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Livestock As A Tool For Biodiversity In The Sagebrush Steppe, Usu Extension
Livestock As A Tool For Biodiversity In The Sagebrush Steppe, Usu Extension
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Biodiversity, or the variety of plant and animal species in a given location, has declined in many areas in the West. For example, woody plants, such as sagebrush and juniper now dominate many western landscapes.
Meat And Dairy Goats In Cache County, Usu Extension
Meat And Dairy Goats In Cache County, Usu Extension
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Cache County, like other counties in the Western United States, is experiencing a major transition in land use. Though we still have a host of relatively large acreage, well managed crop and livestock farms, the number of smaller acreages is increasing.
Nutrients Influence Palatability, Usu Extension
Nutrients Influence Palatability, Usu Extension
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Animals form preferences for foods with high levels of energy and protein especially if they release quickly during digestion.
Preventing Prrs From Establishing In Utah Swine, Clell V. Bagley
Preventing Prrs From Establishing In Utah Swine, Clell V. Bagley
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Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) is considered the most important disease affecting swine operations in North America and internationally. There has been no evidence of cross-infection to humans since discovery of PRRS in the U.S. in 1987.
Proper Use Of Ammoniated Low-Quality Forages For The Wintering Of Spring-Calving Beef Cow Herds In The Intermountain West, D. R. Zobell
Proper Use Of Ammoniated Low-Quality Forages For The Wintering Of Spring-Calving Beef Cow Herds In The Intermountain West, D. R. Zobell
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Low‐quality forages (LQF) such as cereal straws or post‐ripe hays are often used as economical feed sources for the wintering of beef cow herds. The ammoniation of such forages increases the digestibility and crude protein (CP) enough so that these forages can be used as the basis of beef cow diets, even during late gestation and early lactation if supplemented properly.
Reducing Losses Due To Tall Larkspur Poisoning, Usu Extension
Reducing Losses Due To Tall Larkspur Poisoning, Usu Extension
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Tall larkspur reduces pasture use and can cause death in cattle. In the West, overingestion of tall larkspur causes average death losses of 4-5%, but can exceed 15% on some ranches. In addition, the presence of tall larkspur in some pastures may force ranchers to avoid those pastures during peak forage growth in late spring and early summer.
Reducing The Incidence Of Dark Cutting Beef In Junior Livestock Shows, Lyle N. Holmgren, Dale R. Zobell
Reducing The Incidence Of Dark Cutting Beef In Junior Livestock Shows, Lyle N. Holmgren, Dale R. Zobell
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4-H and FFA livestock shows place cattle in a surrounding where they are stressed physically and psychologically. They are exposed to physical exertion, unfamiliar smells, tastes, sounds, people, cattle and other animals Owners of beef cattle who place them in these situations need to understand that stress can be reduced or eliminated with proper care and management.
Saltcedar, Tamarisk, Ruth Richards, Ralph Whitesides
Saltcedar, Tamarisk, Ruth Richards, Ralph Whitesides
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Saltcedar is diffi cult to control. Single treatment approaches to control saltcedar have not proven feasible because no method completely eliminates saltcedar or its regeneration.
Saving Utah's Landscape, Biocontrol Of Tamarisk, Usu Extension
Saving Utah's Landscape, Biocontrol Of Tamarisk, Usu Extension
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Scientists at the Animal, Plant and Health Inspection Service (APHIS) have been working for years to determine if beetles imported from China and Kazakhstan would effectively consume tamarisk (salt cedar) in the U.S. without threatening desirable vegetation.
Saving Utah's Landscape, Dinosaur National Monument, Usu Extension
Saving Utah's Landscape, Dinosaur National Monument, Usu Extension
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At Dinosaur National Monument, an aggressive, well-planned weed management program is assisted by a host of volunteers. Last year the monument’s Weed Warrior Program 482 volunteers contributed 2,107 hours of weed removal.
Saving Utah's Landscape, Early Detection & Rapid Response, Usu Extension
Saving Utah's Landscape, Early Detection & Rapid Response, Usu Extension
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Members of the Utah-Idaho Cooperative Weed Management Area recognized that one of the greatest threats to their landscape was new, small infestations of noxious weeds.
