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Frequencies Of Daily Occurrence Of Maximum And Minimum Temperatures At Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Each Week Of The Year By Five Degree Intervals Together With Highest And Lowest Temperature Recorded And Standard Deviation Of Temperatures Each Week Of The Year, Ray F. Pengra
Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)
Frequencies of daily maximum and minimum temperatures are shown by five degree intervals for each week of the year for Sioux Falls, South Dakota, covering the years 1896 through 1955. Weeks are numbered starting March 1 in order to have each week over the entire period represent the same calendar dates. Week includes calendar dates January 3 through January 9 and is shown first in the table in order for the table to present the data approximately in calendar year order. At the bottom of each page highest and lowest temperatures within each category together with the standard deviation of …
Prices And Costs For Use In Farm And Ranch Planning, Russell L. Berry
Prices And Costs For Use In Farm And Ranch Planning, Russell L. Berry
Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)
The prices of most things farmers and ranchers produce will vary widely in future years as they have in the past. It is not possible to reorganize a farm or ranch every time there is a variation in prices. The benefits of a given crop rotation can only be secured after several years. When crop rotations are changed fields and fences may also need to be changed. Buildings may need to be built or remodeled to handle the new crops. Livestock enterprises should be chosen with regard to the crops produced. Since many years are often required to establish profitable …
Farm Price Programs, Kenneth L. Robinson
Farm Price Programs, Kenneth L. Robinson
Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)
This publication should be useful to farmers and others who want to review the road that agricultural price policy in the United States has traveled in the past and to appraise the effect of such policies. It will also be useful to a person planning and taking part in discussions of farm price policy and programs at meetings of farmers and others interested in American agriculture. In a democracy, farmers and agricultural leaders may expect to be called upon more and more to express their views concerning matters of agricultural policy and national farm programs. The discussion is divided into …
Weather In The Making, Ray F. Pengra
Weather In The Making, Ray F. Pengra
Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)
The objective of this pamphlet is to present some of the basic atmospheric phenomena that are related to weather. It is hoped that this will give research workers and others interested a general idea of how weather develops in the atmosphere and make possible a more realistic application of available weather data to agricultural research. Data and illustrations from "The Pilot's Weather Handbook" and the 1955 "Yearbook of Agriculture", as well as other government publications, are presented to provide an application of weather factors to agriculture and its problems.
Frequencies Of Daily Occurrence Of Maximum And Minimum Temperatures At Pierre, South Dakota Each Week Of The Year By Five Degree Intervals Together With Highest And Lowest Temperature Recorded And Standard Deviation Of Temperatures Each Week Of The Year, Ray F. Pengra
Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)
Frequencies of daily maximum and minimum temperatures are shown by five degree intervals for each week of the year for Pierre, South Dakota, covering the years 1892 through 1955, Weeks are numbered starting March 1 in order to have each week over the entire period represent the same calendar dates. Week 45 includes calendar dates January 3 through January 9 and is shown first in the table in order for the table to present the data approximately in calendar year order. At the bottom of each page highest and lowest temperatures within each category together with the standard deviation of …
Frequencies Of Daily Occurrence Of Maximum And Minimum Temperatures At Rapid City, South Dakota, Each Week Of The Year By Five Degree Intervals Together With Highest And Lowest Temperature Recorded And Standard Deviation Of Temperatures Each Week Of The Year, Ray F. Pengra
Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)
Frequencies of daily maximum and minimum temperatures are shown by five degree intervals for each week of the year for Rapid City, South Dakota, covering the years 1896 through 1995. Weeks are numbered starting March 1 in order to have each week over the entire period represent the same calendar dates. Week includes calendar dates January 3 through January 9 and is shown first in the table in order for the table to present the data approximately in calendar year order. At the bottom of each page highest and lowest temperatures within each category together with the standard deviation of …
Assessment Values And Taxes On Farm Land In South Dakota 1955 And 1956, Ray F. Pengra
Assessment Values And Taxes On Farm Land In South Dakota 1955 And 1956, Ray F. Pengra
Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)
Records in the Register of Deeds office on farm land sales were listed to secure the following report. When consideration was not given in the deed Internal Revenue stamps were used to secure an estimate of the consideration. Information on assessed valuations and amount of taxes were secured from the assessors' records and the auditors' books. Only those tracts were used for which consideration, assessment values and amount of taxes levied for both 1955 and 1956 were available on the tract sold. Where only part of a tract assessed was sold, the sale was omitted in this tabulation.
