the time to start. The first step to having a beautiful garden is good planning. If you’ve kept a log or diagrams of your garden beds over the years to help track what was planted where, and notes about what worked and what didn’t now is the time to . . .

Golfers and golf courses benefit from use of native grasses in roughs

If you’re a golfer the chances are that you like the look of a well-manicured and highly maintained golf course. I’m pretty sure that you also like extremely green grass that cut short because it’s easy to play off.  However, two recent studies from the University of Illinois indicate that a more natural landscape that includes native grasses not only benefits biodiversity, but also saves money by reducing both pesticide and labor costs. At the same time the research shows that courses using native grasses are likely to be just as challenging.

Grain Silos – Older than Agriculture?

Recent archaeological discoveries in Jordan indicate that grain silos were being constructed some 11,000 years ago.

According to the authors of the paper “The granaries represent a critical evolutionary shift in the relationship between people and plant foods, which precedes the emergence of domestication and large-scale sedentary communities by at least 1,000 years.”

In other words, these sophisticated structures appear to be older than the practice we know as agriculture.

Harvesting Ermelo Lovegrass

Harvesting Ermelo Weeping Lovegrass on the Lorenz Farm named One Tree Hill located in Major County, Oklahoma.

Hay and Grazing Seed Available Now

Pasture establishment or renovation is only as good as the seeds that are planted. At Lorenz’s OK Seeds we encouraged you to consider your seed selection carefully because this will help you save time and money (and who doesn’t need… Read the rest

Horsetail Rush (Equisetum hyemale)

Horsetail or Scrubbing Rush

Horsetail Rush (Equisetum hyemale), or scouring rush is a hollow stemmed, perennial, non-flowering plant that has been around for a long time. In fact, they were around millions of years before dinosaurs. There are many uses for Horsetail Rush. They are often found in Japanese gardens and can add a little “chic” to any setting. They grow well in confined spaces and can be used as an accent in ultra modern architectural settings. Horsetail Rush is also popular in floral arrangements.

Horsetail Rush is available as a live plant only. The minimum order is 50 plants at 50 cents per plant. Shipping is overnight and as such our standard rates do not apply. Please contact Freddie Lorenz TOLL FREE 1 800 826 3655 to obtain a shipping quote. Your order will be processed immediately.

Is Watering Your Plants Driving You Crazy?

It’s an unfortunate fact, but remembering to water your plants regularly can drive you crazy. Trying to remember to water them regularly and without over or under watering them is a straight out nightmare. And if we feel like this… Read the rest

Lawn and Garden Equipment

In the very near future we will adding a whole new range of lawn and garden care equipment. This will include:

• Seed and Fertilizer Spreaders,
• Organic Fertilizers,
• Organic Pesticides and Herbicides,
• Books
• and much more

More Women Run their own Farms

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Mounting evidence shows native grasses could destroy explosives pollution

By SCOTT CANON The Kansas City Star

Besides the obvious reason, TNT is not good for you.

But grass, it turns out, might be dynamite for the problem.

TNT contaminates hundreds of sites, from military firing ranges to old production dumps to waterways, and poses a threat to the human nervous system and to the liver and kidneys. It’s suspected to cause cancer. It can cause allergic reactions and attack the immune system, and it may lead to birth defects.

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Oklahoma Wheat Commission Now has a Blog

With the ever changing scene of communications, the Oklahoma Wheat Commission has decided to participate in the blogging trend.

The blog will connect you with harvest updates, recipes, education materials and check-off information. It is the intent of the Commission to use the newest form of communications to stay in touch with producers via the World Wide Web. As most blogs do, this one offers a spot to comment, add suggestions and upload pictures.