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High Tunnel Construction Cost Calculation Workbook, Shannon Rauter, Melanie Stock, Brent Black, Dan Drost
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.
Manure Application Timing Drives Energy Absorption For Snowmelt On An Agricultural Soil, Melanie N. Stock, Francisco J. Arriaga, Peter A. Vadas, Krishnapuram G. Karthikeyan
Manure Application Timing Drives Energy Absorption For Snowmelt On An Agricultural Soil, Melanie N. Stock, Francisco J. Arriaga, Peter A. Vadas, Krishnapuram G. Karthikeyan
Plants, Soils, and Climate Faculty Publications
Reducing agricultural runoff year-round is important, in particular during snowmelt events on landscapes that receive wintertime applications of manure. To help inform manure guidelines, process-level data are needed that link management scenarios with the complexity of snowmelt, hence runoff. Albedo and radiative energy fluxes are strong drivers of thaw, but applying these mechanistic measurements across multiple, plot-scale management treatments over time presents a logistical challenge. The objective of this study was to first develop a practical field approach to estimate winter albedo in plot-scale field research with multiple management scenarios. The second objective was to quantify the radiative drivers of …
Earlier This Season We Sprayed Our Fruit Trees With Dursban, Can We Still Eat The Fruit?, Howard M. Deer
Earlier This Season We Sprayed Our Fruit Trees With Dursban, Can We Still Eat The Fruit?, Howard M. Deer
All Archived Publications
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Diagnostic Testing For Nitrogen Soil Fertility, D. W. James
Diagnostic Testing For Nitrogen Soil Fertility, D. W. James
All Archived Publications
No abstract provided.
Bulletin No. 294 - Research Aids Utah Agriculture: Biennial Report Utah Agriculture Experiment Station 1938 - 1940, R. H. Walker
Bulletin No. 294 - Research Aids Utah Agriculture: Biennial Report Utah Agriculture Experiment Station 1938 - 1940, R. H. Walker
UAES Bulletins
The foundation of progress in agriculture as in any other industry is research. Research has resulted in knowledge now daily applied in soil treatment, in irrigation practices, in dealing with insect pests, in breeding new varieties of plants, in animal improvement, in better farm practices, and in better land-use planning. Research undertaken by the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station has been outlined to solve specific problems facing Utah agriculture, among them the problems of irrigation, dry farming, range management and animal production. The prosperity of the state is dependent upon the success of these agricultural enterprises. Agricultural research should not, therefore, …
Bulletin No. 286 - Some Trends In Utah's Agriculture, Walter U. Fuhriman
Bulletin No. 286 - Some Trends In Utah's Agriculture, Walter U. Fuhriman
UAES Bulletins
During the last two decades agriculture has been subjected to many strains and stresses- social, economic, physical, and biological. Infestations of noxious weeds and insect pests have in some instances necessitated changes in crops grown and in farming practices. Changes in precipitation have induced alternate expansion and contraction of cultivated acreage in certain areas. Improved machinery has reduced the demand for farm labor, caused shifts in crops grown and in farm population. Changes in dietary habits have increased the demand for some farm commodities and decreased the demand for others, while wide fluctuations in farm prices have wrought rapid changes …
Bulletin No. 282 - Pioneering In Western Agriculture
Bulletin No. 282 - Pioneering In Western Agriculture
UAES Bulletins
A resume of the First Half-Century of Research 1888 - 1938 at the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station including the Biennial Report 1936 - 1938.
The Utah Agricultural Experiment Station in reaching the fiftieth year of its history can look back upon a brilliant record of achievement covering the practical as well as the more fundamental problems of agriculture in this arid state. The difficulties encountered in conquering deserts down through human history have demonstrated the mastery of man's spirit over his physical environment. Man's destiny to multiply, subdue, and replenish the earth cannot be accomplished by enjoying the fruits of …
Bulletin No. 276 - How Science Aids Utah Agriculture
Bulletin No. 276 - How Science Aids Utah Agriculture
UAES Bulletins
Biennial Report of the Director, 1934-35 and 1935-36 Agricultural Experiment Station Utah State Agricultural College, Logan, Utah
Circular No. 70 - The Agricultural Outlook For Utah, P. V. Cardon, W. P. Thomas
Circular No. 70 - The Agricultural Outlook For Utah, P. V. Cardon, W. P. Thomas
UAES Circulars
In preparing the following statement of Utah's relation to the national agricultural outlook for 1928, the writers have been guided by three fundamental considerations : (a) Utah is a livestock state; (b) feed production is the basis of Utah agriculture; and (c) definite physical, geographic, and economic limitations govern Utah's production of crops other than feed crops.
