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Clean Grain Bins are Essential To a Quality Crop (08/13/01) Entomologist Phil Glogoza says clean bins are essential to maintaining the quality of this year's crop. Farm safety specialist George Maher explains how to avoid the hazards encountered when cleaning bins. MORE AUDIO 1 AUDIO 2 AUDIO 3
Feedlot School Scheduled at NDSU in September (08/09/01) The two-day intensive short course, scheduled for Sept. 11 and 12, will teach all of feedlot management including production, nutrition, business planning, waste management and marketing. MORE Look to Crop Residues to Fill Forage Needs, Beef Specialist Recommends (08/09/01) The back of the nearest combine may provide an answer for beef producers facing forage shortages this fall, notes beef specialist Greg Lardy. "With harvest under way, those producers may want to consider baling up crop residue as a way to stretch their forage supplies," he says. MORE AUDIO 1 AUDIO 2 AUDIO 3 Safety Specialist: Good Swathing Provides Start to Safer Harvest (08/07/01) Because combines must follow the path of the swather, safe combining of a swathed field is heavily influenced by how the swathing was done. MORE AUDIO 1 AUDIO 2 AUDIO 3 Center for Agricultural Policy and Trade Studies Dedicated at NDSU (08/07/01) The center will work to enhance net farm income through in-depth trade and agricultural policy research for decision makers in private and public sectors. MORE AUDIO Specialist Urges Safety For Swather Operation (08/07/01) With its whirling shafts and gathering reels, spinning belts and chains and yards of slashing sickles, the swather can be an extremely dangerous machine. Farm safety specialist George Maher offers some tips for safely operating this machine. MORE AUDIO 1 AUDIO 2 Aug. 14 Field Day Scheduled at NDSU’s Oakes Irrigation Research Site (08/03/01) Commercial vegetable crop management and marketing issues will be highlighted beginning at 9 and continuing through the afternoon. MORE
BeefTalk: Attention to Detail Necessary for Quality Beef Cow Records (08/09/01) Beef specialist Kris Ringwall counts down the top ten problems that trip up beef recordkeeping systems. MORE Prairie Fare: Kitchen Crisis (08/09/01) Exploding jars of raspberry jam prompts food and nutrition specialist Julie Garden-Robinson to review safety tips for canning. She also offers a recipe for Tomato Paste Salsa. MORE Plains Folk: The Prairie in Her Eyes (08/09/01) A new book by a South Dakota woman starts Tom Isern musing about contemporary life on the plains and how women view and live it. MORE Hortiscope (08/09/01) Ron Smith answers readers' questions about the world of plants and gardening. MORE Market Advisor: Evaluate Marketing Alternatives for Low Quality Grain (08/09/01) What should you do with poor quality grain? Crops economist George Flaskerud says probably the worst strategy would be to sell it off the combine. He offers some alternative strategies. MORE |
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