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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:
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
A Rate/Cost Analysis Of Nebraska Meat Trucking Activities With Livestock Trucking Cost Comparisons, Dale G. Anderson, Wayne W. Budt
Historical Research Bulletins of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station
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