Land Market Trends In South Dakota 1941-1956, Supplement To Bulletin No. 413: Land Market Trends In South Dakota 1941-1950, Ray F. Pengra, Gabriel Lundy
Land Market Trends In South Dakota 1941-1956, Supplement To Bulletin No. 413: Land Market Trends In South Dakota 1941-1950, Ray F. Pengra, Gabriel Lundy
Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)
Data for this report were secured from the offices of the Register of Deeds in each of eight counties in South Dakota, These counties were Beadle, Brookings, Brown, Clay, Faulk, Haakon, Hand and Spink, Supplementary information was secured from the records of the County Auditors as well as from records available at the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation offices in each of the counties included in the study. This report, as a supplement to Station Bulletin 413, furnishes a continuous record of farm land sales in each of the eight counties over a period of sixteen years, 1941-1956, Beadle, Faulk, Hand …
Frequencies Of Daily Occurrence Of Maximum And Minimum Temperatures At Huron, South Dakota Each Week Of The Year By Five Degree Intervals Together With Highest And Lowest Temperature Recorded And Standard Deviation Of Temperatures Each Week Of The Year, Ray F. Pengra
Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)
Frequencies of daily maximum and minimum temperatures are shown by five degree intervals for each week of the year for Huron, South Dakota. Covering the years 1881 through 1955. Weeks are numbered starting March 1 in order to have each week over the entire period represent the same calendar dates. Week 45 includes calendar dates January 3 through January 9 and is shown first in the table in order for the table to present the data approximately in calendar year order. At the bottom of each page highest and lowest temperatures within each category together with the standard deviation of …
Graphic Presentation Of Weekly Mean Maximum And Mean Minimum Temperatures For 58 South Dakota Weather Stations For Each Week Of The Year, Ray F. Pengra
Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)
Average temperatures are presented graphically by weeks in order to emphasize the changes in temperatures from north to south over the state. Since farming operations, to be efficient, must be planned to take into consideration probable local conditions of weather and length of the season this should be useful in helping the farmers plan their farming program as well as do scientists in developing farm crops best adapted to each locality of the state. The climatological year has been considered as from March 1 through February 28 or 29 of the following calendar year in order to present data for …
Strengthening Farms And Ranches In South Dakota: A Preliminary Report Prepared For The South Dakota Legislative Research Council, Pierre, South Dakota, Russell L. Berry
Strengthening Farms And Ranches In South Dakota: A Preliminary Report Prepared For The South Dakota Legislative Research Council, Pierre, South Dakota, Russell L. Berry
Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)
There is much concern over the future of agriculture. Farm and ranch incomes have been falling as a result of the decline in farm produce prices since 1951 and continued h:gh costs of machinery and other means of production. Because of these factors and the capacity of modern machinery, farmers and ranchers have been increasing the size of their operating units. As farms and ranches increased in size, rural population has been decreasing. This decline in rural population has had serious effects upon the rural community and rural life. Schools, churches and local government units are seriously affected in areas …
Economics At South Dakota State College: Instruction-Research-Extension, Department Of Economics, South Dakota State College
Economics At South Dakota State College: Instruction-Research-Extension, Department Of Economics, South Dakota State College
Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)
The Department of Economics at South Dakota State College is one of the larger departments in the institution. Staffed largely by young men recruited from leading colleges and universities, it is progressive and forward-looking. New courses are constantly being added in order to provide additional opportunities for study and keep abreast of the times. A friendly personal relationship exists between faculty and undergraduate as well as graduate students. Rather them cutting the field of economics into definite and separate segments, the staff cooperates in carrying on the work of the department, so that each member has the opportunity of carrying …
Temperature Summary Of Data For 60 South Dakota Weather Stations From The Start Of Continuous Records For Each Station Through 1954, Ray F. Pengra
Temperature Summary Of Data For 60 South Dakota Weather Stations From The Start Of Continuous Records For Each Station Through 1954, Ray F. Pengra
Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)
Average weekly maximum and minimum data are presented for 60 weather stations in this report. The length of period varies from station to station depending on the date from which reasonably continuous data are available from each station. Data are presented in sixty tables arranged in alphabetical order. Column 3 of each table gives the length of period for which data were summarized for each station.
Yearly Dates Of Last Spring And First Fall Occurrence Of Minimum Temperature Of 24° F Or Lower For 58 Weather Bureau Stations Of South Dakota, Ray F. Pengra
Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)
These spring and fall dates have been determined each year for 58 Weather Bureau stations of South Dakota for each of the three temperatures of 24°, 28° and 32° F. Since publication in a single mimeograph pamphlet would be bulky, three mimeograph reports have been prepared one for each of the three above temperatures showing last spring and first fall dates on which such temperature occurred as well as the number of days each year between these dates. Average of spring and fall dates as well as average number of days between these dates are shown at the end of …
Yearly Dates Of Last Spring And First Fall Occurrence Of Minimum Temperature Of 32° F Or Lower For 58 Weather Bureau Stations Of South Dakota, Ray F. Pengra
Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)
These spring and fall dates have been determined each year for 58 Weather Bureau stations of South Dakota for each of the three temperatures of 24°, 23° and 32° F, Since publication in a single mimeograph pamphlet would be bulky, three mimeograph reports have been prepared one for each of the three above temperatures showing last spring and first fall dates on which such temperature occurred as well as the number of days each year between these dates. Average of spring and fall dates as well as average number of days between these dates are shown at the end of …
Yearly Dates Of Last Spring And First Fall Occurrence Of Minimum Temperature Of 28° F Or Lower For 58 Weather Bureau Stations Of South Dakota, Ray F. Pengra
Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)
These spring and fall dates have been determined each year for 58 Weather Bureau stations of South Dakota for each of the three temperatures of 24°, 28° and 32° F. Since publication in a single mimeograph pamphlet would be bulky, three mimeograph reports have been prepared one for each of the three above temperatures showing last spring and first fall dates on which such temperature occurred as well as the number of days each year between these dates. Average of spring and fall dates as well as average number of days between these dates are shown at the end of …