The coronavirus pandemic has had a major negative impact on business and commerce nationwide – most acutely felt by companies owned by merchants of color.
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Fresh spring growth is a welcome sight for producers looking for animal forage. However, this lush growth may also be the perfect set of conditions for a case of grass tetany.
Grass tetany is the result of low levels of magnesium in an animal’s blood stream, often brought on by diet due to low magnesium levels in lush, newly growing grass. Calcium also plays a role, helping improve magnesium absorption. In lactating animals, this drain on magnesium and calcium from milk production throws these imbalances off even more. As a result, high milk producing and older animals are most at risk for developing tetany.
Oklahoma wheat fields show leaf tip burn from the freeze damage. Snow cover insulated wheat fields and limited damage.
A February cold spell that saw temperatures dip as low as 22 below zero in Oklahoma’s Western Panhandle appears to have done little damage to the state’s wheat crop and livestock, according to reports from Extension specialists and the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture.
Oklahoma State University Extension economist Derrell Peel says livestock losses appear to be marginal. “I’ve checked around with my colleagues in several states and in Oklahoma,” Peel says. “It appears that death loss is pretty minimal, few losses of feedlot cattle or mature cattle.”
Shorebirds need sandy beach dunes to protect their nests from predators each summer, but after Hurricane Sally destroyed most beach crossovers on Perdido Key, officials are worried about beachgoers walking over the dunes and potentially crushing the endangered species eggs.
Perdido Key was among the most significantly damaged portions of the Panhandle after Hurricane Sally ravaged the region in September. The community still has many blue-tarped roofs, washed-out roads and downed fences, even without counting the extensive property damage to some homes and businesses.
“I don’t think hardly a structure out here escaped damage,” Perdido Key Association President Charles Krupnick said. “We got hit more badly than I think many people appreciate.”
Cassie Conklin is asking questions.
She rehabbed Frostburg State’s student newspaper into a relentless university watchdog.
Now they’re watching her.
Cassie Conklin used to stuff crumpled up copies of the student newspaper, left for trash, in her shoes.
“The Bottom Line was so lacking that my partner and I would take whole stacks of them to dry our boots.”
But Conklin doesn’t want to disparage the former journalists at Frostburg State University’s independent student reporting outlet.
“I just think there wasn’t a lot of engagement with the newspaper. It’s not like people were coming to the newspaper with tips.”