Grazing Periods And Forage Production On The National Forests, Arthur W. Sampson, Harry E. Malmsten
Grazing Periods And Forage Production On The National Forests, Arthur W. Sampson, Harry E. Malmsten
Aspen Bibliography
Stockmen in the West have always had confidence in the adequacy of the native forage crop to provide pasturage for their livestock. Indeed, under normal climatic conditions this enormous natural resource has not failed the grazier, except where it has been called upon to meet unreasonable demands. The productivity of the range has declined sharply, however, wherever the requirements of plant growth have been disregarded for many years in succession. Where there has been too early or too frequent and to heavy grazing, undue trampling, or some other unsatisfactory feature of range use, the results have been uniformly bad. Many …
Circular No. 46 - Thirty Years Of Agricultural Experiments In Utah, F. S. Harris, N. I. Butt
Circular No. 46 - Thirty Years Of Agricultural Experiments In Utah, F. S. Harris, N. I. Butt
UAES Circulars
The Utah Agricultural Experiment Station has been established over thirty years. During this time more than a hundred experimenters have worked on the staff, each one contributing something to aid in the researches that have been conducted. During the first few years regular annual reports were published, but during recent years no such reports have been issued. The results of the work of the Station have been published in station bulletins and circulars and in various technical journals.
Since there is no publication or series of publications that records all the activities of the Station it was thought desirable at …
Circular No. 44 - The Agriculture Of Utah, F. S. Harris
Circular No. 44 - The Agriculture Of Utah, F. S. Harris
UAES Circulars
Agriculture is so intimately related to all other industries that anything which affects the farmer reflects itself in all branches of business. The banker, the merchant, and the manufacturer must keep in touch with crop and livestock conditions of the country in order to foresee the tendencies of their own businesses. This is particularly true in a state like Utah which depends fundamentally on the products of the soil for its prosperity.
Numerous requests are received by the Experiment Station from prospective settlers living out side of the state for information concerning the agriculture of Utah. These have been kept …
Circular No. 41 - Soil Alkali, F. S. Harris
Circular No. 41 - Soil Alkali, F. S. Harris
UAES Circulars
The farmer of the West is likely to be very much upset at the mention of alkali, mineral, or salt, in connection with his land. These various names are applied to a condition which he usually knows little about except that it is bad. The exact nature of the substances called by these names and the character of the injuy caused by them are very vague in his mind; but he knows that he wants nothing to do with alkali if he can help it.
The prevalence of alkali throughout the arid parts of the world makes it impossible for …
Bulletin No. 166 - The Climate Of Utah, Frank L. West, N. E. Edlefsen
Bulletin No. 166 - The Climate Of Utah, Frank L. West, N. E. Edlefsen
UAES Bulletins
Climate is of interest and importance to the scientist in general. It is particularly important to the investigator in the field of agriculture because growing crops are affected quite as much by sunlight, heat, rain, and frost as by the fertility of the soil. In field investigations these factors must be determined and reckoned with.
Circular No. 23 - The Seed Situation In Utah, George Stewart
Circular No. 23 - The Seed Situation In Utah, George Stewart
UAES Circulars
Due to the use of poor seed, the farmers of Utah lose yearly many thousands of dollars. Often single farms suffer to the extent of several hundred dollars. The most regretable and yet the most hopeful thing about the seed situation is that these losses are largely preventable.
Abundant area of unoccupied public lands have hitherto been within the reach of practically any wide-awake tiller of the soil. The farmer was more nearly sure of larger hay tacks and more bushels of grain or potatoes if he doubled the size of his fields than if he attempted more thorough cultivation. …
Circular No. 22 - Some Sources Of Potassium, C. T. Hirst, E. G. Carter
Circular No. 22 - Some Sources Of Potassium, C. T. Hirst, E. G. Carter
UAES Circulars
The essential elements of plant food are ten in number. Of these carbon and oxygen are obtained by the plant from the air, and hydrogen from the water. Sulphur, calcium, iron and magnesium are required by plants in small quantities and are not likely to be deficient in soils. The three remaining ones--nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium--are likely to be present in soils in smaller quantities and are used by plants in larger amounts than any of the other elements taken from the soil. In addition to these ten elements already named, five other elements, viz., silicon, aluminum, sodium, chlorine, and …
Circular No. 16 - Better Seed, Frank S. Harris
Circular No. 16 - Better Seed, Frank S. Harris
UAES Circulars
It is impossible to produce good crops unless good seed is used. The soil may be of the best quality and it may be prepared in the most thorough manner, the supply of moisture may be ample, the season may be the most favorable, yet all these count for little if worthless seed is planted.
Bulletin No. 88 - The Relation Of Smelter Smoke To Utah Agriculture, John A. Widtsoe
Bulletin No. 88 - The Relation Of Smelter Smoke To Utah Agriculture, John A. Widtsoe
UAES Bulletins
Utah's position among the great commonwealths depends upon the degree of development of the agricultural industry of the State. As a producer of wealth, however, the mining industry exceeds agriculture. The total annual value of Utah farm products is about $17,000,000.00, while the total output from the mines is valued at $34,000,000.00. The operation of the mines, reduction mills and smelters necessitates the employment of large numbers of people, who swell the population of the State, and consume a large part of its agricultural products. Utah, which is an inland State, possessing as yet few large manufacturing enterprises, finds the …