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06/19/2026

Listen is as the late Howard Hale interviewed Steve Sward on his use of John Israel bits.

06/19/2026

The dialogue discusses the use of different crops in agricultural rotation, focusing on the cultivation of cover crops like rye. Rye is noted for its benefits in w**d control and soil management, providing a tap root that helps fracture soil to enhance water holding capacity. This is contrasted with wheat, which has a root ball and may not offer the same soil benefits as rye. The agricultural practice under discussion involves planting rye as a cover crop after soybeans, with periodic spraying for w**d control.
There are geographic variations in agricultural practices; for example, while rye is commonly used as a cover crop in northeast Kansas, it is less common where the speaker is currently located. The region no longer cultivates cotton, focusing instead on soybeans and rye rotations.

06/19/2026

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06/18/2026

Now, here's more with Buster McLaury.

"I don't know anything about it. I don't know what a horse whisperer is. But he said, I do know the horse is screaming all the time. Nobody's listening."

That's an interesting way of putting it, and I think you're absolutely right.

"Yeah, the horse tells us, you know, how he feels about things. And they have the same emotions we do. They get sure and unsure and sick and well and hot and cold and brave and afraid. So if we just learn to read the horse through his body language, you kind of tell us what he's all right with or not or where he needs some help and when he understands and when he doesn't. It's pretty obvious once you kind of learn to look. You know, each horse is an individual. But how you get there, there's got to be just a little difference on each one of them. And that's the interesting part."

Buster McLaury with the late Howard Hale on Horseman's Corner Radio.

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Co-host David Woodruff has Slick Sanders on the phone. David had just asked Slick about how things turned out.

"This is probably the best year we've had in several years."

So that's for cotton or for everything?

"Well everything's been pretty good. I mean as a whole even the dryland milo made a little bit. Irrigated milo was good and a lot of these farmers they're starting to plant, keep them stubble, keep the stalks, the milo stalks and they spray it and keep it clean and those hold moisture if we get any snow if we do. And then they'll plant cotton in that stubble just like we do cutting wheat. We leave stubble and they'll plant cotton in that stubble. That cotton is protected from the weather and it keeps the ground from blowing. But they're finding that planting cotton in milo stalks they're getting two or three hundred pounds more lint by doing that. And I don't know why the reason other than the protection and maybe something to do with all the nodules and the roots of the milo keeps the ground a little softer. I don't I don't know but there's there's some benefits and they're seeing it and they're starting to do that. But when you plant that milo in a cover crop like that I mean the cotton when it's little it needs protection from the weather and the wind and it tries to grow really fast to get to the top of that cover crop so it can get to the Sun. So it speeds up the growing process of the cotton."

That's interesting.

"In places where they don't grow wheat much they can grow milo and use that for cover."

Floydada, Texas Custom Harvester, Slick Sanders.

06/18/2026

Co-host David Woodruff has Slick Sanders on the phone. Let's see how Slick's doing with the wheat rat report.

How are things down there?

"We're through with pretty much all the milo harvest and corn harvest and basically almost all the cottons out of the field. They're still ginning on it. That's what we're doing right now, just hauling cottonseed."

You pick cotton, do you?

"No, sir. We just haul the cottonseed from the cotton gins to the oatmeal. Then they take the oil out of the seed? Yes, sir. They press that seed and get the oil out and they get more lint off the seed and they turn that cottonseed into cottonseed meal and then they take the cottonseed hulls.

That's all for cattle, you know, and so they use a lot of the cottons. So that cottonseed meal, that's a protein supplement, is that right? I believe so. I mean, they mix it in feed and the hulls as well and they feed raw cottonseed to cattle.

That's good protein feed too. So do you have any idea what the protein content is?

"No, I don't. I really don't. We just haul the seed to the oatmeal basically and then a lot of seed goes to dairies and flat storage, you know, to sell out later in the summer to dairies and feedlots and what have you. I got an idea that the protein in the meal will be a little bit higher than in the seed because of what they've taken out of the seed. Well, it's my understanding too, and they take the meat out of the cottonseed and they do something, cook it, I guess they make flour out of it or what, you know, but of course the oil, you can actually buy the oil from the oatmeal there for cooking oil."

Floydada, Texas Custom Harvester, Slick Sanders.

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