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Managing Utah Prairie Dogs On Private Lands, S. Nicole Frey

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The Utah prairie dog is found only in Southern Utah. While beneficial to ecosystem health, the Utah prairie dog has historically been in conflict with agriculture and other human activities. This fact sheet describes recent changes to laws regarding Utah prairie dogs and new conservation programs that allow residents of southern Utah to both remove offending animals and conserve Utah prairie dog colonies.

2015 Costs And Returns For Flood Irrigated Alfalfa, Box Elder County, Lyle Holmgren, Mike Pace

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Rain Barrels In Utah, Brian Greene, Nancy Mesner, Roslynn Brain

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Rain barrels are an easy way to conserve rain water and help protect our environment. This fact sheet tells how to find out about the current regulations in Utah and how to build a rain barrel for your own home.

2015 Costs And Returns For Non-Irrugated Hard Red Winter Wheat, Northern Utah, Lyle Holmgren, Mike Pace

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Enterprise budgets are the building blocks of a farm or ranch. They represent estimates of income and expenses for a specific period of time using a set of production practices and inputs for that enterprise. The budget in Table 1 of this fact sheet contains sample costs and returns to establish and produce dryland hard red winter wheat in Box Elder County. It is intended to be a guide used to estimate income and expenses, list inputs and production practices and provide a framework for the whole farm plan.

2015 Costs And Returns For Non-Irrigated Safflower, Northern Utah, Lyle Holmgren, Mike Pace, Clark Israelsen

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This fact sheet contains a budget table with sample costs and returns to establish and produce non-irrigated safflower in Northern Utah. It is intended to be a guide used to estimate income and expenses, list inputs and production practices, and provide a framework for the whole farm plan.

Growing Safflower In Utah, M. G. Pace, C. E. Israelsen, E. Creech, N. Allen

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This fact sheet provides information on growing safflower in Utah. It has become popular on dryland farms in rotation with winter wheat. Safflower seed provides three products, oil, meal, and birdseed.

2015 Costs And Returns For Roundup Ready Grain Corn, Box Elder County, Lyle Holmgren, Mike Pace

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Enterprise budgets are the building blocks of a farm or ranch. They represent estimates of income and expenses for a specific period of time using a set of production practices and inputs for that enterprise. The budget in Table 1 of this fact sheet contains sample costs and returns to establish and produce grain corn under flood irrigation in Box Elder County. It is intended to be a guide used to estimate income and expenses, list inputs and production practices and provide a framework for the whole farm plan.

Dryland Safflower Response To Dormant Seeding In Utah, C. E. Israelsen, M. G. Pace, E. Creech, N. Allen

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The dormant seeding of safflower on dryfarms has shown great potential in northern Utah and southern Idaho, but acceptable weed control is a major concern before this practice can be recommended on a larger commercial scale.

Cost Free Landscape Water Conservation Ideas, Kyle Frandsen, Larry Rupp

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This fact sheet gives tips on simple and free things that can be done to help conserve water in the landscape, without changing the existing landscape.

Vegetable Irrigation: Melon, Tiffany Maughan, Dan Drost, Niel Allen, Brent Black

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This fact sheet discusses basic principles that will help ensure proper irrigation of melon, regardless of the irrigation system used.

Systematics And Biogeography Of Orthaea Kloztsch (Ericaceae: Vaccinieae), Nelson Salinas

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In the first chapter a study of the distribution patterns of the neotropical Vaccinieae (Ericaceae) is presented. Five areas of endemism were recovered: Central America, northern Chocó, southern Chocó, eastern Ecuador, and Yungas. Divergence times estimations indicate that the Andean clade of Vaccinieae migrated to South America during the Late Oligocene or Early Miocene (28.9-17.84 MA), and most of the subsequent diversification took place during the Tertiary. The Yungas was the first Andean area to be colonized, and several dispersals towards the north expanded their distribution range. Both areas of endemism and dispersal events were influenced by geological processes, such …

Search For Host Factors Involved In Attachment Of Agrobacterium Tumefaciens To Plants, Anna Petrovicheva

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is able to infect a diverse array of plants and causes crown gall disease. Typically these bacteria attach to plant roots and transform the plant cells to induce tumors. The mechanism of this attachment in the infection process is not yet fully understood. Using wild type Arabidopsis thaliana, Columbia-0, and several Arabidopsis mutant lines as a binding target, we screened for A. thaliana mutants with altered adhesion.

