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Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this issue:

A Message from the Vice Chancellor................ 2

Needling Makes Beef More Tender .......................... 3

Detecting Herbicide Carryover in Soil ........................ 4

Roadside Marketing........................... 6

Many Uses Found for Geologic Maps ........................ 8

Nebraska Moves Ahead .................................... 10

Resistant Alfalfa Varieties Sought by Researchers ................................ 12

Kids Having Kids ................................... 14

Psuedorabies Virus Causes Producers Severe Losses ........................... 16

Corn or Grain Sorghum? ................................... 19

Don't Fool-Cooperate with Mother Nature ........................ 21

Sulfur Can Boost Corn Yields on Sandy Soils ........................... 23

Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this issue:

A Message from the Vice Chancellor ......................... 2

International 4-H Youth Exchange ............................ 3

When Sudden Infant Death Strikes ........................... 4

Have You Been Duped? .................................... 6

Rain or Drought-Your Guess or Mine? ....................... 8

Becoming the Me I'd Like to. Be .............................. 10

TLC for Your Plants ........................................ 12

AgriScope ................................................. 15

Wheat Leaf Rust Attacks Crap Yields .......................... 16

Small Beef Packers Undergo. Changes ......................... 18

Energy Impacts on Nebraska Agriculture ...................... 20

Irrigation Scheduling Saves Time and Money .................. 22

A General Contingency Theory Of Management, Fred Luthans, Todd I. Stewart

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

Recent formal recognition of situational influences on the management of complex organizations has led to an increasing number of contingency models, but a comprehensive and integrative theoretical framework for contingency management has been lacking. A General Contingency Theory (GCT) of Management is introduced as an overall framework that integrates the diverse process, quantitative and behavioral approaches to management; incorporates the environment; and begins to bridge the gap between management theory and practice

Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this issue: 2 A Message from the Vice Chancellor

3 Research Returns Tip the Scales

5 Herbicides-Broadcast or Band?

7 Ag Students: The Changing Profile

8 Infant Diets Studied with Mothers' Help

10 Machinery Trading and Taxes

12 Trees for Profit

14 "Dairy Store" Serves Students, Staff and Stomachs

16 Irradiation Holds Potential for Nebraska 1

8 Back to the Farm

20 Fire at Pine Ridge

23 Farmers Keep Tabs on Energy

Ec77-868 Grain Pricing Alternatives, Lynn Lutgen

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

Grain marketing decisions during the 1950's and 60's were not as critical as in the past few years. During the 50's and 60's grain producers faced stable prices resulting from government production controls with prices fluctuating over the year perhaps 15 cents to 25 cents per bushel. As a result, producer marketing decisions had very little influence on revenue obtained by the firm. With more international involvements, producers have gone from an era of stable prices and large government surpluses to an era of unstable, widely fluctuating, and now declining prices for most major grains. The producer has two basic …

Communication Skills Needed By Persons In Business Organizations, Vincent Disalvo, David C. Larsen, William J. Seiler

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

Whether we like it or not, this is the age of subject matter relevancy and educational accountability. In order for instruction to be interesting, meaningful, and practical for students, it must be essentially a microcosm of that segment of the “real world” students will be entering upon graduation. The objective of competency- or performance-based models of education suggests that educators should be held accountable for what they teach. However, before teachers can be held accountable they need to know what skills and abilities their students will require in order to be successful in their career objectives.

In addition to the …

Economic Impact Of Railroad Branch-Line Abandonments: Results Of A Southcentral Nebraska Case Study, Dale G. Anderson, Floyd D. Gaibler, Mary Berglund

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

Some 249 miles of Nebraska rail line have been abandoned since 1963; another 310 miles are in contention at abandonment proceedings. The abandonment of these and other lines could have serious economic implications for grain elevators, farmers, and rural communities.

