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Structure, Quality And Skills Interact To Influence Forage Intake, Usu Extension Jan 2000

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.

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Sustainable Orchard Management System, Diane Alston Jan 2000

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.

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Why Animals Die From Eating Poisonous Plants, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Why Animals Die From Eating Poisonous Plants, Usu Extension

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If animals can learn which plants are toxic and which are safe, then why do they eat poisonous plants and die?

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A Note About Market Lamb Docking, Usu Extension Jan 2000

A Note About Market Lamb Docking, Usu Extension

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Tail removal or docking of lambs by the commercial sheep industry is a standard management practice. When properly docked, the tail or dock will be long enough that when lifting the tail to defecate, the caudal folds on the under side of the tail are raised.

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Basic Crochet Slipper, Debra Proctor Jan 2000

Basic Crochet Slipper, Debra Proctor

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Basic Crochet Slipper

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Chalkboard With Pocket Placemat, Debra Proctor, Kami Williams Jan 2000

Chalkboard With Pocket Placemat, Debra Proctor, Kami Williams

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Chalkboard with Pocket.

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Considerations For Knit Fabrics, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Considerations For Knit Fabrics, Usu Extension

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There are a number of characteristics of a knit fabric that will influence the pattern used and the sewing techniques chosen. Knits can vary from light weight to bulky weight and from tightly to loosely knit.

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Crocheted Market Bag From Recycled Plastic Grocery Bags, Jodi Smith Jan 2000

Crocheted Market Bag From Recycled Plastic Grocery Bags, Jodi Smith

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This sturdy bag is the same size as an ordinary plastic grocery sack. It can hold much more, because you can pack it full.

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Fleece Facts, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Fleece Facts, Usu Extension

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Launder and choose the side of fleece you like best for the outside, unless it is a water resistant or wind proof fleece and then it should have a definite right and wrong side.

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Knitted Nesting Pincushion, Debra Proctor Jan 2000

Knitted Nesting Pincushion, Debra Proctor

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Knitted Nesting Pincushion

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Make Your Own Knitting Needles, Debra Proctor Jan 2000

Make Your Own Knitting Needles, Debra Proctor

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Making your own knitting needles can be fun. Yarn will not slip as easily on wooden knitting needles, making them a good choice for beginners.

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Panel Quilt With Prairie Points, Debra Proctor, Kami Williams Jan 2000

Panel Quilt With Prairie Points, Debra Proctor, Kami Williams

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This pattern is for a quick and easy wall hanging using a pre-printed panel for the center and added borders to make it the desired size. It has wider borders on the sides to trick the eye into thinking that the borders are the same size on all four sides to balance the prairie points.

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Livestock As A Tool For Biodiversity In The Sagebrush Steppe, Usu Extension Jan 2000

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.

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Preventing Prrs From Establishing In Utah Swine, Clell V. Bagley Jan 2000

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.

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Reducing Losses Due To Tall Larkspur Poisoning, Usu Extension Jan 2000

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.

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Saltcedar, Tamarisk, Ruth Richards, Ralph Whitesides Jan 2000

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.

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Saving Utah's Landscape, Biocontrol Of Tamarisk, Usu Extension Jan 2000

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.

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Saving Utah's Landscape, Dinosaur National Monument, Usu Extension Jan 2000

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.

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Saving Utah's Landscape, Early Detection & Rapid Response, Usu Extension Jan 2000

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.

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Saving Utah's Landscape, Purge Your Spruge, Usu Extension Jan 2000

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.

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Carbohydrate Reserves: What You Learned May Be Wrong, Behave Jan 2000

Carbohydrate Reserves: What You Learned May Be Wrong, Behave

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This publication discusses when it is best to have livestock graze on land according to the carbohydrate reserves.

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Introducing Animals To New Foods, Behave Jan 2000

Introducing Animals To New Foods, Behave

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This publication explains different ways of successfully introducing animals to new foods.

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Mother Knows Best, Behave Jan 2000

Mother Knows Best, Behave

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Palatability - More Than A Matter Of Taste, Behave Jan 2000

Palatability - More Than A Matter Of Taste, Behave

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This publication explores the theory that palatability is more than a matter of taste but is an interrelationship between a food's flavor and its postingestive effects.

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