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Strawberry Enterprise Budget, Rebecca Sideman, Kaitlyn Orde, William Edwards Sep 2023

Strawberry Enterprise Budget, Rebecca Sideman, Kaitlyn Orde, William Edwards

UNH Cooperative Extension

The worksheets in this resource were designed to track expenses and determine a profit/loss value for a strawberry planting. This workbook was designed to take specific planting through its lifecycle---from the preplant period to the final bearing year. Neither the activities or material listed in the worksheets are intended to be a step-by-step guide for strawberry production; depending on the production system and farm, only a subset will be relevant to each operation.


Data For "Linking Previous Experiences To Behavior And Health In The Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera)"", Rebecca R. Westwick, Clare C. Rittschof, Gavin P. Brackett, Cameron E. Brown, Bethany J. Ison, Zainulabbeudin Syed, Anna M. Foose Jan 2023

Data For "Linking Previous Experiences To Behavior And Health In The Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera)"", Rebecca R. Westwick, Clare C. Rittschof, Gavin P. Brackett, Cameron E. Brown, Bethany J. Ison, Zainulabbeudin Syed, Anna M. Foose

Entomology Research Data

An organism’s ability to respond to changing conditions can be vital to its success. Indeed, plasticity is a common feature of living organisms. Much of the research in this area, though, has focused on effects caused by environmental conditions. What has received relatively less attention is how social experiences and broader features of an organism’s social environment can lead to long-lasting changes in health and behavior. This knowledge gap exists despite the well-documented existence of health and behavioral effects after social interactions in certain taxa such as humans.

Social insects such as honey bees provide an excellent opportunity to better …


High Tunnel Construction Cost Calculation Workbook, Shannon Rauter, Melanie Stock, Brent Black, Dan Drost Jun 2022

High Tunnel Construction Cost Calculation Workbook, Shannon Rauter, Melanie Stock, Brent Black, Dan Drost

All Current Publications

The cost of building a high tunnel fluctuates over time with supply prices. This Excel workbook accompanies the USU Extension fact sheet, "Constructing a Low-cost High Tunnel" by Black, Drost, Rowley, and Heflebower (2011) and allows users to input local supply costs. The workbook then calculates the cost to build a USU low-cost high tunnel with several design options according to high tunnel length and door structure. It also provides an example calculation based on April 2022 pricing for reference.


Sustainable Manure And Compost Application: Manure Application Calculation Excel Workbook, Melanie Stock, Tiffany Maughan, Rhonda Miller Oct 2019

Sustainable Manure And Compost Application: Manure Application Calculation Excel Workbook, Melanie Stock, Tiffany Maughan, Rhonda Miller

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Excel worksheet for manure application rate calculation.


Meandering Water Dataset, Matthew Elliott Aug 2019

Meandering Water Dataset, Matthew Elliott

Matthew Elliott

Areas of land use changes in South Dakota's PPR region and associated soil and agriculture economic attributes.


Formeas200_Spring2019 (1) (2).Xlsx, Curtis Vanderschaaf May 2019

Formeas200_Spring2019 (1) (2).Xlsx, Curtis Vanderschaaf

Curtis VanderSchaaf

TECHCruise is a freely available Excel program that summarizes forest inventories conducted using either fixed-radius or variable-radius sampling methods.  An infinite number of fixed-radius plot sizes can be selected while only 5, 10, 15, 20, and 40 BAFs can be selected.  A user can alter measurement units from tons to cubic foot volume and the number of plots that can be summarized can vary up to 50.

Three species can be selected, either loblolly pine, Soft hardwoods, and Hard hardwoods.  Soft hardwoods are poplar, red maple, and sweetgum while Hard hardwoods are oak, hickory, and ash.  Separate stand, stock, and …


Ray Et Al.: Pheromone Of The Velvet Longhorned Beetle Trichoferus Campestris, Ann M. Ray, Joseph A. Francese, Yunfan Zou, Kristopher Watson, Damon J. Crook, Jocelyn G. Millar Dec 2018

Ray Et Al.: Pheromone Of The Velvet Longhorned Beetle Trichoferus Campestris, Ann M. Ray, Joseph A. Francese, Yunfan Zou, Kristopher Watson, Damon J. Crook, Jocelyn G. Millar

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Drought Tolerance Database - Excel File, Larry Rupp, Samuel Cook Mar 2011

Drought Tolerance Database - Excel File, Larry Rupp, Samuel Cook

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This is the database for "Drought Tolerance, A Database of Irrigation Requirements for Woody Plants of Northern Utah."