Beets, turnips, English peas, new potatoes, green onions, leeks, spinach, hot house tomatoes, strawberries, radishes, pickled beets, salsa, jams and jellies (sugar-free, also), fried pies, fudge, peanut brittle, vegetable plants, hanging baskets, many varieties of trees, bedding plants, fresh pecans, candles, jewelry, arts and crafts. Some items are subject to change related to weather conditions.

Angus enthusiasts should mark their calendars for the 2008 National Angus Conference Oct. 7-9 in Oklahoma City. The American Angus Association announced that Purina Mills, LLC and Alpharma Animal Health will sponsor the event. The conference headquarters are in the Clarion Meridian Hotel Convention Center. The event,  titled “125 Years — the Challenges of the Next Decade,” will focus on production, marketing and performance. The Oklahoma Angus Association will host “An Angus Gathering,” a two-day tour of Angus operations along with a museum and reining horse training facility.

The Pottawatomie County Cattle Producers and the OSU Extension Center will sponsor an “Agro-Terrorism” seminar at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, at the Tecumseh Ag-Ed Building on the campus of Tecumseh High School, North 13th Street.

Spring dead spot is a destructive disease of bermuda grass and bermuda grass hybrids. The disease occurs on stands of all ages but is most common three to four years after the turf has been established.

Three different root-rotting fungi are responsible for the disease and all three occur in Oklahoma. However, O. herpotricha appears to be the most common cause of the disease in our region.

Hello friends.
What a month April was. 4-H was involved in, and had, some great events.
We started out with the annual Kiwanis Pancake Dinner. 4-H always serves and helps with it. Everyone enjoys working with the Kiwanis Club. They are some of the greatest donors we have, and they help us out with our banquet every year.
There was a large turnout and lots of fun.

Craig Heinrich and other South Plains cotton producers no longer have to look to the sky and pray — widespread rain arrived just in time for planting.
Heinrich, who grows irrigated cotton and the dryland type that relies solely on rainfall, said he’s “tickled” by this week’s rain. Officials said its value to the region’s cotton crop could be in the millions of dollars.

Asparagus, green onions, broccoli, English peas, potatoes, herbs, leaks, fresh pecans, hot house tomatoes, strawberries, cakes, fudge, baked goods, soy candles, arts and crafts, jams and jellies, pickles beets, pickles, salsa, hanging baskets, landscaping plants, vegetable plants, quilts and more.
The farmers market is open Wednesday and Saturday mornings at U.S. 177 and Hardesty Road.

Struggling to complete a farm bill that can survive a presidential veto, lawmakers have sent the White House a sixth extension of farm and nutrition programs.
Lawmakers had hoped to finish the legislation this week so a final version could be debated on the House and Senate floor next week. But following a meeting that lasted until early Friday morning, some key issues, including the size of payments to wealthy farmers, remained unresolved.

Aquatic plants growing in ponds and lakes are beneficial for fish and wildlife. They provide food, dissolved oxygen and spawning and nesting habitat for fish and waterfowl.
Aquatic plants can trap excessive nutrients and detoxify chemicals.

Cattle ranchers squeezed by the economy are finding themselves in a conundrum of downsizing they wouldn't have expected a few decades ago, Oklahoma State University beef cow specialist Glen Selk said.