Track abandonment is occurring during a time of rapid expansion in the grain industry. U. S. corn and grain sorghum production increased more than 40 percent during the decade ending in 1973. Exports of these commodities increased 157 percent during the same period. Increases in grain production and exports, along with a shorter harvest season, are placing great strains on …

Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this Issue:

2 From the Vice Chancellor

3 Eye in the Sky

5 Bicentennial Tapestry Spins Yarns of Nebraska

6 New Strategy May Ease Beef Risks

8 Soil Samples: How Many Do You Need?

11 New Course Emphasized Total Resource Concept

12 Cod worms in Fish Fillets: Should Consumers Be Concerned?

15 Changing Faces of Students Results in Ag Orientation Course

16 To Drip or Not to Drip

19 Land Use: A public or Private Matter?

21 Diagnostic Network Helps Stockmen In Nebraska

23 Weaned Pigs- Simple Diet May Be Adequate

Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this issue:

3 Does Ag Research Pay?

4 Warm Season, Ornamental Turfgrasses for Nebraska

7 New Protein Sources Evaluated

8 Computer Can Analyze Your Diet

10 Photographing Rural Nebraska

13 Irrigation-From Army Ordnance to Ag Research

15 Credit Use Among Nebraska Farmers

17 Toxic Weeds Can Cause Disease in Cattle

18 Is Solar Heating Feasible for Livestock Housing?

Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this issue:

2 Scientists Trace Ancient Nitrogen in Deep Nebraska Soils

4 Backyard Farmer

5 Children's Imaginary Playmates

7 New Landscape Design Courses

9 New Wildflower Varieties Released

11 Fabric Softener Stains

12 4.-H'ers Become Trained Communication

14 A New Look at Animal Wastes as Fertilizer

16 Black Layer Signals Maturity

18 Roadside Hay Harvests

19 Protein and Lysine Enriched Bread

The Impact Of Computer Generated Information On The Choice Activity Of Decision-Makers, Fred Luthans, Robert Koester

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

Computerized information systems have a tremendous impact on management decision-making in all modern organizations. Electronic data processing (EDP) departments generate, coordinate, and disseminate much of the information that is used in modern management decision-making. How much influence is this computer generated information per se having on the choice activity of the human decision-maker? To date, very little is known about the answer to this question. Yet, if management is to improve the effectiveness of the decision-making process, the implications of computer generated information must be better understood. Organizationally, there is evidence that the computer has changed traditionalline- staff relationships. In …

Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this issue:

2 Remote Sensing

6 FARMER NEB on the air

8 Potassium, Magnesium in Panhandle Soils

9 Humans in Nutrition Studies

11 Annual Windbreaks Save Moisture

13 The Rural Radio Turn.On

14 Cow-Calf Management in the 1970's

15 Soil Fertility in the Sandhills

17 Value of Drought-Damaged Corn

20 The Time of Your Life

22 Keeping the Gypsy Moth Out of Nebraska

24 Manure: Long-Term Study

27 The University Dairy Herd

Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this issue:

3 Agricultural Experiment Station Centennial

4 Rain Is a Sometime Thing

6 Monensin

10 Divorce in the Middle Years

12 Collecting Nebraska's Colorful Agates 1

3 Plan Now for Storing Acid-Treated Corn

14 Pocket Gophers: A Grassland Nuisance

19 Women on Tractors

20 Abandoning Railroad Branch Lines

23 Feedlots and Recreation Ponds

Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this issue:

2 Inflation Fighters

5 Alfalfa in Swine Finishing Diets

7 Protein Levels for Swine

9 A Million Pounds of Education

11 Is Car Exhaust Poisoning Our Corn?

12 Nebraska's and Pasture Resources

13 Clothing Goals

16 Partners in Horticulture Therapy

19 Dry Bean Planting, Weather Or Not

20 Fertilizing Proso Millet

22 Agriculture in the Holy Land

A Rate/Cost Analysis Of Nebraska Meat Trucking Activities With Livestock Trucking Cost Comparisons, Dale G. Anderson, Wayne W. Budt

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

This study was designed to measure costs of long-distance shipment of meat by motor carrier. Costs were compared with published rates for meat shipments by truck, rail and trailer-on-flatcar (TOFC). Finally, meat trucking costs were compared with costs of trucking meat-equivalent amounts of livestock. Results of the study provide a partial basis for evaluating the economic merits of expanded livestock production activities in grain-surplus Great Plains locations. Such an expansion might aid in the economic development of the region and ease the chronic problem of rail freight-car supply. Proposals ranging from extension of present regulation to cover livestock trucking to …

Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this issue:

2 Water Resources Research

5 The Cost of Trucking Meat

6 Crop Residues Have Forage Potential

8 Supplementation: Livestock on Residues Need It

10 Home Economics' New Home

12 Meet Your Earthwatching Task Force

15 A Look at Nebraska's Export Picture

16 How To Protect Sheep From Flies

18 Can the Industry Really Afford Eggshell Waste?

20 25 Years of Foundation Seed

22 Why Farm Families Moonlight

23 Simulation and the Swine Producer

24 Areas of Excellence

Property Taxes .. Reform, Relief, Repeal ?

Department of Agricultural Economics: Presentations, Working Papers, and Gray Literature

The property tax is one of the oldest and most criticized forms of taxation. Despite criticism over the years, it is still an important source of revenue for most local governments and some state governments because of its income capability and familiarity in the tax system. Efforts to reform property tax administration, provide tax relief to property owners, and repeal property taxes on certain classes of property will continue for years to come. This publication is designed to place these issues in a decision-making framework. The purpose is to educate rather than to advocate a particular solution.

Chapter I. Property …

A Financial Data Summary And Analysis System For The Farm Supply Firm, Maurice D. Kniep

Open Access Master's Theses (through 2010)

The general objective of this study is to enhance the existing capabilities of a financial information system for farm supply firms. The standardized data will be useful to managers in reviewing and comparing the historical performance and in planning changes in the organization and activities of their firm. Specific steps to fulfill the general objective are: 1) Review the financial information system for farm supply firms developed by the University of Missouri and makes revisions and additions to the basic computer program, 2) Develop a coding form for input data that is a compatible with farm supply firms’ accounting records …

Economies Of Size, Volume And Diversification In Retail Grain And Farm Supply Businesses, D. G. Anderson, D. L. Helgeson

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

This study revealed substantial cost savings could accrue to grain and farm supply businesses from plants of larger size. Given sufficient competitive pressures, farmers and consumers might benefit as well from these savings. A continuation of the present trend toward larger, more diverse firms seems likely. Existing firms of sub-optimum size and product structures will probably remain in operation until they are depreciated out. Relatively modest savings from diversified structures make any rapid trend toward one-stop centers unlikely.

Polyperiod Analyses Of Investment Strategy For Nebraska Grain-Livestock Farms, Glenn A. Helmers, Gary W. Lentz

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

This study is directed toward investment strategies farm firms in the Great Plains may utilize to achieve their individual goals. Farm firm growth is considered important to the extent that firm growth represents movement toward meeting the behavioral goals of farm operators.

The Resources Management Movement (The Coming Death Of Production Management Education), Richard J. Schonberger

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

Production management, taught in nearly all colleges of business administration, is not a popular course. One reason it is not popular is that it does not relate to the typical young student's life experiences. This typical student has for 18 years or more been a social animal, and thus he can relate to college courses in the sociopsychological realm. The rare student who has considerable work experience is the only one likely to appreciate and perhaps even enjoy a course in production management (or operations management, as it is called in some schools).

But this kind of problem is found …

Testing A Planning And Control Model In Nonprofit Organizations, Charles A. Reimnitz

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

This study utilizes a planning and control model abstracted from the conceptual framework of general management knowledge to test the relative efficiency of administrators in three educational service organizations. The hypothesis that subordinates' perceptions of administrators' relative proficiency will be a function of the administrators' education, training, experience, and conscious use of management techniques appears to be substantiated.

Place Discrimination In Rail Shipments Of Wheat From Great Plains Origins, Dale G. Anderson, Brian L. Mariska

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to determine whether shipments of wheat by railroad from Nebraska and other Great Plains States are discriminated against relative to shipments from other wheat producing states and regions. Primary objectives were: 1. To develop a technique for measuring place discrimination. 2. To employ the technique in testing empirical data for evidence of discrimination. 3. To analyze the results and explore implications for geographically- separated wheat shippers. Ratios of railroad revenue/out-of-pocket costs for the years 1958 and 1966 were used to compare the relative cost burden borne by wheat shipments in geographically-separated hauls. Resulting ratios …

Place Discrimination In Rail Shipments Of Wheat From Great Plains Origins, Dale G. Anderson, Brian L. Mariska

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The purpose of this study was to determine whether shipments of wheat by railroad from Nebraska and other Great Plains States are discriminated against relative to shipments from other wheat producing states and regions. Primary objectives were: (1) To develop a technique for measuring place discrimination (2) To employ the technique in testing empirical data for evidence of discrimination (3) To analyze the results and explore implications for geographically-separated wheat shippers.

