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Walk Across Arkansas is back for its fall event September 12 – November 6. The eight-week exercise program is organized each spring and fall by the Cooperative Extension Service, part of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, with the goal of helping Arkansans improve their health.

While cold weather and Christmas shopping might not be on the top of our mind, it is time to think about winter feeding strategies and inventory. Pre-planning to maximize utilization rates and extend the grazing season could help to combat current high feed costs and fuel prices. Depending on location, producers have many options for winter feeding.

Results of experiment in small grain management completed during 1956 through 1960 have been released by the University of Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. Grain yields of oats did not differ on seedbeds by plowing about July 8, August 8 or by disking September 8.

by Cleo Martin The most troublesome kinds of wasps around the house are yellow jackets, hornets and the Polistes wasps. The Polistes wasps are the ones that make the saucer or umbrella shaped nests under eaves of houses and in the shrubbery or other protected places.

Courtesy of Veterans Affairs Mary Francis Biggs of Lexington Park, Maryland, participated in a conspiracy organized by her daughter, Angela Farr, in which false and fraudulent documents were submitted to VA in support of disability claims in the name of Biggs’ husband. The fraudulent documents stated that the husband was homebound and required full-time assistance for basic tasks such as eating, bathing, and dressing.

Courtesy of Veterans Affairs Jose Torres of Shelbyville, Delaware, conspired and agreed with others to unlawfully purchase short-supply drugs and resell those drugs to wholesale distributors. Torres and another company entered business arrangements with retail pharmacies that were not licensed to engage in the wholesale distribution of prescription drugs.