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Thistles: Control And Elimination, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
Thistles: Control And Elimination, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
Canada thistle infests about 100 thousand acres on 19 thousand farms in South Dakota, while perennial sowthistle infests about 120 thousand acres on 12 thousand farms.
Fertilizing Small Grain, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
Fertilizing Small Grain, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
The 5 million acres of small grain planted annually in South Dakota account for about 35% of the value of all feed grains, cash crops and hay produced in the state. Proper fertilization of wheat, oats, barley and rye could easily add $10 million to net farm income.
After The Funeral … Handling The Personal Estate, Elverda Moore
After The Funeral … Handling The Personal Estate, Elverda Moore
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
Guide to handling personal estates after a funeral discusses social security, veteran's benefits, bank accounts, safe deposit boxes, life insurance, savings bonds, debts, papers, closing an estate, executors of the will, sale of property, taxes, and other costs.
Growing Annuals In South Dakota, Dean Martin
Growing Annuals In South Dakota, Dean Martin
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
Guide to growing annual flowers in South Dakota discusses hardy, halt-hardy, and tender annuals, annuals for color, cutting, shade, and rock gardens; annuals to grow on dry soils, annual climbing vines, annuals for fragrance, edging, handing baskets and window boxes; and annuals to group in damp locations,
Growing Perennial Flowers In South Dakota, Dean Martin
Growing Perennial Flowers In South Dakota, Dean Martin
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
Guide to growing perennial flowers in South Dakota discusses soil, mulching, blooming periods, flower colors, plant height, and planning a border. Includes tables flowering bulbs, corms, tubers, and roots and perennials.
Venison … Care And Cooking, Donald Progulske, Harold Tuma, Rena Wills, Kenneth Schneider
Venison … Care And Cooking, Donald Progulske, Harold Tuma, Rena Wills, Kenneth Schneider
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
Guide to venison care and cooking discusses field care, home or locker care, suggested cuttings of deer carcasses, and cooking. Includes recipes.
Sudangrass For Supplemental Forage, Elmer E. Sanderson, Ralph Cline
Sudangrass For Supplemental Forage, Elmer E. Sanderson, Ralph Cline
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
This publications describes the characteristics of Sudangrass and explains how to use it for pasture, hay, or silage. It also includes variety recommendations and descriptions, seedbed preparation, the rate, time and method of planting, as well as Sudan’s effect on the soil.
Grasshopper Control In South Dakota -- 1967, B. H. Kantack, Wayne L. Berndt
Grasshopper Control In South Dakota -- 1967, B. H. Kantack, Wayne L. Berndt
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
This publication provides guidance on when severe grasshopper infestations are likely to occur and how to control them. Information is provided for treating grasshopper outbreaks in different situations, which insecticide to use, and the dosage for each situation. A map of the 1967 grasshopper outlook for South Dakota is also included.
When You Buy Foundation Garments, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
When You Buy Foundation Garments, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
Properly chosen foundation garments improve your appearance ... make your clothes fit better ... mold you into the fashion silhouette ... guard your posture.
Facts About Funerals, Nancy A. Vanderboom, Alverda Moore
Facts About Funerals, Nancy A. Vanderboom, Alverda Moore
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
Facts about funerals discusses preplanning, funeral directors, costs, standard services burial costs, advertised complete funerals, cemetery lots, markets and monuments, shipping the body, prearranging and prefinancing funerals, insurance, letters of last instruction, public welfare burial assistance, and post-death matters.
Fertilizing Pasture And Hayland, Earl P. Adams, Edward J. Langin
Fertilizing Pasture And Hayland, Earl P. Adams, Edward J. Langin
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
Fertilizing pasture and hayland discusses proper fertilization as a key factor in producing high quality livestock feed. Includes information on fertilizing at seeding time, fertilizing established stands, fertilization for seed production, and fertilizing irrigated forage+B2. for legumes, grasses, and grass-legume mixtures.
Buying Feeder Pigs? : An Economic And Management Guide, Arthur W. Anderson, L. J. Kortan
Buying Feeder Pigs? : An Economic And Management Guide, Arthur W. Anderson, L. J. Kortan
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
Economic and management guide to buying feeder pigs discusses price determination, good management, and using the hog futures market.
Stubble Mulching In South Dakota, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
Stubble Mulching In South Dakota, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
Stubble mulch farming can economically and effectively control soil erosion and crop damage. Stubble mulch farming uses surface plant residue to protect against wind erosion. Seedbed preparation, planting, cultivating and harvesting are done in such a way that remaining plant residues protect the surface soil against wind and water erosion until new crops can provide adequate protection.
Grasshopper Control In South Dakota -- 1966, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
Grasshopper Control In South Dakota -- 1966, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
Grasshoppers are usually prevalent in some areas of South Dakota each year. Heavy outbreaks also are likely to occur periodically where extensive acreages are infested over a wide area.
Insecticide Use Chart For South Dakota Poultrymen, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
Insecticide Use Chart For South Dakota Poultrymen, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
Insecticide use chart for South Dakota poultrymen with data for insecticides on range and feed crops, interior surfaces, bords, litter, and fly control. Includes suggestions and precautions, and chemical names of insecticides on the chart.
Selecting Swine Breeding Stock, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
Selecting Swine Breeding Stock, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
The pork producer's primary objective is the efficient production of high quality pork. He needs to select swine for: (1) high sow productivity, (2) rapid and efficient gains, and (3) high carcass merit.
Management Of Sow And Litter, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
Management Of Sow And Litter, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
The cost of producing pork varies considerably from farm to farm. This is true even on neighboring farms where opportunities appear to be equal. The only explanation that can be offered for much of this variation is the difference in the skill of the producers as managers. Management of sow and litter during gestation, farrowing to weaning, and weaning to market requires skill. The following recommendations can assist the producer during these phases of swine production.
