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Wednes: riculture , June 10, 2020 The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma June management pond ideas, including fighting algae From the Beckham — Do not eliminate other potential drawbacks. your local Natural Resource nutritionally complete 32% live weight) County Extension Office pond plants by being too ag- Shallow Ponds are Weedy Conservation Service of- protein catfish feed, the ap- Don’t stock _fingerlings Fighting Algae gressive with herbicide ap- Ponds fice. In some cases you run proximate cost per pound is on top of bass or they will One of the most common plications — they compete Is your pond too shallow? the risk of breaking the pond around $3 versus the $5.00 be eaten. Feed no more than and messiest pond weed with algae for light and nu- Cattails and other emergent bottom seal and no longer that same dressed fish would what they will cleanup in 15 problems is filamentous al- trients. plants thrive in the shallow being able to hold water. cost in the supermarket. minutes and no more than 25 gae. Floating mats of the ~ Ask your county Ag Ed- zone and will fill them com- Catfish for Food Harvesting fish when they pounds per acre of pond per slimy plant can cover a pond ucator for tips on best fertil- pletely over time. Beware If you love eating catfish reach a pound and quarter day. Daily feeding at a set wrecking the appearance izer application. of having too many areas and want to produce more will give you the best feed time from late morning to and interfering with fish- — Move livestock corrals less than 3 1/2 feet deep. In for your consumption, con- conversion efficiency and mid-afternoon is best. Build ing. There are two common out of the area draining to some ponds this is due to the sider feeding them a pelleted lowest cost fish. (Assump- a simple 10-foot diameter causes: excess nutrients and the pond. slumping of shorelines. In catfish feed. tions: 100 catfish per acre, floating “feed ring” to keep lack of other pond plants. In some cases, aquatic others, sediment from ero- On average, a one-acre $0.55 per fingerling, $17.50 feed from blowing to shore Herbicides are only effec- dyes, such as Aquashade, at sion may have filled in parts pond might produce about per 40-pound sack of cat- and being wasted. Harvest is tive in the short term. Usu- the same time as a copper- of the pond. 75 pounds of whole dressed fish feed, 3 pounds of feed needed to avoid either hav- ally the best strategy is to based herbicide application, The long-term solution catfish ready for your freez- per pound of gain, 100% ing large catfish as expen- starve algae for nutrients and can be tried. Seek advice on may be deepening the pond er or table. Considering the survival and harvest, whole sive pets or scrawny catfish, light. How to do this: the application schedule and during dry years. Check with cost of fingerlings and a dressed catfish are 60% of if you stop feeding. Cattlemen group looking for singers OKLAHOMA CITY The deadline for entry is tlemen.org/national-anthem. support the Children’s Hos- Arena. To learn more about bership encourages you to - The Oklahoma Cattle- July 1, and the top three fi- The OCA Ranch Rodeo pital Foundation (CHF). the OCA Ranch Rodeo, join us in our advocacy ef- men’s Association (OCA) nalists will be selected by consists of 12 ranch teams The OCA Ranch Rodeo has visit www.okcattlemen.org. Ranch Rodeo has opened July 15. Online voting will of ‘real ranch’ cowboys raised more than $531,000 Tickets go on sale July 1. forts to ensure less govern- entries for its National take place to determine the that compete in compete in for CHF since 1997. The OCA is the trusted ment intervention, lower Anthem Singing Contest. winner, which will be an- five different events mir- The OCA Ranch Rodeo is voice of the Oklahoma Cat- taxes and a better bottom The contest will deter- nounced on August 1. To roring many of the activi- a two-day event scheduled tle Industry. OCA is the only line. For more information mine the singer of the Na- enter, contestants must com- ties of daily ranch life. The for Aug. 21 and 22. Per- voice that speaks solely for tional Anthem at the Fri- plete an entry form and sub- competition is fierce, but the formances begin nightly at the cattlemen of Oklahoma about OCA membership, the day night performance of mit a video performing the cowboys do not take home 7 p.m. and doors open at 5 and represents beef produc- theft reward program or ac- the OCA Ranch Rodeo on National Anthem (solo and much more than bumps and p.m. with shopping inside ers in all 77 counties across Aug. 21, 2020 at the Lazy a capella only). The entry bragging rights. They par- the trade show. Make plans the state. The OCA officers, tivities call 405-235-4391 or E Arena near Guthrie, Okla. form can be found at okcat- ticipate with one goal: to to join us at the Lazy E board of directors and mem- visit www.okcattlemen.org. The coronavirus is changing the way we shop for groceries By Daniel Neman, St. a physical altercation. Eight had been in a verbal or phys- going to the store less often And there may be an- are eating less. Louis Post-Dispatch percent said they had been ical fight. than before, while 15% ac- other reason the amount of Not surprisingly, grocery It started the first day of the a participant in a verbal al- That is just stunning, and tually said they are making money per trip has gone up, deliveries have increased lockdown. Americans raced tercation, and 8% also said it does not speak well of us more trips. too: Fully half of the people three-and-a-half times, while to the stores and bought ev- they had been a participant as a people. Before the virus, the peo- surveyed said they had wit- ery single roll of toilet paper in a physical altercation. Perhaps the problem is ple surveyed were making nessed price gouging, and online orders have increased on the planet. Yes, people are stressed. anxiety. Sixty percent of an average of 2.3 weekly 48% said they had paid more two-and-a-half times. But as we settled into the Yes, the notion of social dis- those surveyed reported be- trips to the grocery store; for certain items. Even so, only 58% of us daily grind of the pandemic, tancing has particular emo- ing fearful to shop at a gro- that number has dropped to And what is that money feel safe handling items from our grocery-store shopping tional resonance for a lot of cery store, and 60% (it may once a week now. spent on? Forty-seven per- delivery drivers, and 47% of habits continued to evolve. folks who feel their health or well be the same 60%) said Obviously, if we are cent said they had changed us disinfect items once they A new survey published their freedom is at stake. But they feel a sense of anxiety making fewer trips, we are their diet or eating habits. by C+R Research shows here’s the thing: The survey or panic when they shop. spending more at the grocery Of those who have changed, have been delivered. Fifty- the dramatic ways we have was taken on March 27 and Frayed nerves do not lend store, from an average of 47% said they are eating nine percent have stopped changed. 28. That was less than two themselves to collegial gro- $159 per trip pre-COVID-19 more processed foods (20% ordering takeout and deliv- Here, sadly, is the most weeks after things started cery experiences. to an average of $184 now. said they are eating less pro- ery altogether. dramatic change of all: Of shutting down. Most of us - but not all of If those amounts seem high cessed foods). Thirty-six Meanwhile, | took a survey the more than 2,000 people And in less than two us - also are making fewer to you, or low, remember percent are eating less pro- of my own, and here is what surveyed, 19% said they had weeks, nearly one in five of trips to the grocery store that these figures are aver- duce, while 21% are eating witnessed a verbal alterca- us had seen people get into than we did before the onset ages; some people are buy- more. T learned: One hundred per- tion at a grocery store, and an argument at a grocery of the coronavirus. Of those ing for large families, some Only 14% are eating more cent of us will be glad when 11% said they had witnessed store, and one in 12 of us surveyed, 73% said they are for themselves. meat and poultry, while 26% this whole thing is over.