The A. thaliana mutant lines were selected in The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) according to possible location of the resulting protein and similarity to known transformation mutants. Of these mutants …

Presentations And Posters From The 2015 Research That Matters Sustainable Food Conference: People, Policy, & Practice, Various Authors

Food and Gardening Working Group

The University of South Florida Sustainable Food Conference: People, Policy, & Practice brought together food researchers from USF and the larger Tampa Bay community to share ideas and findings that will pave the path toward more sustainable and resilient communities. It featured research papers and presentations from all disciplines and methodologies addressing issues concerning food production, distribution, retail, and/or consumption.

U.S. Drought Monitor, January 27, 2015, Brian Fuchs

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

Drought map of U.S. for January 27, 2015 (1/27/15) plus: U.S. crop areas experiencing drought (map), Approximate percentage of crop located in drought, by state (bar graph), Percent of crop area located in drought, past 52 weeks (line graph) for: Corn, Soybeans, Hay, Cattle, Winter wheat.

Keynote Address: The State Of Information Literacy Policy: A Global Priority, Sharon A. Weiner

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Access to information is important for economic development and community-based solutions to global challenges. However, access to information alone is not sufficient: people need to know how to find, evaluate, manage, analyze, and compile information and communicate the results effectively for the intended audience. This paper presents a global overview of information literacy policy. The paper discusses the meaning of information literacy and its relation to information policy. The paper proposes a role of information literacy in addressing global challenges. It gives national examples of information literacy policy. Finally, the paper identifies challenges in information literacy policy and discusses ways …

What To Consider When Fertilizing Nebraska Sandhills Subirrigated Meadows For Hay Production, Matthew C. Stockton, Roger K. Wilson

Cornhusker Economics

With the ever changing value of hay and input costs, those producers who use their subirrigated meadows to produce hay may often wonder if they should apply fertilizer and, if so, how much and what type? The biological research needed to answer these queries has been completed decades ago, but because hay values and fertilizer prices are constantly changing, it becomes necessary to revisit the topic and answer these questions using current economic information. This analysis uses the classical approach where the value gained from increased production is at least as much as the cost of applying the additional fertilizer, …

U.S. Drought Monitor, January 20, 2015, Richard Tinker

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

Drought map of U.S. for January 20, 2015 (1/20/15) plus: U.S. crop areas experiencing drought (map), Approximate percentage of crop located in drought, by state (bar graph), Percent of crop area located in drought, past 52 weeks (line graph) for: Corn, Soybeans, Hay, Cattle, Winter wheat.

Gender Inequality In The World And Its Implications, Marianna Khachaturyan, E. Wesley F. Peterson

Cornhusker Economics

Worldwide one in three women will be abused sexually or will encounter physical violence during her lifetime (Human Development Report (HDR), 2014). That amounts to about 1.2 billion women. Although gender-related abuse and violence exist everywhere, the issues that come to mind when contemplating gender inequality in high-income countries are usually related to job opportunities, career advancement, or wage disparities. In many developing countries, gender inequality is a much more severe problem; it is manifested in health disparities, limited access to education, and even in the violation of human rights.

Oregon Wine Board Meeting Minutes January 13, 2015, Oregon Wine Board

Oregon Wine Board Documents

These meeting minutes list individuals in attendance at the January 13, 2015 Oregon Wine Board (OWB) meeting, held at the Salem Convention Center in Salem, Oregon. Marie Chambers presented a financial review of the return on research spending over several years. The Board discussed nominations for four industry awards for the 2015 Oregon Wine Symposium (OWS). The Board also discussed budget priorities for 2015-2016 in the areas of research, marketing, and education. The meeting lasted 3 hour 3 minutes.

U.S. Drought Monitor, January 13, 2015, Richard Tinker

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

Drought map of U.S. for January 13, 2015 (1/13/15) plus: U.S. crop areas experiencing drought (map), Approximate percentage of crop located in drought, by state (bar graph), Percent of crop area located in drought, past 52 weeks (line graph) for: Corn, Soybeans, Hay, Cattle, Winter wheat.