Early South Dakota Lambs, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
Early South Dakota Lambs, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
Producing early spring lambs has been one of the most profitable enterprises on South Dakota farms. Choice spring lambs sold on the late May and early June market have never been in over supply. With good management and careful attention, a flock of ewes bred for early lambs will return an excellent profit from low investment with comparatively little interference with other farm labor.
Emergency And Late-Planted Crops, Ralph Cline
Emergency And Late-Planted Crops, Ralph Cline
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
Guide to emergency and late-planted crops addresses good practices and late-planted crops, including Sudan grass or sorghum-Sudan grass hybrids, corn, soybeans, millet, rape, buckwheat, and winter rye.
Grain Sorghum Production, Elmer E. Sanderson, Edward J. Langin, Leon S. Wood
Grain Sorghum Production, Elmer E. Sanderson, Edward J. Langin, Leon S. Wood
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
Guide to grain sorghum production discusses seedbed preparation, time and method of planting, sorghum plates for corn planters, calibrating the planter, rate of planting, narrow rows, weed control, fertilizer, surface-planted and listed sorghum, harvesting, storage, diseases and recommended varieties.
A Pasture System For You, Lyle A. Derscheid, Raymond A. Moore, J. K. Lewis
A Pasture System For You, Lyle A. Derscheid, Raymond A. Moore, J. K. Lewis
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
Guide to pasture systems discusses productivity of tame grasses, grazing systems, and seasonal pastures. Includes tables for the minimum heights of pasture species for initiation and terminating grazing and two suggested pasture systems.
Control And Elimination Of Field Bindweed, Lyle A. Derscheid, Kenneth R. Frost, Wayne G. Wright
Control And Elimination Of Field Bindweed, Lyle A. Derscheid, Kenneth R. Frost, Wayne G. Wright
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
This publication provides information on various methods to control creeping jenny or field bindweed in fields. Reducing stands with combinations of cultivation, cropping, and chemicals is discussed, as well as recommendations to prevent spreading, using nonselective herbicides, and reducing stands in shelterbelts.
Native Grasses For Pasture Or Hay, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
Native Grasses For Pasture Or Hay, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
The low production of native or permanent pasture grasses has long been a problem in South Dakota. Most of these pastures are bluegrass or native short grasses such as blue grama and buffalo grass. These grasses are palatable and highly nutritious, but do not produce as much TON (total digestible nutrients) per acre as native mid-grasses or tall grasses.
Tame Grasses For Pasture Or Hay, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
Tame Grasses For Pasture Or Hay, Cooperative Extension South Dakota State University
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
The low production of native or permanent pasture grasses has long been a problem in South Dakota. Most of these pastures are bluegrass or native short grasses such as blue grama and buffalo grass. These grasses are palatable and highly nutritious, but do not produce as much TDN (total digestible nutrients) per acre as recommended tame grasses. Tame grasses can be used to good advantage on many pastures.
Barley Production In South Dakota, Elmer E. Sanderson, Leon S. Wood
Barley Production In South Dakota, Elmer E. Sanderson, Leon S. Wood
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
This publication provides information on the classes of barley and recommendations for planting, fertilizing, threshing, harvesting, and storing barley. Guidance is also included for soil fertility, barley in the rotation, seedbed preparation, time, method, and rate of seeding, seed quality, weed and disease control, as well as variety recommendations.
Chemical Weed Control In Trees, Lyle Derscheid, Lawrence Helwig, Kenneth Frost
Chemical Weed Control In Trees, Lyle Derscheid, Lawrence Helwig, Kenneth Frost
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
This publication provides recommendations for when and how to apply treatment, what herbicide to use, general suggestions for older trees as well as new transplants and young trees, power sprayer calibration, and measurement of chemical for sprays.
Weed Control In Sorghum, Kenneth R. Frost, Lyle A. Derscheid, Wayne G. Wright
Weed Control In Sorghum, Kenneth R. Frost, Lyle A. Derscheid, Wayne G. Wright
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
This publication provides recommendations for using cultivation such as a rotary hoe or flextine harrow to control weeds in sorghum, as well as the costs of these methods. Guidance is also included for chemical control with 2,4-D, atrazine, propazine, CDAA, as well as information on the estimated cost of herbicide treatment.
Weed Control In Corn, Kenneth R. Frost, Lyle A. Derscheid, Wayne G. Wright
Weed Control In Corn, Kenneth R. Frost, Lyle A. Derscheid, Wayne G. Wright
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
This publication provides recommendations for using cultivation such as a rotary hoe or flextine harrow to control weeds in corn, as well as the costs of these methods. Guidance is also included for chemical control with 2,4-D, atrazine, atrazine plus linuron, Ramrod, CDAA and CDAA-T, as well as information on pre-emergence spraying, directed sprays, herbicide-insecticide-fertilizer mixes, and the estimated cost of herbicide treatment.
Grazing Management Based On … How Grasses Grow, Lyle A. Derscheid, Walter N. Parmeter, Raymond A. Moore
Grazing Management Based On … How Grasses Grow, Lyle A. Derscheid, Walter N. Parmeter, Raymond A. Moore
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
This publication provides diagrams and explains the growth characteristics of grasses. The season of growth, leaf and root systems, is illustrated, as well as proper management of grass and pastures. The effect of overgrazing and how it destroys both leaves and roots is also described.
Making And Feeding Alfalfa Haylage, Cooperative Extension, South Dakota State University
Making And Feeding Alfalfa Haylage, Cooperative Extension, South Dakota State University
SDSU Extension Fact Sheets
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