Mp25 The Problem Of Freight Car Supply, John Richard Felton

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

As early as 1907 the Interstate Commerce Commission held extensive hearings on freight car shortages. At frequent intervals ever since, Congress and the commission have addressed themselves to the problem of freight car supply with considerable vigor but meager results. Allegations of an inadequate supply of freight cars have been widespread in recent years. The decline in the number of freight cars is easy to document: between 1959 and 1968, the number of cars used in grain transport (boxcars and covered hopper cars) declined by 26%. If, however, consideration is given to changes in car capacity and car miles …

The Proposed Eastern Nebraska International Airport Plan, George T. C. Peng, Joseph H. Bain

Nebraskiana Publications: Resources and Materials on the 37th State

Excerpt from the prologue:

Passenger growth has led to expansion of facilities at both the Omaha and Lincoln airports; but like many others in the nation, they are rapidly becoming congested. The Federal Aviation Administration, the State Government officials, and many civic leaders in Nebraska are now becoming aware of the need for establishing a regional airport for the Eastern Nebraska region in order to promote and handle international air transportation for the future. People are also beginning to think of such a modern airport as an essential factor in bringing new industries to Nebraska and in shaping the urbanization …

Evidence On The Validity Of Management Education, Fred Luthans, James W. Walker, Richard M. Hodgetts

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

The authors feel that more attention should be given to the empirical validation of management education. In order to determine what effect a college degree and the academic major have on promotability, 3,202 marketing personnel of a major petroleum corporation were analyzed.

What effect does a college education have on executive success? Does the major area of study make any difference? Does any kind of management education or development yield tangible returns to an employing organization? In other words, have management formal education and development been empirically validated? Many organizations are seriously beginning to ask these questions. The current body …

Business In Nebraska #292, January 1969, Dorothy Switzer, R. L. Busboom

Business in Nebraska

Changing Patterns of Communities in the Midwest (Dorothy Switzer)

The regional concept of economic planning and development discussed in the December issue of Business in Nebraska was the subject also of a workshop conference on "Changing Patterns of People and Communities in the Midwest," held in Omaha last month. It is deemed appropriate to report here the most significant highlight of the conference because the panel presentations and subsequent discussions further developed several important apects of regional growth.

Business Summary (R. L. Busboom)

Both Physical Volume and Dollar Volume Indexes for Nebraska indicate that the October, 1968 level of business …

Business In Nebraska #293, February 1969, Dorothy Switzer, R. L. Busboom

Business in Nebraska

The University and State Development: Centennial Retrospect and Second Century Prospect (Dorothy Switzer)

Business Summary (R. L. Busboom)

Both Physical Volume and Dollar Volume indexes indicate that Nebraska's November, 1968, level of business activity was notably above that of the same month last year. For both indicators, Nebraska's changes were at nearly the same rates as those of the U. S. On a month-to-month basis, however, Nebraska as well as the U. S. experienced Dollar and Physical Volume declines, from October, 1968, to November, 1968, that were more than seasonally expectable. Also, Nebraska's drop-off was more than that of the …

Business In Nebraska #297, June 1969, Dorothy Switzer, R. L. Busboom, E. S. Wallace

Business in Nebraska

Nebraska's Export of Agricultural Products (Dorothy Switzer)

Nebraska moved up from fourth to third place among the seven states in the West North Central region in dollar volume of agricultural exports in fiscal 1968 and retained its position as ninth ranking state in the nation, according to recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Sales amounting to $229.5 million of Nebraska farm products constituted 14.5% of the regional total, exceeded only by Iowa, which accounted for almost one -fourth of the total, and by Kansas, which was second with almost 19%. The West North Central region was again the …