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Nebline, November 1993

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Horticulture

Rural $ense

Human Resources

4-H & Youth

Environmental Focus

Community & Leadership Development

Extension Calendar

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)

Nebraska Association for Family and Community Education News

and other extension news and events

The Development Of Contraceptive Methods For Captive Wildlife, Cheryl S. Asa

Contraception in Wildlife Management

Contraception has become critical in managing zoo populations, both to limit production of surplus animals and to promote genetic health. One role of the Contraception Advisory Group, formed in 1989, is to coordinate research to develop new contraceptive methods. Because melengestrol acetate (MGA) implants, which have been used by zoos for almost 20 years, recently have been associated with uterine pathology in felids, several new contraceptive techniques are being evaluated. These include other steroid hormone formulations, such as the birth control pill Depo-Provers®, the Norplant® implant, and MGA added to feed; bisdiamine, an oral male contraceptive; zona pellucida (ZP) vaccine; …

Can We Landscape To Accommodate Deer? The Tracy Estate Research Garden, Helen H. Heinrich, Susan Predl

Eastern Wildlife Damage Control Conference: 6th (1993)

The Morris County Park Commission, manager of hundreds of acres of open space in this central New Jersey county, realized that the white-tailed deer residing on park land were having a detrimental effect on the vegetation on these properties. A Wildlife Management Advisory Committee to the Commission was formed to measure the dimensions of the problem and to find ways to mitigate the effects of the deer population of deer. One recommendation of the Committee was to determine if a landscape design could be developed to use plantings less attractive to the deer; planted in ways that might discourage heavy …

Rejex-It(Tm)Ag-36, A Potential Tool To Protect Seeds From Bird Depredation, Peter F. Vogt

Eastern Wildlife Damage Control Conference: 6th (1993)

The ever increasing bird populations (e.g., Black birds, geese etc.) are known to cause considerable losses to agriculture. This problem has reached serious proportions for crops that are farmed on large tracts and are seeded by aerial application such as rice and canola. ReJeX-iTTM AG-36, a non-toxic, biodegradable bird aversion formulation, derived from food grade ingredients, has been proven in pen tests and field trials to be effective as a seed treatment to prevent birds from eating the treated seeds. The product does not harm the seeds or the effected birds in any way, even if ingested; it just makes …

Balancing The Needs Of Society: Listening To The Public, Robert K. Schmidt

Eastern Wildlife Damage Control Conference: 6th (1993)

Wildlife damage management, as a professional activity, is involved in a broad range of management issues affecting agricultural productivity and profitability, human health and safety, and endangered and valued species management. Surveys by S. Kellert and others have indicated that the general public is agreeable to resolving wildlife damage issues, even utilizing lethal technologies. However, surveys and case histories have also indicated that the process involved in resolving wildlife damage issues invokes much public concern. By process I mean the specific methodologies, strategies, and resource and social tradeoffs involved in developing and implementing a wildlife damage management program.

Ard News October 1993

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
COMMENTS FROM THE DEAN
NEW OR REVISED PROJECTS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS RECEIVED AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, 1993
PROPOSALS SUBMITTED FOR FEDERAL GRANTS
PROJECT FUNDED BY BOARDS
FY 1994 CSRS BUDGET
ARD MISSION
ARD GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
ARD-MANAGED GRANT PROGRAMS
DR. ALAN DOSTER SELECTED FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COURSE
RESTRICTIONS ON GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS
IMPROVEMENT OF RESEARCH FACILITIES
FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT BUDGETS - FY 1992
REPORT ON THE NATIONAL RESEARCH INITIATIVE FOR FY 1992
GREAT PLAINS REGIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

Nebline, October 1993

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

On-the-Grow: Horticulture News

Ag Update: Agricultural News & Events

Food, Families, and Finance

The Cloverline: 4-H News & Events

Extension Calendar

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)

Nebraska Association for Family and Community Education News

and other extension news and events

Weed Awareness Special Edition

Nebline, September 1993

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

On-the-Grow: Horticulture News

Ag Update: Agricultural News & Events

Food, Families, and Finance

The Cloverline: 4-H News & Events Extension Calendar

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)

Nebraska Association for Family and Community Education News

and other extension news and events

Rural Resource Guide Special Edition

Proceedings Of The Workshop On Adaptation Of Plants To Soil Stresses, J.W. Maranville, V.C. Baligar, R.R. Duncan, J. M. Yohe

INTSORMIL Impacts and Bulletins

Sustainable production of food and forage with a focus on plant adaptation to stress environments will be a continued priority for developing countries in the future. Since many areas of the world which support substantial human populations are drought prone, such as the subsaharan African zone and others, the primary focus has been on drought. However, one of the greatest restraints to sustainability of agriculture worldwide is the lack of sufficient soil nutrients for crop growth, or other soil constraints such as acidity or salinity which hinder crop production substantially.