Saving Utah's Landscape, Purge Your Spruge, Usu Extension
Saving Utah's Landscape, Purge Your Spruge, Usu Extension
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How do you get residents in a vast metropolitan area like Salt Lake City to understand the threat of invading and noxious weeds? The Bonneville Cooperative Weed Management Area (CWMA) focused their attention on an escaping ornamental.
Saving Utah's Landscape, Squarrose Knapweed, Usu Extension
Saving Utah's Landscape, Squarrose Knapweed, Usu Extension
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What began in the 1950s as a small patch of weeds near a grain elevator in Juab County, turned into a serious environmental problem that impacts the state’s wildlife, grazing and tourist industries. In the early 1990s, it was estimated that squarrose knapweed infested nearly 200,000 acres of rangeland in central Utah.
Structure Determines Experience, Experience Determines Structure, Usu Extension
Structure Determines Experience, Experience Determines Structure, Usu Extension
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Why do animals eat certain foods and live in certain locations? Your first thought might be, they’re born that way or it’s in their genes. While it’s true that every animal is born with a set of genes that helps determine how they look and what they need, genetics is only part of the story.
Structure, Quality And Skills Interact To Influence Forage Intake, Usu Extension
Structure, Quality And Skills Interact To Influence Forage Intake, Usu Extension
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In general, the more livestock eat, the more weight they gain or milk they produce. Thus, forage intake is key to animal performance. Agronomists manage for correct plant density and height to ensure herbivores maximize intake.
Using Low Moisture Blocks To Improve Livestock Distribution And Forage Utilization, Usu Extension
Using Low Moisture Blocks To Improve Livestock Distribution And Forage Utilization, Usu Extension
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Do you often eat at the same restaurants even if your town is loaded with places to eat? People frequent the same restaurants for a variety of reasons from the quality and type of food, to cost, to distance from home, to simply being unfamiliar with the alternatives.
Sustainable Orchard Management System, Diane Alston
Sustainable Orchard Management System, Diane Alston
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Fruit production in the intermountain west is besieged with problems. To cope with these problems, fruit growers mustbe competent in financing, banking, buying, public relations, marketing, meteorology, climatology, plant science, soil science, entomology, pathology, irrigation, fertilization, chemistry, physics, mechanics, and management.
Energy Conservation With Irrigation Water Management, Robert Hill
Energy Conservation With Irrigation Water Management, Robert Hill
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Irrigators in Utah experienced rapidly increasing energy costs from the mid 1970s to the late 1980s. These costs remain relatively high. Those who are pumping from deep wells are particularly interested in ways to cut back on energy use without doing away with profitability or production
How Good Is Your Water Measurement?, Robert Hill
How Good Is Your Water Measurement?, Robert Hill
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Accurate water measurement is essential to maintaining equity of water delivery within an irrigation company or water districts. Good management of our scarce water resource is dependent upon quantifying supplies and uses with accurate measurement techniques. State water rights adjudication and management procedures often require installation of water measurement devices and keeping records of flows.
Pesticide Use On Utah's Small Grain Crops, Howard Deer, Alan H. Roe
Pesticide Use On Utah's Small Grain Crops, Howard Deer, Alan H. Roe
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Data from usable pesticide survey responses was entered in a computer database and checked for entry errors. A database record was stored for each unique combination of grower, crop, pesticide, and target pest(s). All character data (such as brand names) were standardized for consistent usage and spelling. Specific methods used to enter and standardize data and to perform calculations are described below:
Noxious Weeds...A Biological Wildfire, Steven A. Dewey
Noxious Weeds...A Biological Wildfire, Steven A. Dewey
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Invasive noxious weeds have been described as a raging biological wildfire—out of control, and spreading rapidly. The devastation from these alien plants includes enormous economic losses to agriculture and irreparable ecological damage to wildlands
Vertebrate Animal Pest Control, Usu Extension
Vertebrate Animal Pest Control, Usu Extension
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Vertebrate pest control deals with animals possessing a backbone. Vertebrate pests include any vertebrate, native or introduced, domestic or wild, which affects human health, well-being, or conflicts in some way with human activities. This conflict can be either real or perceived.
Mormon Crickets: A Brighter Side, Charles Macvean
Mormon Crickets: A Brighter Side, Charles Macvean
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In a recent appraisal of Mormon crickets (Anabrus simplex Haldeman), Raffelson (1989) reminds us that these insects are a subject of great concern and dislike among Western ranchers and farmers.