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Sceleratin Nitrogen Oxide As Aversive Agent In Conditioning Livestock To Avoid Senecio Latifolius, Leendert D. Snyman
Sceleratin Nitrogen Oxide As Aversive Agent In Conditioning Livestock To Avoid Senecio Latifolius, Leendert D. Snyman
Poisonous Plant Research (PPR)
Sceleratine nitrogen oxide, when administered together with a dichloromethane extract of Senecio latifolius, successfully conditioned cattle and sheep to avoid milled freeze dried S. latifolius mixed with maize meal. This treatment was effectively applied in conditioning steers to refuse eating S. latifolius grown in pots.
Farmers’ Adoption And Perceived Benefits Of Diversified Crop Rotations In The Margins Of U.S. Corn Belt, Tong Wang, Jin Hailong, Yubing Fan, Oladipo Obembe, Dapeng Li
Farmers’ Adoption And Perceived Benefits Of Diversified Crop Rotations In The Margins Of U.S. Corn Belt, Tong Wang, Jin Hailong, Yubing Fan, Oladipo Obembe, Dapeng Li
Economics Faculty Publications
Monoculture and simplified two-crop rotation systems compromise the ecosystem services essential to crop production, diminish agricultural productivity, and cause detrimental effects on the environment. In contrast to the simplified two-crop rotation, diversified crop rotation (DCR) refers to rotation systems that contain three or more crops. Despite multiple benefits generated by DCR, its usage has dwindled over the past several decades. This paper examined determinants of farmers' adoption decisions and perceived benefits of DCR in the west margins of the U.S. Corn Belt where crop diversity has declined. We analyzed 708 farmer responses from a farmer survey conducted in the eastern …
Monitoring Standing Herbage Of The Sands And Choppy Sands Ecological Vegetation Types In The Nebraska Sandhills, Daniel W. Uresk
Monitoring Standing Herbage Of The Sands And Choppy Sands Ecological Vegetation Types In The Nebraska Sandhills, Daniel W. Uresk
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
A modified Robel pole with white and gray alternating bands (2.54 cm) was used to measure vegetation on sands and choppy sands ecological types in the Sandhills of Nebraska. Objectives were to determine the relationship between visual obstruction readings (VOR) and clipped standing herbage, develop guidelines for monitoring standing herbage, and provide sample size estimates. Visual obstruction measurements of standing herbage were linear, and regression coefficients were significant (P< 0.001) for 125 transects (R2 = 0.60, SE = 496 kg/ha). Clipped standing herbage ranged from 293 to 4389 kg/ha with a mean of 1,559 kg/ha. A minimum of four transects (20 stations/transect with four …
Vision Of Self-Sufficiency Comes Alive (On Less Than Two Acres!), Madeleine K. Charney
Vision Of Self-Sufficiency Comes Alive (On Less Than Two Acres!), Madeleine K. Charney
Madeleine K. Charney
A Montague, Massachusetts family relishes their traditional homesteading lifestyle.
Vision Of Self-Sufficiency Comes Alive (On Less Than Two Acres!), Madeleine K. Charney
Vision Of Self-Sufficiency Comes Alive (On Less Than Two Acres!), Madeleine K. Charney
University Libraries Publication Series
A Montague, Massachusetts family relishes their traditional homesteading lifestyle.
Athol Slaughterhouse Rises From The Ashes, Madeleine K. Charney
Athol Slaughterhouse Rises From The Ashes, Madeleine K. Charney
Madeleine K. Charney
Plans for rebuilding the Athol slaughterhouse destroyed by fire in 2006.
Athol Slaughterhouse Rises From The Ashes, Madeleine K. Charney
Athol Slaughterhouse Rises From The Ashes, Madeleine K. Charney
University Libraries Publication Series
Plans for rebuilding the Athol slaughterhouse destroyed by fire in 2006.
Slides: Agriculture: Climate Change Problem, Solution, Or Both? And U.S. Agriculture And Climate Change: Challenge And Opportunity, David L. Carlson
Slides: Agriculture: Climate Change Problem, Solution, Or Both? And U.S. Agriculture And Climate Change: Challenge And Opportunity, David L. Carlson
Climate Change and the Future of the American West: Exploring the Legal and Policy Dimensions (Summer Conference, June 7-9)
Presenter: David L. Carlson, President, Resource Analysis, Inc., Denver, CO.
1 page and 19 slides.
Contains footnotes.