Optimizing soil fertility or amending acid and saline soils to …

Nebline, August 1993

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

On-the-Grow: Horticulture News

Ag Update: Agricultural News & Events

Food, Families, and Finance

The Cloverline: 4-H News & Events

Extension Calendar

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)

Nebraska Association for Family and Community Education News

and other extension news and events

1993 Lancaster County Fair Edition

Ard News August 1993

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:

FYI994 CSRS BUDGET OUTLOOK
WIDAMAN TRUST DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE ASSISTANT AWARD
ANNUAL REPORT FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS
FORMAT FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE PROJECT PLANS
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION AWARDS
ARD ADVISORY COUNCIL ELECTION RESULTS
NEW OR REVISED PROJECTS
HARDIN DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP FOR 1993-1994
SUCCESS OF IANR FUNDING
PROPOSALS Submitted
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS RECEIVED JUNE AND JULY, 1993
GROWTH IN TOTAL FEDERAL ACADEMIC SUPPORT
PROJECTS FUNDED BY BOARDS

A Grain Agriculture Fashioned In Nature’S Image: The Work Of The Land Institute, Jon K. Piper

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Modern industrialized agriculture is based on monocultures of annual crops requiring massive levels of biocide, fertilizer, and fossil fuel inputs. This form of agriculture has led to soil erosion and chemical contamination of soil and ground water. The Land Institute is studying a new model for grain agriculture, based on the prairie ecosystem, involving diversified plantings of perennial seed crops. Species we have studied include eastern gamagrass, wildrye, Illinois bundle flower, wild senna, Maximilian sunflower, hybrid perennial sorghum, and hybrid perennial rye. The Land Institute s research program develops perennial polycultures based on basic questions concerning high seed yield, over …

Southern Alberta’S Cadillac Desert, Mary C. Thompson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Reisner (1986) coined the term "Cadillac Desert" to describe the high costs associated with irrigated agriculture in the American west. This concept can logically be extended to the northern-most reaches of the Great Plains in Canada to perform a critical analysis of irrigated agriculture in southern Alberta. Today irrigation technology, which arrived with the Mormon immigration of the 1880s, keeps over a million acres of former shortgrass prairie green. Costs of one of the world's largest snow melt irrigation systems are examined on several dimensions: the massive infusion of state funds necessary to build and maintain the system, environmental degradation …

Wpa News 41 (1993), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (August 1993), number 41

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Nebline, July 1993

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

On-the-Grow: Horticulture News

Ag Update: Agricultural News & Events

Food, Families, and Finance

The Cloverline: 4-H News & Events Extension Calendar

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)

Home Extension Club News

and other extension news and events

Agricultural Research Division 107th Annual Report 1993

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

It is a pleasure to provide the 107th Annual Report of the UNL Agricultural Research Division (ARD). This report contains lists of current faculty; active research projects; refereed journal articles, books, and book chapters published; theses and dissertations written; germplasm/cultivars released; and awards received by faculty. Also included are brief descriptions of accomplishments from selected research projects and the financial report for the period July 1, 1992, to June 30,1993. This report was compiled in compliance with the intent of the law of the State of Nebraska that established the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station on March 31, 1887.

Foreword ... …

Acuta Enews June 1993, Vol. 22, No. 6

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

Telemedicine

Vancouver Review

Economy at Turning Point

Yale Meridian Upgrade

Executive Director's Message

Nebline, June 1993

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

On-the-Grow: Horticulture News

Ag Update: Agricultural News & Events

Food, Families, and Finance

The Cloverline: 4-H News & Events

Extension Calendar

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)

Home Extension Club News

and other extension news and events

Early Adolescent Family Formation, Lisa J. Crockett

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

In the United States, adolescent family formation has been considered a major social problem since the late 1970s. The sources of concern are multiple. First, teenage childbearing is associated with risks for the mother and her child, including health problems, reduced life chances, and a greater likelihood of living in poverty. Second, a large and increasing proportion of births to teenagers are nonmarital; this appears to compound these risks. Third, the rate of teenage childbearing in the United States far exceeds those in other Western, industrialized countries (Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1986). The high rate of adolescent pregnancy in the United …

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, May/June 1993

Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems: Newsletter (1993–2000)

Contents:

Sustainable Ag Tour

ERS Sustainable Ag Initiative

Highlights from "Farm Bill" Seminar Series

Rural Policy Symposium Proceedings

SARE Grant Programs

SARE Funding - Chapters 2 & 3

Sustainable Agriculture Directory of Expertise

Integrated Farm Projects - ARDC

Study of Farm Family Health

Conference on Science and Sustainability

Ranch Management Practices In The Sandhills Of Nebraska: Managing Production, Sean A. Coady, Richard T. Clark

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

This report represents the second in a two-part series that summarize a comprehensive survey of Nebraska Sandhills range cattle operations. The focus of this report is on management of the production aspects of the ranch business and provides details on pasture and meadow management, hay production, crops, breeding programs, nutritional programs, and maintaining the health of the herd.

Wpa News 40 (1993), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (May 1993), number 40

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Nebline, May 1993

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

On-the-Grow: Horticulture News

Ag Update: Agricultural News & Events

Food, Families, and Finance

The Cloverline: 4-H News & Events

Extension Calendar

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)

Home Extension Club News

and other extension news and events

Nebline, April 1993

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

On-the-Grow: Horticulture News

Ag Update: Agricultural News & Events

Food, Families, and Finance

The Cloverline: 4-H News & Events Extension Calendar

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)

Home Extension Club News

and other extension news and events

The Muse: Resources For Faculty And Ta Newsletters, No. 6, Spring 1993

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

An essay on style: Somewhere between baseball caps and mortarboards, by LeAne H. Rutherford

Editors' musings: Newsletters à la française, by Laura Border

Filings: More Muse news to use

Excerpt: A Dozen Hints for Drowsy Proofreaders

Design Review: Boldness and restraint make BYU's new publication an instant winner, by Linc. Fisch

Supplement: TIPS: A Publication of Seneca College, SPRING 1993, VOLUME 10:

REFLECTIONS: GRADUATING STUDENT SURVEY, SENECA COLLEGE, by Eleanor Kirby Badger

People in Profile: Erika Gottlieb, by Malea Litovitz and Renee Scheremata

Dear Dr. Kath: THE RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES COLUMN

THREE COMMANDMENTS OF EFFECTIVE LISTENING, by Abava Newman

Charlene's …

Ard News April 1993

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:

REMAIN POSITIVE
GRANT AND CONTRACT INCOME OBTAINED BY UNITS DURING THE LAST THREE CALENDAR YEARS
RESEARCH PROJECT MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP
NEBRASKA BANKERS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
REGIONAL RESEARCH COMMITTEES
NATIONAL RESEARCH INITIATIVE ALLOCATIONS TO SAESs IN THE NORTH CENTRAL REGION DURING FY1992
DOD CONTAMINANT CLEANUP CONTINUES AT THE ARDC
NEW OR REVISED PROJECTS
PROPOSALS SUBMITTED FOR FEDERAL GRANTS
GRANTS & CONTRACTS RECEIVED FEBRUARY & MARCH, 1993

Nebline, March 1993

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

On-the-Grow: Horticulture News

Ag Update: Agricultural News & Events

Home Extension News

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) News

Home Extension Club News

The Cloverline: 4-H News & Events

Extension Calendar

and other extension news and events

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 25. No. 1. March 1993

The Prairie Naturalist

Paul B. Kannowski, Editor

Nikki R. Seabloom, Assistant Editor

Douglas H. Johnson, Book Review Editor

CONTENTS

FACTORS AFFECTING BIRD COLONIZATION OF RESTORED WETLANDS ▪ L. M. Hemesath and J. J. Dinsmore

RESPONSE OF DABBLING DUCKS TO EARLY-SPRING PARTIAL DRAWDOWN ON LAKE ERIE MARSHES ▪ T. Z. Riley and T. A. Bookhout

OVER-WATER NESTING BY DUCKS IN NORTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA ▪ . K. L. Solberg and K. F. Higgins

ADDITIONAL MOUNTAIN PLOVER SIGHTINGS IN MONTANA ▪ D. M. Prellwitz

SMALL MAMMALS OF WOODED HABITATS OF THE KONZA PRAIRIE RESEARCH NATURAL AREA, KANSAS ▪ D. W. Kaufman, G. A. Kaufman, and E. …

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, March/April 1993

Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems: Newsletter (1993–2000)

Contents:

New Look for the Newsletter

Policy Options for 1995 Farm Bill

New CSAS Paper Series

Proceedings of "Farm Bill" Seminar Series

Sustainable Agriculture Initiative National Status Report (USDA)

Leopold Center Progress Report

NSAS and OCIA Annual Meetings

Nutrient Management for Water Quality, The Iowa Experience

New Book Series: Our Sustainable Future

List of Funding Sources Available

Cosponsorship of Seminar Speakers

CSAS Advisory Committee Meeting

Gell-Mann Presents Visions of Sustainable World

Next Generation of U.S. Ag. Conservation Policy

Wpa News 39 (1993), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (February 1993), number 39

Published by the World Pheasant Association